An epiphany
What does it mean to me
I'm sore from the lack of work
Now I see I've truly been a real jerk.

My body aches.

like a message from the past, I open up my old blog and restored my old draft and read the text above me.

I wrote that a long time ago, struggling with my laziness and how I had been treating Amanda.

Now, 4 months later, I'm packing up her things.  I'm seeing April tonight, and it's going to be fucking fantastic. 

but...

but,

the epiphany hit me again.  I really need to get my ass in gear.  A new job, a new life.

Working with Mike would be cool.

crazy, I should really write this all down.  It's the most interesting story I've ever seen.  I could really make money on my life story.

I started this. 

On a lighter note,

I really enjoy leaving voice recordings on my cell phone.

It's like I'm calling my future self, but he wasn't there yet, so I left a message.

Yesterday, I didn't go to work, again.  I had a headache so I wrote a little bit in my novel.  I justified not making money because of that, but my conscience tells me otherwise.

My wife was really upset with me.  She came home and started crying.  She asked if I was deliberately trying to sabotage our relationship.  I felt so bad.

What was I trying to do?

I couldn't give her much of an explanation.  I just kept saying I don't know.

It's the old stereotype.

Me, being the man, wants more sex.

She, being the woman, wants more money.

But it's deeper than that.  She wants to get out of this apartment, this shithole, and in to a house.  She wants to raise a family with me.

I don't know if I want a family.  Sometimes I just want to be free.

But seeing her crying like that.  She's means so much to me.

What do I really want?

I hope no one I know reads this...

I just had an interesting thought.  I'm not sure if it's because I'm high, but I think it's genius.

One of the most important things I've realized, is that no matter how much I learn, I'll never be able to fathom all the knowledge I could possibly learn.  Nobody in the world knows the tiniest fraction of all the possible knowledge. 

By comparing myself to that image instead of to the smartest person in the world, I understand that no one knows much at all.

In fact, I'm spending my life learning what people know just so I can get a better understanding of what we don't know...

sounds fucked up...

let me try to give an example.

I seen this thing on discovery where our satellites over Mars just got a picture of an avalanche happening near their ice caps.  I'm amazed at how we're just now seeing things like this.

So I talked to Amanda, and she swore shes never cheated on me.  I don't know about that, but what can you do?

I've been very enthusiastic about my novel idea, and have continued to write.  My system for Qualico concept has taken a back seat.  I wonder if I should put focus on the system idea again.

So I've been thinking of how to confront Amanda.

I want to get the truth from her, so I have to choose my words carefully.

-need to bring up what she said when she found out her dad is a pedophile.  She told me that she's done bad things but didn't tell me what they were.  I need to reassure her that I believe her traumatic experience skewed her perspective of right and wrong.

-I know she was trying to tell me something then, but couldn't do it.  I need to let her know that now is the opportunity to tell me and that I wont be mad.  Or, I might be mad at first, but that would only be temporary.

-I need to reassure her that her happiness is important to me.  If she's happy with this guy, then I can live with that.

-I need to let her know that this isn't an accusation, it is an opportunity.

-Bring up that you notice hostility around Mar, and have suspected for a long time.

-Keep her comfortable and open.

Maybe start it off like this:

"Amanda, I was thinking about that time.  Remember when you told me that your perspective of right and wrong was skewed because of what your dad did, and you've done something wrong.  I think you were trying to tell me something then, but didn't have the courage to do it.  I haven't been fair to you, because I've suspected that you've been with someone else.  Don't think I haven't noticed things, obvious things, that hint that you have been.  As a result, I've been cold, like purposely not doing anything on valentines day or saying crude things.  It's not fair to either of us.  I need you to know that your happiness is very important to me, and if you have something to say that may be upsetting at first, but the end result will be a happy one, with a clear conscience, then it'll be worth it.
Don't think of this as an accusation but an opportunity.  Please tell me if anything, anything at all has happened."

-Maybe throw in there somewhere that I know that a lot of time we're not that good in bed together.  (hint that it's like that episode of sex in the city, where they're great everywhere else except in the bedroom.)  We're mature adults, if it's better with someone else, then just say so.

