I've been toying with the notion of using this blog as a cheap way to distribute a work of short fiction...maybe 5-10 chapters. Any thoughts? If I posted a new chapter every once in a while, and they happened to be at least reasonably good, would my loyal following think this was good? Just a question for thought.
On to more pressing issues...like how can a collection of animals with the same essential needs be so intensely different? I was talking with my friend Nate tonight on the ride home from darts (we lost...as usual), and we got on the subject of religion. I think that religion is one of the most messed up of all human inventions. Simultaneously, it wills billions of people to behave according to some sort of prescribed moral standard, and yet, AND YET!!, at the same time, that very same scripture is quoted as justification for treating other people like crap. It is a most interesting dichotomy. Surely this point has been made countless times before...but I've never really stopped to think about it much. That's the beauty of this blog. I say very little that is actually new or unique (although I may be the first person to publicly denounce magnetic ribbons on cars), but I say things that are new and unique to me. Anyway, my discussion about religion ended with me geting out of the car...at which time I said, "I believe in a God of sorts, but my God is more of a 'I wonder what will happen if I do this?' type of God." Personally, I don't think a Being possessed of such power as to be able to create all that we know as real would actually be so petty as to care how it was worshipped. I like to think that a true God would care little about that sort of thing. I've really got to start organizing my thoughts before putting fingertips to keayboard...these blog posting are really starting to sound more like rambling, maniacal rants.
Later.
On to more pressing issues...like how can a collection of animals with the same essential needs be so intensely different? I was talking with my friend Nate tonight on the ride home from darts (we lost...as usual), and we got on the subject of religion. I think that religion is one of the most messed up of all human inventions. Simultaneously, it wills billions of people to behave according to some sort of prescribed moral standard, and yet, AND YET!!, at the same time, that very same scripture is quoted as justification for treating other people like crap. It is a most interesting dichotomy. Surely this point has been made countless times before...but I've never really stopped to think about it much. That's the beauty of this blog. I say very little that is actually new or unique (although I may be the first person to publicly denounce magnetic ribbons on cars), but I say things that are new and unique to me. Anyway, my discussion about religion ended with me geting out of the car...at which time I said, "I believe in a God of sorts, but my God is more of a 'I wonder what will happen if I do this?' type of God." Personally, I don't think a Being possessed of such power as to be able to create all that we know as real would actually be so petty as to care how it was worshipped. I like to think that a true God would care little about that sort of thing. I've really got to start organizing my thoughts before putting fingertips to keayboard...these blog posting are really starting to sound more like rambling, maniacal rants.
Later.
posted by WindowShopper at
10:13 PM
1 Comments:
nothing wrong w/ rants; it's half the internet yo. rants 'n porn.....
anyway, you already know my opin on the issue, so i won't belabor the point.
the idea of dichotomy is big in reformed calvinism....humans were created good and ARE good but can (and do) taint everything - this goes for religion, relationships, care of the Earth, etc etc. those w/ the capacity for the greatest good have the potential for the most evil as well.
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