Om

[B][SIZE="2"]If you are at the end of your life, and everyone you know is dying, then you are alone. But how is it different, if you are not seeing those you love? Alone is alone- the loneliness we have we have because we create it for ourselves. At the end of our lives, or sometime sooner, we will grow separate from everything that is dear to us. Basically, everything in my life will become horrible and awful to me- this is a truth of existence.

Someday I will die. Before then, everyone else will die. All of my pleasures and joys. Therefor, I realize that I am dependent and independent on what is around me. We can live happy lives when we come to peace with our insignificance. Whether that is in a religious sense or other, is irrelevant.

How is it different, that I don't see my family, than if they were dead? Each time I leave from them, they are gone, and when they are dead, they will be gone. All of our communication is increased, therefore, in importance...yet it is also lightened, in a way, by the comedy of the situation- the absurdity. It's almost like a gentle nudging, "Do you get it yet?" In that life is good, and the joy outweighs the sorrow; yet we are still faced with this aloneness. I agree with Mary Lupin (where has she gone?) when she says it is the same for the atheist and theist. I see no difference between the two. If God is knocking at our hearts [I]at all times[/I], up until we die- it is completely irrelevant to conjecture about who is going to heaven, etc...we should worry about Earth, and bringing Heaven to Earth, if we have such lofty goals. Otherwise we will simply live...

And I am going on way too long now, so I'll stop. No emoticons and what a long paragraph! You know it's interesting this weirdo has a site where he wrote a whole ****ing article saying how stupid people who use emoticons are, and then there are emoticon afficianados...clearly the anti-emoticon guy is at fault.

Sorry for the long paragraph, I hate those...[/SIZE][/B]