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Keep it simple... people are by their very nature falliable, so steer clear of them! Just take the qualities that you admire, and go from there... does that make any sense?

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it does but i don't see enough admirable qualities in anything and those i do see are tempered by bad qualities - nothing and no-one is perfect. "it's not that i can't find worth in anything, it's just that i can't find worth in enough"

and to the last poster (sorry, forgot your name) i don't for a second think i know everything - i would readily swallow pride (not that i have much to swallow) if i thought there was anything that could deal with the world on my behalf and better than me. thing is i'm a philosophy student and on an almost daily basis i question the world but i question religion and belief in things outside what's tangible more because i just can't see how they are possible, but also because i genuinely believe such things (i'm talking about god and stuff, not the universe, which is scientfically discoverable) are just things that the human mind invents to atone for problems, to justify their existence, to make excuses i suppose, to stop them having to face up to the reality that humanity is, at the end of the day, not very nice. that is why i can't do the higher power thing, because i think humanity is the only thing that can help itself and all over i see people making excuses for themselves (that's not to say i think religion is wrong, or that i think humans are the only intelligent life)

sorry if this has hijacked the thread - it's not meant but i am genuinely interested as to this whole higher power thing