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Religions > Atheism |
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"Uncle Clover/Bill Shroyer" |
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28 May 2007 04:15:37 PM |
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Updated status... |
Hi everyone, it's me again. I'm not coming back to stay, but just to
let those who care enough to read know of a recent change in my life
that I would like to just share with everyone.
First off, I think this "growing up" thing is finally beginning to
take hold. It's about time, I'm 35 years old and only now is my
second wisdom tooth coming in - I tell you, it's almost enough to make
me take another gander at phrenology.... Anyway, I've resolved my
issues and have finally figured out what to do with my life.
I'm such a social misfit anyways, but yet I love giving to people, so
I've decided that as I can get my health back up to par, I'm going to
go into mission work. Not missionary, but mission - the same kind of
work missionaries do as far as helping out my fellow humans in third
world countries, but without the implied obligation to consider a
religion that may not be right for the local people.
I was giving my dog, Ginger, some attention one day and the way it
just made her so happy - to see the light in another beings eyes shine
because you're making them happy, it doesn't matter if it's a human or
a dog, it just occurred to me that feeling is such a rewarding thing
to me. Being dissociative, it just took awhile to connect those two
dots together - "giving" = "fulfillment". Once the thought occurred
to me, I realized that's something I could easily spend the rest of my
life doing. I don't care if I never own another thing, never have my
own house, never have the condo on the beach - if I can make a
difference in the lives of those who need a hand, that will be more
than enough wealth to take with me to the grave.
That said, it's going to be awhile. I've really let myself go these
past few years. I'm going to continue where I'm at, and I will try to
pick up what mission work I can when I can as I feel physically
capable of it - the last thing I want to do is foist an over-eager but
useless obese pasty white boy upon folks who already have enough
problems as it is. Until I can actually be there to help, I'll be
doing what I can on this end of things, and would like to ask all of
you who are willing to do whatever you can, wherever you can, to keep
this world turning where it needs to go. No, I'm not asking for money
- yet. That will come later, it does take money to do mission work.
But for now, I need to get some things in order here and wrap up
whatever I can of my final "worldly affairs" before taking off for
something I never thought I'd feel drawn to - the "REAL" real world.
:-)
In the mean time, I've taken to YouTube. I only have two videos up
right now, but I welcome you all to my channel, it can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/UncleBilliamicus
The two videos I have are just responses to other vloggers, but I'm
going to be putting original material up before long. I welcome all
of your participation and feedback in that, I sort of suspect places
like YouTube are rapidly going to become the "Usenet of the 21st
Century". At least until something cooler comes along. ;-)
See you all later, I'm not going to be reading in these groups as I'll
be busy Vlogging and plotting the course ahead. I do have a few
Usenet groups I'm dabbling in at present, but I suspect they're going
to have to go eventually as well. Feel free to write to me on YouTube
or by e-mail at shroyerw at comcast. That's with a "tod ten" at the
end (reverse - I'm sure you're smart enough to figure it out).
Thanks for all your support over the years, and even for the
occasional butt-whupping I might have deserved every now and again.
Hopefully, if I can't fit in too well with this society, I can help
make a difference in someone else's new society - the new world is
springing up all around us, it's quite an interesting time to be
alive! :-)
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