KhayotiK wrote:Either way trust in God but don't expect life to go without trials, don't hold it against Him if something goes wrong. (I tend to see this quite often in Christians, their cat died so God must not love them anymore.) Just keep the faith, smoke bud, and jam to Bob Marley.
allow me to get serious for a moment.
the common theists belief is that their god (whether the theist at hand is christian, jewish, or muslim) is incredibly omnipotent (all powerful), vastly omniscient (all knowing) and supremely benevolent (all-good). while the argument still stands, many refuse to see that there is evil on the earth. the holocaust, the pol pot massacres in cambodia, or even the widespread practice of torture are examples of this ever-growing moral evil. who beacons the answer is he who asks this question; this 'problem of evil' cannot be denied.
a vastly omniscient god would know that evil exists; an incredibly omnipotent god would be able to prevent evil from occuring; and a supremely benevolent god would want to prevent it from happening. why then does evil still occur? theists take great strides in seriously believing in an all-good god.
it is my belief that god was created by man in order to answer questions; questions no one had the answers to at that time, such as the question of Design (everything on the earth has a defined ability and the will to execute said ability; the human eye seems to be constructed as if for no other purpose other than to see), but with the ignorance of humans disipating, we have learned of the 'evoluton' theory; a theory that doesn't need a god to explain. sadly, some people took god too seriously and pursicuted the new belief; challenging it's 'good faith'. it's
right to be accepted as true.
god is a patch; a piece of scotch tape that can hold humanity together until we find true replacements for those areas; credible and reliable answers. some people don't want to change though; some people want to keep the patches situated at their original spots; justified by the simple fact that "it's worked up to now". maybe even because what they see in the foundation of morals is beautiful and spledorous. although i cannot argue this belief in true beauty, i can say that we as humans wish to find wonder in anything we see. we crave to make anything and everything justified works of art.
unfortunately, existence is not poetry.
Cardinal.jpg wrote:I don't feel a meal is right without meat either but I abhor the death that goes into it, I am from the meat is murder family and therefore wont touch it. I try and distance myself from violence and death as mush as my mind can handle these days. If I can I would like to achieve a state where violence disgusts me, rather than see it and think iot is bland and boring if it is not grotesquely disgusting.
the first posts in this topic were about how their life is meaningless drivel. i'm sorry, but what i was aiming for with the original 'chinese food' statement was a reference to the clever chinese philospher Lin Yutang who said that "the pleasures of a bowl of soup can overcome thoughts of suicide". he made a poem that he could read every time he had the urge to commit suicide:
"Oh Soul, come back to joys beyond telling!
Where thirty cubits at harvest-time
The corn is stacked;
Where pies are cooked off millet and bearded-maize.
Guests watch the steaming bowls
And sniff the pungency of peppered herbs.
The cunning cook adds slices of bird-flesh,
Pigeon and yellow heron and black-crane.
They taste the badger stew.
O Soul, come back to feed on foods you love!
Next are brought
Fresh turtle, and sweet chicken cooked in cheese
Pressed by the men of Ch'u.
And pickled suckling-pig
And flesh of whelps floating in liver-sauce
With salad of minced radishes in brine;
All served with that hot spice of southernwood
The land of Wu supplies.
O Soul, come back and choose the meats you love!"
