divine intervention
Jan. 11th, 2005 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormant_dragonThe tsunami disaster seems to have ignited a lively debate in the newspaper letters pages about the existence or otherwise of god.
There's a fairly clear division between two camps at the moment - those who think that if there was a god, he/she or it* would not allow such things to happen and those who believe that god has a plan for the human race. The latter tend to think that humans have a good deal of cheek in ignoring god during the good times and blaming him for the bad times.
I still think what I felt the last time I posted something of a spiritual bent - I like the idea of God the Scientist, the universe his experiment, and the earth only one of perhaps countless petrie dishes. Perhaps somewhere out there is a planet with such a benevolent environment that things such as earthquakes and tsunami never happen. It is possible to conjecture that god has placed intelligent beings in such a world, to see how they respond.
I wonder how his research papers are coming along?
*I have reverted to the masculine personal pronoun for the sake of convenience - after all, God is a boy's name...
There's a fairly clear division between two camps at the moment - those who think that if there was a god, he/she or it* would not allow such things to happen and those who believe that god has a plan for the human race. The latter tend to think that humans have a good deal of cheek in ignoring god during the good times and blaming him for the bad times.
I still think what I felt the last time I posted something of a spiritual bent - I like the idea of God the Scientist, the universe his experiment, and the earth only one of perhaps countless petrie dishes. Perhaps somewhere out there is a planet with such a benevolent environment that things such as earthquakes and tsunami never happen. It is possible to conjecture that god has placed intelligent beings in such a world, to see how they respond.
I wonder how his research papers are coming along?
*I have reverted to the masculine personal pronoun for the sake of convenience - after all, God is a boy's name...
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Date: 2005-01-11 11:15 pm (UTC)I believe that humans grow most during and after times of hardship. I would not be the person I am today without all the bad things that have happened in my life, and I would not trade away any of them. I know some people who have had really really easy lives and they can end up spoiled and selfish.
Look at the growth in technology after a war (maybe less so these days). Without hardship people grow complacent. If you are happy with your lot why try to change and improve? I know that if I was never challenged I would be bored. ^^