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Thursday. 3.14.13 4:06 pm
So I've been messaging one of the females (girl? woman? She refuses to tell me her age) from that facebook scuffle last week. She isn't the friendliest person I've met, but we've had a pretty neat conversation about belief and the existence of God. It was sort of weird: I basically messaged her and said, "Hey, you want to talk about it?" And for some reason she's put up with me, even though she's pretty brusque about it. Right now we're talking about whether God would be able to interact with the universe (or "magic" as she refers to it). She agrees there COULD be a god (though only on the technicality of proof) but seems completely put off by the idea of that god being able to do anything else. I think that's an odd constraint to make. What do you guys think? IF there was a god that created the universe (not necessarily the God of the bible, mind you,) would you expect for it to interact with the universe or not? Why do you think that? As of yet I haven't been able to get a "why" out of her. You gave me such good answers last time, and it may be that I'm just misunderstanding her.

Paradigms are very interesting. Your paradigm affects your entire point of view in the world. Sometimes it's more subtle than others, but I think most people don't notice. She and I will never understand each other if we start off by making different assumptions. It always comes back to your most basic assumption. What is it? That the world exists? That you exist? I think in those two cases we can't help but make those assumptions, since the other options don't give us much to work with. But it's always fun to think about where the others come from, and how they affect my actions subconsciously.

Spring break is coming up soon. I think I'm just going to stay here in ATL and chill with friends. Maybe take a short trip down to the church in Auburn and say hey. I wish more was going on.



I've been listening to more music like this the past couple of days. Copeland, Paper Route, Walk the Moon. It's nice.

The St. Baldrick's shaving party is today. You can still donate, if you like! I'd definitely appreciate it, and it goes to a great cause.

Tonight I will be bald. I'm...sort of anxious? It's pretty weird.

There's a tad more I want to say but I don't recall it at the moment, so I'll get back to this electrodynamics. Later.
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I'm not sure I understand this, so correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you're talking about the limitations of a god in his/her connection to the human aspect of the universe?

Also, the "why" question is the bane of my existence. I think we can name reasons all day and they won't be solid enough for either opinion. That's because we don't have proof--because we CAN'T have proof. I think each of us just has this undeniable pull, inside, one way or the other.
» Unicornasaurus on 2013-03-14 09:31:49

But is that the purpose of you talking to her? To convince her that it's possible? I can see why she might get more and more strongly convinced of her own ideas, if so.
» Unicornasaurus on 2013-03-15 12:03:14

I think there's a difference between being contrary and just drawing a line and standing by it. >:C
» Unicornasaurus on 2013-03-15 12:25:30

re:
hahaha no, they stay quiet, but express satisfaction when I finally come around. Which is equally frustrating.
» Unicornasaurus on 2013-03-18 09:48:29

I haven't ever been bald before, but I cut my hair really short. It's kind of a relief not to have all that hair, even if it does look a little odd. Think about how easy it will be to wash it!

As far as God... well, I believe that God does interact with our lives, however, I can't that I understand how or really want to guess. See, it could be that God takes the existing creation and intervenes at certain intervals OR God created the entire system and it is so cleanly designed that his 'intervention' does not even seem like intervention. I guess, would God need to edit His creation after the fact? I am not sure. However, if you believe in free will, which I believe I do, then God created a creation which is fully editable by its inhabitants which would explain why He would have to edit it from time to time.

RC: Yeah, it's a pretty neat series. I have it all in the one book, so I think I'll read it all.
» jinyu on 2013-03-21 02:29:17

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