If the common man could travel the different paths of space-time back to its point of origin, he would discover that this blog was written using Notepad.
"Why?" he may ask. Because I'm using dial-up and my sister is on the phone (entering her first hour, proving that women do talk more on the phone than men, regardless of nationality) after a two hour session online.
So at this point, if my writing style seems somehow different from before, it might be due to the change of medium. Blogging using Notepad is somehow much more different than blogging using Blogger.
The past week has been quiet by Malaysian standards, with the death of a businessman as a result of careless placement of a lump of heavy metal (think Roadrunner) during construction of some forgettable building. The government is acting (or reacting) swiftly and preventive measures will be enforced nationwide to prevent another death by anvil.
As a result, I have the pleasure of devoting the rest of this blog to international news.
Number one on the list, Ariel Sharon in the hospital.
Yasser Arafat... Ring a bell, anyone? When the "great" Palestinian leader kicked the bucket, the peace process was actually expedited, not shot to smithereens.
Would the same thing happen when Sharon meets his maker. Tune in next week for the exciting season finale of "The Neverending Story of The Highly Political Charge and Unnecessary Israel-Palestine Conflict".
Come on, is it that hard to live in peace and harmony? On last count, Malaysia has more than three different races and more than two dozen ethnic groups with beliefs ranging from the mainstream single omnipresent entity, to animistic shamans.
We don't make blowing each other up a daily routine.
Another piece of news I'm very concerned about is the teaching of "intelligent design" in USA high schools.
For people not fully acquainted with the US Constitution (which I sincerely doubt), it stresses the separation between church and state. That means you can't mix religion with just about anything formal.
Here's where Darwin is proven right. Supporters of the huge wooden boat able to withstand 40 days on the high seas with enough provisions for every species of animals (strange isn't it, when you consider the fact there are no two pairs each of trees?) suddenly change the way the Bible is interpreted by suggesting life is too complex to have evolved from single cell organisms.
Gee, I didn't realise we would all be living in a two dimensional ecosystem if we had things our way.
Although there is no point adding fuel to fire, I am going ahead anyway:
- Why is it always the Christian method of genesis the way everyone supports when fighting Darwin's evolution fact?
- Why do most people choose to believe that a big green hand in the sky is protecting them rather than hard science?
- What would those parochial chauvinists do when extraterrestrial entities are discovered beyond Earth's atmosphere?
- If gods promote world peace, wouldn't: MORE GODS = MORE PEACE?
- Are you open enough to accept an alternate belief which is closer to the truth, although it runs into everything you have been thought?
I once believe in a god myself, but that was before I was told gods looked like me. Due to a non-existent ego, I imagined god to be one of the most feared natural phenomenon, a lump of smoldering red hot lava.
"Adults" however, having developed a culture of worship and obeisance, painted gods as human-like entities.
Think about it. I did, at the tender age of 5.
3 comments:
There is obviously a little more at play here than only religion regarding the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, but I agree with your basic supposition. Basically I was raised Christian but I find the utter inflexibility of its adherence to scientific facts disgusting. It isn't true of all Christians; in fact, the modern schtick is that science and religion are reconcilable because the first is based on a method of testing and the second of blind belief. But hat is complete BS because the idea behind blind faith is that you believe it because you believe it is true. I don't think they are reconcilable in any way except through self-delusion, in which case you are true to neither. Double-dealing doesn't work in this kind of puzzle. To say there may be something more because we cannot know everything is something, but to say that the world was created absolutely in seven days by a creator when the story was obviously cooked up by humans as a representative story in ancient times and acribing it to divine writ is completely ridiculous. Furthermore, how can you possible believe something that is said to be set in stone once your recognize the timeline- read the stories- Hinduism and Mesopotamian religion spawn Zoroastrianism which spawns Judaism, later to spawn Mithraism. Judaism continues to exist and gives birth to Islam and Christianity... and even the beliefs of Christianity has changed many times which is now represented by the dozens of protestand sects, the Catholic Church, and the Orthodox Church. What gives, right? If the core tenets Belief changes over time, how can it possibly be correct now when it was seen as correct before. The idea it self has logic flaws. Anyway, have a good day, and thanks for the compliment on my lady.
Oh, and that doesn't even go into the Buddhism which was spawned by Hinduism also.
Anyways...
Thanks a lot. You are probably the first Christian raised person I know to doubt his religious education.
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