Re: virus: Heaven's Gate Kooks

lady_darkstar@mindspring.com
Thu, 5 Jun 1997 05:34:46 -0400 (EDT)


At 09:46 PM 6/4/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Funny too... the thing that Jesus came down here on Earth to do (or so
>they tell me) was /to die/ for our sins. In the name of God. You've
>got to wonder why a typical Christian would then be _un_willing to do
>the same.

Because it's not infashion. And it takes a strong will to say, "I believe
in this, and you're not going to break me. No matter what I WILL hold fast
to me beliefs and die for them if needs be." Beliefs have become
transiatory, they are no longer a true part of us, just something to be used
and thwon away when the next fad arrives.

>
>Ooooh... You are the first person to answer in the affirimative.

I'm not surprised, I've always been weird.

> What,
>preytell, would you apply the conviction to?

My work, my writing and my beading, anything I wanted to do. With that
kind of conviction there isn't much that you can't do.

Strange Love and Tired Eyes Crossing,
Darkstar