Atheists....
My systems seem to be back to normal, now. Still not sure what happened. I would have guessed something like 'stomach flu' or... well, -anything-, but when you only have one single symptom it's just... confusing.
Anyway, doing much better.
*mmmm yogurt*
Need to call up the windshield place again when I wake up tomorrow and see if it's not too late to get in this week. Just been waking up right before I have to run off to work for the past few days. :F Makes phonecalls difficult.
So yeah, atheists. It's pretty stupid, I have this horrible anti-athiest... thing. Racism, or something. It's pretty ridiculous. How ridiculous is it? Well, I was reading Ellipses and almost set the book down because I got to a point where the self-pronounced Atheist went off on her little talk of "Everyone in the world is one of two things, either an athiest or an athiest in denial." because apparently I just can't stand atheists that much. Even fictional ones. It's pretty stupid. :/
And what's really stupid is that I know why I don't like atheists so much. There's two reasons, and they're both very ridiculous.
1. I dislike the concept that atheism is so close-minded. It's just like any other extreme fundimentalist belief, it says it's the right one and everyone else is wrong, and lots of atheists that I have heard tend to be just as in-your-face as what one might expect from a stereotypical Christian. Only I've actually heard more Atheists actually get in-your-face with their own beliefs as opposed to the amount of Christians I've ever heard do that.
2. I find it personally offensive. Which is funny, but I can explain why. And it's not because I feel like any Creator Being needs to be defended, far from that. The Creator Being I believe in doesn't care if it's believed in or not. It doesn't lose sleep because someone thinks it doesn't exist. Why would it care? It doesn't need to defend itself, and I don't need to defend that. No, the reason I get personally offended from atheists is because of the way I think of Creator Beings. I've always used the metaphor "It's like an author writing a book. God is the author, we are each a book." So, now keep following me on this, because it's a pretty wild ride... so I get personally offended at Atheists because by them saying "God doesn't exist" I am actually translating it as "You can't write a book."
YEAH!
It's pretty amazing, isn't it?
It causes me to make two faces simultaneously, which I shall now express as emoticons:
:|
XD
I mean, I know that's a pretty stupid reason. But it's true. Due to how I have chosen to view, relate to, and believe in my ideas of what/who god is, when atheists say that god doesn't exist, it just translates into "It's impossible for there to be a great author that then wrote a book, and that we're all just the book." And my brain goes "Listen, the characters in books don't recognize that they're just text on a page. That's called breaking the fourth wall. You don't do that. They don't know that they're a book, and they certainly have no way to trace themselves back to an author. We're just like that." and then it just degrades into some weird conversation about writing... it's great.
It's something I try to work on. I try not to hold it against people if they're atheist, just like I try not to hold it against people if they're religious. But man, it's just.. such an insta-gut-response from me that I have to watch sometimes when I hear it. And apparently it's bad enough that I almost set a book down just because one of the main characters was talking about her point of view.
Feh.. feh.......
Seriously, though, the only honest thing you can be is an agnostic. Maybe no one can prove the existance of a god, but I fully also believe in the "Well, you can't disprove it either." It's just as folly to do one as it is the other, in my opinion. You can't say for certain that you know there isn't a god because the issue is that we're talking about something that we expect to be operating on a level completely beyond our comprehension. That is to say, WE CANNOT COMPREHEND IT, and nothing that we come up with is going to be able to measure it because THAT WOULD BE COMPREHENDING!
By definition, it doesn't work. If you're talking about something that can be measured and fully comprehended, then you're not talking about god. You can't change something's definition or it's no longer that same thing, it's now something else entirely.
So really, there's only two types of people in this world...
Agnostics, and agnostics in denial.
Anyway, doing much better.
*mmmm yogurt*
Need to call up the windshield place again when I wake up tomorrow and see if it's not too late to get in this week. Just been waking up right before I have to run off to work for the past few days. :F Makes phonecalls difficult.
So yeah, atheists. It's pretty stupid, I have this horrible anti-athiest... thing. Racism, or something. It's pretty ridiculous. How ridiculous is it? Well, I was reading Ellipses and almost set the book down because I got to a point where the self-pronounced Atheist went off on her little talk of "Everyone in the world is one of two things, either an athiest or an athiest in denial." because apparently I just can't stand atheists that much. Even fictional ones. It's pretty stupid. :/
And what's really stupid is that I know why I don't like atheists so much. There's two reasons, and they're both very ridiculous.
1. I dislike the concept that atheism is so close-minded. It's just like any other extreme fundimentalist belief, it says it's the right one and everyone else is wrong, and lots of atheists that I have heard tend to be just as in-your-face as what one might expect from a stereotypical Christian. Only I've actually heard more Atheists actually get in-your-face with their own beliefs as opposed to the amount of Christians I've ever heard do that.
2. I find it personally offensive. Which is funny, but I can explain why. And it's not because I feel like any Creator Being needs to be defended, far from that. The Creator Being I believe in doesn't care if it's believed in or not. It doesn't lose sleep because someone thinks it doesn't exist. Why would it care? It doesn't need to defend itself, and I don't need to defend that. No, the reason I get personally offended from atheists is because of the way I think of Creator Beings. I've always used the metaphor "It's like an author writing a book. God is the author, we are each a book." So, now keep following me on this, because it's a pretty wild ride... so I get personally offended at Atheists because by them saying "God doesn't exist" I am actually translating it as "You can't write a book."
YEAH!
It's pretty amazing, isn't it?
It causes me to make two faces simultaneously, which I shall now express as emoticons:
:|
XD
I mean, I know that's a pretty stupid reason. But it's true. Due to how I have chosen to view, relate to, and believe in my ideas of what/who god is, when atheists say that god doesn't exist, it just translates into "It's impossible for there to be a great author that then wrote a book, and that we're all just the book." And my brain goes "Listen, the characters in books don't recognize that they're just text on a page. That's called breaking the fourth wall. You don't do that. They don't know that they're a book, and they certainly have no way to trace themselves back to an author. We're just like that." and then it just degrades into some weird conversation about writing... it's great.
It's something I try to work on. I try not to hold it against people if they're atheist, just like I try not to hold it against people if they're religious. But man, it's just.. such an insta-gut-response from me that I have to watch sometimes when I hear it. And apparently it's bad enough that I almost set a book down just because one of the main characters was talking about her point of view.
Feh.. feh.......
Seriously, though, the only honest thing you can be is an agnostic. Maybe no one can prove the existance of a god, but I fully also believe in the "Well, you can't disprove it either." It's just as folly to do one as it is the other, in my opinion. You can't say for certain that you know there isn't a god because the issue is that we're talking about something that we expect to be operating on a level completely beyond our comprehension. That is to say, WE CANNOT COMPREHEND IT, and nothing that we come up with is going to be able to measure it because THAT WOULD BE COMPREHENDING!
By definition, it doesn't work. If you're talking about something that can be measured and fully comprehended, then you're not talking about god. You can't change something's definition or it's no longer that same thing, it's now something else entirely.
So really, there's only two types of people in this world...
Agnostics, and agnostics in denial.