There are three camps out there, I'm sure you've heard of them;
From the moment you are born, to the moment you die, your path is mapped by God, Allah, Dharma, Siva, Krishna etc.
To quote the great Douglas Adams "Things just happen what the heck".
You are master/mistress/thing of your own fate and every decision you make affects the outcome.
So which is right? Well, in my own immensely humble opinion, they all are!
"But Alan! Isn't that just sitting on the fence and refusing to make a decision?"
No, dear reader, it is not!
"I think you're procrastinating as well as hedging your bets, Alan..."
Dear, dear reader with an extremely negative point of view, do kindly silence thine lippe!
Ahem
Where was I? Oh yes, they are all right and here's why;
There is a God, in my opinion. Also in my opinion, very few people have actually gotten Him right. Angry super Santa Claus He is not. Jolly old chap with big flowy beard and a robe he is neither. He, He is not either, not in the conventional sense you and I understand it anyway. God is nothing we understand in the conventional sense of anything not even slightly. Do you think the being who created the entire universe and everything in it give a pork wrapped stuff what I did on a particular day or not? I doubt it. He is not there with a big list checking me off for good boy/bad boy. No sir, He is not. He does care what we do, in His way, but He is more interested where we end up when we die, not the little stumbles we make along the way. Make sense? OK, let me explain.
God has a plan for us, one He would very much like us to follow and arrive at a certain point before we die.
He gave us free will and we are free to choose to do or not to do what it is that he would like us to do but most of us don't, honestly
Our decisions do in fact matter, we are not mindless automatons trundling along a track we can neither leave or divert from
Excrement often occurs, the phenomena has been observed by multiple witnesses and experienced by pretty much every living human on the face of the planet
Ergo, heretofore and heretofive; all three philosophae (aha, Alan's New Word of the day! (c) etc. ect, mine, mine!) are correct and all three are also completely and utterly wrong. "But, Alan, you said...." Yes I did, but did I also say that the universe is one great and monumental heck of a deal more complicated than we are even close to knowing? Oh? Sorry I forgot. Well, it is. In fact, contrary to philosophers, ecumenical folks of all cloths, stripes and denominations, physicists, scientists and general beardy folks of all kinds and lengths, we are not even close to knowing what we don't know about the universe yet. Seriously think about it, take a look at scientific publications over the years; no-one can agree on what we do know, what we don't know, who is right,wrong and neither! Scientists, philosophers and religious type folks are NOT making money by anyone having even close to a degree of certainty now are they? No, oh wise and all-seeing Alan, they are not! Thank you, I humbly accept your agreement.
So, back to God then. Here's my beef with the scientists. They say that the story of Biblical Creation is like believing a fairy tale and quite a stretch believing in something and someone (somewhat perhaps) of which zero proof exists. OK I accept that, that's a very fair point. But. But. Buuuuut...you expect me to believe that, for no reason anyone can explain;
There was absolutely nothing, just a whole lot of nada but nothing was there to see that nothing was there looking like nothing.
Suddenly there was something, no-one knows why and no-one was there to see it anyway because there were no no-ones yet
This tiny something went bang in a rather spectacular fashion and just happened by pure chance and good luck, to line up and form in every single one of the right ways required to create planets, stars and all the stuff we see and enjoy today, including computers, cell phones and other people.
Earth just happened to end up where it is so that life would somehow happen just like it did and it was in just the right place to survive and become us so we could sit here and talk about it.
OK, so who believes in groundless fairy tales then? Please, please, please show me your proof and I will be delighted to show you mine (between you and me I don't have any either but shhhh). Neither of us have ANYTHING to prove any of what we believe in. Yes you have your mathematical formulae and fancy numbers and symbols and long words but, as you are so keen to say of the religious, where's the proof, the concrete type of proof you can touch? The facts can be skewed to fit the need, you have also said. I turn these back upon yourself! The math balances and the theory adds up but you people are getting more and more surprised the faster technology speeds up! You stroke your beards and say "Well I knew this all along, that simply proves the theory of Dr Findlestimble et al on the Theory of Theories Having Surprising Uses in Unexpected Situations" I call Bovine Ejecta, sir!
But wait, before you light your torches and come running with your pitchforks screaming "witch (warlock is the accurate term by the way)! Heretic! Spawn of someone who doesn't exist!!" allow me to say one more thing; you're BOTH wrong!
Jesus told you already who God is and what he wants but you really didn't pay attention.
Scientists from back to Socrates in ancient history to Hawking have tried to tell you that we know more about what we DON'T know than we do about what we DO know!
Humans just are not very good at listening and much better at trying to be right and fighting with other humans who are also vehemently convinced they too are right to actually stop for a single minute and consider how ridiculous they look! I mean all this fighting and hating on this group or that group, Jesus would not have approved of that, not one little bit.
I've tried religion and, although I am sure there is a God, I don't think the human race is ever going to truly know Him, not in this life anyway. Everywhere I go, every church, every temple; Mormons, Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses and so on; all of them have these things in common;
We are the ones who follow the right path and everyone else is wrong and more than likely going to Hell forever, more or less unless this thing applies.
If you don't do exactly what these rules say you're also going to Hell.
These rules are quite literally set in stone unless we're talking about certain situations, under which case God will look the other way for a moment.
God sees all, knows all and is in control of everything BUT he was caught off guard at least three times that we know of.
God is intensely interested in how often you masturbate and to what.
Who you choose to love is OUR business even though both God and Jesus explicitly told us that it isn't.
We must love one another and the world entire, we are all children of God; brothers and sisters. Except these guys. And those guys.. And people who do this. Oh and people from there. Also people who leave our church. Ah yes and these folks too.
Hypocrisy is OK as long as it's approved by the church.
So, I think I really twirled the stick in the anthill today, don't you? It is highly likely that I have managed to offend just about everyone and also sort of went wildly off topic but I actually didn't.....Ohhhh Alan, you are such and wise and skilled orator, you sly old dog!...Why thank you sweet reader, I love your praise!
We come to the most interesting part now, the part where science proves that God might exist in some form or another and the part where religion admits there might be something in all of this science malarky afterall;
In Noetic science and other quantum entanglement science; the presence of Intelligent Design and a Creator have been admitted as the only logical way to explain certain things. Come now, CERN names the key to Particle Theory, the Higgs Boson both the Holy Grail and also the God Particle and they were not being ironic either. Even Richard Dawkins is starting to back-pedal a little bit saying he "cannot prove God does not exist".
The Book of Genesis, the Prophecies of St Malaki. There have been several scientific studies of these and the findings are thought provoking and challenge our traditional views of the origin of science, scientific method and knowledge of the universe.
My point is, the long struggle of Science Vs. Religion is starting to be shown as a rather silly excercise in trying to be right because we want to be, not based or founded on anything actually concrete and certain, rather on bias and hypocrisy on both sides of the fight. Fate creates fate which is in turn created by the will to create one's fate which fate supplies the creative urge for...
So I come back round to the beginning by a very oblique and frankly sneaky route. Yes I do quite intentionally leave a lot unsaid or uncovered because ,dear reader, I am encouraging you all to think and decide for yourselves. I have my opinion, you have yours but only you can decide which suit fits best or feels most comfortable, right? So Fate or Create, which one is it? Yes it is, exactly!
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