heart wrenching

Genuinely feeling pangs of desolation, forlorn and adrift the emotions are. Why, oil spills devastate. While the average beach goer mulls about his/her ruined beach holiday, many are incensed by the toll it(oil spill) has taken on the environment. We can say good bye to many marine life once aplenty.

I thought I did something radical; I made a comment on someone's post on Facebook. She regularly posts religious notions. Not that it is wrong but, once you cast your opinion you can expect people to challenge your beliefs. I had thought that that was the right time to do it; I said I hope that he clears oil spills.

You could gather a million people at the Gulf and pray, but it would never disperse that large blot of oil we have dumped onto ourselves. Literally and metaphorically.

i am genuine

At times, it puzzles some of my peeps, the nature of the things I read up on. Ranging from psychology, to viruses and perhaps further down the spectrum to arrive at cosmological matters. I mean, it isn't of most people's immediate concern that the Sun would be nearing the end of its stellar life in about 5 billion years, along with us deleted with its demise.

They wonder if I am wasting my time, or theirs. Actually, much time is wasted on this disease called the Taiwan Variety Show. While many people would lovingly expend* time to embrace that disease, I would rather devote my time knowing the world around me as it is. It bothers that me that we take our current standings for granted; this world is not catered specifically for us contrary to the Bible. There are similar planets orbiting a similar average star(Sun)in a remote galaxy somewhere. If we turn back the clock, the evolutionary ladder may very take a different path; we have at the very least, the intellect to construct and construe matters in the grand scheme of things. It placates my heightened curiosity, the books that are windows to something bizarrely beautiful.

deviation

We live in a soupy mess and paradoxically a harmony of variables, many of which have evolved over the sands of time. Flipping through the dusty pages of humanity shows culture, religion and the evolution of thinking to be inexorably linked. Plato, Aristotle, and even Isaac Newton offered much in their theologies.

I've had a meaningful conversation with someone who is a man of God. She was confounded by a rather stubborn headed me, whom in all admiration of my surroundings and cosmos, find no purposeful connection with God. Well, I would like her to remember me as someone who recognizes that religion played an integral part in shaping our world as we know it today, instead of someone who vehemently denies the existence of a deity.

Rather, I see myself on a different platform, having a different awareness. It baffles me why we would segregate ourselves according to religion when we share a common naked ancestor. What is it that is equivocal about the teachings amongst various religions? Do they not, ultimately and fundamentally, preach towards a common good? If you truly love our world, you would love thy family and friends, you would do no evil, you would caress your environment! Then, we are one. I find solace in the beauty of this world, while others find theirs in religion. There is no absolution, but rather, the embodiment of our beliefs in physical(or not) manifestations such as religious teachings. Why, if i truly believe that a fallen oak tree gives me strength then it would. It is the medium that facilitates the channeling of our beliefs, and consequently the source of our strength. We have come this far because we were/are true to ourselves and our beliefs, be it a tree, rock, or God, in the grand scheme of things.

Shall we then, let it be? I would like to see an end to religious extremists marginalizing pretty much everyone else. It defiles the face of this planet.