Sublim3, 36

I am curiouse . Like the thought of having a companion or friend that can go everywhere with me and can relate better to what it is like being a woman.

i spent years preparing to be a Christian missionary to the most dangerous political environments. Not because i was told to be- in fact every person i talked to tried to discourage me because it 'wasnt safe'- but because i thought Christianity was the answer to the world's problems and i cared about the people suffering more than i cared about my own safety- a sentiment apparently not shared by the christians with whom i spoke. Then on chance (though religionists claim their gods will everything), i picked up a book on comparative religion. i soon discovered a fundamental characteristic of human behavior: the man who agrees with you today is wise. The same man, who tomorrow disagrees, has overnight become a fool. As i noted the unoriginality of christianity, which objectively suggests its non-divine nature, my friends soon chose to become my enemies and they were quickly replaced by things that had thus far been alien to me: reason, logic, literacy.... And today, though i once saw what they have forever seen, i now see what they have never seen. i possess something they cannot understand: objectivity. As they grow older, they become more confident in the opinions of their parents and pastors; in their inherited predispositions. And while they have refused to even touch books on comparative religion- because ignorance is held by them in high regard- i continue to build my 5,000-book-strong personal library and am better-versed in the religions than the religionists themselves. i have found that it is the natural habit of humans to invent pseudo-justifications to believe the things they already believe, but rarely is a person able to give a real reason to believe it in the first place. Rarely do people understand where their beliefs and ideas and prejudice come from. They assume them to be innate because they h