From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   There are many people who want different things. Some want a big house and a   
   fast car; some want sex and love; some want family; some want comfort. I have   
   had many different good things in my life, but what interests me the most is   
   meaning. I want my    
   life to be a meaningful one. And I have found meaning in God.   
      
   Many of the baby boomer parents have found inscrutable why their children have   
   gone to religion. They were of the opinion that they were perfect parents. The   
   correct answer to that is that it is not about what kind of a parent you are.   
   People want    
   meaning; people will want meaning. And it is completely rightful that they go   
   to religion for such a thing.   
      
   Once again, it is not about what kind of a parent you are. It is about what   
   people seek. People will seek meaning, and they should seek meaning. And such   
   is not found in many of the beliefs of the baby boomers.   
      
   So we have all sorts of nonsense about “winners and losers” or   
   “self-esteem” or “adequacy” or other things of the sort. I refuse to   
   live according to such beliefs. They are cruel. They are abusive. They are   
   wrong. And if you think that this    
   is “reality,” the correct answer is that it is not such thing. You have   
   not created the Sun. You have not created the planet on which you live. You   
   have not created your country. It is ridiculous to think that such things are   
   “reality.” They are    
   no such thing. They are an adaptation. Now an adaptation is certainly real.   
   But it completely wrong to call it reality or see anyone who is not a part of   
   it as not living in reality.   
      
   Are we animals or evolving matter? I have many reasons to say that we are not.   
   I have had many experiences with less than a billionth chance of happening   
   whose only possible explanations are religious ones; and so have many others.   
   Now the academia has    
   taken a dishonest stance on this matter claiming such things as that   
   “extraordinary claims require an extraordinary level of proof.” I see   
   nothing at all extraordinary about something that the bulk of humanity   
   believes in. A far more extraordinary –   
    and far more narcissistic - claim is that the bulk of humanity are fools and   
   lunatics, and that the only people who are not are people who have no   
   religious beliefs.   
      
   So I have found meaning to my life in a number of places. They include   
   contributing to culture and thought; but more importantly they include God. I   
   seek to do what I need for God, and I seek to do what I need to do for   
   civilization. And that is a much    
   fuller perspective than that of the people who think in terms of “winners   
   and losers,” “self-esteem” or “adequacy.”   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)