What did you want to be when you were little?

[geodave]

Very interesting stuff in here! Sort of off-topic, but who cares?

Let me quote just a few things:

"The only true freedom is freedom from the heart's desires/ And the only true happiness this way lies." -- The The

"Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart." -- King David (I think)

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus" -- Paul



These are huge topics. We could have many many threads that would be fun to comment on.

Full disclosure: I am a protestant Christian, with an eclectic belief system that includes some socialism, some zen, some mysticism, some rationalism, some libertarianism, some cynicism, and some other things I can't name. I'm also a classic Skeptic, in that I don't HAVE to have an answer for everything. For example, I think young-earth-creationism doesn't hold with the evidence, and neither does athiestic-evolutionism. But that doesn't mean I have found a theory that does fit the evidence. There's always aliens.....