I've been writing a lot while high.  It's great because I have so much creativity, but the mind likes to wander once in a while.

I keep getting a visual of that fat guy from Star Wars, as he's saying "Stay on target."

I wonder how many programmers have thought that.

I have a brilliant idea that I'm thinking of presenting to the company I work for.  It's a system that connects all of the builders in to a network, and makes everyones job more efficient through modern communications technology.

I just watched an episode of the universe where they said that stars going supernova could affect the way life evolves by sending gamma bursts which mutate dna.

This may be an interesting way to start the story, with the main character observing a supernova in the sky with his naked eye.  (I have no idea on what would actually happen if a supernova happened too close, but let's roll with it).

So, while, it may be a subtle thing that happens in the beginning, it can be a background explanation that says that Eric managed to communicate with his other selves through dreams because he evolved it through a supernova.

Wierd... but I like it.  It has sort of a comic book feel to it.

Reading over your own blog is interesting.  I noticed my own grammar sucks while high.

Anyways, when Amanda asked if I was an atheist, it's interesting reading over my blog and discovering that I asked myself the same question.  Then I found my quotes from good ol' Einstein, who has a pretty good answer:

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

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I'm going to start writing my ideas in my blog.  I get a lot, and I believe that a lot of them are brilliant, but need focus.  Invention ideas, game ideas, stories, etc.

Sometimes I think I should keep them to myself because I don't want someone "stealing" them, but I remember reading a quote by an entrepreneur.

"Don't bother hiding your ideas, when you have a really good one, your going to have to shove it in to peoples faces before they see it."

Or something like that.

So here is my recent story idea.  A lot of it has stemmed from the writing in this blog, some of it, from shows like The Universe.  If anyone's reading this, keep in mind that it is just a story.  If anyone is offended by it, please quit taking it so seriously.  It's a work in progress, and just started, so it's still got a long way to go.

Ok, here are the notes:

-Our universe is the heart of a massive entity.  Each heart beat is our universe expanding to it's limit, collapsing in to a black hole, then bending space time to where it goes back in time, and explodes as a white hole (big bang).

-Mankind was "injected" in to the heart to cure a disease.  It was a clever design that was stored in the very fabric of existence (or the strings in M-theory), which attached itself to atoms and told them what to do.  This drives evolution and creates life, with many different variations, but it's primary goal is to evolve itself in to a form that can destroy the virus.

-The virus hindered mankinds evolution

-Every time the universe has a renewal (beat of a heart), another dimension is created.

-Every dimension is connected to every previous dimension.  Every thing repeats itself, but evolution gets more advanced each time.

-A man (Who which we'll call Eric Sr.) manages to tunnel from one dimension to the other to explain to himself from a previous dimension (Eric jr.) that he needs his help to destroy the virus.

-Eric learns that the virus is hindering his evolution.  The virus does so by creating sin.  This keeps life from getting more advanced then "human" level.

-Eric must resolve the inner conflicts in his life so he can "unlock" his evolutionary powers.  (sort of like X-men, but the idea is that we've had the powers all along, but we've been blocked from them.)

-Any supernatural occurrence in the past (Biblical miracles, dream quests, monks being able to do the things they do), has been done by other people unlocking their evolutionary powers.  While they did great things, they didn't understand what it was meant for.  (Just a story)

-Every living thing in each dimension is connected through their subconcious.  Every ones conscience is their guide, and was meant to get every entity from every dimension to do the same thing.  This works with all simple forms of life until they reach human level, and then each person in each dimension breaks off, because of the virus.

-Eric Sr.  get's Eric Jr. to do the right thing in life, and somehow brings every Eric in each dimension together.

-Eric as one, destroys the virus.

*Idea - The virus is dark matter.

The story alternates between Eric Jr.'s dreams where everything is confusing (as dreams can be), and his life, where he questions if his dreams are real, and if he's going crazy.  It takes place in the near future.  The problems that he has to resolve in his life are something that we can relate to, like an every day struggle.

