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thinking without questioning it; they genuinely believe their eyes have been opened and that they
               have found their purpose.

               Sooner or later they try to force these ways onto others because it is righteous, but certain ways of
               thinking is only meant for certain types of people. He says that when someone finds their own
               religion by themselves, that they will then be able to grow properly.

               Jesus then goes on to tell me a story about a society who finds a young boy who is about to die on
               the street. They bring him to a hospital to keep him alive, but they can't find out who his parents are
               or come into contact with anyone who knows him. After days of searching, it is apparent that there
               is no one to be found, and that the boy would be brain-dead even if he did wake up.

               After much thought and debate, the society decides that his life is no longer worth anything, so
               they begin to remove some of his organs to donate it to people who still have a chance for a life.
               They take a kidney. They take part of his liver. They take some bone marrow. The child has
               become a great resource and an answer to those in despair.

               Some people in the society become angry and begin to threaten the hospital. They say that such a
               thing is wrong. Doctors are murdered. Nurses are murdered. Eventually the boy is murdered by
               one of the angry people to stop the hospital from degrading his existence to nothing.

               Then Jesus looks at me and he says that sometimes it might be better to just not believe in anything.
               Jesus tells me that wherever I may travel, not to become a product of the environment, but to
               impose my own influence on the people of that place to create the environment.

               I'm in mid-sentence and someone walks into the room. I look up, and I see a woman, maybe in her
               sixties, and she's just staring at me. She excuses herself and starts to walk out but I get up and ask
               her if she is Joe's mother. She says yes, and I tell her that he's been waiting for her. I tell her that I
               would leave but she asks me to stay, she says that it has been so long since she's seen him.

               Later on I learn that twelve years ago Joe was disowned by her and his father because Joe was gay.
               A homosexual. She says that she didn't want to do it, that she wanted to accept him, but his father
               was so hellbent on the subject that she didn't have a say. I guess the disowning played a big part in
               Joe's life and had a negative effect on his relationships with others. Maybe that's why no one ever
               visits him. He tells me he would spend a night with Anna Briol Walkhill but he's just lying so I
               don't think any less of him.

               His father recently passed away and his mother finally found the courage to come see him. She
               says that she would have done it whether his father was alive or not. That she was tired of not being
               able to see her own son. Before I leave, for some reason she gives me her phone number and
               address and then asks for mine. I don't get people sometimes.

               Who is Joe? Does someone's sexual preference tell you who they are? Some men are killed
               because of the fact that they can fall in love with another man, and when someone is killing
               someone else, they usually kill that person because that person is associated with something that
               identifies them.
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