Introversion 1: Religion
The end of the school is upon us, and, sadly, it has prompted me to do the most clichéd high-school-senior-thing-near-the-end-of-senior-year-thing-possible: reevaluate who I am. This will probably be a series or something, if I ever get around to it.
First up: religion.
Yeah, I know this is a common subject, but a stupidly long talk with my mother on the way to school today prompted yet another introspective endeavor.
I believe in God. I will state that outright. I do believe that some type of higher being exists. But, I only say that "he" is "God" in order to give him a name I can easily refer to. I believe that he does not exist as an omnipresent, all-powerful being, able to do anything at any time, but rather an omniscient being who simply sits around able to watch and be a rather powerless deity. You see, the being that I see as God, is simply the only perfect being.
Perfection is a rather tricky word to define. In fact, to many people, it is seen as an abstract, apart from concrete existence. But the way I see it, in order for us to have gotten the idea of perfection, since humans are imperfect, a perfect being must exist. This being, since "he" was flawless, had no gender as defined by humankind, and since if there was more than one it would be considered a flaw, there must only be one of "him."
But here is where i falter and i begin having to weigh two sides possible: either "he" was a perfect being who existed at the beginning of time (as defined by us, which i will get into in a later addition to the series) and created the universe and died as any other mortal being would, or "he" is, in fact, an immortal being that can see all, sitting around, looking at the world.
Either way, I sure as heck don't need the Catholic church.
BTW: support the bills for Californian Secession and the Constitutional Ban on Yawning in All Its Forms (Snoring Excluded). They're what we truly need.
First up: religion.
Yeah, I know this is a common subject, but a stupidly long talk with my mother on the way to school today prompted yet another introspective endeavor.
I believe in God. I will state that outright. I do believe that some type of higher being exists. But, I only say that "he" is "God" in order to give him a name I can easily refer to. I believe that he does not exist as an omnipresent, all-powerful being, able to do anything at any time, but rather an omniscient being who simply sits around able to watch and be a rather powerless deity. You see, the being that I see as God, is simply the only perfect being.
Perfection is a rather tricky word to define. In fact, to many people, it is seen as an abstract, apart from concrete existence. But the way I see it, in order for us to have gotten the idea of perfection, since humans are imperfect, a perfect being must exist. This being, since "he" was flawless, had no gender as defined by humankind, and since if there was more than one it would be considered a flaw, there must only be one of "him."
But here is where i falter and i begin having to weigh two sides possible: either "he" was a perfect being who existed at the beginning of time (as defined by us, which i will get into in a later addition to the series) and created the universe and died as any other mortal being would, or "he" is, in fact, an immortal being that can see all, sitting around, looking at the world.
Either way, I sure as heck don't need the Catholic church.
BTW: support the bills for Californian Secession and the Constitutional Ban on Yawning in All Its Forms (Snoring Excluded). They're what we truly need.