[Matthew Cowdery]

Glitch,

I feel sorry for you.

Isn't it amazing how we don't want God to interfere with our lives. When we
do what we want to do, and not what God wants, and we tell God to get lost
and don't bother me, we blame God for all the stuff-ups that we manage to do
all on our own.

If you want God to do amazing things, then you need to do what he wants.

Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glitch" <sena.reisenweaver@verizon.net>
To: <powderworks@cs.colorado.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Powderworks] NMOC raging against the world


> > Man I am messed up - that's "tomorrow" not "later"
> > When a day starts with a state-sponsored murder, I find it hard to
> > concentrate.  Good night from beautiful Ohio, 5 down and lots more to go
> > - we're second only to Texas in size of our death row!  Woo hoo!
> > Somebody help me here, guys, tell me there's essential good in mankind
> > or make me believe in a god or SOMETHING, anything, I don't care, just
> > get me out of this grave they dug today for another miserable bastard
>
> Sorry, Beth, humankind is NOT essentially good.  We are, essentially,
> animals that have been cursed with sentience and thus, the ability to kill
> each other for reasons other than our own survival.
> I look at non-human animals with envy.  They live and die with only one
> simple thought in mind: their own survival.  Our thoughts get so
convoluted
> and out of control we don't even realize anymore that all we are is just
> animals with extremely over-developed frontal lobes.
> Not that this will help you feel better, but I long ago gave up on the
> entire race of humanity.  No, we aren't essentially good, and no, there
> isn't some "just God" in the sky who will punish the wicked and bless the
> good.  No, we're just mammals grubbing in the dirt, making a huge mess of
> our planet.  So what to do?
> Gather round you the people you love.  Do the things you love to do.  Try
to
> keep your corner of the world as healthy as possible.  Try not to think
> about the rest of it.
> G'night.