So, SJ.... Are you an indentured servant, a slave, or a free man?
I know you say you're a wanderer, but an escapee, perhaps?
No man may ever truly belong to another; the idea is preposterous to begin with. This means that I could never have been a slave or indentured servant to another. To say that I am an escapee implies that I was once owned but have now become a fugitive from that which was my place. Since my place never could have been one of servitude to another man, neither could I escape from (nothing to escape from).
That leaves me a free man, in a sense. Though I am a servant to something greater - that being the will of the Lord - it is my own free and rational thought that chose this servitude. At least, that is how I have lived until now. This abrubt change has indeed shaken my faith and I wonder if I shall ever recover. Now I feel a sheep that has been cast from the flock and so I wanderer I become.
I hope you will continue preaching the word of God for He is merciful and have not abandoned ye or looked down at you. May the Lord be with you.
I do hope I find the strength to believe that once again. I know it is not entirely rational or just of me to hold such resentment, but barely a moment passes that I am not made insultingly aware of such a trivial thing as the color of my skin. How can the Lord allow such irrational hatred to exist? Men divide themselves based on color, sex, creed, and preference of loves. I wonder why a good and all-powerful Creator would allow this. I have, as of yet, found no answer that was not in some way unsatisfactory.
Watch out that racoon is about to mug you!
Lock up your daughters, cracka. Ain't enough watermelon in the world to satiate our lust for white wimmens. Isn't that what you worry?
Have you even bothered to TRY treating all men as your brothers and all women as your sisters? Or is it easier and more entertaining to treat us all as perverts and thugs?
this might result in a lengthy attempt to convert me, but i just can't believe in god.
i can't see how it's possible. the only religion i've heard of so far that made sense was buddhism.
lol, just remember peoples, i didn't bring religion into this game! so if this triggers a big religious debate, not my fault!
I would submit that you very much
do believe in God, but that you haven't ever been given a satisfactory definition of Him. There are many similarities between the Ultimate in Buddhism and God in mystical Christian traditions. You have probably be drowned in nonsense theology and dogma spewed by half-wits who haven't a clue what the true Holy love is. I, regrettably, must count myself among them.
One might say that "God" is the highest thing one may dedicate oneself to. Meditate on what that might be and I think you'll find some of those similarities.