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A fine line between Ballykisangel and Shameless

Desmond79

My village has a lot of successful entrepreneurs, but even more degenerates. I was talking to my neighbour, this afternoon, about the Shooting in my village last Sunday night. It didn't take Stephen Hawking to figure out that the shooting was drug-related. But I found out that it was a young woman, I know, whose Grandfather - and Aunt - ran the local Chippy. But her Mum is pure Jeremy Kyle material; even more so, after what my neighbour said today.

It makes me appreciate, even more, buying the bungalow I did. I'm away from the madness. But there was an issue with the previous tenant. (too sensitive to mention here) But I know that I'm blessed.

The abandonment of our old religious practices, and sense of duty, created a mini Gotham City.

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  • Most human beings need some spiritual nourishment to cope in a way that doesn't cause minor or major harm to others. For some, that balance comes from organised religion, and I'm glad you have that in your life. That's your personal path to peace. For others, they'll find a degree of it without ever setting foot in a church. Through meditation, mindfulness, the good fortune to be innately kind despite everything (the personality lottery), or the influence of good people in their lives. 

    Personally, while raised Catholic and a regular, then infrequent, churchgoer until my thirties (I'm mid-forties now), I'm firmly agnostic. I believe we - the agnostics- are considered, by the faithful, the 'most despised' because we just don't know. Won't 'pick a side'. How many of my better qualities come from the less prejudiced teachings of the church in my formative years, and how much I'd have had in me anyway, is a question I can never truly answer. At the very least, I can't (as a flawed human) be wholly critical of imperfect, human-populated institutions which have done at least as much good as harm. Goodness knows what the true ratios are, and every personal journey is different. 

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  • Most human beings need some spiritual nourishment to cope in a way that doesn't cause minor or major harm to others. For some, that balance comes from organised religion, and I'm glad you have that in your life. That's your personal path to peace. For others, they'll find a degree of it without ever setting foot in a church. Through meditation, mindfulness, the good fortune to be innately kind despite everything (the personality lottery), or the influence of good people in their lives. 

    Personally, while raised Catholic and a regular, then infrequent, churchgoer until my thirties (I'm mid-forties now), I'm firmly agnostic. I believe we - the agnostics- are considered, by the faithful, the 'most despised' because we just don't know. Won't 'pick a side'. How many of my better qualities come from the less prejudiced teachings of the church in my formative years, and how much I'd have had in me anyway, is a question I can never truly answer. At the very least, I can't (as a flawed human) be wholly critical of imperfect, human-populated institutions which have done at least as much good as harm. Goodness knows what the true ratios are, and every personal journey is different. 

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