[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by OldDave

I just wrote one of my usual, too long responses, and just as I was getting ready to send, the power in the house went out and I lost it. Considering I mentioned religion, do you suppose someone is trying to tell me something?

Anyway, I was saying to Twinkle in addition to this, I believe an alarming number of people today believe what someone tells them to believe without ever thinking for themselves. Of course this is very true in politics, and especially in the fringe elements of religion. Whether it's people with bombs strapped on them in the middle east killing children or our own fake messiahs in Waco locking up their flock so he can convince them god wants him to have sex with all the women. I must have missed that part of the scriptures when I was younger.

The sad part is there seems to be a never ending supply of people so desperate for something to hold on to that they will believe someone the rest of the world sees as manipulating them. And there is an ever larger supply of con artists ready to take them in.

This goes back to conspiracies. If you are this gullible, you are ready to see bigfoot when a bear ambles by, even though there is no logical reason to see something that doesn't exist.

Unfortunately for some of these folks whether it is bigfoot or extreme politics or religion, I think they just desperately what to have something special in their lives. They want to know something no one else does. And they pay the price for it every day.

Now I"m going to send this before bigfoot comes and kills my power.

Good stuff OldDave - keep them coming. You are beginning to give me faith that there is still intelligent life left on earth!