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Author: Mael |
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Date Posted: 11:15:48 09/27/04 Mon In reply to: Sage 's message, "Re: Meh?" on 13:54:00 09/23/04 Thu You don't need a group to be happy. Im practically out here all alone. There are people I know but I really don't feel comfortable around them, enough to hang out with them. Literaly, I work, sleep, eat, go to school, and read. I don't have a girlfriend either. But I am happy. Despite that I moved across the country and don't really have anyone. I don't even have my parents around and sometimes only talk to them once every month. And, me and my cousin have no similair interest, so i mainly keep to myself. But, Im happy. Doesn't add up, right? I have found that spending that time reading books of wisdom gives me a feeling of uselfullness, if not now than in the future. You may not like to read, but I didn't really like to either. Untill I started reading books that weren't like video games. Books that had valuable information. Thats why I started learning Hebrew, to learn more about the bible. Everyone experiences a point in their life where they don't see a purpose. I have learned that from the books I have read. People fill up that emptiness feeling that you have with other things, everyone gets it. Some people fill it with friends, money, fame....Unfortunately for most people, they don't realize that once they have all they need in these things or don't have them anymore, that emptiness is still there. Some people even fill the gap with goals, and once they complete their goals in life they realize there is nothing left to life. You may think your life is unfortunate right now but you are lucky to realize you have an emptiness at a young age. Most people don't realize it till their forty's and 50's, when half their life is wasted. Its alot like finding the meaning of life. Why are we here? You can believe one of two things. There is no God or there is a God. If you believe there is no God then you have to believe we have no point. We are simply here by mistake....an infinitely impossible chance of a combination of circumstances that alowed life to be created, and then miraculously evolve to a point where a being can contemplate its own existance. When you look at the facts, believing there is no God is quite ridiculous. You may wan't to read a book called The Case For Christ. An investigative journalist from Boston, tired of his christian wife trying to convert him, set out to disprove God and the belief of christians. So he set out, being a journalist and all, gathered all the information athiests believe and posed the questions before very intelligent christians. Scholars, doctors, psychologists, historians, archeologists, philosophers....People who had several bachelors and taught at schools like yale and princeton.......really esteemed people. What I like about the book is that he gives you enough information to cross reference, if you don't believe him. The book has very convincing information that there is a God, factual information, not just information thats makes sense, but information that can be backed up. Now if there is a God, then God of the bible has to be the one. The bible is the only book that hasn't had disprovable claims, clearly describes God, tells of a God that can be with us (opposed to ones who sit on mountains playing around with peoples lives) and gives us a choice in life. The bible says we can live our own lives if we want and feel that emptiness, or live lives God planned for us and that emptiness is gone. God of the bible is the only God that gives his people a choice. He doesn't strike you down if you choose not to live your life with him, but he gives you alot when you choose to live with him. I know the idea of God seems unbelievable, but consider this: Out of the nothingness of 27 billion years ago there was a giant explosion where matter emerged, with natural tendencies. The matter collected into masses and ,through a very destructive process, eventually formed what we know as a solar system. Then, through sheer luck, one of these masses contained the exact chemicals and distance from the sun to create life. ( In fact, scientist have discovered through testing soil samples that the earth originally didn't have the right chemicals to create life, yet we are here) This life was only small, the size of a cell, yet it survived in this extremely harsh environment of changing temperatures. In fact, the cells even multiplied and clinged to eachother and, even though they don't think because they have no brain, decided they would help eachother out by sharing their needs, like oxygen. Eventually these unintelligant cells formed together large enough where they couldn't help eachother anymore so they decided they would make blood. Blood clotting is a process that has 10 exact procedurs that need to occur else the blood won't clot and the being will bleed to death. If one of these procedures fails the whole process does. Well, the unintelligent cells, knowing this, decided they would make all 10 procedures at once. (however this goes against the theory of evolution which says changes occured gradually) Then, the cells needed a way to get enough nutrients so that all the cells could live. (sounds like it was easier being alone) So some of the unintelligent cells morphed into new cells that could extract resources from other cells.....anyways, I could go on for a long while. But my point is, how much more ridiculous does that sound than having an intelligent creator control a process in which the world was created? 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