Another reason for me to not like the current Pope

[Tref]

Originally Posted by Alex

I must admit that I've just been assuming that since most of Tref's other posts are some form of performance art that the posts in this thread have been as well. But whether true or just spinning a yarn, I know many people who gain a lot of comfort from the strength and certainty displayed in such a style.

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I can see how some people would find comfort in being told what to do, even in a forceful tone, but I'm surprised to find Tref among them.

Clearly I have said too much.

Life is a learning process, folks. You can stay sheltered all your life and read about things that happen, or you can step outside be part of things that happen. I am not saying anything new, right? Well, I like being part of things that happen, but there is only so much time in the day. I have chanted with Krishna's down Powell Street in SF, I have been locked in a room by a cult and asked to levitate an ash tray ... I could go on and on. I am not saying that I attend church for a lark. I would never do anything for a lark. I do it to understand and discover. To paraphrase George Harrison -- there is nothing so important that you can do in life, then the search for God. I believe that. Life is too brief and an eternity of darkness is too unsettling for me to ignore.

I have a rule -- keep your cards close to your chest. And I have done that, more or less, for the years I have been on this site. It is not performance art. It has never been. This is me. For that reason I am not an immediately likable person. But whatever you may think of me and my posts, I do not have patience to dissuade you otherwise, either good or bad. That has always been a fault of mine.

Anyways ...