God Believes in Me: Why Don't I Believe in Him?
I believe in Fate, and I believe in manifest free will, both at the same time. I believe in synchronicity and serendipity, in coincidence and causality. I believe in magic, I believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. I believe the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.
In fact, I believe in just about anything that makes life a little richer, a little more interesting, and perhaps brings a touch of weirdness to the proceedings. Life isn't weird enough.
I don't have a problem believing in God, mind. Actually, to paraphrase a thousand livejournals, it's not really God I object to, it's his fan club.
An omnipotent, all seing being who created everything? Fair enough. As ideas go, it's probably on a level of probability with the whole of creation being formed from a singularity of nothing expanding out of nowhere and nowhen (although, of course, while the universe just coming into being is pretty unlikely, no-one has counted the number of failed attempts).
I just blanch at the idea of spending an eternal afterlife with the type of people who sing his praises the loudest. It sounds like a rainy weekend in a guest house in Wales, surrounded by those semi-distant relatives that most people have who frankly, you'd rather not spend a lot of time in close proximity to. And there's nothing on TV. Forever.
One of these days, God may appear to me as a burning bush and tell me exactly what I need to do with my life. If he does, I'll click my heels together and get on with it. Stopping only to get a full CATscan first, just in case it's the start of a brain tumour and not divine inspiration. Until then, I figure I'll follow my own personal sense of right and wrong, and be satisfied with that.
I get the feeling I'm still on their recruitment list, though.
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9 Comments
Post a CommentBe hard to say; I tend to be very broadminded about most things. I certainly don't believe in contradictions; two completely opposed things can both be true, for given values of true. I don't believe a little white lie never hurt anyone, and I certainly don't believe in being quiet and keeping my head down when someone's preaching what I consider inherently harmful beliefs or opinions.
All of the above, and the article, is true. At the moment. I might change my mind, and probably will, several times. And if you think you know where I'm kidding and where I'm being serious, then you've a better understanding of what I'm saying than I do...
Dave, you believe in a lot of stuff, what don't you believe in?
The whole Wales thing is unashamedly paraphrased from Douglas Adams' description of Immortality ;)
OMG, this is hilarious. One of the best articles I've read on AC - GREAT JOB!!! By the way, I'm British too so definitely 'get' your references :-)
Although I don't happen to sign up for this same philosophy, I did get a chuckle. Thanks!
You make this entertaining while still challenging. Thanks.
Oh, I've read a lot of books on nearly everything. I'm renowned for following my heart, though: So far, it's led me through 4,000 miles, 6 years of tough breaks, and a bill of about $8,000 (not including travelling expenses). Annoyingly, my heart turned out to be 100% correct on the matter, and I'm much happier for it ;)
Uh,oh, you've been reading the wrong books on the subject. Follow your heart; never mind what "they"say. :)
Well put...would such a heaven not be hell?