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Poster: Ron Martin
Caption: Faith and Reason? I'm not sure these two belong together? I have a great deal of Faith in God but very little faith in mankind. We should have progressed pass where we are now with out spiritual beliefs. We are still hung up on negative issues instead of becoming part of ghe positive whole. The only way mankind will become what God intended to start thinking positive about their lives. Then they will manifest good things for themselves and for others. One of the greatest secrets I've learned in Law of Attraction. We become what we beleive.

Poster: Kenneth McDowell
Caption: Is it humankind displeasure with themselves, they thirst for some thing to make them equal, whole or complete? This state of mind has been inherited from generation on generations, passed down as if passing a lighted torch searching for ours souls in the darkness of time.

Poster: Harry Temple III
Caption: Working as a Major Domo/Private Chef in Aspen, Colorado more than once I've had a client wonder why they were not happy. Such thoughts were oft times shared as we talked in one of their multi-million dollar homes.These clients, and at times very dear friends,were searching for something that all of their money could not give them. And that thing is a spiritual dimension to their life.

Poster: Mark
Caption: Of course we want something more, and this something is not within the confines of our material world. The richest people in the world are some of the most unhappy, and the level of suicide in industrialized nations is far greater than that of the 3rd world. www.kabbalah.info answers many of these questions in a very interesting way.

Poster: fox-brenton@juno.com
Caption: Incredible series! Well done again, Bill!

Poster: Sister Lea
Caption: Yes, we are driven to want something more. Like we have a gene within us that can distinguish what is real and what is not. We keep on trying different things, thinking each one to be the path to real happiness...yet our hearts are restless until they rest in the Real and the True.

Poster: Vince Masterson
Caption: Just recently heard Jeanette on Bill Moyers talking about Faith & Reason which is what led me to your website. I find Jeanette's insights into life situations, art and other matters intriguing and have a hard time not agreeing with her on the whole. From my own experiences, I've discovered that material things make us happy only short term. They cannot truly satisfy us for long. You eventually have to return back to the more spiritual side of things to become fulfilled. It may be in helping others, restoring old and once forgotten items, investing your time in your children, creating new art, music, or writings, etc. Finding your niche I guess is probably what helps fulfill us more. It is something that makes the individual in us seem more unique. For me it is something that I can do differently, which becomes my small way of contributing to our world.

Poster: Sis. Marguerite Keita
Caption: Jeanette, I agree with you that more money, more sex, more cars, more cocaine, and more girls are not the answer of our satisfaction. Those things will never fulfill the purpose of your life. Your life has a purpose and this purpose is what makes your soul burn for the unsatisfying thing you have not received yet. Heaven and earth were created by a sovereign God and all that is on the earth including human beings. Our souls are satisfied only when we meet the purpose of our life and this purpose is to seek God and to know Him personally with a personal relationship. That's the only way of satisfaction of our soul. Again, I do agree with you that materials will never satisfy us.

Poster: William Switzer
Caption: That we are driven to want something more, does not mean that something more is there to be found. Mans needs and wants do not a cosmological reality make. We are star stuff and that should suffice.

Poster: Nancy Drake
Caption: Thank you. That is why so many people pursue religious belief systems that are not based on reality.

Poster: Natalie Rosen
Caption: I loved the Jeanette Winterson interview by Bill Moyers. She is brilliant. With respect to her quote on your web site, I probably would have had a discussion with her about that quote. Indeed, as she says life seems to be more than what is tangible. However, we really do not know that for sure. All we know is what we can see through provable science. An atheist friend of mine when I would say man needs to believe in something more, something beyond himself and all his superficial accoutrements, she would say to me just because man WANTS it to be so does not MAKE it so. Until the mystical can be seen or proven each persons mysticism remains unique to him/herself. What is the truth unless we can see it even microscopically, or hear it, or prove it in some way. I cannot believe in anything mystical or supernatural until science tells me it is so and I have definitive proof. Otherwise, to me it's just pure supposition.

Poster: Rick Henry
Caption: Wait! On the face of the statement it seems to either be true or constructed in a way that we want to say it is true and want to believe that it is true. Of course unhappy people are everywhere. There are those unhappy with wealth and they are those unhappy without it. What makes you happy? This is a complex question and may or may not have anything to do with spirituality. This is the problem with religion sometimes, it portrays it self as the answer to every question and you know what? It aint so. Religion has a place in our lives at least for most of us, but sometimes we demand too much from it. When anyone attempts to describe all humans using one set of needs, wants and values for everyone, you over shoot the issue. Humans at least most of them at the core level want to do what is in their personal best interest. Obviously not everyone knows what is in their best interest. Making wrong choices and feeling empty afterwards is a normal and very human act. We long to make right choices, and treat others well because we want to be treated well. That longing is nothing more than the desire to do the right thing.