Anyway, I'm sure a lot of people have come and gone here at Unexplained Mysteries... and I'm mainly just making this post for anyone out there who may actually remember me. I was the well-spoken 13-year-old who tried to politely prove to everyone with infallible scientific evidence and undeniable logic that God did indeed exist and that my religion was the RIGHT ONE. Noble, eh?
I stumbled upon this site tonight/this morning, and I went back to my "God, the Bible, and Christianity" post (the one that SaRuMaN blocked
) and I've gotta' tell you... I feel so incredibly stupid!Needless to say, a lot has happened in the past four years. I mean a LOT. But the only part of that lot that really concerns this post is what's been happening to me in the past year or so. I'll try to be brief:
1) Backslid. 2) Doubted. 3) Underwent existential despair over humanity's complete inability of knowing anything (an epistemic tragedy, yes?). 4) Made Kierkegaard's "leap of faith" back into Christianity, even though I knew that I'd be a completely different Christian than everyone else, and that I'd be completely alone in my perception of faith. 5) Met up with some really cool people (it's a rather miraculous story, really) who were going through the exact same thing as me, thus finding out that I wasn't alone. 6) Began understanding my faith from a Post-Modern context.
And, well, here I am. I'm a different person now. I now look back at my Apologetics/Debate days, and I chuckle at how much of a complete moron I was. Now I like to think I have a much broader vision of life and knowledge, and... well... I just wanted to say I'm sorry to the few of you who were here and still are here, and who I may have offended with my close-minded defense of my religion. Or maybe you all just laughed at how stupid I was, and imagined to yourself a time when I'd come crawling back apologizing.
...And, well, here I am.
Anyway, I don't know what else to say now. If you remember me, please respond... it would be good for me to know I'm not talking to complete strangers here. And if I am... well... heh... I'll just be leaving now...
OH, and I'd better make this post on-topic, eh? Uh... skepticism is a perfectly valid view of life, especially in light of the fact that knowledge isn't as simple as so many of us like to think it is. What do you think?!
