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I am not interested in changing minds because I don’t care what people believe in, we all makes our choices and what I am really concerned is not in what you believe, but in what I happen to believe. I have seen way too often how others try to change the minds of others while doing nothing to improve their own; I see this all the time: "reality experts" knowing the truth to the fullest extent while forgetting that they have their own faults. I have made it a point in my life to improve myself and in doing so, I have learned how truly little I know. My concern is not for you, but for myself. The ultimate way to improve ourselves is to challenge ourselves and try to have people point out where we are wrong. So far, you have done very little to show me where I am wrong and what you are showing me is that you view yourself as a victim. I remember one time I was watching TV and I saw a story about a man who had no arms and he was married, and had children. This is one story I will never forget because I was so surprised at the man and his attitude. He was happy in life and he never complained or cried that he had no arms. He didn’t bitch at God or anyone else, he didn’t feel sorry for himself, he didn’t complain, instead, he loved life and was grateful for being who he was. Can you imagine that? A man with no arms and he is grateful for who he is! He never gave up and instead, he set up to overcome all obstacles in his life without ever complaining. The story was very inspiring because I sure as heck could not imagine having arms and here was a man who seemed like he was the happiest man in the world. He could have easily gone and said, "no God of love would allow me to be like that" and then go on living life as a victim, feeling sorry for himself at every turn. What you are saying is the EXACT same things that atheists say: No God of love would allow this to happen. No God of love would allow blah blah blah! A person who doesn’t view themselves as a victim looks at the problems in life and asks themselves, what is it that they need to improve upon and learn from the experience and then they move on. This is how one becomes stronger. With your mentality I have to wonder…. between you the "man of truth" and the man with no arms, who truly would one be better off, learning about life from? I look at such a man and see myself as having to learn a lot from, about proper attitude. He took the problems he had in life not as an evil thing, but as a challenge and then worked to overcome those challenges. That man grew in spirit and the strength of his character was developed. Through problems in life and overcoming them, he became a strong man. He never viewed his situation as evil or the problems in his life as being evil. He never bitched about why God allowed him to be that way. He never saw himself as a victim. Instead, I remember him talking about the beauty of life! Where you on the other hand, see problems as a dead-end and learn nothing from them or very little. I can tell this because of how one views life. Just the fact that you see that it being part of Gods plan would make God evil, tells me that you haven’t learned what problems in our lives are for and see them as evil. Instead of seeing them as something that makes us stronger and realizing that they make us grow and learn, you see them as being evil and anyone setting it up to be so as being evil. You truly can not see that whatever power set up the Universe set it up exactly as it was meant to be; to teach us and make us stronger and yet, there may be other things that I don’t know about. Who are we to claim that we know it all? Instead, you would curse such a power for doing that. That is what victims do and those who see themselves as victims in life do. Yes, you can scream all you want that you are not a victim but it’s the attitude that says it all. People truly do not realize that we in the end are responsible for our own lives and what happens in our own lives. We can either see problems as an unfortunate "thing" or we can see them as something that makes us stronger and something we will overcome. It is we that choose to be victims. We can look at problems and ask ourselves: what do I need to improve about myself? What do I need to learn from this? And then we can become stronger or we can see them as a dead-end and evil and anything that set up the Universe to be the way it is as being evil. I look at the power that set up the Universe and am grateful for the problems I have had in life, I still have them but I now look at them and seek to overcome them because I have learned from past problems that I have grown as a result. I look at the way things are and see the wisdom in the power that set this all up and am grateful for the problems in my life where you on the other hand would want me to instead, see such a being as being evil. I would never want that kind of victim mentality. So now between you, the "truth holder" or the man with no arms, who do you suggest I would be better off following? |
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