I found my notes from when I was reading "The God Delusion" earlier this year:
Ones and Zeros - Jack Johnson
I think humans have always thought they are so damn smart.
all throughout history whatever time, those people believed they had the truth and they scoffed at their brothers and sisters before them when they discovered some new truth.
We are no different. We laugh at those who lived before us for thinking the gods clapped their hands and thunder was made. Perhaps those who will come after us will shake their heads as they look back at our hand held devices and the way we play god with the land we plunder.
Those whom we look up to. Those who we see has "heroes" those who are the rich and powerful, maybe those who come after us, our children's children's so on won't view them under the same light after they see the price we paid letting them drink half the glass.
Maybe in the future we will see the wisdom of the past.
Maybe we will see that not everything is binary, not everything is ones and zeros.
Not everything can be explained with science no matter the time dedicated in the lab.
No matter the time spent staring into scopes, microscope nor telescope.
Modern medicine is incredible
but we all die
modern travel is astounding
but we all have a home
modern communication is amazing
but we all need a hug
It's funny to think the price we pay to save time now could in all reality be time lost in the future.
Are we really saving time, becoming more efficient, or are we just stealing time and life from our children's planet?
And so the scientist and the Dawkins of the world love to laugh in God's face as they hold their state of the art, most recent findings staring too closely into the narrow lens of a microscope ignoring the vast world around them. The people starving, the animals and their perfect balance that we disrupt as we "advance" in understanding and luxury. Where exactly all those convenient plastic water bottles are going once we've tossed them in the bin.
I suppose the same can be said for those who stare too closely into an old book ignoring the vast world around them.
If God is a living God then He certainly won't be confined to a book and He certainly isn't just an explanation for the gaps in science as we figure it out in the meantime.
Maybe those who came before us had it right the whole time.
It's as if we pour millions into research just to find that psychologically it is good to grow up with a mom and a dad. It is good to live in community. It is good to talk face to face. It is good to eat food that grows on it's own out of the ground. It isn't stuff that makes us happy. It is good to work hard, or "exercise" for our bodies.
It's as if we slap ourselves on the back for being so damn smart when we come up with a diet after years and years of research and millions of dollars. We call it the "paleo diet" named after our ancestors who were living that way without needing all the research and findings. The very same ancestors we mock and scoff at for their "primitive" way of life as we now strive to live exactly like them.
We pour our money into personal trainers who have gone to school and studied the body and found that it is good to get your heart rate up, it is good to get moving. So we spend money exercising doing things like lifting heavy things, running in a circle, swinging weights. All of these things imitating the very natural make up of living the lives of our "primitive" ancestors.
We invent these fake forms of light and suck the planet dry in order to keep them lit only to find after years of research and money that natural light is good for us. That psychologically the more sun light a place has the happier the people and the less sun a place has the higher the suicide rate. We create imitation plants out of plastic to stick inside buildings with florescent lights not realizing we are imitating what our "primitive" ancestors use to experience naturally. We are finding it is good to get lots of sleep almost as if when the sun goes down it is telling us to rest. But we fight against it, we burn the coal to light the bulb, to earn the money to pay for the food which naturally grows from the ground, or the gym membership which keeps us in shape since we aren't working the land, or the bottles of water which falls from the sky.
They can keep their science, they can keep their research. We don't need charts and graphs to know how to live. We don't need rating systems, awards, competitions to tell us what we like. Our brothers and sisters who walked before us lived free. How does all of the rest of the world know how to exist without research? How do the birds who fly south know when and how to do that? Did they learn in history class? What research does the bear look at prior to learning how to hibernate? Can the trees with their limbs turn the pages of instructional books about photosynthesis and changing leaf color in the autumn?
Science can't tell me why I love.
Science can't measure a sunrise.
Science can't explain a symphony.
If we are all just cells and carbon trying to survive why do some pursue passion over financial stability? Why do some take a vow of celibacy? Why do animals cry out in pain? We are more than ones and zeros.
Science can explain how we breath but it can't touch why.
I trust you Jesus
free her heart
heal Bea
heal me
To assume that the cure to violent and irrational behavior is the dismantling of religion is a hypothesis with less ground to stand on than any theory about what happened before the Earth’s existence. I would venture to hypothesize that religion is not the source of this behavior but rather the avenue some choose to express it. No different than those who act from places such as adultery, or murder from families. Religion isn’t the issue but rather pain.
