markus wrote:
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There is no intervening God. But, hey God, if you're reading this, you can prove me wrong!
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Basically, I think what you're doing is this:
the universe isn't helping me out, but maybe if I criticize it loud enough and for long enough it will come to my aid.
Unfortunately, this isn't the way it works. The more you try to convince others how wrong they are about I-M, the less happy you will be.
You're acting as an expert with no authority whatsoever. You
might as well be a person on the street screaming about how dentists are part of an international conspiracy to rot your teeth (good example, impaul).
I personally don't care what you think. Your life is yours to live. But you've come to one of the few places on the entire Internet where I-M is discussed with any degree of genuine enthusiasm -- and it's free unlike some of the other I-M sites out there.
And you've decided to set up shop and 'convince' others they are delusional. Those who have already seen their lives change won't be convinced, but you may be negatively influencing those who have come here not yet decided. You're shoving them toward your cynical worldview before they even get a chance to try I-M for a single day.
Go find a skeptic forum. There a bunch on the Internet and you will receive the adoration you are striving for from your peers. Not only that, but your 'clarifications' need not be limited to I-M. You can talk about how God does not exist; you can talk about how the earth clearly does not orbit the Sun; you can write beautiful essays on the fact that we're just a bunch of neurons randomly firing and nothing else.
If you want to get into a healthier state of mind, however, I suggest letting go of your bogus notions for just one day. Not a week, not a month, not a year. For one day. Go read something that will get you on the right track, like the Stephen Mitchell translation of the Tao Te Ching.
It's beautiful -- even if you aren't interested in spiritual things you can appreciate it as a great piece of ancient literature. And it's short: you can whip through it in about 40 minutes, just in time to come back on here and 'help' more misguided people out.
The road to hell was paved with good intentions, and it looks like you're paving a superhighway.
Angeles