Today's lessons:
1. Appearances often disguise the true nature of things. (From watching the beauty and the beast special edition VCD!) (and after analysing the score to comptine D'un autre ete and realising it's actually not that hard after all)
true and duh as it may seem, it's still a very common unconscious mistake that people make to judge by appearances.
2. There are really a lot of things you can get high on, like the sheer sincerity and profound concern of friendship, coupled with the joy God brings. ^^ (apologies to non-christian readers)
3. Religious logical impasse: Isn't faith a rather circular concept? If i have faith, then i'll start to notice more things around me as being due to God's will, as opposed to mere coincidence. Somehow perhaps the essence of faith is that it predisposes a person to accept the 'faith-related' explanation when faced with a situation, ceteris paribus. And then a sort of positive feedback mechanism kicks in, and faith builds on itself. So how do you tell that what you believe in is really there, and not just a figment of your imagination?
A friend said that flying in an airplane is an act of faith. You trust your life to the pilot, that he'd get you to the destination safely. You do this because the pilot has a past record of being able to fly planes. Is religion similar? Lots of people i know are happy and fulfilled because of the faith and trust they place in God. Is that not good enough, even if there isn't actually a God? hmm.
4. Unity is not equated to uniformity, nor does it result from uniformity.
Yea, irrelevant and rather off topic, but well it's something thought provoking that chanced my way today anyway.
And in other irrelevant news, thai ang ku kuehs are the cutest i've ever seen. fullstop.
P.S. I hate how accented letters don't seem to come out on blogger.
No comments:
Post a Comment