:: Captain's Personal Blog ::

Stardate: Monday, June 10, 2002

A note about prophecies:

It must have been prophetic for me to find this website,
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Sunrise over Manhattan), because it fits right in with my remarks earlier regarding religion. I admit that the photograph is quite awesome. However, whether or not it is a sign from God is another matter entirely.

Back to Rule #1, if God (who of course, as a proponent of Free Will, would not interfere) were to give a sign that something big was going to happen to the towers, wouldn't he have picked something a bit less dependent on chance? This is not to say that divine interventions are subject to random chance, but let's look at this from a rational point of view. If YOU wanted to tell someone something, indirectly, wouldn't you at least want to make sure that they saw it? Imagine God wants you to know about the towers collapsing. What would the thought process be there? "Hmmm. I know! Let me get the sun to shine through the towers (like it does every day) except today I shall turn down the sharpness on the sun and raise the brightness levels a bit. NOW they'll see this bright, shiney sun through the towers and will immediately think that the towers may one day get knocked down by a bunch of terrorists in jumbo jet-liners!"

Let's give God a little more credit than that, hm? If it were me, and I saw that? I would probably have just marveled at the beauty that God had set before me and not that he was trying to tell me something. By that line of thinking, the next time you see a really beautiful sunset, just think it's a sign from God that the sky is about to fall.

Sheesh.

By the way, none of this is meant to offend. If it makes you feel better, remind yourself that I really am not a religious nor a pious person. I am not a religious scholar. I am just a resident of this planet. You don't have to be a genius to figure out that something is wrong with the place. Personally, I think that all of this misunderstanding on the subject of religion is a major part of the problem. If we could all just live our lives and leave God out of it, we could probably be happier. God does not want the responsibility of keeping is in line. Otherwise he would not have given us Free Will. All we have to remember is that there may be a reckoning one day. The rest is garbage.

Religious rules are around to just keep us civil. The underlying rule is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. "Thou shalt not kill." Why? Because I wouldn't want someone to kill me, so I'd better make killing against the law. "Thou shalt not steal." Same deal. Let's face it. Of course these things are wrong to do. We all know that. Some people, regardless of whether something is right or wrong, will do what they want to do anyway. Religious laws and the laws of man are put in place to disuade people. That's all.

I am not saying that society is bad, or that ANY country in the world should be in any way harmed. I'm not one of those manifesto-y fanatics who secretly plans to overthrow the government. I'm just one guy who wants to express his opinion. Not by hurting anyone, not by damaging anything, just by speaking. Hell, I'm not even saying I'm right. I just think the whole thing makes more sense from this perspective.
:: J 1:24 PM [+] ::
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