I think I might delete the post i made earlier. It's pretty much useless.
I thought today would be a good day. I had an idea in my mind that today would be great. It would be sunny, there would be laughter, I would be happy. I was wrong. Even though I wore my new(ish) dress which I was saving up to wear when I really felt like it, and even though I got out of bed on time and in the car with no yelling, and even though I had cruisy classes all day. Even though all of this was true, the day was still a huge, massive let-down. Why? Well:
- It was motherfucking cold. And windy. Wind has to be my LEAST favourite element. A breeze I can handle, but not wind.
- Halfway through English (first period) I developed a stomach pain. There was no obvious reason, it just popped up, said hello, and set about tearing up my intestines.
- History sucked.
- The arrangement of the classes today was retarded. I was in Geography thinking, great, last period, home soon, but no. I had Tourism next. We watched some inane bullshit about advertising, and I sat there, in pain, tired as hell and wanting to sleep so, so bad.
- I finished my book in study, which is good, I suppose, but I finished it in the first twenty minutes and then had nothing to do.
- I didn't get any lunch money this morning, which I was counting on because we were out of school snacks, but Mum wouldn't let me have any more until tomorrow because she needed the cash. All I had to eat today before 4PM was a packet of Burger Rings.
I wonder, does anyone know when I'm having a bad day? With some people it's so obvious, because it shows on their face or they complain about it, and I'm willing to listen, it's just that I don't really do this, do I? I don't know. Some days I'm having a hell of a bad time and I still talk and laugh and tell jokes.
So anyway. My post last night got four opinions about the sun thing and the gay thing. Of course, Jess wrote an essay, which is fine :D She has very strong opinions.
I suppose I should have specified that I was talking merely about the reproduction thing, not the love thing. Your thoughts were all very good though. I'm not sure what to think.
I have something to say, and it might take a while, so bear with me.
On the bus today Tori and I were talking about Christianity. Not in depth, because Tori doesn't do that, but she said she's agnostic and I said I'm atheist. Some people think they're the same, but they're not.
Atheism: Theism is the belief in a god (monotheism) or multiple gods (polytheism) - a belief which is normally a part of a religion, but need not be. By adding the prefix "a", which means "not; without," we get atheism - and hence "not/without belief in gods."
Agnosticism: ”A” means “without” and “gnosis” means “knowledge.” Hence, agnostic: without knowledge, but specifically without knowledge of gods.
According to my sister, someone who is atheist hates people who are religious, but I don't think this is true. I don't hate religious people, I simply deny that their God is real. I mean (and please try not to take offense if you're Christian or whatever), what's so believable about a magical being who is everywhere creating the Universe from what we can assume or not is nothing. I don't feel a spiritual connection to anything. I feel like there has to be a logical reason for the universe. There is science, and unlike math many other things, science explains things. Baking and cooking is a science, the human body and how it works is science. Space is science. Science has a lot of answers and these answers have foundations, but religion... what do they want to base it on? A book with no proof?
And then I talked to my mum, and she said that until I have read the Bible, and until I have been to Rome and Jerusalem, I can't really call myself atheist. I'm agnostic, then? I suppose I am.
What I want to know is your views. I'm interested :).
How many Christians have done those two things? Not many. Just understand the religion more.
ReplyDeleteReligion annoys me.
First of all you looked really lovely in your dress today.
ReplyDeleteI'm really sorry about your bad day, I wish I had some magic words to make things seem better but put quite frankly i'm pretty shit at that sort of thing.
And to answer your question I did notice, you say it doesn't show on your face but there were times when you let it show, just briefly. I didn't want to say anything though because we hardly talk and well for all I knew anything could be wrong (Or I could've been wrong) and since you were making an effort to be happy I didn't know what sort of reaction I'd get.
And about the religion thing?
I would like to believe there's a god. It would be nice to think there's someone looking after us, and that when we die its not just the end. Because thats a bit of a scary thought. But I can't help but see it like santa, you know, something we believe because its what our parents tell us is real, I mean most religious people follow the same faith as their parents, and have done since they're old enough to remember. I mean there's nothing else people take on blind faith, like everything else can be proved with science or logic or reason or whatever, the sun rising, trees growing, everything. Except god. And I'm not saying I don't believe, I've asked my nana why she believes in god with no proof but nothing else, she said to me that "sometimes people just need something to believe in."
i've always envied religious people, who can face tragedy and disaster by praying and knowing things will be alright. It would be nice to leave a bit of pain and responsibilty with someone else.
I don't know what I am. I follow no faith, I actually don't know much about any religions at all, but I agree with a lot of the morals and I would really like to truly believe in something, and be able to believe it without proof. what does that make me?
Thank you so much Rachel. You don't know how much better that made me feel :)
ReplyDeleteI get what you're saying. It makes me feel so lonely sometimes to think of how life is; everyone for themselves, really. No bigger power, as some of us assume. No deity to influence things for the better.
<3
Yay for me writing an essay! I might do one now, but then again it might only be short.
ReplyDeleteOkay. I, personally, don't believe in anything like God or ghosts or the Loch Ness Monster or anything where there is no PROOF. I think that that makes me agnostic, because I don't believe because of lack of knowledge. I think that to be an atheist you have to firmly belive that there is no way, ever, for anyone to prove that a god exists. If you'd be willing to listen to someone claiming to have proof, that's agnostic. If not, atheist.
But, after all, “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.” (Stuart Chase)
Um, I'm having deja vu. I'm sure I've said all this before...oh yes. Here it is.
http://bohobirdie.tumblr.com/post/591971375/for-those-who-believe-no-proof-is-necessary-for