God? Science? Ahhhh !

Well...what is it? Religion, science..which is right?? I think what we talked about today in class made sense. We believe there is a God because that is how we grow up. Ah, I just find all of this stuff so confusing. It is stuff that I have thought about all my life and every time I start thinking about it, I get frustrated. I believe in God because I grew up knowing about Him. But if we weren't taught about Him, how would we know what to believe. We would just believe what science tells us.

Basically, it's confusing right?

I have an even more confusing question that I have been struggling with. So if God has always existed. And he created the world. What was he doing before he created the world? Well this could go on and on. Maybe we're like the 300th world he's created. But still, what did he do before that? Ahhh. Anyways, I don't think I can think about this any more!

Fantasy.

So as you all know, the movie Twilight came out last night/this morning at midnight. Of course I went to go see it, along with Jessie. After watching this movie, me and Jessie were talking about how cool it would be if things like that were real.  But it is just fantasy world.  What made this fantasy world?  Why is it that we wish for such fantasy things that aren't really real?..or are they?

What if those things are real? What if we are the fantasy world to them? Better yet, what if there are such things as vampires, fairies, werwolves, etc?  Going back to wondering if all of this is just a dream anyway, who know what's real and not real?  Can we know what is real or fantasy, or is it just what has been put into our heads leading us to know or think we know what is real and fantasy?

Things like vampires, are supposedly not real.  But we all know what their qualities are.  We know what a unicorn looks like.  We know what werewolves do when there is a full moon.  We all know the stories.  But how do we know, maybe, somewhere, these so called fantasies exist.  Maybe they exist and maybe we are the fantasy world that lives inside of their minds..

God's existence...

So, all this talk about whether we can know if God exists or not, has really got me thinking.

We have the different views of Descartes, Kant and Anselm. For me, I can't see how we can prove God's existence with logic. Yes, we have the bible. Yes, we have historical facts and artifacts. But there is too many "what ifs". People say that Jesus and the Bible are proof that we know there is God. But couldn't it be possible that Jesus was the first magician. Maybe all the things he did and said were just magic tricks and getting people to believe what he had to say. Just like our parents get us to believe in Santa Claus when we were younger, Jesus could have been getting all kinds of people to believe in God. Then people would write about everything.

I also think about all the stories in the Bible and how they could have gotten changed from person to person and then to the person writing it. There are just so many factors to disagree that logic can't prove God's existence.

We also talked about other religions and who is right and who is wrong. I believe that there is no wrong or right answer. I think that the actual idea of God is what gives us something to live life by. Whether He is real or not, I think it's just mainly an idea. If we didn't have God or whatever we believe, to base or morals and beliefs on, then we would feel like "what are we even doing here?".

It's only life.

Oh life. What you do to me.

So I recently watched the movie, Life is Beautiful. It got me thinking that no matter how bad life gets, we have to make the best of it. Our imagination and what we perceive life to be, is how we will make it through. The man in the movie makes the best of a being in a concentration camp! How crazy is that. He gets his son and wife through it. It just amazes me, how in the worst of the worst, how someone can bring so much joy to the situation and use imagination to make it through the hard times. It makes me think of how we can make such small things into such a big deal and make the worst out of the most simple things. We need to move past those things and just bring joy to our lives.

We question our existence and ask why we are even here. We think about what life really means and how we want to go on living it. It is hard to suggest that life isn't really happening like we think it is; that this is just an illusion or a dream or whatever. Whatever it is, it is good. We need to make the most of it. We need to see things and appreciate them. There is so much to figure out! Yes, it's only life. But it's all we got.....or is it?

Prop. 8

So, I seriously was really mad driving home today. There were a bunch of people holding picket signs saying "Yes on Prop. 8". I am so sick of people trying to get other people to vote yes on prop. 8 with their unreasonable and ridiculous so called "reasons". Flat out, it's unfair. It's unjust. It's discrimination. All of the so-called Christians saying that it is in the bible and it is a sin..blah blah blah. If these Christians or whoever are so for love and God, why are they so quick to discriminate God's own children. The bible says that God loves EVERYONE. The constitution states that all men should be created equally. Everyone, no matter who they are, deserves the right to love who they want and should have the right to spend the rest of their lives together as a married couple.

In the bible, lepers were seen as sinful people and no one wanted to associate with them. Sound familiar? But wait, what did Jesus do? He walked among them. Why can't everyone do the same thing now? It seems like people are scared to accept something that's different to them. But we should accept people for who they are. We are all children of God. And if Jesus can do it, our society can do it. This proposition is not about religion or teachings in school, which by the way, marriage isn't even taught in school so that is not even an issue. Although, if it were to be taught, don't you think more people would be open and more knowledgeable about all different kinds of people? I would expect by going to a Christian school, that people would be saying no on prop. 8 because they love everyone and want everyone to be happy just like God would want. All of the yes on prop. 8 excuses are ridiculous. Give love a chance. Give people a chance. Give people the benefit that you would like to have, no matter who they are. Do what Jesus would do. Do what God would want us to do.

You don't have to know who is getting married. You don't have to attend the wedding. Just give people the right to marry the one they love. Everyone deserves the right to be happy.

NO ON PROP. 8.

Learn from Traveling!

