Narrow mindedness is like a death march. It has spikes both ways in relativity. The ultimate end is death with nothing gained. Just ups and downs and plenty of concerns (MANY VALID TO A DEGREE) that have nothing to do with enjoying life. Obligations rule I’m guessing in your case with a dash of poison. Your identifying with challenges justifies rationalizing your faith, but you are like a chihuaua up against a rotweiler and you spit out your temporary safety with a holier than thou approach. This is counter to somewhat sane religious approach. But I sense the vulnnerability in the arrogance. You are holding up the knife with automatic weapons pointed at you.

Now freedom does’t have any fences around it but with so much variety it’s easy to get snared in tangents that run in parallel courses. Freedom in parallel can get foggy and misdirected. So accuracy is an attainable course of action, if that makes sense in fine tuning the choices of free will. Ask for it or “pray” if that is a preferable term, within yourself. Sincerity is a strong yet sometimes variable asset. It can cut to the core but can be mislead by conditioning.

Parallels seem to resemble an imagineable origin, but keep in mind if you haven’t seen the origin you can’t distinguish what is the masterpiece and what is an imitation and a poor one at that. Explanations dance in relativity and arrogance keeps that dance underway until death. So aim for sincerity in accuracy.

Then accuracy as an independent delivery mechanism infuences free will, not as right or wrong but as WHAT delivers the perspective to navigate arrogance and seek truth. Your faith would categorize this as right or wrong but it is a means, not an end.. So misplaced in result, your assertion is benign. Unlike malignancy or infection, the cancer doesn’t “spread” to the helpless- it is requested by the helpless and is ‘delivered’ in universal ageement only.

So reconsider what it is you really want with an accuracy untainted by what you have been told. Learn to listen to what DOES NOT speak to you in words, but what would wish for those words to be true in its pure innocence (vs its naitivite). That is the source of discernment- understanding the difference.

This sounds almost too simplistic perhaps childlike, but it is not the manner, it is the essence that makes free will so valuable in its ability to rule- to at least choose wisely in a simplicity our complexity often ridicules.

A recent study where I live, British Columbia, shows what the trend is for religious belief.

If the link above does not work, try http://bchumanist.ca/news/110-bc-religious-and-secular-attitudes-poll

Sure there are a few who convert. The religion virus is very contagious, especially since people who have a really bad case of it go around trying to infect everybody else they can. Sort of like rabies. Good thing I’ve had my kids vaccinated with plenty of education.

There are plenty of churches and other places to go if you want to show off how proud you are to be infected. This is a website for recovery. Go be condescending somewhere else.

Maybe skepticism would lean back to what is vs. what cannot be. The end of denial…an openess toward the greatest possibility of life confirmed by a critical renowned skeptic.

Surely you are aware history is politically originated. Momentum of history is like a pendulum- often it takes thousands of years to swing the opposite way, sometimes on the back of misquoting or misinterpretation for reasons not having to with fact or evidence..

The audience now just sees a right and wrong dilemma and an edge to the (vs by the) prosecutor where a greyer format could be followed to encourage participation/contribution rather than intimidating the same.

BTW what’s with Luis # 39? Is this a shoestore site as well?

But I could be wrong.

Of course I would substitute “am” for “could be”.

Have you ever seen an awake conscious person die? Have you ever talked to nurses who witness death more than the average person? And have you witnessed the acceptance by animals of death? These experiences and or conversations may prompt wondering how energy relates to weight, perspiration or not, in terms of “letting go” at death.

Human beings have the notion they have some measure of controlling life function. At the moment(s) before death there is often resistance by the patient. In these instances there is occasional residual spasm or twitching that exceeds time of death. Animals submit without hesitation. They seem to accept their death without the same sense of control.

The struggle to maintain life however feeble in terms of energy expenditure probably elevates the body weight very minimally. Force and weight are complex bedfellows. A good example is the 96 lb karate expert exerting 300 lbs of force to break the brick. At that moment how much would he or she weigh? At the point of impact the weight is probably greater so a scale would at least show a spike and likely the actual body weight at least a few calories reduction afterward.

It would not be a stretch to consider this weight difference in a resistant person. So it is likely that though the soul itself may have no weight, the energy needed to sustain life fluctuates depending on disposition and will, possibly in terms of weight.

New term then,”life force”. Can it create weight? Yes. Can it of itself utilizing will and force actually weigh something? It can. Is it a constant? NO.

But I could be wrong.

We all need to get a little less black and white. Existence is largely gray and we all need to acknowledge that distinction.

Outright judgements oft reflect the state(of mind) of the judge. Lighten up. The entire dialogue as previously stated is not about right and wrong. You are certainly welcome to your own opinion, but it’s not a good idea to assume you understand a person’s or a situation’s research or history. Especially if the goal is consideration for a greater benefit vs ‘winning’ an argument.

This isn’t about putdown my friend. I am cut out of the same mold in my history. My Father used to say about me I’d rather be right than be president. That’s a balance that has been a lifelong challenge to achieve. I have been wrong alot more times than I’ve been president, but both perspectives bring forth the same challenge.

Remember Danny Glover in “Predator 2″ at the end challenging the then unseen potential predators- “Who’s next?”. That’s not me.