Saturday, 25 February 2012
Probably the Best conclusion a movie has ever had or could have
But you probably would have to watch the movie to get it.
The movie was insanely good.
Just...Insanely good.
The real-to-life-ness of the film... (the pace... the friendly banter... the characters....their flaws their strengths...their personalities... their expressions) the intensity and message of the film..... insane.
Really struck a chord with me.
One of the best movies i have ever watched.
Saturday, 18 February 2012
And then I found myself asking...
Why is it that i can believe at least on a superficial level that people have landed on the moon although i have never first-handedly experienced this knowledge, but not believe that there is a God that loves me?
and maybe then i dont really believe that people have landed on the moon or maybe because it isnt a knowledge that i have to deal with on a daily-basis.
and maybe then i dont really believe that people have landed on the moon or maybe because it isnt a knowledge that i have to deal with on a daily-basis.
Why we wake up in the morning everyday other than the conscious reasons we give ourselves.
We are in search of a better life.
That is the reason why we wake up every morning.
A chance to make life a little better, to change something.
Another chance at perfecting that pass, at holding back that anger, at showing love, at working out that problem sum, at restoring that relationship.
I think we live with a subconscious search of a better life.
And by implication this means that today, was good, could be great, but wasn't the best.
We are always consistently trying to reach or find the best.
And the funny thing is, how do we know that there even is 'the best'?
We do, because what we have done so far, experienced so far, as great as it is, has still not completely satisfied our unending desires.
We desire for infinity.
Because we were made for infinity.
I think it is amazing that our desires never end, but we as humans in the physical body do.
And i think this might possibly be an indication of an after-life.
That is the reason why we wake up every morning.
A chance to make life a little better, to change something.
Another chance at perfecting that pass, at holding back that anger, at showing love, at working out that problem sum, at restoring that relationship.
I think we live with a subconscious search of a better life.
And by implication this means that today, was good, could be great, but wasn't the best.
We are always consistently trying to reach or find the best.
And the funny thing is, how do we know that there even is 'the best'?
We do, because what we have done so far, experienced so far, as great as it is, has still not completely satisfied our unending desires.
We desire for infinity.
Because we were made for infinity.
I think it is amazing that our desires never end, but we as humans in the physical body do.
And i think this might possibly be an indication of an after-life.
this time 18 years ago... it was the last day in my mother's womb.
(Warning: This post is terribly incoherent largely because loud music was playing. If you manage to follow, you have amazing cognitive abilities)
I don't think the church is a contradiction, i think it is a paradox.
(And i know paradox is essentially a self-contradiction but it is not just a contradiction, it is a contradiction that is found to be true.)
Church is a holy gathering of sinners. (see..)
But then if you really think about it, ALL of Life is a paradox.
We live to die.
We spend to earn. (if you are a keynesian)
And... many others which i can't think of at this precise moment but i am sure you are able to name a few yourself.
my point is... at the end of the day... the things that really hold true are paradoxes.
Anyways, lately I have been sort of... battling Christianity. Or as we now know it to be.
Just a few thoughts i have about it.....
I just feel that there are just too many inconsistencies in our faith today that have arisen out of the selective choosing by man of man's thinking/interpretation of the Bible in the past (and even now). And this has proliferated into modern day Christianity. And by that i mean, we have inherited this, multi-factional brand of C. These selections have birthed this version of modern day Christianity that is of many versions of Christianity i.e the multitude of denominations.
And sometimes I really wonder how sound these schools of thought are anyways. In a way, I am building my faith on someone elses' received revelation of God if you think about it. And whatsmore... half the time, i dont even know who that someone else is. I mean really... in church we dont talk about St. Thomas Aquinas much do we?? (or at least not from where i come and unless you're taking a theology class) and maybe that's because this faith isn't supposed to be centered on man but God. But the funny thing is, this faith is very much developed by both Man and God. I just...I find myself asking... how do we know when is the time for another martin luther moment? if it is even needed in the first place. How are we to be so sure that this faith, that has been developed (largely by man's perception and received revelation) over 2000 years, is still what it was about 2000 years ago? I have realised in my reading up, that Christianity is much like academia. We build on it over the years. Each new era comes along and there's a new interpretation/development in Christianity..a change in christian thinking, sometimes a radical change like the martin luther reformation. Yet, Sometimes just more confusion, uncertainty and question marks (per-determination or free will?)
Ergo, when the elders keep telling me to go back to the Word and to personally search for it, I think to myself, 'but wouldnt everything i will be/am interpreting of the Bible, be greatly affected by the era i am now living in?' Very much of the Bible I will be/am perceiving is based on how much humanity has developed, or as human development now stands today. For eg what I call 'The relaxation and death of formality of human relations', how parents have now become their childrens' friends (and in a way losing that fear and sometimes proper respect for the parent) and so has our perception of God that He is our 'friend', a peer, as opposed to the slave and master relationship in the past (before it was illegal) where God was our master and we were His slaves.
But then again, this might not exactly be a problem because if you think about it, maybe the things God was saying in the past and is saying to the present IS different. I mean duhhh... How can we expect God to repeat Himself... for more than as long as life has been around..? Surely as humanity has progressed, God has a different message for that progression...right??
So the thing is... we are suppose to (and invariably will) glean different messages from the exact same passage in the Bible since the Bible itself cannot change, therefore our opinion or perception of it has to. This really makes me wonder whether the kind of God we worship is very much the same as the kind of God the shepherds used to worship.( i know i said this before already) Like if i had a time machine and went back to Father Abraham's time, i wonder how differently or similarly we will describe our God, and whether we will exchange weird quizzical looks to each other when the description has been offered.
Ok i guess the bottom line of the last 4 incoherrent paragraphs is this:
1. How accurate is our fundamental perception of God today as compared to... say... Jesus' day granted that each era will perceive Him differently as according to the conditions of their time?
