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| Hm. I'm bloody bored. So, to amuse myself in these wee hours of the morning, i may as well catch this thing up even though nobody reads it. actually, after just making that point.....there is no point >.<
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| It's October now....as I hope you all noticed... But life's pretty much the same. Except that school is getting harder...with more homework...>.< and I have a cold.
I just realized like ten minutes ago, I only have two cousins, and I dont know either of them...So I was going to try and find Alise on myspace, cuz, well, everyone seems to have one...but I can't remember her last name >.< sad. Hmm.
I hate email. I really do. but every freakin business and school thingy wants you email address........I don't even think mine works anymore. Probably got deleted. I just use Jeb's anyway, on the rare occasion I have to......so don't email me! it won't work.
I need to redo my xanga.....soon. Halloween you know ^_^ bwaahahaha. Or something like that. Does anyone else watch the munsters? it's from like the 60's or something....they play it on tvland. I don't watch it very often, but I wish I did... ^_^ huh.....time for more medicine. nose is all stuffed up... quite annoying.
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| I've been thinking. No, not the usual egocentric drama-crap... Beliefs. Faith. Philosophy. That sort of thing. Yes, I know those are sentance fragments, but proper grammer isn't the point of this post. As I was saying...
I'll start with faith. Whenever a person begins to question things, they are told they've "lost their faith." That phrase right there is completely ridiculus, in my opinion. If someone is asking questions, then they don't fully understand what they had faith in to begin with. And if you don't understand something, you can't really believe in it. I know, I know, any fanatic who reads this will say "that's where the faith comes in!" If that's what you want to say, then shut up, you are nothing but a parrot, go buy a dictionary. That word 'faith' doesn't mean "to think that one day, all questions will suddenly get answers." Faith is "Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.(That's stright from an English dictionary.)" Basically, having faith is trusting in truth. You cannot have faith in something that you believe to be completely true. You cannot truly believe something is absolutely true, unless you really understand it. To me, that means you can't have faith in a belief you don't fully understand. So the whole "that's where the faith comes in," speech is irrelevant to any form of well thought-out beliefs.
By the way, I'm not trying to make everyone doubt themselves, I'm just asking questions for myself, adn yes, I would like replies, so long as they have thought behind them, not just more enigmatic "answers" churches create to shut people with questions up. So really, please prove me wrong. It would make my life easier. Moving on.
On to beliefs and religion. Christianity, to my knowledge, is the largest religion in the world right now (I could be wrong about that, that's what someone else told me). but I have to wonder, why? Most of the selfproclaimed christians I know, really don't seem know what the hell they believe. They just go to church, give money, and pray to a saviour they claim has "touched them." okay, I'm not going to doubt your feelings. But, so many other people, claim a similar saviour or god-figure has touched them. It seems to me, that most truly religious people have never really questioned what and who they are believeing in.
Most Muslims are Muslim, because that's the culture they grew up in. Allah is the only God they know, and so that's who they pray to. It's the same with most Christians. They have known Jesus and God their whole lives, so that's who they pray to. So does that mean religious beliefs are simply inheirited, like any other possesion can be?
If you took two life-long followers, one from each of those religions, and stuck them in a room alone to talk out their differences, It would go nowhere, because they would both always claim they're right. That's becaue they would both have faith in their beliefs. And as I said before, you cannot have faith in something that you believe to be completely true. But, if you've really thought something out, and found it to be true, how could something opposite of it be true too? Maybe becasue they aren't opposites? Like in math, the A+B=C/B+A=C thing. They're both true, just written differently. The concept is the same, the answer is the same, you just found it with a different equation. So can't two opposing religions be correct, just using different words? In my mind, the reason two religious people couldn't out-talk eachother is because they both have the same basic beliefs. So if those two could both be correct, couldn't others? I like to think that there is more than a select group of people who could go to heaven... (heaven/hell being another concept I hope to figure out someday) I guess my whole point is, think about your personal beliefs, not the religion you were born with. Don't accept a belief just because you don't want to have to look for an answer. Truth is worth searching for.
So yeah, these are all just my thoughts and ideas (mostly questions), think about them, please someone answer me. Bye for now, I have to go vacuum my living room.
-me
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As I'm sure none of you know, I was in Georgia. Got back last night.
I miss my Jeb...
I miss my Stephan...
I took a walk. It rained. Well, poured really. Thorn bushes kept ripping at me. The stream was murky and swollen. It was a nice walk.
-me
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| So, um... It's 6-6-6 in case ya didn't notice. And my brother left monday for bootcamp. Which was yesterday. Blah, now my big brother is Big Brother. I wrote a poem... but you kinna see it.
-me
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