hewitt.mobi: What ? All You Need Is God ! & Jane Austen

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
What ? All You Need Is God ! & Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice

I have been away for a few days in Leek seeing some of my friends. I had a rather un-eventful time, apart from an encounter with one of my friends Rich, which gave me pause for thought. I see him rarely, so we don't talk too often. In fact we only talked briefly on the way to somewhere else. I had not seen him to talk to since the diagnosis, and we talked about it & I told him how I felt about it.

He expressed surprise at my ambivalent attitude towards the diagnosis & I said it was not worth crying over spilt milk, what was done was done & no debating the matter was going to change the hard cold fact or it's eventual outcome. He then said something which I laughed off at the time but having given it some serious consideration I feel it appropriate to explain myself here. He said I'm going to give you some advice, you've probably had plenty & don't want any more but what about God ?.

What about God ?... As readers of this blog will know my attitude towards religion has always been rather cynical. I take no part in organized religion & can not but fail to notice that many of the worlds problem's stem from organized religion whether Christian or Muslim. This aside what about other forms of spirituality ?. This is an interesting proposition but again mostly focused on organized forms of spiritual practice. I don't know whether Rich has faith but it suprised me because he's never mentioned it before.

So do I want organized religion, I think probably not. My contribution is better made in other areas. Do I practice a degree of spirituality well yes probably but if I do it's entirely personal & private & not something which I wish to go into here. I'll talk more with Rich about this because it's sparked my interest but this is my current thought on the matter of organized religion.

This is the Project Gutenberg version which you can do as you please with it's out of copyright.

Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice

Charlie

hewitt.mobi Posted at 4:48 pm | 4 comments

4 Comments:

Hmmmm, yes, indeed. Food for thought.
Its most definitely a personal decision.
I have my own ideas, but you know that already.
I can only hope that you find something that puts things in perspective without falling down the rabbit hole of confusion. No fun.
Good luck!!!
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By Michele, at 11:13 pm

Hi Michele,

Cheers for the reply I sent you an e-mail to the address you gave me, to talk about this...

Charlie xxx

By hewitt.mobi, at 12:56 am

email hasn't come my way yet.
So, I emailed YOU!
TTFN

By Michele, at 8:40 pm

Hi Michele,

Sorry only just got around to sending the e-mail, you should have it now :)

Charlie xxx

By hewitt.mobi, at 12:32 pm