I'm not sure where to begin or what to write. After I post this, I am going to post a few "notes" that I have posted in my Facebook. You can find me at www.facebook.com/tofercole for a real profile of me. You can see lots of pictures and blah blah blah. Who cares right? Well, I have realized that I care. I look at lots of people's pictures. I'm curious about who they are, where they live, who they have as friends, whether they are married or in relationships, gay or straight, spiritual, religious, not any of the above. I'm curious because I feel an attachment to humanity. I am human of course, so that shouldn't be a shock...but I have found that more and more people are become "disenfranchised" from humanity. Why? Well, I suppose it has to do with all of our weaknesses. It isn't just him or her or me or you. It's all of us in some way. We all have the same or different weaknesses from each other, just as we all have the same or different strengths from one another. Oh..I also started a website called ShareUrLight.com . I want it to be a place where people can discuss spirituality and religion and...... well, LIFE all together. When I think about my beliefs, I don't think of them as a religion..even though most people would. I think about them as a way of life... using what I believe is true about our existence to guide that. It isn't about going to a church building on Sunday (or Saturday) and being seen. It isn't about saying the right thing all the time. It isn't about an image... although I often do feel overwhelmed with trying to be what I consider a "good" person..and then sometimes often failing miserably. But, no worries... I don't do it out of coercion. I don't do it because I am afraid of God. I do it because I really do believe in something beyond this life. I believe that we are evolving, and it will take the village to raise the child. It will take all of us. And I believe that things like sin are talked about..and punishment..because of small misunderstandings. I personally don't believe in any punishment from God (the God of Abraham)... But I do believe in consequences for our actions. These consequences are things that I believe God, in all His(is He really a He, I don't know if He needs to be any gender) goodness warned us about. A lot of the details have been corrupted and changed by the hands of political figures who wanted to use their interpretation of God, therefore creating an idol and a different god, to subjugate and oppress the multitude.

I need some help and some collaborators who want to encourage me to get the ShareUrLight website going. I have the domain paid up for another... 9 months I guess. I'd like to use it as a place not only for people to share their individual beliefs...but also a place for them to try to rip apart my own. And I will try to defend what I believe and actually share what I believe... to clear up misconceptions of what it means to be a true Latter Day Saint. Even those three words, I'm sure, cause a stir in some people. How can anyone claim to be a saint in this day and age? Well, I dont think a saint is a perfect person. The the first point I'd like to make. And also... a saint isn't what the Catholic church has made them into (from my perspective they are lesser gods in a way...that are prayed to for intercession when Jesus is who was made for that purpose...same goes with people praying to Mary...) If you look in the New Testament (which I know, has gone through the hands of politicians, but I think there is some use in it) you will see that the epistles written were addressed to the saints in certain areas. A saint is just a member of what is called the Kingdom of God on Earth. A saint is someone who has come in at the gate (being baptized [immersed in water] by one who holds authority to do so, has been confirmed by the laying on of hands, and has partaken of the Eucharist [of course, all of this after having a belief in the validity and truth of the claims made by those performing these ordinances and having repented of committed acts that bring about the natural consequences that separate us from our God]). Phew... that was a mouth full.

I share all these things with you because I believe they are true. I have become more and more aware how beliefs affect all of our existence. Political beliefs divide our country and our world. Hurt feelings and old wounds unhealed keep us apart from one another. The inability to forgive and move on keep us tied to old ideas about what someone may or may have not done to us. We are only hurting ourselves by not letting go and not moving forward. We are meant to see eye to eye. We are meant to be as one. But all our weaknesses and short sighted notions keep us apart. There can only be one ALL ENCOMPASSING truth about all the good and bad of this existence. There can only be one history book that details where things went wrong and where they went right. Even right now, with the British Petroleum Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill ... I keep hearing different reports of how many barrels or gallons of oil is being spewed out and what may or may not be happening with the ocean floor. What is true and what is not? All we have is what we believe. When so many reports are different, when we live in a time (which has always been the time) that you can't trust government officials or the spokesperson of the company in charge of the statements...how do you really know what is happening? Everything is hearsay. Look at another example... Textbooks being changed in Texas to represent history from a skewed perspective. If you don't know what I'm talking about.. look it up. You think this is the first time the textbooks have been skewed? Do you think lies have not been taught in the public school system for years?

I say all this because I want to make a point about beliefs. We all work off of them... whether it is a belief that an institution of higher learning is the best place for guidance about how to live by the best practices, or if you believe that you should blindly follow a government of man or a religious institution of man, or if you want to study everything that is out there and hope and pray to be doing what is good... it's all about following beliefs and hoping that those beliefs are taking you into a beneficial and good outcome.

The Earth was once flat. And the Sun orbited around it. And the atom was the smallest particle. I just heard a rumor the other day that oil... is not actually a fossil fuel..but the outcome of an abiotic chemical process at lower levels of the crust than where any dinosaur bones should have ever been found. I wonder....

Anyway.. I'm done for now... later gatorz.