“I KNOW that I have felt a significant “absence” and “silence” where a potential “god” or “gods” are concerned, or more to the point, a higher “guiding force” for lack of a better term, whether that be an internal or an external “force”—the operative word being “higher”

I have felt this too. I am now of the opinion that there is no God, only the universe. I came to understand it only after intense physical and mental suffering which utterly and comprehensively destroyed the ‘Loving Father-God’ archetype. I realized that I would have to dig myself out of every hole I fell into in life. That it was futile to expect ‘God the Loving Father’ to intervene. I now place such an archetype alongside Santa Claus, Angels and the Tooth Fairy.

We are on our own. All we can do is be kind to each other and our animal friends.

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