By coming to grips with his problems and believing his dreams, he comes together with his alternate realities, and he unlocks his super powers, and can do amazing things.  They get more amazing until hes face to face with the black matter as it reveals itself to Eric in space.  He has a battle in outer space where they're doing extremely amazing things like throwing stars at each other.  (This would need amazing effects with real life physics, where planets and gases are pulled and pushed out of orbits as the stars are hurtled at one another)

Eventually Eric wins.  The virus is defeated, and as a reward he is pulled out of the universe as he sees that there are other universes that have different characteristics.  Like universes as blood veins which flow from the heart and back, and universes that expand and contract slowly, like lungs.  He is pulled until he can see the whole entity, that all these universes are made to create one body.  He is thanked by the entity and Eric experiences unimaginable joy.

*Idea - He wakes up in his bed and finds he's back on Earth, and everything kicks ass.  (Heaven)

When I decided to write a blog, I wanted an outlet where I could hypothetically scream to the world what's on my mind.  I knew that it would be rare for someone to stumble on this, so it was more for myself then anything. 

I found that it's very healthy.  I find myself speaking the things that I kept to myself because writing it down helps articulate my thoughts, and since I already posted it where potentially anyone can find it, I can say these things to people easier.

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Another benefit is that things in your life can come in to perspective easier when you write them down.

I read over the previous post and asked myself, "Am I on a downward spiral?"  Am I going to "quit drugs and 'find god' again?".

Or is it really a downward spiral?

The question has some unnecessary negative connotations.  Finding God implies that you can find him, like he's hiding in a church.  I think whatever "God" is, I don't think it would hide from us.  I think a good idea of what God is, is that it's your conscience in the back of your head.  That's always there.  Everyone has a conscience.

At least, that's an idea.  I mean, some people may see it as God's communication tool, like he's some giant invisible entity phoning you up and saying, "Do you really think it's a good idea to hurt that person?".  Or maybe we're all interconnected to this mysterious invisible force, that keeps us from destroying each other.  Maybe that force is what drives evolution to keep everything working together, and creating things that a cell couldn't possibly imagine.

Maybe we're all put on this earth to work together to create something we couldn't fathom, like cells working together to create an eyeball.

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Yes, I'm high right now.

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Is that really so negative?  While pot definitely has some negative parts to it, like, lack of motivation, and short term memory loss, no ever talks about the positives.

I find my imagination is incredible on pot.  I can visualize things much better.  I think that marijuana in a way can clear your minds highways, so it's easier to use them for visualization.  It's like it cuts the blood flow from your memory part of the brain and put it in to your creative section.  I find that in a way, my cluttered mind is cleaned out and allows me to focus on my life and put things in to perspective.

In a social setting, I'm terrible on pot.  Sometimes I struggle to keep up with conversations because my mind keeps wandering.

So now, I find myself understanding that if I use it in moderation and keep it as a personal thing, it can be healthy.

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I'm going to write some things that I want to say to Amanda.

"Amanda, I need to tell you something.  Lately, I've been cold to you, and I didn't do anything for you on Valentines day because I think that you may be cheating on me.  I haven't stopped thinking that, since you admitted that you lied about going to the gym with him.  I don't know if you've done anything, but I can tell that he wants to, and I think that you might want to, too.  I need you to understand that I want you to be happy.  I just don't want lies."

My wife and I were driving to a friends house when I was telling her about an idea I had for a story.  It has a really crazy far out there plot, and part of it has some strange ideas about religion.

She asked me, "Are you becoming an athiest?"

It was a pretty serious question.  We probably would have never met if we weren't both Christian.  You see, we met each other online, and we were both searching for someone who shared our beliefs.

So while it was a serious question, I replied casually, "No, I would say I'm an agnostic."

"What does that mean?"

"An agnostic is someone that doesn't know if there's a god, an atheist is someone that believes there is no god.  "
 I explained to her that while I do think theres a god, and forces that we don't understand, I find it hard to believe that any bible or religion in this world is right. 

I asked her what she believed and she said, "the same thing I've always believed."

"That the Christian bible is 100% correct?" I asked.

"Yeah"

I imagine she took the conversation more seriously then I did.

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My dad asked me if I was going to go to church.  I think their worried about me.  This seems so strange.  It feels like my whole life is repeating itself.

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I started smoking weed when I was around 13.  At the time, I rebelled against my parents and for a long time, questioned my religious beliefs.  Around 6 or 7 years ago, I quit smoking weed, and believed in Christianity.  I met Amanda, and we got married less then a year after that.

