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thinking outloud so god can hear me
Posted Apr 6, 2001
if i understand correctly then the christians would have us believe that god created the whole lot, everything, us, the planet the solar system, everything. from scratch. he made our brains, well maybe not yours and mine directly but he must have made the first two. adam an' eve's. and if he made their brains he must have undertood how they work. so when he then says to adam that he's not to eat the apples, this god chap, well, he must have known from the outset what the result would be, he set us up to fail. surely? if he also gave us free will to choose our own paths then why do people pray? he just said he wasn't listening? but i'll come back to 'free will' later.
but enough of the 'organised religions' they appear to me as outdated fairy stories people made up to get other people to do what they wanted without their having to answer too many akward questions.
If we are all unique, then every possible outcome is to be played out at any given time. so how are any rules ever supposed to work? there will always be far too many exeptions.
if god made us for a purpose, we, as a species, must be able to do something that god can't. or he would do it without us.
Why does he have to be perfect anyway, he just needs to be clever or talented enough to create this (expansive gesture that takes in the entireity of it all).
FREEWILL: as far as i can tell, nothing random has ever happened. every single thing that has ever happened, both on this planet and beyond, has happened as a direct result of a previous action. every thought, every gust of wind, every infinitesimal shift in all those really big things and some of the small ones too.
Now, to me, at least at the moment, that seems a bit ...'planned'.
change is a continous process everything is in a constant state of flux. and whats more it seems that there is a direction of some sort. there is a sense that it is 'going somewhere'. now.ask yourself this question: if you went through all the hassle of creating a universe and every thing, with everything so inextricably linked and planned,would you leave anything to chance? would you give one species free will? or... would you just give them the illusion of it?
(i read a few books by oliver sacks on neurology coupled with a mate of mine who told me what the odds on this planet A: existing and B: continuing to exist are. something about me and all my future descendants winning the lottery everyday for a very long time, it got me thinking. dammit.)( as a curious side note to all this; i had just finished re-reading this and said to myself 'god, my handwriting is really poor' when a strange voice said 'yes, it is'....go figure?)
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well......nothing really, shame that, with all that information in the world and i can't be bothered to talk about any of it. Truth is i've always wanted a really long tittle.so am i happy now?.
Posted Apr 5, 2001
well this is it, my first enrty.
i cant be bothered to introduce myself properly so i wont. (i've met me already so what's the point?)
people worry too much, but dont think enough.
i wish my brain worked as well as some other peoples i've seen, i'm so danged lazy, i cant even be a***d to put in capital letters, i'm not even sure if i can be a***d to continue.
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