The Word According to Curtis
Dumb Luck? Coincidence? Destiny? Or it just happened? either way, you are where you are. And I say try to make the best of it. Thats just my basic idea for things. I've also been very angry, or just short spurts of anger when I can't get things done. I've alway felt defeated, and I think my friend put it best "Defeated Perfectionist". I've always felt like if things don't go the way that I want them to, then its like its not worth doing. And I just feel defeated. But anyway, I guess I am the way I am, because I am, and you can call it 'Destiny, Dumb Luck, or whatever word crosses your mind.' I am me, because I am. But my life is like a destiny among others. Its just that I see destiny as a forest of experiences, each path leads to a different destiny. I guess just like a real forest, if you take one path, then it will lead you to among others, and what ever choice you pick, is your destiny. With every choice there is a reaction to the enviroment around you. For example, if you fart, people are going to notice it one way or another. In that way, you effect they're perception of you, you are now a 'farter'. But then again, who cares what people think. Its rubbish. So I guess your destiny is to fart, and be proud of being a farter. And I thinkmy good ol' friend William Jennings Bryan said it best "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Another good quote is "Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one."~Horizons magazine

"Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which has been built." ~Sir Herbert Samuel So I think I will touch on religion here. I find it to be a big problem, and it has its advantages, and some disadvantages. Faith isn't bad, but the brainwashing is just rediculous, comical almost. Its so absurd. Its just that christianity is kind of a joke, because its only one god. And thats it! I can pray to a rock, and get the same results, and when something good happens to me, I will thank the rock for giving it to me. Anybody can start their own religion, but they call it a "cult" first, before its wide spread. Make my own scriptures, and I can even paint a face on the rock. As you can tell I'm not religous, nor I go to church. I find it that my individual beliefs clash with that of the church that I attend. Of course I'm not going to tell everybody that their wrong, that I mock their belief system, I just find it commical. And science has really brought out alot of facts about how religion doesn't work. Like c'mon, that was before the Europeans took the big risk of "falling off the earth". And just imagine what they would of thought back when jesus was supposibly alive. A lighter would have been some super spectacular phenomenon, and start to worship it. Its utterly ridiculous. This Millenium came and gone, people thought it was a judgement day, everybody was going to be judged, and what happened? Absolutely nothing! What are they still clinging to? I have no clue, but in the meantime you can find a god anywhere. Pick one up off of the ground, dust it off, and say "thank you for being there."

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