On November 10, Carlos Murillo wrote:
> I don't believe in God. But I am very aware that I may be missing
> something important. I think that people with genuine faith are
> lucky.
I think it has a lot to do (or maybe everything to do) with personal
experience. I don't believe in much of anything unless I see pretty
convincing evidence. If you have a personal experience that causes
you to believe in something, I think you tend to believe it *much*
more strongly than if it was just learned second- or third-hand, or
preached at you or something.
I think this goes for pretty much anything, not just the current
[very much off-topic] conversation.
So, to drag us kicking and screaming back to on-topic conversation.
As some of you know, I just moved from MD down to FL. My mom lives
down here. I'd been here for less than an hour before she presented
me with a little housewarming gift...a Commodore 64 with a 1541 disk
drive, both in their [beat-up] original boxes, that she'd picked up at
a yard sale for two bucks! :-)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
Received on Sat Nov 10 2001 - 09:23:25 GMT