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| I Should Be Doing My Chemistry |
| Last Updated: November 20, 2003 |
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| Wow, haven't written one of these in a while. I came home from a Dinner Meeting at six. I started my Chem lab (which is due tomorrow, mind you), am now 2/5 done, and instead of getting it done and out of the way, I thought I'd boot up the old computer and write something here. Before the meeting, I met with two other fellow Committee members. There's a lot of ambiguity around the Student Council Constitution, and we were talking amongst ourselves hoping to generate some ideas to call to attention during the next meeting. We started to lean off topic and for some reason, evolution came up. I said I didn't believe in it. One asked, "Are you religious". Oh boy, do I hate that question. Mind you, it's not because I take religion to heart or because I'm religous myself (we can probe further into that later). Rather, over the course of, oh, I dunno, four years, I just refrained from speaking of religion. I can't put my finger on it, but the source of my hesitation may be because it requires so much time and effort for me to explain my stand on it. My stand on evolution is completely based on reasoning, rather than religion. In evolution, there are stems, and each stem generates a new group of animals, yes? Apes and humans are so similar, yet our intellect compared to them is uncanny. How is that so? How can we look at a chimp and say we can consider ourselves related? Why is it that there are only conceptual drawings of apes evolving into humans? It's because of the lack of fact. Have you heard of the Missing link? It's supposed to be the skeletal strcture which transitions an ape and a human. Anyone know why it's still called the Missing link? All skeletons are either ape or human. Even if they do find a skeleton which may resemble a sort of transition, how can we consider it authentic? Evolution requires time for growth, so if they do find one, how can the link be made just by that one creature which pertains the transition? Maybe we were always somewhat human and apes were always somewhat apes. Maybe we in fact are those aliens with the technology to change the universe, but we just like to think that there might be a life form possibly better than us. I don't sound cocky, do I? You can stop there if you like. If you're still bored or just like to hear me babble on my stand on religion, might as well read on, eh? I was baptized a Catholic, but I consider myself a lapsed-Catholic. I, attended those dreary chatechism classes as a kid, which I found a complete waste of time. They're supposed to help you understand and ultimately make you appreciate God and all his creations. Instead, I found they were shoving prayers, into one ear and some religous rules and traditions into the other. Well, my experience for that matter. Result: my brain was crunched with things that were just fed to me. Hm. I'll try to recollect my time in chatechism: Guy: God is powerful! Little brainwashed kids: God is powerful! Guy: Jesus died for your sins! Little brainwashed kids: Jesus died for our sins! Guy: Give us tonnes of money! Little brainwashed kids: Such is the will of God! Damn. I thought I had something going on there, but it clearly wasn't successful. Back to topic: religion is good in the sense that it creates order in society and sets positive examples of how people should live their life. However, I see each religion and a way of living as a template. There is no right or wrong, just preferance. Like a website, you can choose a template of which takes your fancy. Since it's a template, it has restrictions you must abide by, so there is little room for expansion and development. I choose not to follow a template. Not to go so far as to make my own template, as in making a whole new religion, but more of a different way of living. I couldn't care less whether or not I go to Heaven or Hell. In Heaven, maybe I get to fly around the world and spit on people I never really liked; in Hell, I wouldn't mind the heat since my house feels like a frozen tundra. If there is a God, would he be so peeved that I didn't go to church? Would my lack of "faith" totally devoid the fact I treat others how they should be treated? Well, other than radioactive monkey vomit. But no, seriously: If I was generally a good person who did not pray nor attend church, how would I compare to someone who attended church and prayed, but killed little kids in the woods? Suppose this: I represented God, and my child (figuratively speaking of course) would represent people. --I'd rather have a child who may never visit me anymore, but is out in the world doing good, rather than having a troublesom twerp who won't leave me alone-- I think I'll get back to Chemistry. |