"I am come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether much that is glorious -- whether all that is profound -- does not spring from disease of thought -- from MOODS of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however rudderless or compassless into the vast ocean of the `light ineffable,' and again, like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, `agressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi.'
We will say, then, that I am mad. I grant, at least, that there are two distinct conditions of my mental existence -- the condition of a lucid reason, not to be disputed, and belonging to the memory of events forming the first epoch of my life -- and a condition of shadow and doubt, appertaining to the present, and to the recollection of what constitutes the second great era of my being."
- Edgar Allan Poe
I am Agonistic
I'm not sure if God exists, and I don't care.
For me, there's no true way to figure out the divine.
I'd rather focus on what I can control - my own life.
And I tend to resent when others "sell" religion to me.
What's Your Religious Philosophy?Morally bankrupt and proud of it, I find everything funny and I don't take anything seriously. I'm too smart for my own good and usually too dumb to recognize it. But, in contrast to all that you have learned so far, I am a chivalrous gentleman in the classic sense.I live in Florida and I hate this godforsaken swamp!AIM username MaltyDawg
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