And when we have answered that, i guess only then can we know whether it is time for another martin luther moment.
Another thought I have is that... I think one of the main problems in Christianity today is the same problem it faced in St. Paul's time. It is still very much mutually exclusive. And by that i mean, here is the world and everything in it (politics, economics, social movements etc), and here is Christianity. Or at least that is the way C is from where i am. The divide between secularism and religion. Sure it can be used as an ideal and in fancy speeches but when it comes down to it there is still this divide. And i get it, i get that, we have to do this in order for multi-everything and thereafter stability and progress to take place... but I dont know... it just seems to me that the times of C in King David's day is very different as opposed to what it is today. In the sense of the countless wars the Israelites went to in the Old testament to rid their land of pagans as opposed to our multi-everything policy of today. I mean... if you actually adopted the OT kind of stand in politics today you'll just be labelled an extremist.
And then there's science. Which some might argue it pushes for C and others against it.
Sigh.
I don't know.
Ah-ha!
And there we have another of life's paradoxes: the more you learn, the more you don't know.
But i guess...in a way, the beauty in life is in its paradox. the irreconcilable truths.
Fascinating.
I don't think the church is a contradiction, i think it is a paradox.
(And i know paradox is essentially a self-contradiction but it is not just a contradiction, it is a contradiction that is found to be true.)
Church is a holy gathering of sinners. (see..)
But then if you really think about it, ALL of Life is a paradox.
We live to die.
We spend to earn. (if you are a keynesian)
And... many others which i can't think of at this precise moment but i am sure you are able to name a few yourself.
my point is... at the end of the day... the things that really hold true are paradoxes.
Anyways, lately I have been sort of... battling Christianity. Or as we now know it to be.
Just a few thoughts i have about it.....
I just feel that there are just too many inconsistencies in our faith today that have arisen out of the selective choosing by man of man's thinking/interpretation of the Bible in the past (and even now). And this has proliferated into modern day Christianity. And by that i mean, we have inherited this, multi-factional brand of C. These selections have birthed this version of modern day Christianity that is of many versions of Christianity i.e the multitude of denominations.
And sometimes I really wonder how sound these schools of thought are anyways. In a way, I am building my faith on someone elses' received revelation of God if you think about it. And whatsmore... half the time, i dont even know who that someone else is. I mean really... in church we dont talk about St. Thomas Aquinas much do we?? (or at least not from where i come and unless you're taking a theology class) and maybe that's because this faith isn't supposed to be centered on man but God. But the funny thing is, this faith is very much developed by both Man and God. I just...I find myself asking... how do we know when is the time for another martin luther moment? if it is even needed in the first place. How are we to be so sure that this faith, that has been developed (largely by man's perception and received revelation) over 2000 years, is still what it was about 2000 years ago? I have realised in my reading up, that Christianity is much like academia. We build on it over the years. Each new era comes along and there's a new interpretation/development in Christianity..a change in christian thinking, sometimes a radical change like the martin luther reformation. Yet, Sometimes just more confusion, uncertainty and question marks (per-determination or free will?)
Ergo, when the elders keep telling me to go back to the Word and to personally search for it, I think to myself, 'but wouldnt everything i will be/am interpreting of the Bible, be greatly affected by the era i am now living in?' Very much of the Bible I will be/am perceiving is based on how much humanity has developed, or as human development now stands today. For eg what I call 'The relaxation and death of formality of human relations', how parents have now become their childrens' friends (and in a way losing that fear and sometimes proper respect for the parent) and so has our perception of God that He is our 'friend', a peer, as opposed to the slave and master relationship in the past (before it was illegal) where God was our master and we were His slaves.
But then again, this might not exactly be a problem because if you think about it, maybe the things God was saying in the past and is saying to the present IS different. I mean duhhh... How can we expect God to repeat Himself... for more than as long as life has been around..? Surely as humanity has progressed, God has a different message for that progression...right??
So the thing is... we are suppose to (and invariably will) glean different messages from the exact same passage in the Bible since the Bible itself cannot change, therefore our opinion or perception of it has to. This really makes me wonder whether the kind of God we worship is very much the same as the kind of God the shepherds used to worship.( i know i said this before already) Like if i had a time machine and went back to Father Abraham's time, i wonder how differently or similarly we will describe our God, and whether we will exchange weird quizzical looks to each other when the description has been offered.
Ok i guess the bottom line of the last 4 incoherrent paragraphs is this:
1. How accurate is our fundamental perception of God today as compared to... say... Jesus' day granted that each era will perceive Him differently as according to the conditions of their time?
And when we have answered that, i guess only then can we know whether it is time for another martin luther moment.
Another thought I have is that... I think one of the main problems in Christianity today is the same problem it faced in St. Paul's time. It is still very much mutually exclusive. And by that i mean, here is the world and everything in it (politics, economics, social movements etc), and here is Christianity. Or at least that is the way C is from where i am. The divide between secularism and religion. Sure it can be used as an ideal and in fancy speeches but when it comes down to it there is still this divide. And i get it, i get that, we have to do this in order for multi-everything and thereafter stability and progress to take place... but I dont know... it just seems to me that the times of C in King David's day is very different as opposed to what it is today. In the sense of the countless wars the Israelites went to in the Old testament to rid their land of pagans as opposed to our multi-everything policy of today. I mean... if you actually adopted the OT kind of stand in politics today you'll just be labelled an extremist.
And then there's science. Which some might argue it pushes for C and others against it.
Sigh.
I don't know.
Ah-ha!
And there we have another of life's paradoxes: the more you learn, the more you don't know.
But i guess...in a way, the beauty in life is in its paradox. the irreconcilable truths.
Fascinating.
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