According to a Gallup Poll, nearly 70% of Americans believe in the Devil. Do you? Why or why not? Why do you think 70% of Americans believe as they do on this issue? Do you think this number is higher or lower than other countries in the world? Why? Do you think the devil is behind the choice of this topic?
Yes I believe in the Devil, I believe he is real, a wicked spirit creature. I believe because I am a religious person and believe what is taught in the Bible. The Bible talks about the Devil as a real spirit person. I am not sure about the number of Americans, I think many say they believe in the Devil when in reality they believe more in an evil force that causes bad things to happen.
As to whether or not the number of people is greater or less in other countries, that depends on the country. I think that in some countries the number of people who believe in the devil is much higher, there again it would depend on the religious demographics in the country.
Do I think the Devil is behind the choice of this topic? Well, I do believe that the Devil is the ruler of this world, but I don’t think he is behind every little thing that happens. I think he has influence over people,so maybe ….
Belleza
just a city girl 
Rumor has it that you’re thinking of quitting. Naaaaaaaaaa, hang it there.
I was, but I’ve felt the love. I’m staying.
I believed in Devil too
Please write an article per day, keep your spirit!
Salam sehati from Indonesia
You are very kind.
Hey i found that you have plans to stop posting altogether?!? Don’t do that, its cool to lag a bit, as far as you have us for company!! May be you should try posting a week for a while and then get back to this space!:)
I was not planning to stop posting completely, I was just going to drop out of postaday. I was stressing.
Yep, I believe. He has come to steal, kill and destroy but Jesus came to give us abundant life. And that says it all!
O.K.
Love the idea of a commuter’s journal and that it’s all about you 🙂
I write what I know. And I know about commuting and myself.
Great post, One of the biggest lies ever put out by the Devil is that he is not real. As of who is behind the topic of this post? I believe it is the Holy Spirit..
Interesting thought.
I absolutely believe he exists and that he creates situations for mankind to follow. I also believe in the free will God gave us and the ability to make decisions. If I look at my life, can I say that there were temptations and things placed in my life?…maybe. The final choice of doing right or wrong was finally mine. I think people should assume some accountability for their decisions as well… My two cents =)
I agree with you on the accountability. Even though the Devil does exist, we still have free will and can resist his influence. The old, “The Devil made me do it.” is a cop out.
I never thought about this topic like you do. I even deleted the mail from dailypost because i thought it was a weird topic, me writing about the devil when im a non-believer. But im getting the mail back from the bin.
I should start visiting other blogs more often. They tend to make me write 🙂
Oh, i like your post 🙂
I find inspiration to write from other blogs, twitter, facebook, the train, NYC, my friends and …. no, not my family.
Thank you.
Well, Bella, if you don’t get a lot of comments today, I don’t know what else would work.
I’m with you on the Devil thing. There must be opposition in all things. Of course his greatest ploy is to get people to not believe in him, which is perfect for him.
Keep on blogging!
I got a ton of comments today! Every time I checked WordPress there were more comments.
Feels good, doesn’t it? Now remember to share the love with someone in the future who might be struggling. Pay it forward. 🙂
I enjoyed your post. I had a hard time writing succintly about this. It seemed very disjointed to me. I hope other enjoyed it. Don’t quit blogging. It’s a good outlet.
After I read your comment I went back to read my post and found 3 mistakes! But thank you for your kind words.
