(12-18-2024, 07:26 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: I thank you once again Flicker.
I enjoy the company inside the crazy closet. I have been afraid I will begin to believe either I am a candidate for the Happy Ranch or that everyone else is insane and I am the only sane one left. Sane, insane, or somewhere in between, at least I know someone who has some of these same thoughts.
ETA: This statement you made, "I just want the truth. No matter what that is, as long as it's the Truth", should be the motto of my protagonist, it is the driving force of his journey. It has begun to occur to me that honesty is not the best policy and that it would make things so much easier if I lie about what I feel and think just to go along to get along. If I did that though, I would be the most miserable and lonely person in a room full of everyone I know.
I've gotten to the point that I really don't care what others think. And to argue any of it is a waste of energy that can be spent on actually seeking these answers. I don't have any of this figured out as hard fact, and I don't trust anyone who does say they know "the only way."
If I do "believe" anything as a hard fact, it's that, "I believe" we've all been lied to. The scriptures have been changed over time to fit agendas rulers of that particular time.
Those words have been used to control people since they were written.
I see this as, either the devil has fooled us all into believing he is God, or we as people are so misguided by our own misinterpretation of those words that we commit the very sins they warn against committing.
All over "beliefs."
Doesn't add up.
So, I consider...
And yeah, this is the place I bring my crazy.
Be as wise as a serpent, but as gentle as a dove.
They live.
We sleep.
We sleep.