REALITY CHECK:

SUCCESS:
Do you define success as being able to satisfy other people's sense of your accomplishment?

When A Hurricane Strikes In Florida

One Disaster — Three Belief Systems

by Roland Kriewaldt

Florida, USA, has been known to take a beating come hurricane season. 2004-2005 were exceptional for weather-borne destruction. In honor of my favourite state (so far) I'm making the best of a bad situation by using these natural disasters as a platform for some good ol' reality checking.

What's the definition of a religious or a spiritual person? Is there a difference between the two? This short essay may shed some light on the meanings of both words, for I believe they are different and not always related.

If I was tempted to stereotype some of the following, it's certainly not to insult anyone. Yet a broad sweeping brush stroke can often paint the greater truth, just not the finer details. And, to round things out, I've included the atheist or "agnostic" since we evidently can't have a "real" world without them.

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