Don’t quite! My conversation with the Devil comes to an end here. The devil, in all this, has been my creative attempt to give voice to the ~b of ~bb in freedom’s dialectic at the level of b~b~bb, and, as such, “soul” in my story becomes the equivalent of that which connects human beings to God. The problem is that what connects God to humans also separates humans from “self” (self as the implicative affirmative of the not-me-self) and God. Free will and self-consciousness, however, follow from this separation. We have the “option to choose,” and, of course, choice carries with it a lifetime of baggage which determines “how we choose.” Nevertheless, choice falls between good and evil and if per chance it should land in the neighborhood of evil, civilization provides law and order to counter harm and mayhem. Again, in terms of freedom’s dialectic, the ~b of ~bb at the level of b~b~bb is the source of meaningful symbol creation, which, in turn, opened the door to the creation of language, myth, religion, art, theoretical knowledge, and the rest of the civilizing processes that we call civilization. This ongoing self-liberation is not only embedded in civilization, it is also embedded in the aesthetic continuum and it is here that the true meaning of life will ultimately be found. The gorgeous sunset that sometimes swells our eyes to tears is not just a product of the spinning earth; it is also part of the spontaneous, pulsating, emotion that flows from the whole of the aesthetic continuum. Inspiration for the poet, painter, and musician comes not from cerebral musings, but rather from the empowering emotion that inspires life, imagination, and awe. The strength and resolve necessary to create a better world is not found in analysis and calculation, but rather in the empowering emotion that calls us to love, beauty and truth. The immediately grasped, emotionally moving ground out of which all things arise–the aesthetic component of our experience–beckons us to seek the impossible, express the unspeakable, and imagine the inconceivable. The ~b of ~bb at the level of b~b~bb, — or the voice of the devil in my story—is the voice of Divinity made whole in consciousness, and, as such, this voice is not the traditional voice of Lucifer, Satan, or the Devil. This soul-stealing demon of tradition, rather, was the imagined product of wandering nomads lost in the desert many millenniums ago, or so says Randy Newman in his Rock Opera Faust, and I agree. However, imagination itself is a product of the ~b of ~bb, so, to put a more wholesome spin on the plight of the wandering nomads, one could say that the voice of Divinity, via the imagination, was admonishing consciousness not to stray from the divine path. Again, self-consciousness and imagination are component aspects of the voice of Divinity, but in general parlance of dialogue the word typically used to reference that voice is “conscience.” However, Divinity has a more direct and powerful voice. Divinity (when it truly speaks) speaks through the language of love.
Right.
Hang in there. We’re all in this together.
I need to tie a knot in the rope. 😉
Daily blogging can contribute to your life in many ways. I am about 577 posts in. At first I had no purpose. You will find yours
Some people recommend a one sentence daily journal. I read about it on Gretchen rubins happiness project blog. You could try that until you feel
More inspiration.
I currently have 1,261 posts on this blog, that is from the very first post I published. I find the more I write the more I want to write.
Wow, that’s amazing! Terrific job!! What a wonderful accomplishment.
The devil lost today when a little birdie told bloggers to rally for you to keep posting!
Good wins and I hope you hang around in postaday2011.
I definitely believe in the devil and I believe he is closer to spiritual places than anywhere else.
All these lovely comments have encouraged to me to keep at it. They have also given me ideas on how to make things a little easier without giving up on my goal.
Ooohhh, I think sharing your tips/ideas would be a terrific blog post. I’d love to read it. 🙂
What a great blog you have! Blogging daily might be a bit too much but you can certainly blog weekly and then if an extra couple slip in now and then, it’s all for the good. I’m doing postaweek2011 just because of that.
Do I believe in the devil? Not sure. I do believe there is evil in the world so in that sense, maybe I do. But I also believe evil can be overcome by true goodness.
Hang in there, Bella. You have a great voice!
Thank you Deb.
You and I view the devil in the same way. Excellent.
Please don’t quit. I’ve put you in my Google Reader. 🙂
I’ve decided not to quit. At least not now.
Ho! Ho! What is this I hear? You want to give up Post A day? Why is that I wonder? It cannot be because you do not get many viewers. You have had twice as many as I have had in the same amount of time. I thought just recently that maybe I am wasting my time especially when I only got two viewers, that was on Saturday just gone. I did feel depressed so I just did the basics and I really thought that I would give it all up..but here I am still plodding away.
Your site is very professional, not like mine which is very simple, like me….
Please do tell me why you do not want to do Post a day( maybe you can change to Posta week)that may be easier for you. Keep at it, determination to succeed… Love Patrecia
Thank you for your kind words. I was starting to feel like it was too much, I was asking too much of myself, and I have other things that I have pushed aside. One of the reasons I am trying to stick with it is what you said about viewers, I know people are reading and if they are coming back, they like what they read.
It is great sharing your thoughts in the blog world 🙂 Find your comfort but I do hope you don’t stop sharing thru writing. May your beautiful muse, your heart, keep you happy either in this blog or in a new home, new title, but same essence as sharing and still blogging happily. Cheers and God bless you!
I am planning on renaming the blog when I move to Manhattan, but that is a few months away.
I think the devil might have something to do with you quitting lol i’m just kidding . I am a part of postaday prompt but it doesn’t mean I do. I try posting daily with plinky prompts though .