Today my dad showed me a video off of a website called wherethehellismatt.com and it made me really happy! The video is about this random guy named Matt who traveled to 39 different countries on 7 continents. The video just shows this Matt guy doing this really bad, but funny dance with people from each country and it is like the coolest thing ever! It made me realize how happy people are, even with whatever is going on in their country. They can just stop what they are doing and dance with some random American guy. Seeing all of the countries he went to also made me realize how much I am missing out! This Matt guy says he isn't rich or anything. He is just your average guy who wanted to see what he had been missing out on in life.

I encourage you all to take a look at this video. I have been fortunate enough to travel to a few different countries and many states and the feeling of going somewhere new and learning about new cultures, is something I wish I could do more often. It is one of the most amazing things you can do. This video shows many countries and it has made me want to travel and learn more about more cultures. We really don't know what else is out there until we have gone to experience it for ourselves and take on things we have never done before. We need to live our lives and go out there in the world and travel and see new things. I, personally, have learned so much about other cultures and about myself from traveling. You really miss out if you don't see what else is out there. There is so much out there to learn and at our age now, we still have so much time to do so.

the link is below in case you guys want to check it out!

http://wherethehellismatt.com/?fbid=cLg6_6fKgDs

When it all Falls Down..

Do you ever feel like, if there wasn't just one thing holding you back, you could just fall and lay there forever? Why is it that when life is going so great and things are working out, SOMETHING, has to ruin it. Does it just happen to the same people? Are things targeted at certain people? Is God, if there is one, trying to tell us something? When I see people so perfectly happy, I have to stop and wonder.."are they really THAT happy? is everything going on that perfect in their life?"

I understand that we need to live our life to the fullest because you never know what is going to happen. We need to cherish everything we have. I understand that. But what if some things are just too hard to push away? Our minds work differently. What if something happened to us or something is happening to us, that is just too hard to forget or let go?...How are we supposed to just go on? Yes, we can act happy and do things that make us happy, but when we have time to think, our minds make us remember what is really going on..I know this doesn't apply to everyone, but I know it does apply to many.

One question: Why?

The one question, out of the many I have, that has stuck with me for a long time, is why do ANYTHING if we are just going to die anyway? Why waste time going to school? We're just going to die. We might as well do things we enjoy and travel the world so we make the most of life..because we are just going to die anyway. It just seems weird to think of doing anything when in the end, it doesn't even matter. What is our purpose? One night during a family dinner, probably like 5 years ago, my sister and I had this conversation. We got so into the question, that we started questioning doing anything. We were saying things like, "Why eat if we are just going to die? Why waste time sleeping if we are just going to die?" My parents thought we were crazy but we didn't! We thought we were making complete sense. Right? So that night we decided we weren't going to do any homework. We stayed up late and watched movies and had fun. We went to sleep at 3 am and woke up at 4 am. What was the point of sleeping more? After we woke up, we went outside and played soccer, showered, made a big breakfast, went to school late, slept in class (well I did), etc. What was the point of following the rules and doing the usual if we were just going to die? Well it took a toll on us after not doing the homework assignments and being too tired to do anything. So we learned our lesson, but it still didn't completely answer our question. Really? What is the point? What is the point of doing anything if we are just going to die in the end? What is our purpose here? Although frustrating, we have to go on with our lives..even if we are just going to die..

If something bad can happen, it usually will.

How come it always seems that if something bad can happen it usually will? How is it that i was actually early for once on my way to Philosophy class, and as I'm getting off the freeway, my tire completely blows out and I lose control and have to swerve off the road? Sometimes when things are going good, something bad happens to make what was good, now a bad situation.

Why does this happen? Is it a lesson we are supposed to be learning? I don't know. I feel like often times when I am doing something, anything within the day, I think of possibilities of something bad happening. For example, if I am walking by myself through a crowd of people wearing heels and I keep telling myself "please don't trip, please don't trip", and I trip, did I make myself trip by thinking about it? I believe that if we think about something happening, like tripping, it will happen because our mind focuses on the word "trip". But in this tire blow out case, I wasn't thinking about, "What if my tire blew out right now while I'm actually early?" But it happened anyways. I don't know. It's just weird how things work out! It feels like somehow, something has to go wrong.

Ouija

Ouija. When you hear that word, how does it make you feel? Honestly, it is so weird to me that people make such a big deal about this board game. Before playing this game, I had only heard bad things about it. I was always curious as to what the big deal was and why people were calling it "the devil's game". I wondered how a board game, sold in the stores, could be a game of the devil. Ridiculous. So what other way to find out then to try it for myself. The first time I played it, I was with about 5 friends. It was really freaky, but really fun and weird how everything worked out. Considering it was my first time, I wondered if my friends were moving it. But then I wondered how they would know the things about me that the Ouija board answered and it didn't make sense that they would be moving it.
Since that day I have played the game quite a few more times and opened it up to people who didn't believe in playing it. It's just a game! If you want to believe it or not, it's up to you. I personally believe it works. It has answered too many things that no one knows, to not be real. What makes this game so "devilish"? Are the people saying that, just afraid to face the facts? All i know is that this game has nothing to do with religion or anything of that sort. It is simply a game where you can contact spirits if you really believe in it. And from personal experience, it does work.