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Actually I'm becoming more interested here :) ---- Love the way you put that, I couldn't agree more. Same way I see it. :) Anyway, it's 23:38 EST. Must.. sleep... thanks for the responses! I'll be back.

Thank you. Was worried that was too blunt, it's just how I see it. Would love to see my Grandmother and others again, and maybe one day someone like her I will meet, but won't be anytime soon, millions of years even, and I won't know it when it happens. >*Again, IMHO*<

bytor2112: Thanks for the response, I know they do -- it just isn't my way to put someone in that position. I would not call myself agnostic, though as a younger man I did. To make things simple lets call me a Neo-Deist as per my personal definition below. I can't know for certainty any of these are wrong so I lean towards what I find correct. I believe the divine is never knowable with full certainty. I believe in science, reason, and ethics rather than revelation or Biblical guidance. My personal view of God is as whatever not only created the Universe, but time and space itself. It could be an Omipotent being as is in most religions, it could be a more evolved lifeform, yet mostly in my view it is likely the natural scheme of things that existed after the Big Bang* which allowed our Universe to form. After all, there are 100 Billion stars in our own galaxy, and 125 Billion Galaxies in the observable Universe. Mathematically there is life out there, mathematically there is intelligent life out there. I just don't think we are as unique as some people may, but that doesn't reduce our importance here and now. I don't believe in an afterlife either, I find it peaceful to think that when I die it'll be an infinite dreamless sleep until our star expands and implodes, engulfing us back into the formation of a new star and with it the possibility of new life. It makes every moment you spend with your famly that more precious. *Before which we won't ever likely know. >This is all my opinion, don't take it the wrong way< --- Thanks, that made me feel better. I hope they do call.

Hi, I'm new here as you can tell. Honestly, I didn't see myself in this type of forum as I'm not exactly the most religious. However, a bit over a month ago I ordered a Book of Mormon to read* out of interest in theology, reading, and history. For some stupid reason I didn't realise a missionary would visit me personally, and seeing as we occasionally (every few months) have a missionary around our apartment complex I didn't exactly put two and two together... needless to say, being 8pm, and tired from work, I listened to their introduction and said I was an atheist**. It was then they mentioned it was ordered in my name... boom, then I understood. I feel awful because they said they had walked around my apartment complex trying to find me, and here I was backpedaling and not knowing what to say. I know several Mormons from my swim team, and know one closely, you're some of the kindest family oriented people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. Yet here I was being rude, I wonder what they were thinking walking away from my apartment. I feel obligated to apologise further to these two gentlemen but I wouldn't know where to start, there are about seven LDS churches near me alone so who knows which they came from. Anyway, maybe this is pointless, I just feel really bad for making these two nice guys come find me at 8pm and have me cut them short because it was 8pm and I'd forgotten I'd ordered the book. Thanks ahead, I'm sorry if this is stupid, but I felt the need to say something and I thought this was the place to start. They were gone by the time I thought about running downstairs and outside to explain and apologise. *I'm sure a good majority in addition to me prefer reading an actual book instead of a computer screen. **It's true; I was NOT trying to be mean -- though admittedly I'm afraid it could easily be taken that way. I'm the quiet inquisitive type of atheist you probably don't know is one until you ask, I don't run around saying bad things about people and their beliefs, I'm live and let live. I don't intentionally wrong anyone, and not you good people or the gentlemen who came to my door.