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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
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Movies
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Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
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Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Wednesday, November 26, 2003
My blog-world has been a bit stressful and life-altering lately. Having being involved in a few debates on other people's sites, I have continually left feeling shaken and somewhat attacked. I find the strength and venom people talk when discussing their beliefs so intimidating at times that I often don't know how to take it. I do believe that everyone is entitled to their own beliefs in pursuit of universal good, but what some people say and believe terrifies me.
The only real benefit I have taken is that I have been able to explore and understand my own beliefs better, but I understand others less.
I used to be "Christian" - I say this loosely, as I was only 16 at the time. Simply, it fucked me up. Couldn't get my head around it and kept me in a bubble that stopped me from tackling problems properly.
I have since learned Christianity is not for me. I'm not saying it 100%, definitely isn't true or real, but if it is, it's not for me. Most religions have this insane arrogance that theirs is the only one - everyone else is going to hell. I just see each religion as some sort of clubhouse.
For example - Christianity. Follow God's rules, say you like him (and his son) very much, and he'll let you into Heaven (his clubhouse) where you can worship him for eternity, being all blissful and disregarding those you have left behind. Most religions work by the same principle.
The arrogance shows up when they assume that all those who don't get in, burn in hell. That's what's so bizarre to me, and makes it fundamentally impossible for me to accept one religion such as Chrisitianity. Where's the universal good in that?
Why can't all religions be true? Why can't there just be a series of heavens ("clubhouses") where people can go to if the god ("leader") likes them? Hopefully there's one left where all the people not into the universal worship of a club leader can just chill out together and relax.
Or more likely, nothing happens at all.
I'm not saying whether God exists or not - I don't know, and frankly I don't care. If he does, I'm not interested in his clubhouse. Exclusion has never been a good thing in my mind, and I can't see it being much better in the afterlife. Plus, if it's going to be full of the very scary people I've been talking to lately, I REALLY don't want to go. (You know, the type of people who think God can be considered GOOD even if he's skinning babies - nice).
Any God who lets someone into bliss just because they worship him (even if they've murdered thousands) and excludes those who don't (even if they've lead a good life) is not only arrogant, but dangerous.
Sorry God, you're just not my kind of guy.
The only religion I believes pursues the universal good is Buddhism (I am prepared to be argued with on this, cause I don't know a huge amount about it). Reincarnation makes more sense to me than blissful clubhouses in the sky - I don't necessarily believe in it, I'm just more open to the idea. At least as a theology it doesn't suck and all the followers are nice. As far as I know anyway.
9:22 am
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