Mike,

>>This reminds me of my late grandmother who was a professing Christian Scientist.
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>Uh oh...
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>>They are great believers in the notion that if they can change something in their minds it is actually changed in reality.
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>There is no spoon.
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>>So, does that mean that in a crowd you turn invisible? <g>
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>I don't follow you there.

Oh.. Just kidding you a bit. You need to think about it a little from my pov. I'm saying that at some point everyone has a "master passion" or "final authority" (for me it's the Bible's God), or controlling 'something', whether intellectual, emotional or physical. Since you seem to have as your 'final authority' your own mind, if you say there's no god, do you disappear? <g>

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>Here's the thing, no matter what I do I won't look back at any moment of my life and say "Boy, if I had done something else instead, I'd be a much better person". I have nothing to sastify. I have no deity.

Well, I find that interesting and amazing at the same time I suppose..