From: molsen@zeus.calpoly.edu (Mark David Olsen)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: Re: god(Lowercase Intended)
Date: 1 Oct 92 16:16:24 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <1992Sep30.193907.3590@wuecl.wustl.edu> felis@wucs1.wustl.edu (Felis Lynx) writes:
>In article <6_lzccf@rpi.edu> battlec@cs.rpi.edu writes:
>>In article <1992Sep29.214318.159951@zeus.calpoly.edu>, molsen@zeus.calpoly.edu (Mark David Olsen) writes:
>>|> In article <92272.032804SWR103@psuvm.psu.edu> Sean Rearick <SWR103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>|> >Just like to make a comment.  I've been an athiest for the past 6 years.
>>|> >While this may not interest anyone, the reason for my desicion is from
>>|> >'The Vampire Lestat'.  Before reading it I hadn't really thought about god,
>>|> >just sort of took it for granted.  However, the part in the book, when
>>|> >Lestat realizes that there is no god, got me thinking.  I basicaly
>>|> >decided that he was right.  Anyone else's life affected by the 'Vampire
>>|> >Chronicles' this strongly?
>>|> 
>>|> I have to agree with what is said here.  I have been an athiest for a good
>>|> number of years now and the 'Vampire Chronicles' only strengthened my
>>|> beliefs.  'The Queen of the Damned' led me to beleive the reality of spirits
>>|> (plus other events in my life have aided in this) but the Legend of the
>>|> Twins definately helped.  It is one of the first 'histories' of early man
>>|> that I feel makes sense.  Anyway, just wanted to throw my two bits in.
>>|> 
>>
>>
>>	This is FICTION people! Y`know...make-believe!  Are we that desperate
>>	for truth that we resort to fairy tales as the basis for a belief 
>>	system.  Might you start reciting the "litany against fear" and 
>>	destroying computers after reading DUNE? These stories are meant to
>>	entertain not profess truth.  The only reliabe source of truth is the
>>	real world around us.  Fiction presents ideas, not answers.
>>
>>
>>	
>
>What's wrong with FICTION?  There's a work of fiction that a LARGE number of
>people have been taking as the basis for their lives for many centuries now.
>I'll agree, it's not that bad, and it does has some basis in fact.  But the
>authors didn't seem to know when to quit.  They kept dragging out sequels in
>order for people to keep following or just to make a buck.  Quite a bit like
>the Dragonlance series, and I've seen how some people can react to the
>Dragonlance series....  Coming back to the first point, what's wrong with
>basing some of your life on fiction?  There are some very interesting ideas
>buried in a lot of books.  Is there anything wrong with using these ideas or
>mutating them into something they like better.  The whole world is based on
>personal belief, and not necessarily on personal experience....
>
>Felis Lynx
>
>

	Very good call.  I was expecting oppisition from my article and now
is my turn to defend it.  Ifwe only beleive the truth around us, we have to
ask our selves what is really around us.  For those who follow the christian
religeon, they follow a book that might be fiction and consider it the
truth.  My beliefs have developed from a lot more than just the _Cronicles_.
In my eyes, I have seen the "truth" in the world around me, so please dont
go the path of most organized religeons I have encountered and comdemn any
"untraditional" view of the world.  Thank you.

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