my deepest thanks
Submitted by Babel-17 on February 4 2002 00:23:59
In reply to lovers of peace submitted by Babel-17 on February 3 2002 15:51:12
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for your responses... I post this here to avoid unnecessary waste of bandwidth by responding to Bach and Splash individually, although both your responses are certainly deserving of individual attention (: Your words give me great hope... Yes, many days it does seem like it's "1 step forward, 2 steps back"...and those are the good days! lol! The bad days it's just "2 steps back"..period I guess I just needed to be reminded that there ARE good people in the world.. Not that those with whom we may disagree are bad people, by any means, just...well, on a lower level of consciousness, if that doesn't sound too judgmental of me to put it that way... There is hope, and that was what I needed to be reminded of... I know, for you all that hope takes the form of faith in Jesus... For me, with your help, it's taken a bit more tangible form (: Faith in my fellow man... I don't even know exactly how to put what I want to say here... I'm glad to know, very much needed to know, that there are others hungry for peace...others working toward the same goals I am... Others who share my values... I'd never realized before how important that is..to know that there are others who share your values.. Heretofore, I guess, I'd never been so far removed from the common value system to experience what it's like to feel like the only one, which was probably a good part of the cause for my feelings of alienation and fear... It's sort of like...Invasion of the Body Snatchers All of sudden, I didn't recognize a good many of my countrymen anymore...as though they'd been kidnapped, killed and cloned...revenge-driven lookalike robots left in their places... That's a bit of an exaggeration, of course, but you get the gist of my metaphor, I'm sure... It's very disorienting and frightening to realize that the vast majority of those around you actually hold an entirely different set of values when it comes down to the clinches... The word, I believe, is "disillusionment"... And more surpising still to realize that the ONE group of people who might actually share my value system in this regard were, ironically, the same ones I had previously thought of myself as being opposed to...namely, Christians.. (I don't mean you folks here on this board specifically, of course, but Christians in general) Adversity makes for strange bedfellows, eh? (; Here I am, a Thelemite...a devout member of a religion which many think of as being "Satanic" (it isn't, btw) and here I find myself on a Christian message board desperately searching for people with whom I can relate.. And moreover, finding comfort here amongst you! It's really quite funny, actually... I think there's a message in all this...sure of it, in fact!! Truth is One....it's we humans who confuse the issue (: Thank you all for your kind and gentle natures...for your inspirational words... May I say that you are exemplary representatives of your faith... I hope there are many more Christians like you.. If so, then there is hope for this little world (: Bless you all, in the name of that which has no name.. much love always and forever! John |
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