I don't believe in a G-d that's micromanaging every detail of our lives
I don't either Hil, despite the fact that my faith is pretty (both testament) scripture-based. I believe God is sovereign, and could choose to micromanage, but doesn't--that created natural law to handle the details. I guess I think He doesn't because He seems to be a stickler for free will.
I can imagine in myself the comfort it could be if I decided to go that route, the strength that it can bring.
This is something that usually escapes me. I know it is a common conception about the religious, held by both many religious and non-religious people. It gives me comfort only as pertains to those things that are way beyond my ken (eternity--I can't even conceive of it). But in a present day-to-day, mundane sense, my faith is disquieting, not comforting.
eta... It's because such big things are so beyond my ken, that I don't really require much comfort about them, in the first place. That big way-past-us future doesn't trouble me, because I can barely graspe the world around me, never mind the huge stuff.
Cindy, s'funny. I read your posts about having to drive everyone hither and yon and wonder how you do it.
I'm accomplishing things today at a reasonable pace. I learned a new thing about the work I'm doing, and I made my client very happy with the thing I turned the "all wrong" work I did into.
Was that a sentence?
Yup, Deena. You get a pass on grammar for today. It made sense to me. Some days that's all you can ask for.
Hi Deena, I actually finished Baldur's Gate 2.
Talked to HR again. The peson who's in today doesn't have the authority to make an exception for me, so she's going to try and get ahold of the person who does, who is taking a personal day and may not be reachable. (And may not want to make an exception in any case.)
In order to extend our COBRA, we have to fax them a letter today, because the cutoff date is the 19th, and so if they don't stop our "cancel coverage" order from a couple of weeks ago today, it'll be too late.
So to sum up, it is a clusterfuck of massive proportions, and I am ready to scream.
Glad the "all wrong" thing worked out, Deena.
I don't know if I can be coherent about what I believe. I tend to equate god with the underlying physical truths of the universe, and I'm quite sure that any god worth believing in is not gonna miffed at me for believing the wrong thing. So it kinda doesn't matter. But I can't accept the notion that we're only alive for this short period of time and then we just disappear. That seems like such a waste.
(eta: Arrgh on Jessica's behalf. What a mess!)
Hec, dude. That sounds like a great book, and yes, so much in line with what I said. Coover. Baseball. Must remember.
I'm quite sure that any god worth believing in is not gonna miffed at me for believing the wrong thing. So it kinda doesn't matter. But I can't accept the notion that we're only alive for this short period of time and then we just disappear. That seems like such a waste.
-t is me in this regard. Except that as a legacy from my more fundamentalist past, there's a little part of me that
does
worry that God will get miffed at me for believing the wrong things.
Slowly turning from atheism, here. Not sure to what.
