Faith

Kin,
"The truth of the matter is that I don't know that she did...wasn't there...
were you."

No. I was not. One can ask me- How come your so sure? How can I be so sure

that it was a "real " apparition of the Virgin Mary (whom I call Mother God)?

I am taking a stand. In other words I stand by a truth (eventhough at this point it

remains in the minds of most as; prove it to me; disprove it to me). I stand by

the evidence of a Goddess/Priestess; I feel it's the other half of a half making

a One.

What's the point of it all. I think it comes down to Faith. For faith is like an invisible thread that inter weaves all things.

The question might not even be, is it "real" or not, but rather what makes people

move...towards an apparition (leave aside the people justly blindly following

other people OPINION)for one minute.


If we take Bosnia- it's people are: 1/2 Muslim, 1/3 Serbs, 20% Croats, 37,000

refugees from Bosnia living in Germany: Diaspora:breaking up and scattering of a

people. Could it be that the Priestess is trying to console the heart/hurt of the

people by drawing them together (cuz the gathering of people in Peace is an ACTION

of coming together (+ INTENT).


Skepticism/ in the Merriam Web. Dictionary one finds words such as disposition,

doubt concerning basic religious principles (as immortality, providence,

revelation). It sounds like we 1st hear from skeptics within people's

religious priciples ~and then~ a ripple effect whereby everyone has a little (or a

a lot) of skepticism in them ( and I say: to figure out).

So. You can be religious and doubt/be a skeptic and state that there is no

providence. To me that doesn't make sense. There is a link missing.


If a person says- there is no apparition- I don't have a problem- at least

it is clear.

At what point does one move within or beyond their skepticism. It's almost as if:

if the skeptic doesn't move beyond this point then their beliefs will challenge

them.

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I'd like to wrap this whole thing up by stating my personal motto I try to live

by- taken from

LEO TOLSTOY:

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

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Palenque: now that sounds like some interesting reading. Don't know much about it.


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KIN