knowledge?

God kicked adam and eve out of eden because they ate from the fruit of knowledge.

why would God not want adam and eve to have knowledge?

was God scared that knowledge would give adam and eve power to threaten him? is God an overprotective parent?

I don't know.

in fact, i have a hard time believing that a just and fair God would desire his creations to not have knowledge.

or is that what he does want?

the devil has knowledge, and the devil is certainly unwanted by God.

adam and eve ate from the tree of knowledge, so He punished them.

i don't understand why God wouldn't want his creations not to have knowledge. if it is to maintain control over us, and prevent us from threatening His power, then He is a God who doesn't believe in justice. Or, at least, He believes in justice on his own terms.

is it because adam and eve disobeyed him? is that the problem?

adam and eve disobeyed God....but God created adam and eve. So he must have instilled some sort of rebellious characteristic in adam and eve that would lead them to eat from the tree.

why would God do that?

should i trust His plan?

that's ridiculous. i believe in God, but not the god that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam create.

i believe in a God of objective justice. the words "objective justice" mean only that every atom had the same chance at anything as any other atom.

with this in mind, the big bang could make sense, i guess. every atom would be contained in the same spot, so would have had just as much chance as every other atom to do anything else.

but does this imply that God is no longer relevant?

i guess so.

well, "i guess so" is the easy way out. i can't understand any other argument to imply that God is not done with existence.

Thank God we're alive.

life is a nice thing, albeit basically meaningless.

"nice", in this context, means simply "pleasurable," where pleasure can be intellectual or sensual.

i've always sensed a great debate between sensual and intellectual pleasures, but that is a different story for a different time.

what i understand of the bible doesn't make sense. the bases of my previous statements come from christians who consider themselves learned enough to pass on what they have learned.

why do humans have such a hard time accepting the idea of nothing?

one last thing:

jesus was born to pay for our sins because God loves us and knows that we can't pay for our sins ourselves. why is it not possible to accept the fact that we can't pay for our sins ourselves, and simply deal with the consequences? would that not be more honorable than accepting God's pity? why can't we respect ourselves?

fellows resource manual

don't expect to follow everything that i write, unless you know me intimately. when i use the word "intimately," i don't mean in a sexual way.

i pepper anything i do with bits of me, without strict regard as to whether or not anyone else will follow.

my little brother was given an assignment for the summer. it had to do with the little prince. the final sentence of the assignment was something to the extent of "Your life philosophy should be 1 - 2 pages typed, double spaced." the assignment itself was to explain "your life philosophy."

1 - 2 pages typed is more than no pages typed, i guess. something is more than nothing?

i'm incapable of thinking properly right now. i think i've been plowed in the head. it's because i tried to follow someone's thinking pattern, but wasn't able to. when i try to do something, i generally don't stop until it's happened. unless i don't want to do it, after beginning trying. i guess i'm just too proud to admit i can't do things.

pride. idk.

je m'appelle sysophe for i realize that i repeatedly try, only to leave myself to try again.

i don't like it when people try to do something, but also try to make it seem as if they're not trying. maybe i just appreciate straightforwardness? or overt intentionality?

we have a lot of laws/theories for how the natural world works. unfortunately, we can't confirm any of those laws/theories. i guess what i'm saying is you don't know anything, so don't act like you do. i certainly don't know anything. i suppose that's a matter of knowledge, though. maybe everything is a matter of knowledge?

alright, enough bullshit for today.

i've enjoyed freethinking (kind of) enough to be satisfied (ha).

silly willy

i know it's ignorant of me, but i think it's really funny that this software is called "ashampoo." is that supposed to mean "not shampoo?" or "against shampoo?" or "non-shampoo?"

And now,

with my first post out of the way, I move on to something a little less vain.

I have recently discovered that my favorite hip-hip/rap album is probably Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ready to Die."

"I got techniques drippin' out my butt cheeks, sleep on my stomach so I don't f**k up my sheets"

That's a really interesting line in several ways. Specifically, it's an interesting rhyme scheme.

Occasionally I fall into spirals of dogmatic rambling. As such, take anything that I write with a grain of salt. Maybe a salt mine. Hypertension is a dangerous condition, though, so don't take too much at once.

Google labels many of its projects "Beta". Gmail is still in its "Beta" stage. That sort of modesty is admirable. Google isn't a company that claims its products are ready, only to leave testing to end-consumers, as opposed to alpha/beta-testers. Not only that, it is important to recognize that no project with utility value can ever be complete because there is no infallible mechanism for anything.

That's why thinking is such a beautiful thing. Thought isn't limited by the constraints of the real world. The real world entails infinitely more ideas than an intellectual world. Thought allows us to abstract that which we don't see relevant, only to leave what is relevant in a perfect state.

So think of yourself. Can you abstract to the point of perfection?

That abstraction is the heart of every single person (unless you think very highly of yourself).

(edit 25 July 2009: i don't actually mean these last two lines. they're more like something that i thought, and decided to write. i thought these two lines because i've been exposed to enough desperate thinking to sometimes recognize when i can lead myself to a desperate thought.)

That abstraction is as grotesque as it is beautiful.

(edit 25 July 2009: again, this line is only the product of my anticipation of desperation)

There is no content of interest on this blog.

It offers nothing new, nothing revolutionary.

Most everything on here is cliche and dull.

Honorary First Post

In honor of my own blog, here I lay my first post.