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53391, RE: Ok....do the white okp's really feel hidden guilt because
Posted by TommyWhy, Thu Jun-30-05 05:33 AM
>>The future isn't written, I don't share your negative view
>of
>>it to be honest. See below however.
>
>
>Yeah it isn't written, but I don't necessarily see it as a
>negative view, i see it more as a realist view.
>
>>>there is a whole sect of people who are extinct and a whole
>>>other sect where they are so downpressed that there is
>>>literally no hope left.
>>
>>How do I feel? Honestly, it's too huge to even wrap emotions
>>around. Sad and angry I suppose. Regretful, definitely, but
>>hopeless to do anything about it.
>
>Ok. so now you see why my view is as such.

The reason I pointed out your view as negative is because it cites "no hope for the future". I believe that things can get better (although the current climate does seem bleak).

>> The story of
>>Adam and Eve eating the apple isn't the story of the birth
>of
>>mankind, it's the story of the birth of civilization.
>
>
>Actually I do remember reading that it's the story of them
>finding out about sex. buuuuuuuuut it was the beginning of an
>era.

Definitely don't want to postjack, but it's called the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Sex is an animal impulse... people have had sex since before they were people. The bible dates the earth at about 10,000 years, which is really how old civilization is, roughly. We had been human for probably 40,000 years already at that point.

>>>How does it make you feel when others say you have no soul
>>and
>>>that you are a heartless and cold people? A reptilian race?
>>>Do you ever look into yourself and wonder if it's true?
>>
>>That makes me a bit sad sometimes, other times I laugh it
>off.
>>I know it to be untrue.
>
>yeah it kinda makes me sad too, i do wonder sometimes if it
>could really be true when i marvel at the things that happen
>around me. But i know better. I believe that things happen for
>a reason although unknown to us at the time, only time can and
>will tell.

Well, imo all we can do is live well and extend kindness to others, hopefully share knowledge and increase understanding.