Fast forward to now, and I recently started smoking again, and as you can see, since Live Journal has been my outlet for talking about my beliefs, I can't say I'm a Christian.

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a circle...

Sometimes it feels like everything that I ever think of has been thought before.  Everything that I've written here has been said or pondered.

I've lost my faith before.  I came to the conclusion that our existence on this planet is all there is, so we must enjoy it.  In fact, religious types waste their lives because they see this life as just a toil before they reach their "dessert".  Later, I realized that living for my own enjoyment is selfish and unfulfilling and that  we must all live for one another.

After I came to this realization, I was listening to a coarse on comparative religion and realized that a man named Gilgamesh had came to this conclusion thousands of years ago.

Even in those primitive times, someone had thought that same thought.  Or, at least, along the same lines.

Recently, I was thinking, what if the universe collapsed on itself to form a black hole, then passed through some kind of wormhole to the beginning of time, and exploded in a white hole, creating our universe.  A strange concept, but one that's been thought before.  I listened to another coarse on physics and the concept was touched upon, but didn't get very detailed.  The idea is that the universe is curved and infinite.

Although, I've been expanding on this idea, and I'm wondering when I'll hear someone else explain that the same ideas were thought of long ago?

Anyways, what if the universe is constantly repeating itself, and each time that the universe "resets" it's like a person walking around the globe but then walks along a slightly different path.  That everything goes around again, but now in a separate dimension that's existing right alongside our dimension.  What if information from previous dimensions is carried over?  Like the universe has been evolving over and over again.  Maybe there was a simpler universe before ours, and the next one will be more "advanced".

Or, what if the whole existence of the universe expanding and contracting is like a heart beat.  What if our whole universe is the heart of something bigger?

I bought a new computer recently and was thinking about reinstalling the old Battlefield 2.  Bf2 and I have a long history.  I discovered it when I got in to competition gaming, and played it with a couple different groups.  I got really good at flying the helicopter, but I had to play a lot to get there.  According to Xfire, 2200 hours.  There were probably many hours where I didn't use xfire, so I probably played the game for over 100 days.

One hundred.  If I lived to around 80, I'd have 29200 days in my lifetime.  I'm 26, so I've lived 9507 days.  One hundred of those, I spent playing BF2.

Should I spend more time in the game?  It's fun, but the memories are vague and I'm not sure how worthwhile they are.

I did some quick calculations, I'll be 10000 days old next year

After talking to people about the idea that if you "still exist" after you die, logically you wouldn't remember anything, they replied that the "soul is a carbon copy of your existence".  Like anyone could possibly know.  It's just a theory.  Heaven and hell is a theory.  No one has ever seen it.  The bible's writings of heaven and hell are most likely just some mans dreams from thousands of years ago.

Not that the bible couldn't be true in some aspects.  I keep trying to have an open mind and look at every theory as a possible one.  Yet, I find myself picking sides and seriously doubting some theories over others.  I don't think there's a way to get around that.  You can't look at 10 different viewpoints, and say theres a 10% chance that each one is right.  You tend to pick one and say the rest are more unlikely.  It's in our nature.

I think that the typical view of heaven was created when man looked up and seen the clouds.  How light and fluffy they were.  To live up there was heaven.  The view of hell was when man seen a volcano or other opening in to the liquid magma of our earth and said, "That's hell, I've seen it.  It was like fire and brimstone."

So I suppose the theory that has my more then 50% belief is that when we die there is some continuation.  That our existence isn't over, but I don't think it's the fairy tale belief's that is common in most religions.  I believe that it's most likely something we can't possibly imagine and probably cyclical in some way.  Everything in our known existence is cyclical.  Rain falls, dries up, and goes to the clouds, the earth revolves around the sun, nothing in the universe ceases to exist, it's always there, in some form or another.  So why would our existence just end?  Yet I don't think that we go to some "special place" where we are either rewarded or punished eternally.  It just doesn't seem to fit with everything else.

It reminds me of Santa Clause.  You get on his naughty or nice list and get gifts if your good.  Yet Santa doesn't punish you eternally.  That just seems so wrong.  It doesn't "fit".

