Faith?
Ok so I totally had to finish up writing stuff up so I didn't post at all last night ._.). It got too confusing so I moved all my entries back one day to the day they represent! but didn't change content so might get confusing I guess oh well D:. So it's wednesday but this is tuesdays day keke :<.
I learned today that I should never listen to dinky, not matter how tempting it sounds.
utter crap from bubu hot n cold! I rather go back to jungle and end up screwing up a day or two but getting something worth 10k atleast if I win >(.
I also helped fira, simsim, and zart try to pop despot today but meh 3 hours and we got nassing :|. On that note, zart recently started doing the saga of serpent general quests and that reminded me of that awesome picture I has so I went and dug it up :D.
IF YOU HAVENT DONE THOSE QUESTS DO IT NOW BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING AWESOME OK!? :D
Oh and friend who drew the pictures earlier made a pic of my talu! Not exactly what I was expecting but it's cute nonetheless >:3.
seal suit kekeke :D. I wanted to include some chat logs of the awesome ls chat and why I love you guys but thought it prolly wouldn't be safe .
Anyways yesterday a friend of mine got me talking about religion and we both came to the basically the same conclusion(share later!) and I was wondering what my friends thought about it so I did a little poking around :<. I asked another friend who's a Christian about it and why he follows it and it twas quite interesting. He and I were pratically the same type of person from little up till college, at which point he got into Christianity and made a complete 180 from who he was. It's weird for me hearing about how the effects of religion played a large role in his life because though we were the same type of people I could still never do what he does nor believe the things he can.
I guess I'm a bit more on the scientific side but I still believe in some stuff ;x. I could never just blindly accept faith just because I was told so. I mean I accept there's gotta be some type of supernatural power that started the world but I can't just simply pass it off as "God" and the story of Jesus Christ is pretty meh for me because there are evidence that the same story has been told atleast 7 times before it was finalized into the Bible. It was just basically a story that people made up with by studying the stars and given the time frame probably thought that something extraordinary was supposed to happen when certain coincidences happen at once and line up etc.
The other thing I dislike about religion is how it's such a lucrative business and a powerful tool over the masses. There are so many people who just blindly accept faith and the bible never questioning it. If I could only find the videos I've seen before and the documentaries of people who would go as far as to say "Dinosaurs were God's way of testing our faith". There was also a youtube compilation somewhere of how American news uses religious propaganda to sway the masses with their talks of how it's blasphemous if people say this and that about America. Well generally anything after 9/11 was very religious based and had a lot of zeal in it to try and unite Americans. While 9/11 was horrible, I don't believe it's as simple as they tried to portray it because a lot of things just didn't add up but I guess we'll never know the truth with a government like ours ;x. I'm sure the countries in the Middle East probably have the same propaganda with religion going for them and probably more so than Americans do too.
So what do I think about religion? I think it's just a huge lucrative tool used by many facets of power to control people. It is very much a business and I'm sure you could find the statistics somewhere of how much money is made by the church and the sales of bibles and new re-editions of it as well. While I don't profess(sp?) to any religion I do believe there is some form of reincarnation and ghosts too. While I couldn't answer the things that the bible can like who created the universe nor where we go after death, I will live my life according to what I believe is right or wrong and not what people tell me what's right or wrong. What deters me from doing things I feel I shouldn't is not because I believe there is someone marking down my wrong doings but because I will have some logical reason and feelings that doing that action is wrong and I won't do it.
So where do we go after death and who created the universe? Why do things happen the way they do and why are things the way they are? I couldn't tell you and while I am interested at the same time I couldn't care less. There is no point in stressing over something that will happen and you can't change, for the time being just live happy and try to make the most of each day so you won't leave too many regrets and most importantly learn from them. So what do you think about religion? >:3
I learned today that I should never listen to dinky, not matter how tempting it sounds.
utter crap from bubu hot n cold! I rather go back to jungle and end up screwing up a day or two but getting something worth 10k atleast if I win >(.
I also helped fira, simsim, and zart try to pop despot today but meh 3 hours and we got nassing :|. On that note, zart recently started doing the saga of serpent general quests and that reminded me of that awesome picture I has so I went and dug it up :D.
IF YOU HAVENT DONE THOSE QUESTS DO IT NOW BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING AWESOME OK!? :D
Oh and friend who drew the pictures earlier made a pic of my talu! Not exactly what I was expecting but it's cute nonetheless >:3.
seal suit kekeke :D. I wanted to include some chat logs of the awesome ls chat and why I love you guys but thought it prolly wouldn't be safe .
Anyways yesterday a friend of mine got me talking about religion and we both came to the basically the same conclusion(share later!) and I was wondering what my friends thought about it so I did a little poking around :<. I asked another friend who's a Christian about it and why he follows it and it twas quite interesting. He and I were pratically the same type of person from little up till college, at which point he got into Christianity and made a complete 180 from who he was. It's weird for me hearing about how the effects of religion played a large role in his life because though we were the same type of people I could still never do what he does nor believe the things he can.
I guess I'm a bit more on the scientific side but I still believe in some stuff ;x. I could never just blindly accept faith just because I was told so. I mean I accept there's gotta be some type of supernatural power that started the world but I can't just simply pass it off as "God" and the story of Jesus Christ is pretty meh for me because there are evidence that the same story has been told atleast 7 times before it was finalized into the Bible. It was just basically a story that people made up with by studying the stars and given the time frame probably thought that something extraordinary was supposed to happen when certain coincidences happen at once and line up etc.
The other thing I dislike about religion is how it's such a lucrative business and a powerful tool over the masses. There are so many people who just blindly accept faith and the bible never questioning it. If I could only find the videos I've seen before and the documentaries of people who would go as far as to say "Dinosaurs were God's way of testing our faith". There was also a youtube compilation somewhere of how American news uses religious propaganda to sway the masses with their talks of how it's blasphemous if people say this and that about America. Well generally anything after 9/11 was very religious based and had a lot of zeal in it to try and unite Americans. While 9/11 was horrible, I don't believe it's as simple as they tried to portray it because a lot of things just didn't add up but I guess we'll never know the truth with a government like ours ;x. I'm sure the countries in the Middle East probably have the same propaganda with religion going for them and probably more so than Americans do too.
So what do I think about religion? I think it's just a huge lucrative tool used by many facets of power to control people. It is very much a business and I'm sure you could find the statistics somewhere of how much money is made by the church and the sales of bibles and new re-editions of it as well. While I don't profess(sp?) to any religion I do believe there is some form of reincarnation and ghosts too. While I couldn't answer the things that the bible can like who created the universe nor where we go after death, I will live my life according to what I believe is right or wrong and not what people tell me what's right or wrong. What deters me from doing things I feel I shouldn't is not because I believe there is someone marking down my wrong doings but because I will have some logical reason and feelings that doing that action is wrong and I won't do it.
So where do we go after death and who created the universe? Why do things happen the way they do and why are things the way they are? I couldn't tell you and while I am interested at the same time I couldn't care less. There is no point in stressing over something that will happen and you can't change, for the time being just live happy and try to make the most of each day so you won't leave too many regrets and most importantly learn from them. So what do you think about religion? >:3