Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 02/12/06 4:47 pm:

Hello again, Christians:

Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I'm not interested in what your scriptures say.

I know all that religious stuff. What I was asking about is what it's like to ride a bus, while you think a ghoul is sitting right beside you, or hiding behind that tree? How do you follow directions from your boss if you believe he may inhabited with evil spirits, like bucker and others think I am?

I have employees. How do I deal with co-workers or employees who might think that of me?

I'm talking about every day life, here.

excon

Clarification/Follow-up by Laura on 02/12/06 4:51 pm:
LOL!! Using your examples: I'm sitting on a bus and I think a goul is sitting right beside me. I've never really experienced that. I don't believe in gouls and goblins. I believe in spiritual forces of evil that influence people. I also believe in angels but I've never personally seen one.

I worked for someone once who I personally believe was heavily influenced by some kind of evil spiritual force, maybe even inhabited. He had absolutely no kindness in him. He was outright mean spirited and heartless. He spoke of God as if God was evil. He believed in God but hated His guts. Though many tried to help him in various ways he was seemingly unreachable. Not just in changing his own mind about God but in the way that he treated people and the way that he approached life in general.

I got sick of his retoric and eventually quit the job. It's not healthy to be around that kind of influence on a daily basis. I knew when it was time to go. I heard recently that his business tanked. He drove everyone away with his hateful attitude, both employees and customers.

Clarification/Follow-up by HANK1 on 02/12/06 7:05 pm:
Excon: "God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child’s attraction for its mother, and the husband’s attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to him by the combined force of these three attractions, then one can attain him."

-Ramakrishna

Source: Hindu Wisdom via Beliefnet

HANK

Clarification/Follow-up by sarnian on 02/13/06 12:44 am:
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You don't believe in Santa Claus?

?

:)

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Clarification/Follow-up by wakan on 02/13/06 7:14 am:
excon,
ya better stay in yer house
them things is there alright, they'r just in different disquizes
even vamipers - they all werk fer the irs and banks.
walk

Clarification/Follow-up by sarnian on 02/13/06 11:02 am:
Wakan: back into your tree!