Which religion, once removed, would solve the senseless actions of the bloods and cryps street gangs?
The correlation between religion and irrational behavior does not imply causation.
Do countries such as China and North Korea, those religion bans, show any sort of decrease in irrational behavior in terms of violence and aggression?
my hypnosis isn’t that religion causes irrational behavior but rather pride. It is the desire to justify and confirm that your worldview is the correct worldview. However that may be expressed through to many avenues of passion.
Ones and Zeros - Jack Johnson
I think humans have always thought they are so damn smart.
all throughout history whatever time, those people believed they had the truth and they scoffed at their brothers and sisters before them when they discovered some new truth.
We are no different. We laugh at those who lived before us for thinking the gods clapped their hands and thunder was made. Perhaps those who will come after us will shake their heads as they look back at our hand held devices and the way we play god with the land we plunder.
Those whom we look up to. Those who we see has "heroes" those who are the rich and powerful, maybe those who come after us, our children's children's so on won't view them under the same light after they see the price we paid letting them drink half the glass.
Maybe in the future we will see the wisdom of the past.
Maybe we will see that not everything is binary, not everything is ones and zeros.
Not everything can be explained with science no matter the time dedicated in the lab.
No matter the time spent staring into scopes, microscope nor telescope.
Modern medicine is incredible
but we all die
modern travel is astounding
but we all have a home
modern communication is amazing
but we all need a hug
It's funny to think the price we pay to save time now could in all reality be time lost in the future.
Are we really saving time, becoming more efficient, or are we just stealing time and life from our children's planet?
And so the scientist and the Dawkins of the world love to laugh in God's face as they hold their state of the art, most recent findings staring too closely into the narrow lens of a microscope ignoring the vast world around them. The people starving, the animals and their perfect balance that we disrupt as we "advance" in understanding and luxury. Where exactly all those convenient plastic water bottles are going once we've tossed them in the bin.
I suppose the same can be said for those who stare too closely into an old book ignoring the vast world around them.
If God is a living God then He certainly won't be confined to a book and He certainly isn't just an explanation for the gaps in science as we figure it out in the meantime.
Maybe those who came before us had it right the whole time.
It's as if we pour millions into research just to find that psychologically it is good to grow up with a mom and a dad. It is good to live in community. It is good to talk face to face. It is good to eat food that grows on it's own out of the ground. It isn't stuff that makes us happy. It is good to work hard, or "exercise" for our bodies.
It's as if we slap ourselves on the back for being so damn smart when we come up with a diet after years and years of research and millions of dollars. We call it the "paleo diet" named after our ancestors who were living that way without needing all the research and findings. The very same ancestors we mock and scoff at for their "primitive" way of life as we now strive to live exactly like them.
We pour our money into personal trainers who have gone to school and studied the body and found that it is good to get your heart rate up, it is good to get moving. So we spend money exercising doing things like lifting heavy things, running in a circle, swinging weights. All of these things imitating the very natural make up of living the lives of our "primitive" ancestors.
We invent these fake forms of light and suck the planet dry in order to keep them lit only to find after years of research and money that natural light is good for us. That psychologically the more sun light a place has the happier the people and the less sun a place has the higher the suicide rate. We create imitation plants out of plastic to stick inside buildings with florescent lights not realizing we are imitating what our "primitive" ancestors use to experience naturally. We are finding it is good to get lots of sleep almost as if when the sun goes down it is telling us to rest. But we fight against it, we burn the coal to light the bulb, to earn the money to pay for the food which naturally grows from the ground, or the gym membership which keeps us in shape since we aren't working the land, or the bottles of water which falls from the sky.
They can keep their science, they can keep their research. We don't need charts and graphs to know how to live. We don't need rating systems, awards, competitions to tell us what we like. Our brothers and sisters who walked before us lived free. How does all of the rest of the world know how to exist without research? How do the birds who fly south know when and how to do that? Did they learn in history class? What research does the bear look at prior to learning how to hibernate? Can the trees with their limbs turn the pages of instructional books about photosynthesis and changing leaf color in the autumn?
Science can't tell me why I love.
Science can't measure a sunrise.
Science can't explain a symphony.
If we are all just cells and carbon trying to survive why do some pursue passion over financial stability? Why do some take a vow of celibacy? Why do animals cry out in pain? We are more than ones and zeros.
Science can explain how we breath but it can't touch why.
I trust you Jesus
free her heart
heal Bea
heal me
