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Sunday, May 06, 2007

Ok this is going to be one of those rare,
intellectual and truthful posts that don't skim the surface of a rotting-another-life-in-the-day-of-Chen-Enjiao kinda thing.

Because I just read one of those rare, intellectual and truthful posts on a friend's blog,
and that friend is none other than the OTHER laugher-er. :)

I've always been mulling over this same thing too,

but I could never quite bring them out to the open,
talk about them freely.

Because we are in this Sunny Little Island.

Religion is a taboo. Freedom to believe is a right. Yeah hell right, that's like so friggin' right.

Hmm, anyways,,,

sometimes I look around me, all the changes and trends,
and I think I sense a quiet revolution in the making. A change of power. A shift of paradigms. The beginning of a radically new age. The rise of the empowered, almighty individual at the centre of everything, at the heart of the world. You and me.

I see a polarisation of the world,
I witness the rise of terrorism and I secretly,
anticipate the end of faith. And the future of REASON. I countdown to the intolerance of tolerating the intolerable, because enough is enough, and the time has come for us to start making better use of our wEeKeNdS.

You know in Sociology they have promises of revolution.
When the mass would no longer feel contented with the few in power, when they can suppress their disillusion accept false illusions no more. Blah blah.

So I like reading because it gives me knowledge.

Provides you with an intelletual horizon, an informed way of looking at things.

And it's knowledge that breeds possibilities for change because you realise, you discover that some of the stuff fed onto you are pure bullshit; you perceive a world beyond yourself, you see greater things, you think beyond yourself, you think for yourself, you learn to [finally] use your own brains, you learn to [finally] exercise reason and logic systematically, you have the confidence and capacity to be critical, you act like a Homo Sapien truly, breaking free of that automaton trained and socialised by conventions and common beliefs and all the crap in the world to deal with so that people in power will remain in power, so that unquestioning will rule us all.

No questions asked, just follow the rules.

So far so good.

But when faith fuels fanaticism,
when faith stands in the way of Scientific progress,
when faith encourages backward thinking,
when faith obstruts the evolution of human societies,

WELL,

I think there is a growing number of people who are having problems with THIS.

And I do,
in fact I kind of STRONGly believe that there can be no middle-ground.

And my belief is clear, that
God does exist. My kind of God. You know, there could be a Creator of the Universe. We just don't understand him yet. And we are going to continue to look for answers instead of simply accepting mediocre and feeble explanations.
The Ancients decided to make their life easier by providing simple, straight-forward answers: Yahweh, Allah, etc. to the endless human query of the existence of life. Buddha is not in this category because it's in fact quite an atheistic belief, I THINK, if I'm not wrong or mistaken. But now we have Science, and centuries have passed since the days when the Earth is flat and at the centre of the Universe [as proclaimed by an ancient Holy book] were held as common sense, idiot-proof knowledge,,,

We know better.
We SHOULD have known better.

Like whatever!

I like it when Richard Dawkins said that:
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists. But if I say something insulting about Democrats or Republicans or the Green Party, one is allowed to get away with that. Hiding behind the smoke screen of untouchability is something religions have been allowed to get away with for too long.

I was supposed to sleep early,
by the way,,,HEEE

Actually the thing is,

after I stopped believing in Religion at around Upper Primary or Secondary School,

I was sitting on the fence regarding this issue because I thought it best to keep your options open, have the best of both sides.

But then when I read my first book of Philosophy ever,
that chapter on Does God Exist? made me see and accept only ONE possibility, one way of looking at things and understanding the world. Through a questioning and critical lens.

Anyways I think I'm just kind of meant to be an atheist in a sense because I do watch Harry Potter I like shows with vampires I enjoy movies with good violence appropriate levels of lust I tend to be particularly interested in censored movies I like people who are cool and proud of their sexuality who use birth control appropriately and I love spending my weekends being a G L U T T O N and the sight of headlines like this cynic-ises me

Pope Rejects Condoms As a Counter to AIDS
Church Doctrine on Abstinence Affirmed
By Daniel WilliamsWashington Post Foreign ServiceSunday, January 23, 2005; Page A23
ROME, Jan. 22 -- After several days of unusual public debate among senior figures in the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II on Saturday reaffirmed church teaching that urges abstinence and marital fidelity to stop the spread of AIDS and forbids condoms.

Can you believe this?

In the 21st century.

When people are not being fed and infant mortality rate is high,
and birth numbers are still increasing, increasing. You have a perfect answer from the Divine: Let the numbers multiply!

And words like this skeptic-ises me

COLLINS: There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe's age or of how living organisms are related to each other. St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that one narrow interpretation, what the Bible describes is very consistent with the Big Bang.

And I say that 'Religion' is not intended as Religion,
it was not intended as an ultimate truth, the only answer.

It was intended as comfort to those in awe of nature and has no means to explore and explain things,
it was intended as a possible answer,
that we now know with as many physical evidence as possible, to be utterly misled. In other words, completely wrong.

God is a probability,

and I say that we don't know the answers yet, but we are struggling to understand, as Richard Dawkins put it.

Meanwhile all there is to this issue that we know for sure is,
well,
all this,
this much that we know.

May I just say once again that I like it when Richard Dawkins says this:
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists. But if I say something insulting about Democrats or Republicans or the Green Party, one is allowed to get away with that. Hiding behind the smoke screen of untouchability is something religions have been allowed to get away with for too long.

I like being an immoral Gemini borne in the year of the Dragon who believes in music and movies, the good life, the American dream, the fallen and the rotten and etc.

;rock YOU.
~~10:45 PM~~

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