Saturday, March 06, 2004

I wonder if one of the reasons we have to sleep is in part to connect with energies we don't understand, accessed through our unconcious? From a resting alone standpoint, you could conceivably sustain lengthly periods without sleep simply by resting certain muscles, or certain parts of the brain. 2:44:54 AM

I was just thinking tonight how, if my mind IS like a steel trap, it chops off just a little too much in the capturing. I was also thinking again about religions based on vengeance or hatred or exclusion, and how counter that is to what everyone involved in religion essentially belies in - which is communion with fellow humans and God. If someone's god is a vengeful god, doesn't it make sense that the vengeance based religions should rest secure enough in that knowledge to not wreap his will and destruction on this earth? They should be the very religions not worrying about anything anyone else is doing because, by god, he's going to burn them all to hell. I just don't get the entire Shiite and Sunni conflict. Church traditions that use the Bible to justify hate - I keep hoping I get to use the response I have to some alleged fundamentalist Christian challenging me as a "liberal" Christian because I interpret God's word, rather than obeying God's word, that they do exactly the same thing, and use it in a direction that directly contradicts the core of Jesus message. Which do you think is the way of Satan? 1:57:01 AM