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Originally Posted by scaeagles
I certainly have more than my share of religious/philosophical thoughts which I have no doubt no one wants to read about.
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Quite the contrary, while an athiest myself I love to hear people's personal experiences with God. I believe I have the same messed-up wireing as Alex so my atheism comes to me not so much from a rejection of the supernatural, but rather a sense of personal integrity in that I just don't recognize god in my day to day life and to claim it would be dishonest to my personal experience. But I know plenty who have had that numinous experience, the sense of God's presence and that fascinates me, for who am I to discount the personal experience of others?
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Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812 quoting Milan Kundera
will also add this quote:
It is wrong to chide the novel for being satisfied by mysterious coincidences, but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.
- Milan Kundera
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Much better said, I simply delight in discovering the connections in the disconnected - it is a most humbling beauty and source of pleasure even in the bleakest circumstances