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 Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:23 pm
*Alex furrows his brows in thought*
Well, it does provide hope for people who are desperate.. That's a good thing. But why can't people just have hope for the future? Why do they need some sort of construct to believe in in order to have that hope?
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:31 pm
*Maggie considers that before speaking again* But . . . hope is the gift that God gave us, te all of us. 'Tis the promise He made . . . with the rainbow after the flood, through His son . . . that whate'er struggles, whate'er grief we may know . . . there will come a time when we are happy again. In this life and in the next . . . *She swallows against the lump in her throat*
*she looks over to Cora* 'Tis what faith is. Believing in that, that the sun will come again after the rain, that joy will follow our pain and sorrows . . . that there is always hope.
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:37 pm
Well... that to me seems more like an inevitablitly. I can see now, that nothing stays the same, or perhaps, it wasn't meant to. I wasn't meant to, I think. I know now that I cannot always be sad, the same way that I cannot always be happy. That, to me seems quite normal, with or without God.
:::She pauses::: But perhaps I don't understand your analogies... I've never seen it rain. Before coming to the Brink, I'd never even seen the sun. I thought... :::She pauses in case she's wrong::: Those were natural occurances too...
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:42 pm
They are, Cora. Hope is different. Hope is the desire for a certain outcome to arise out of an unpredictable situation. Faith.. faith is a bit more difficult to pin down. Faith is believing in something without evidence of it.
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:51 pm
And . . . 'tis God who made the world. So what is natural, the rain, the sun, 'tis His work as well. *She explains to Cora, and then nods in agreement with Alex*
Aye, before I came te this place, I hadna any proof of God save what I felt in my heart . . . 'twas faith then, and e'en now, in the midst of all this . . . there is still so much we dinna know, and dinna understand. But I beleive that God will guide us through te what is right . . .
*she takes a breath and releases it, looking off to some point in the distance*
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:58 pm
Maggie, are you sure God's a man...? I thought... God was abstract...
:::She scratched her head::: Don't misunderstand me, but... I'm somewhat certain that nature and all of the earthly things we come in contact with are quite explainable through science... not neccessarily anything to do with God. But- I DO know what you mean... I've learned about some things that science could never have explained to me...
:::She tried not to smile when she looked at Alex, but she did it despite herself:::
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:02 pm
*Alex grinned back*
I don't think that God created the universe. I don't even think he's really all powerful. I think that there are things yet to be discovered, and some of those things are extremely powerful. And I think that God may be one of those things... A power developed over.. who knows how long.
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:09 pm
*Maggie bites her lip, then sighs softly* I know, coming from an earlier time, there has been a great deal which I have been ignorant of. And there have been things that I believed once that I now question, but . .. with this... I can only speak for what I've known, what I've felt in my life. God gave me strength when I was in need of it . . . He gave me my son. I canna be in doubt of that. I can only be thankful.
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:17 pm
:::Cora frowned. She couldn't imagine the things Maggie had been learning up until that point if she was capable of believing something like that:::
Maggie... I don't know if any one was ever capable of teaching you this, but... it was you and your husband that made your son.
:::She couldn't bare to let Maggie live under such a pretense:::
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:22 pm
*Poor Alex was taking a sip of his wine when Cora said that. And out it came with a burst of uncontrollable laughter*
Oh...... my..... GOD.
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:25 pm
*Maggie opens her mouth to explain to Cora . . . and is then cut off by Alex's outburst of laughter. She reddens slightly and shakes her head, murmering* Oh heavens ...
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:29 pm
:::Cora was suddenly under the impression that she'd said something wrong:::
Uhm... I'm sorry, am I...mistaken?
:::She couldn't imagine HOW in the world she would be:::
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:31 pm
*Alex coughs, shaking his head and waving his hand at the two in a motion indicating that they not bother with him*
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:37 pm
Cora, I, ehm . .. I know 'twas my husband and I that made Will . . *she says, looking embarassed and sad at the same time* I only meant that . . . 'twas still a miracle. E'ery explanation in the world couldna make it less of one. Will was a gift from God te us both ..... *she trails off, the embarassed look fading, leaving only the sadness*
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:43 pm
:::scratcing her head, and talking very cautiously so Alex doesn't laugh again:::
I don't know I mean, it seems more like a scientific certainty. How man BILLIONS of times has it happened now..? Birth, that is. Oh, wait, it might only be millions by your time.
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