I have this inclination that there is some sense behind reincarnation.  Not that Hinduism or other religions that believe in reincarnation are totally correct, but I think that that certain aspect makes sense.

So I've gone and picked a side, something that I've been trying to avoid, but I think was inevitable.  I still have to admit that myself, like everyone else, can only theorize or imagine what the complete truth is, but in the end, don't know shit.

I can not tell you what I haven't seen
I can not see what you are telling me
I can only see what the light touches
Everything else is beyond me

Beyond you
Beyond Him
Beyond every one that's ever lived

    What happens when you die?  There are many different religious views, and it is the center stage for many religions.  The main answer for many religions is eternal life.  Whether your being reincarnated in another form, or taken to heaven, the answer is usually that there is no end.  Atheists believe that death is the end.  Which is logical, but very depressing.

    Anyways, my main problem is Christianity's view on heaven and death.  Christians believe that If we die, and we do everything right in God's view, that we'll be reunited with those who have died before us and later, the ones who die after us.  We'll know all the answers that we pondered on this earthly realm.  We will shed our mortal skin and all the sin and badness that comes with it and live a lovely life on streets made of gold.  (Why gold would be important in a place like heaven is beyond me).

    Modern science has shown that our memory resides in the brain.  This is not the kind of science that Christians would argue with, (like evolution or the big bang), but common knowledge.  If you hit your head in the right way, you may suffer amnesia.  Alzheimer's is a real disease of the mind, which deteriorates your mind over time.  Even enough alcohol can damage your short term memory.  So, if you shed your body, including your mind, how would your soul take your memory with it?  Common sense dictates that the memory would stay behind.  So, you wouldn't remember your family who have died before you, you wouldn't remember those questions you pondered on Earth, and you wouldn't remember the loved ones that you left behind.

    So maybe our memories are left behind, but maybe we do take something with us.  Maybe there is an eternity in death, but perhaps not the way that it's typically viewed.  Reincarnation is a logical view, but what would it mean if your memory was lost, our bodies were stripped and we start over?  It would almost seem like any previous life didn't happen at all.  At least in my view.  Maybe our souls do exist in a separate dimension where memory is petty and insignificant.  Where time is irrelevant and everything is nothing, and nothing is everything.  Some sort of existence that we can't even imagine because our human brains can't handle it.  Maybe, maybe not.

I found this link with a bunch of quotes from Albert Einstein:  http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

I think this is especially true when it comes to video games.

I find Einsteins view on religion fascinating, and reflects my own:

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

This one reminds me of my wife, Amanda, and I, one evening we were staring at the intricacies of our skin patterns and how different hers was from mine.  (the uniqueness of your fingerprint seems to stretch over your whole body)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

While I still want to talk about my thoughts on religion, I thought I'd change the topic for this post and talk about something else.

Video games are a big part of my life.  I enjoy them thoroughly.  One thing that bothers me is the amount of rip-offs and trends in the video game industry.  Over and over again we see another military first-person shooter.  Many gamers can tell you the differences between an m4, m16, and mp5.  This is because games are educational.  It's not that they can be educational, its because they already are.  It must stupify these game makers when they see a game like Big Brain Academy sell so well.  You would think that gamers want to do nothing but shoot up people.  But this isn't true.  Solving math problems and exercising your brain can be fun.  So why is school so boring?  In my opinion, there is a huge market for educational games right now.  Games that can be used in school, not just in the elementary level, or even high school.  Studying to be a doctor can be a game.  For example, a simulation of an organ transplant, where you are rated on your procedure and precision can be an enjoyable experience.  Some critics complain that games are getting too realistic, but realism is the key to creating a truly educational experience.

You can probably think almost any job and make it entertaining by taking out the monotony, and just provide a gamer with the challenge of accomplishing the job's goals.

My job, I'm a carpenter.  (I work with my father).  We build on to a home after the initial framing is done to provide detail.  Usually stucco is applied on our build-out afterwards.  So, in a game, you can give a gamer a blue-print, a limited amount of supplies and allow them to try and figure out a solution by using the same tools and procedures in real life.  If done right, it can be a challenging experience and educational.

