Friends, Countryman, Aliens, Galactic Aliens Watching Above, Lend me your time,
For today, and from now on you will be able to witness my writing and ramblings. Yes, I have put together and rendered a blog on blogger.com. The fact that I have been reading them on normal google searches and even commenting back on some made me believe it was time to start writing some propaganda of my own. I feel it will be a great way to improve on my writing, and blow off some steam, or rant, about the normal burblings of my being.
Now that the introduction is off my chest, let us move onto a religous take of my beliefs. Not to scare you, but more to make sure you understand who I am. Those who wish to save my soul please wait in line. I'll be with you as soon as the elevator starts accending.
Jesus, I love you, but not for what most christians would believe. I love the stories in the bible and believe you existed in a time. I believe you touched many people and that you were great in knowledge and experiance. I believe you did what you thought was right and even if I could make people believe that my death would forgive their shames and make others a better person, I would probably take that, especially if I was already nearing the road to death to begin with.
However, I do not completely believe every thing in the bible is to a 'T'. There are many people who have read edited and rewritten the bible in such a way that they did not represent the word of god as a being almighty could. I feel that the bible is more of a system of survival that has been worshipped beyond it's first intention.
Therefore, my beliefs are quite different though much alike those of christian followers. I call it a for of Agnosticism. Though agnostic in definition is: "1: a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience (dictionary.com).", I do have some base for my beliefs and single source of greater power exists. If I'm wrong, I have nothing to loose. If other powers exist, I must repent when I find I'm wrong, or just go to hell depending. However, if I'm right, none of us are in any real danger other than from ourselves.
Afterall, if you were GOD, what would you do for fun? Perfect or not I would be, mind you I am a small ant in comparison, bored. I would have all the answers. Ultimate power for the first 10 seconds might be nice as a human, but then y0u'd get bored as well. Being a God you would be able to do anything know the outcome before hand and then be able to change what you wish. Even furthermore, you have eternity that you must endure. Weather in nothingness or in something. Your existence would be a creation of the universe and without the universe you would not exist, although it might be a great void of nothing or something that existed. God's existence 101: absolute nothing exists. Then something has to exist. If something exists in order for nothing to exist then an operator is needed. Operation is the basis of all power(^) and the ability to create(+) and destroy(-). it also is holding all the answers. So, God, a being of creation is nothing more than a flux in the universe we call an operation.
What? God is nothing more than + - * / ^ - = ? Why not? It makes perfect since. The balance of all equations must exist as defined. Alright, mind blower I know, but that's my opinion. I have a right to my beliefs.
Now for the fun part; Why are we here? We are here to experiance and obtain information and bring that back to source. We are objects much like in a program designed to do what we want. Free will. However, there is a catch. In order for our almighty God to not get bored he wanted to experiance every experiance possible first hand. So, after all the creation of the mineral items of the world, he put himself into all the living things. Just a small sliver. So, when you return, for we all know we must eventually, he has first hand experiance of everything. He has the pain the sorrow the bad the good.
If that's so why bother praying? Prayers are nothing more than another equation for God to balance. If enough people believe in something strong enough the scale tips that way. Eventually your prayers may be met. To some that can be a miracle. To others it's just luck. Remember for every miracle you hear about though, some poor living thing has suffered through the same ordeal with the opposite outcome.
What about the devil? For every good deed there must be a bad deed as well. Weather minor or smaller. The great scale of our God almighty who does evil acts against non-believers and cherishs the ones that do. The devil is just the blame we give when the equation is not in our favor.
In conclusion, Gods existence is a must, a necessity for nothing to exist. He created a world of endless possibilities to be able to experiance life. God could be a He a She but more like an it. God is an operator holding all the values and answers. We ourselves are like Gods, just as the good book states, we can move mountians if we believe we can. I just feel sorry for the people on the other side that suffer the consiquences.
That all makes me feel like I'm worthless... I would find it refeshing, the power inside yourself to do the best you possibly can and move on with life fills me. I am here for the experiance of life itself, to take the bad, with the good and become a soul again within my God. I have the free will and power to either try and defy almighty, or accept things.
-The Rob
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2 comments:
Okay, so I promised I would respond to your post, even if it did take me a while.
A bit of background for those in not in the know:
I am a lapsed Catholic for the most part, I grew up in a pretty much areligious house, we went to church until I was 4ish, then stopped until I entered the 7th (?) grade, which is when I entered the church (1st communion & confession). I really became fascinated with it when I joined the local university parish when I went to U of Cincinnati, at the same time I dated a girl that came from a lapsed Catholic/Greek-Orthodox family who wasn’t big into church and so I fell away and haven’t gotten up the nerve to go back yet. Any away about my beliefs as they stand now.
I thick that you got it right about the bible not being the only and perfect source of information about the word of God, but I think that you made a mistake at stopping at that because there is more to the faith than the bible, there is also the tradition that binds a faith-group together. This seems to have developed organically from a combination of early Christian, pagan, and later Christian practices. I see tradition as the MOST important part of the faith as it is what makes faith so powerful, knowing that there is a group of people (in my case a very large group) that has done, is doing and will do the same things that I am doing now in an attempt to better my life and through that the lives of others. This is what makes the Church important and necessary.
I have a Jobian view of God, in that He exists where we cannot know (which is a lot of places) because He is omnipotent, but this does not mean that He is indifferent to this world, as you say existing as an Operator that keeps some sort of cosmic balance for the forces of good and evil, otherwise why send prophets and a Messiah(s) down to Earth in his name? Why design a world such that it generally pays to be good and generally punishes those that are evil? Why respond to prayers? –aside- I certainly belief that God responds to prayers, indeed that a universe so designed that miracles are allowed to happen and yet be unprovable is a small sign of God’s existence.-end aside-
And so I say these things and yet don’t practice what I peach, and so the question becomes why?
I don’t really know, I think a large part is the concepts of sinning and forgiveness. I have at times chosen to sin willingly and I am unrepentant of those choices and how can I be forgiven if I am truly unrepentant? That has been a major rub for a while now, but I also think that that has been an excuse not grow spiritually, as I have been in a situation where I believe that I am nothing and therefore I become nothing by doing nothing and so my belief is strengthened, I become more nothing and the downward cycle is accelerated.
That’s all I can write for now looking forward to your response,
Vale,
Ben
In the interests of not hurting anyone's feelings, I shall respond with this sentence and one more sentence. I just wanted you (and Ben) to know I read this.
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