Friday, October 30, 2009

In need of critical thinkers.

can omniscient God, who knows the future, find the omnipotence to change his future mind?


Think about it.

First let me say, I have a great respect for those who are religious and can back up their faith in an intellectual way. It takes great strength and courage to live a life devoted to a higher power with unwavering faith. Some people definitely have great reasons for believing in a higher power.
But a lot of religious people are not like that. Most can't hold an intellectual conversation, it's just "I have faith so I win". If you make the choice to believe in God, then shouldn't you know what all that entails? Shouldn't you know the bible verses AND THEIR CONTEXT! Shouldn't you be familiar with the common arguments for the existence and non-existence of god? Shouldn't you know both sides and be fully aware of what you are believing in? Shouldn't you, when reading a quote like at the beginning of the post, realize that it's a contradiction and not just say "why not"? I'm sure there is a great retort out there, but most people don't think critically enough to realize the contradiction that exists in that statement. I don't either believe or not believe in a higher power, but if I were to choose either way I would be able to have an intellectual and open minded conversation about my views instead of just saying "well that's what I believe, so there!"
For those of you who read to the end, thank you for your interest in my rant.
again I ask, in the words of Karen Owens:

can omniscient God, who knows the future, find the omnipotence to change his future mind?

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Here goes nothing...

So I'm a 22 year old female living alone in South Korea...and what am I sitting here thinking about? When I die, what will go through my mind? So, I start thinking of making a bucketlist. As if picking up and leaving home to move to South Korea wasn't exciting enough. The first item that comes to mind for said bucketlist...make a blog. I'm not quite sure what the attraction is, but it's something I've been wanting to do. So here it goes, I hope it's not a bust...
Other ideas that come to mind for my bucketlist:
-Go on vacation to a nudist beach.
-Go cliff jumping.
-Honeymoon in Greece.
Of course other, less exciting things came to mind as well. The one I'm most preoccupied by is finding a guy to do these things with. I may only be 22, but I want to spend my life traveling. I want to find a guy who wants the same and will travel with me (or me with him, however you want to look at it). I definitely don't want to still be alone in 5 years.
I also want to go to graduate school for Buddhist Studies. I'm not sure when I want to do this, maybe next year, maybe not. My future is wide open, I could end up anywhere, doing anything. Maybe I should make firmer life plans, but at this point in my life I find myself thinking that those plans will probably end up changing anyway.
I'm sure as time goes by I will do, or want to do, many more things. However for now that is what I have come up with. I'm open to suggestions. For now, I'm content.
Time to sleep so I can wake up and teach the Korean kids I have fallen in love with. I do love my job. ^_^