Guitar hero may be a better example.  If someone made an actual game that either registered the sound of a real guitar or made a real guitar which you could plug in to a console or PC, you could create a game that teaches people how to play the real guitar, yet it's fun and challenging.

If done right, anything educational can be fun.

I personally think that government educational funding should be paying to push this envelope and provide it to citizens.  By educating society so that it's fun and enjoyable, we can leap forward in terms of technology by having a country filled with intelligent people.

The chances of any bible being completely right are slim.  Many of them will say that unless you have complete faith that they are correct in every way, you will suffer in hell for all eternity.  I find the very concept of hell hard to believe.  Especially from a Christian stand-point.  If Jesus teaches about forgiveness, then how can there be a hell?  It seems almost hypocritical.  In the bible it states that Jesus will forgive you for your sins if you ask for it.  He also says to forgive one another, turn a blind cheek.  It's a very important message because vengeance creates vengeance and many wars and conflicts would have been resolved if one person would have forgiven the other.  Anyways, the bible states that if you do not have faith in the bible, in God, in the fact that Jesus was God and he died for your sins, then you will suffer for all eternity.

Eternity?

That's not very forgiving.  Especially for something as petty as what you have faith in.

Think about that for a second.  A hundred years is a long time.  Yet, if you lived a hundred years, and suffered for ten billion years.  One hundred would seem small and insignificant.  To suffer for an infinite number of years makes that number beyond small and insignificant.  Compare an atom to the universe.  The atom is microscopic, the universe is infinite.

How could any God that cares for His creation put someone through so much pain.

Am I converting to be an Atheist?

No.  I doubt the existence of a book made by God, the existence of hell, and for that fact, heaven.  But I think that it is likely that there is a spiritual universe and that something was the cause behind our creation.

The complexity of our universe is too much to be accidental.  Look at our relationship with plants.  They feed off our waste, and the air that we breath out , and we feed off of their air and the plants themselves.  For the two separate living groups to happen to evolve and live in a symbiotic relationship at the same time seems a little too unlikely.  Our body itself is so complex and works as one, that for your eyes, your brain, lungs, heart, and everything else to evolve at the same time, seems too much.

Let's say it did though.  Of coarse, it would take many steps, single celled to multiple celled organisms, and over millions of years, it develops separate body parts leading to a fish.  I'm not sure about the science, but somewhere it developed an eyeball.  How could the cells have possibly known that when you arrange yourself in such a way that you can create an organ as complex as an eyeball?  What was the driving force that pushed them in that direction?  Of coarse, an eyeball can not work without a brain processing the information, how did the cells know how to create a brain?

I hope someday someone that's studied biology more then me can try to provide a scientific explanation behind this.  Until then I find that there is a high chance that while we may have evolved from apes, something was the driving force behind it to help us be who we are today.

I think that if God created life to be able to adapt and evolve to it's environment, that only shows an even more intelligent design then if we were created "as is".

So, I've been pondering about religion for a long time.

I grew up in a Christian home where my siblings and I were all named after people in the bible.  Jesus was a carpenter, and so is my Father.  They make many references to Jesus being the shepherd of sheep, and we grew up on a sheep farm.

So my parents were extremely religious.

Now, I question the bible.  While I was taught that the bible was written by men who were influenced by God, so therefore it's God's word and in it's state, right now, is exactly as it is intended.  I find that very hard to believe.  With all of it's translations, and parts taken out and added, how can we assume that they are all right?  The fact that it is a composition of many different books shows that someone, at some time decided what was going in and what was not the "Holy word".  How can we say that every one of those people was influenced by God to know exactly what to put in a take away?

I used to look at in this way:  If Christians are wrong about religion, and the atheists are right, then nothing happens to anyone when we die.  But if the atheists are wrong, then they go to hell and Christians go to heaven.  So, how could you not put your faith in at least some kind of religion.

But now, I find myself pondering this, and thinking, why should I believe something that I just can't logically think is true.  Now, I've taken this stand point.  I don't believe any one is completely right.  I believe that there is a chance that each and every religion, and non-religion, could be right, but the chances of any one of them being completely right is slim.

Everything that we know is but a drop in the ocean of knowledge.