life-death
wasnt well enough for school, but a bit better now. Not sure about softball...
I may take a leaf out of Rachel's book and do a post with some thinking in it. She's been writing about theists, atheists, and agnostics. Even if i'm not sure if there's a God or not, i do know there's good and evil, and, to some extent, "forces" of them. Not Star Wars forces... The thing is, some religions think life=good and death=bad. Seeing that death is simply another half of the world (in my opinion) like the yin-yang concept, why are people so sure that everything should be done to prevent it? Are people in "deathworld" doing everything possible to stop people from coming alive? Like, if there was reincarnation, but a step between death and the next life. A continuing circle of life and death. But anyway, i think people can make decisions without knowing if good and bad and divine power are personified or not. It makes sense that there could be some sort of power that made the world, but not a "father who art in heaven" I can't belong to a specific religion, because they're run by dogmatic, literal, old men who are afraid of death. Which means they're afraid of life. but that's for another day.
I may take a leaf out of Rachel's book and do a post with some thinking in it. She's been writing about theists, atheists, and agnostics. Even if i'm not sure if there's a God or not, i do know there's good and evil, and, to some extent, "forces" of them. Not Star Wars forces... The thing is, some religions think life=good and death=bad. Seeing that death is simply another half of the world (in my opinion) like the yin-yang concept, why are people so sure that everything should be done to prevent it? Are people in "deathworld" doing everything possible to stop people from coming alive? Like, if there was reincarnation, but a step between death and the next life. A continuing circle of life and death. But anyway, i think people can make decisions without knowing if good and bad and divine power are personified or not. It makes sense that there could be some sort of power that made the world, but not a "father who art in heaven" I can't belong to a specific religion, because they're run by dogmatic, literal, old men who are afraid of death. Which means they're afraid of life. but that's for another day.
posted by lautre @ 1:54 PM
6 Comments:
At 3:09 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hey! you could at least take a crumpled leaf out! you took the best one!
I think the point of the life=good thing is not that one is better than the other, but that once you're dead, you're dead. you can't change that. And, since anything's possible, there is never no hope.
And also, I don't really have a problem with righteous old men.
the focus ought to be the beliefs themselves. not some authorities.
that said, I don't like Pope Benedict whatever number he is.
He's narrow minded. or that's what his opinions demonstrate
At 3:10 PM,
Anonymous said…
there is never no hope.
what an awful sentence. gramatically. There is always hope!
At 4:11 PM,
lautre said…
i agree that the beliefs are the important part. Therefore, if you can just believe what you want, outside of an organized religion, you dont have to bother worrying about the authorities. but if you can go with a religion and ignore its authorities, then it works for you. i just like to argue. which i guess would be a reason to be part of a religion. but i can argue from outside of it all.
At 4:17 PM,
lautre said…
and... hope."the desire, expectation and search for a future good" So we should stick around for as long as possible, since this world can get better, and we dont want to get ourselves into anything permanent? I see what you're saying, but just because death is permanent... i dont know.
At 5:20 AM,
Caroline said…
I agree about the yin-yang concept. Isn't it funny that almost everything we find scary has to do with death?
At 8:01 AM,
lautre said…
i think that's because we dont know what death is. are people in Deathworld afraid of seeds, of water, etc.?
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