Thank you.
Well, if an excellent writer is thinking about giving up her blog, then a hack such as myself, should bury his or her head under piles of crumpled virtual paper. Don’t stop!
The devil exists and show himself in the little foxes of temptation he puts in front of us every single day.
Oh that is so sweet of you! Don’t bury your head.
Many times I have read blogs and thought the same thing, “They write so well! and my blog is very meh.”
Please don’t quit. I know it takes time and effort and sometimes, frankly, inspiration decides to hop a train in the opposite direction. But just hang in there. Honestly, I haven’t been doing it daily like I should. But I still try, in my scattered, rambling way. At least your stuff is incredibly coherent and readable. Please don’t stop. I’m not a commuter and I don’t know you, but I’m subscribing to your blog now. So give me something. Pleeeeeeeease????
I’m not quitting. Thank you for your kind words.
Come on Bella, you made it this far in #postaday, don’t stop sharing your thoughts now. You have said a lot and I’m sure you have a lot more to say. I wish I had your commitment and stamina.
If you take a break, that’s cool, but please don’t give up completely.
All this support is great, I always knew bloggers are great people!
Absolutely. I got some blogger love last week, too: http://smilekiddo.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/bloggers-are-terrific/
I never signed up for PostaDay, or even PostaWeek officially, Bella. I just post when a thought occurs or the muse strikes, or my fingers are bored. Dunno why, I just do.
Don’t post every day. Don’t post every week. Most importantly, don’t stress it. If I had your commute, that’d be enough stress.
Relax. Enjoy. Recapture the fun that got you started and let the rest slide. Write what you want, when you want, when it suits you. Blogging can be very cathartic and insightful. Might help you decompress from that murderous commute. 😉
2009 I was on fire, over a post a day for the whole year, 2010 I tried to do the same but couldn’t get focused to. I was trying to get back to posting every day and thought the commitment would help me.
It does help me destress from the commute by composing snarky blog posts in my head, they usually don’t make it to the blog however.
I hope I can be the quiet still voice that might answer your question. Most of my life I have been a Christian perso, I went to church, served the church etc, and always I had the same question… One day I kneeled in church and was praying after the death of my grand father. I was a lost soul. As I prayed I had questions in my mind, the answers were hard, so hard. I felt I was given a choice. I suffered from panic attacks, fear, all those things many people have, I thought I had conquered them. As I prayed I felt I was given the choice, a voice in my head choose me and you can walk out of here and be sooo happy, another voice said but my road might be harder but you will be free. I felt a battle inside me, should I get rid of all my questions and just live and be happy? or should I follow the calm voice that said the road might be rough but I walk with you always… I chose the right road. This simplifies what went on inside me, and I am an English woman, but I believe the devil does exist and that we as mere mortals are given the teaching so that we can make the right choice.
I guess the moral of the story is never to give up, at the end of the journey we need to be able to look back and say… I did ok because I did everything out of love…. love and prayers M
Thank you for your thoughts.
The devil is in the details…hahahaha, just kidding; had to say that (hope no one already said that, didn’t take the time to read all the replies). I used to commute about the same distance you are doing now and wasn’t blogging then. But what a gold mine of data for a blog on a daily basis. In fact, I may just do some memory blogs on my days of commuting. Great idea!
Hang in there Bella. Switch over to postaweek and feel better.
Nope you’re the first!
I think the devil’s not going to like that we all rallied to your aid. Please don’t quit. I know it’s hard. Trust me. Just keep trying. Do what you can.
Thank-you, I was surprised at the number of comments I got.
Quit? Now? I’d might be tempted to think the devil-made-you-do-it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
I haven’t seen a post for today yet (4/25/11) – you still with us?
Hi! Yes still here. Just at work, then shopping and just now getting home. A little overwhelmed with all the comments. 🙂
Just stopped by to encourage you to continue your blog. Life has its ups and downs; trust in grace and faith and keep on trucking. 🙂
Eliz
Thanks! I appreciate the encouragement.
HUGS from Daily Post subscriber!
Thanks!
Hey I heard you were thinking of quitting. I have had thoughts about packing it in too but the comments and the thoughts of other people keeps me going. It’s tough but hey we’re all in it together. Keep up your good work and awesome blog
The enormous response to my announcement has forced me to reconsider. I will be here for a while longer.
Cool. 🙂