I cannot eat or drink anything this morning, because I am going to have blood work done. And then I have to go directly to work. I get up four and a half hours before I start work, so that is four and a half hours during which I should have had a cup of tea and will not have done so. I obviously cannot be expected to say anything clever or even remotely interesting under these circumstances. I also will not be able to go to the gym, that is clear. I am tired of cleaning my house, day after day, only to find it completely trashed again by the time I get home from work (I am bad-tempered and whiny before I have my tea). What is more, xanga is not in a picture- or book-showing mood today, so I cannot show you the things I had planned to discuss this morning.
Given all this, it is clear that my only choice is to get everyone else out of the house and then knit until time to go to the doctor.
best solutions can often be so simple…
yeah good luck on that blood test, i hope you studied enough (kidding).
haha once again thanks for responding! the longer the comment the better :-). And uh yeah sorry for taking so long to respond, but college has got me by the reigns :-P. It’s like i have a girlfriend controlling every aspect of my life and consuming all my energy. And her name is College haha.
I dont think suffering stemmed from anything. It was always there and until we humans came along, it was undefined (if that made sense). Inherit to life is struggle. Survival of the fittest (which is true, by the way, the fittest and strongest tend to last much longer than the weak, oh fyi power and fitness in the human world has changed from what it used to be like in the animal world). Struggles is natural because we dont have infinite resources, thus we will always compete (sure there are periods of relatively easy living, but this is always temporary). Thus the basic level of suffering; lacking the conditions to live. I dont think suffering is caused by human sin. I think it is attributed to by human greed and sin, but is ultimately caused by our finite world, the limited resources. If you look back in the ancient world, before man had a lot of power and knowledge, you’ll see that even then we still had natural disastors (which werent caused by humans or sin or greed).
Yes i was thinking of the story of Job actually, when i first responded to your comment. But Job was strong. you cant argue that, to take that much torment and suffering, he was very strong. Many people, myself included arent so strong. I know that if i had been in certain situations in my life at the wrong place or wrong time, i may not have been the person i am today. I would be rotten to the core, and im a pretty strong guy (not physically…er uh i mean yes i am physically strong too :-p). Ive seen weaker people than me cope with worse stuff than i have, and i have seen stronger people than me who havent had to deal with as much as i have. Lets take me for example, i know that if i were to grow up a bastard child and without a good, strong mother to back me, i would not be anywhere near as “good” as i am now. What this means is, possibly the only difference between me now being a college student vs me now dealing drugs on the street may have been based only on my location of birth (born into this family vs born into the other one).
My essential point was that life is unfair. As for any implications, there were none. I dont know what to make of all this, hence my “i dunno man, i really dont know.” Im not saying that people should or should not be blamed for losing their faith due to different chances and backgrounds. Im just saying i dont know what to make out of all of it. Im sure as hell not going to say that they are going to hell though. As for my own views they are somewhat complicated (and simple). I know i come across as not believing, but this isnt true, im just merely thinking. I dont know that anything exists for sure, but i believe that God exists. My faith. Its never been stronger and more fortified than right now. I merely believe (which i think is much more profound than blind faith or knowing for sure). But ive started over, hit the reset button. Ive gotten rid of all the middle men (Bible, Christianity, Religion, Tradition, etc.). It’s just me n God. I’m reading the Bible and interpretating it myself. Im just looking for the truth, i dont care about names or conventions (God, Jesus, Allah, etc); vocabulary is stupid and superficial compared to the actual truth. Its like a cleansing for me of sorts. So anyway yes hehe im familiar with the contradiction of not believing in God, but believing in a Devil or hell. Wow that last paragraph in itself is whole nother discussion in itself 😛 heh.
comments are always apprecianted! take care!
Peace,
Erehnys
You always leave the best comments.
I guess I will have to disagree that there will ALWAYS be some other choice. I don’t think reality is that reliable. There will always be a great innumerable amount of details and conditions both internal and external that will complicate things, whether we can perceive or conceive of them or not. I do, however, feel that it is more realistic to say that sometimes you WILL have another choice and sometimes you won’t. What I was getting at in my post was not that NO action should be assessed morally and then taken from that basis, but that in some situations, a moral assessment and action taken upon that assessment simply is not practical. The situation I offered was simply a hypothetical one (and consequently with very restrictive conditions) to illustrate my point: under circumstances such as that one in which there is no choice, a moral assessment may not always be the best way to go. Also, when you said that we never HAVE to do evil, I guess I disagree with you. I would agree insofar as we are not required by some universal or inherent force or reality in any given situation to do evil. The choice always stems from us. I would also agree IF we lived in a world of ideal conditions, where choices, their consequences, their motivations, etc. are clear cut and certain. But the aggregate of all circumstances that make up any given situation, including what i feel to be very important: the individual’s own internal conditions and processes, often mesh together to form a very complicated, often very difficult or even impossible to rationalize “net” that restricts the range of action the individual can take. If that made any sense.
Anyway, thank you for the wondeful, challenging comments. Peace.