[ SECRET POST #1097 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1097 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

101.


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102.
[Harvest Moon]


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103.
[James McAvoy]


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104.
[The Royle Family]


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105.
[Merlin]


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106.
[Hustle]


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107.
[Kate Beckinsale/Billie Piper]


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108.
[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]


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109.
[The Big Bang Theory]


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110.
[HBO's a song of ice and fire]


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111.
[The Mighty Boosh]


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112.
[Transformers (2007)]


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113.
[Dr Who]


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114.
[G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra]


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115.
[GZSZ]


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116.
[Christina Cole/Tom Riley]


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117.
[Kuroshitsuji]


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118.
[Claude & Louis Simonon]


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119.
[Muppets]


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120.
[King of Queens]


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121.
[Quirrellmort, A Very Potter Musical]


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122.
[So You Think You Can Dance Canada]


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123.
[Princess and the Frog]


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124.
[Persona 3]


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125.
[Val Kilmer, RDJ, and Jude Law]


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126.
[NCIS]


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127.
[Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name]


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128.
[Pokemon]


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129.
[Blackfly]


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130.
[TNA Wrestling]


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131.
[Amar en Tiempos Revueltos]


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132.
[Fullmetal Alchemist]


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133.
[Animorphs]


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134.
[Amanda Palmer]


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135.
[Colin Morgan/Bradley James]


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136.
[Percy Jackson]


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137.
[Star Trek]


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138.
[Manos: Hands of Fate/MST3K]


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139.
[Shakira/Danzig]


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140.
[Howard Wolowitz/The Big Bang Theory]


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141.
[Mint Royale]


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142.
[Dark Angel]


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143.
[Antony Hegarty and Marianne Faithfull]


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144.
[Eureka]


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145.
[Criminal Minds]


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146.
[All Creatures Great and Small]


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147.
[Ray Bolger & Judy Garland]


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148.
[The Beatles]


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149.
[Yuri Lowenthal/Tara Platt]


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150.
[Halo]



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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

132. http://i50.tinypic.com/257hild.jpg
[Fullmetal Alchemist]

[thano.livejournal.com]

Don't give up. God is in everything around you. =)

[sairei.livejournal.com]

This!

[bamf-girl.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[(Anonymous)]

*cough* We don't know what the OP's religion is...

[thano.livejournal.com]

=o Okay... let's rephrase that, then!

Don't give up. Your faith is all around you.

Better?

[gretchen8642.livejournal.com]

It's okay to have doubts, even to move on. The world is a beautiful place even when you can't find god in it. You don't need to let your faith define who you are.

Rose got up and walked on her own two feet. You can as well.

[cranraspberry.livejournal.com]

I agree with this comment, and I kind of love it too.

[gretchen8642.livejournal.com]

aw thanks <3

[red-pill.livejournal.com]

this is what i was going to say, only so much beter put

[revulo.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend looking at the thing Ed says right after that.
You'll be okay, hon.

[(Anonymous)]

Shouldn't there be more to life than faith? ): This just sounds so sad.

[lenisek.livejournal.com]

I've been having doubts about my faith as well, and it's tough because it's such a hard thing to talk about when it seems like everyone else is comfortable in their faith or lack of it. Sometimes I try but religious friends are "pray about it" and atheist friends are "well, good," and neither really help.

[ketita.livejournal.com]

I know what it feels like to have doubts - but what you need to remember is that you can fight it. Even if it's difficult, you can certainly overcome it. Try to focus on the positive - sometimes that's the only way.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been going through something similar. What you need to remember is not to let your faith be the only thing that matters. The truth is that you may never learn what is absolutely true until (or after) you die. What you have is your life and uncertainty. You need to make the most of what you have been given and not worry so much about what could be. Here's to a great life!

(Sorry to sound so preachy. Feel free to ignore this. It was said with the best of intentions. :) )

[lady-wormtongue.livejournal.com]

I always felt sad for Rose. Whichever way you end up leaning, I hope you find happiness. :)

[radio-nurse.livejournal.com]

Good.

It's healthy to question, doubt, and think about things, and I'm sure you'll only benefit from this in the long run.

And even if you did lose your faith, you'd survive. Really.

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

Religion isn't all or nothing. It's not that you have to hold that particular set of beliefs in their unchanging entirety or you can't believe at all. Almost everyone picks and chooses the parts of religion that makes sense and work for them. If there's a piece of dogma that just doesn't jive with your personal sense of right and wrong or the way the world works, then dismiss that dogma -- but don't dismiss the whole thing.

[psycho-taryin.livejournal.com]

I think the question you need to ask yourself is if your doubts come from the validity of your personal faith, or from what your religious leaders are telling you. If you're questioning if you're believing right/have enough faith/are sure this is right...that's normal. Everyone has those moments. We're constantly re-evaluating the things around us, and that includes our personal beliefs. If you're questioning the doctrine you are being taught, go find more books or preachings from your faith, or from different sects. Research your religion to know it from your own knowledge, rather than solely from what your leaders are telling you. And if either of these leads you to leave your faith--that's okay, too. We all have our own paths in life, and maybe you need to take a walk away from your faith for a while, and gain what you might gain from that experience. Change isn't always a bad thing. ♥

[ceylon-tae.livejournal.com]

As someone who values her faith a lot, my advice is to go ahead with it and ask all the questions you can! Voice your doubts! Talk about it! Either you'll find that the people around you don't know either, or they once had the same questions as you. I mean, some people will try to dodge tough questions or give you bullshit answers... don't take that. It's my opinion that there is always at least one good answer either way if you keep asking.

I think Rose's problem was that she was pretty blindly trusting Cornello. Any questions or doubts, and well, I guess we don't REALLY have to bring your boyfriend back, DO WE? Yeeeah, that's a problem. :S

It can be scary to feel like what you believed isn't true (I've felt it, too), but don't stay scared. Keep asking. Keep learning. That's how people grow. :)

[vieillerie.livejournal.com]

I've always felt that seeking refuge in religion only because you're too scared to accept there may be no god is cowardly and sad.
You can be happy without believing in life after death or divine beings. You can enjoy life for what it is without seeing it as a means to get to Heaven, Paradise, Nirvana or anything else. You can be a good person because you just want to do what's right, not to avoid the rage of any god or to please any greater powers. I'm not an atheist myself, so don't take this as an attempt to "win you over" or something, because it's not. Just don't push yourself. If you find reasons to believe, do so. But don't be afraid to question your faith or even abandon it if it doesn't feel right anymore. I don't think you'd feel any better just going through the motions.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Doubt is sacred in its own right. No god/dess worth their incense wants blind, unthinking faith; faith that's worth something has been tested and rethought. It's based on your experience of the world, the truth you've lived, not someone else's words from a pulpit or an ancient text. And as long as you're living and learning, your faith will grow and change with you. It's when it's been the same for too long that you have to worry.

[(Anonymous)]

Not-the-OP Anon here is confused. I always thought that the point of faith was, well, not testing it. 'I have faith that [whatever] is so...' without actually having proof. That at least for a few religions, it really is like a that quote from one of the books Douglas Adams wrote which goes:

Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful [the Babel fish] could have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

(That's from a comedy scif-fi book, mind you, but I thought it was something like that...)

But faith really isn't enough?

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Enough for what purpose? Sounds like it's not quite being enough for the OP . . .

Bear in mind that the quote in question there was written by an atheist. Hardly an expert on either faith or gods, I'd think. Pratchett's much better, IMHO - although I seem to recall he's an agnostic . . . .