by Floyd Smoots » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:18 pm
I was raised in a Virginia Southern Baptist church, by Bible-believing parents. You want rigorous? By the time I was 18 years old, I "knew" that the Old & New Testament God did NOT EXIST. I was now in "college", don't you know, and I damned sure had learned better than to believe in that crap.<br><br>Why, I even took Psychology 101, which taught me "How" to think, and "What" to think. No conspiracy there, I assure you. I actually, in spite of the Baptist college propaganda (which disparaged the miracles of Moses, Jesus, and others mentioned in the Bible, by scienfitic explanation) learned to think for myself.<br><br>Drafted out of college by the U.S.Army in my junior year at the tender age of 21, I spent 4 years in the U.S. Navy earning a different sort of degree. I kept on rigorously reading any and everything I could get my hands on because I'm "hardwired" that way. Some of it was Bible commentary, and, of course, just to keep the authors honest, the Holy Bible itself.<br><br>I did, actually return to collage(sic) at the age of 27 and earned a nice worthless liberal arts degree in studio art by the age of 29. So what? It does help me in my vocation as an electric sign designer, but the rest of the courses taken in pursuit of said degree were CRAP! Also, I'm not paid a nickel (farthing?) more for my work because of said degree.<br><br>Yes, I checked into free love, pyramid power, drugs, new age, alternate religions, etc. during those "days of discovery". In the end, after half a decade of searching, I, personally became convinced that my parents had got it right with "that old time religion", and I signed up.<br><br>By the way, today, the church in which I grew up is still a quarter mile down the street from me (living in the old family castle, don't you know), and I wouldn't darken their doors on a DARE now. It has been totally taken over by "Purpose Driven" morons who follow the teachings/regurtitations/excrement of Rick Warren from California, and there is no Bible-based teaching or preaching to be found there anymore. Alas!!!<br><br>By the way again, the Holy Bible is the original expositor of "conspiracy theory". It well describes not only what the "Bad Boyz" did in the far, dim, distant past, it predicts very accurately what "They" are going to do in the far distant future (Our Now!!!)<br><br>Also, when You or Me or We present a "link" to somewhere on this World Wide Web (why do they call it a web?), WE Are NOT presenting FACTS. We are providing a link to what someone else, somewhere else, SAID!!! We are not Proving anything. We are only pointing the readers/writers of THIS blog to someone who said something that WE happen to agree with.<br><br>And, THAT, DreamsEnd, is a FACT!!!<br> <p></p><i></i>