[Midheaven] Hmm… It seems like I wasn’t really on hiatus. I just… didn’t blog. Forget about the past couple of days, I was probably just going through a “phase.” *sigh. Everything was starting to seem so mundane… I was just trying to get back on track. The people around me have been driving me insane and I’m going nucking futs! So… I decided to blog. 
[Life] I’ve been reading Sophie’s World (by Jostein Gaarder) and it’s making me wish I was studying Philosophy instead of Psychology. Notice the subject of this entry? …a precarious balance between the forces of good and evil… I’ve always been fascinated with mythology (especially Norse/Norwegian) and I just read the section of the novel about the religious/mythological explanations that people formulated as an attempt to explain why everything works the way they do and… well, it made me think. Why did people ‘create’ gods in the first place? I think human beings cannot find internal and external harmony until they’ve found a reason for everything. We have an inherent need to seek answers even when we can’t make heads or tails of the questions we come up with. Like… Which came first: the chicken or the egg? Based on what I learned from the Bible, I’d say it was the chicken. When God created the world, he ‘conjured’ up adult animals, able to mate and reproduce. For what purpose? To populate the land of course! And maybe it was also a matter of practicality. What if the egg cracked (READ: cracked not hatched)? Since he created a full-grown chicken, he could ensure that all body parts were intact and bodily functions were normal …Back to the ‘forces of good and evil’ – good always triumphs in the end. Why is this so? It’s all a matter of maintaining a state of balance between all things. For you to realize that there is good in the world, evil must exist! But even that can be refuted. Others may argue that evil is just the absence of good. But if the basis of existence is presence and absence, how do you explain the presence of a word pertaining to an ‘absent’ thing? (In this case, evil?) It contradicts the former idea. The mere fact that there’s a word for it is proof that it exists. It all comes back to… explanation. But if for every time we attempt to explain something, we end up going around in circles, why the heck do we even try? Isn’t it all just a waste of time? Why were we given the ability to think? Hmm… maybe it’s just to drive ourselves – and everyone else around us – crazy?! But I’ve digressed enough. My point/conclusion: Religion may just be an attempt to explain life; a product of human notions.
[Q&A]
Kathy: what’s magicwand??? in one of your neopet tutorials
Oh, I don’t have tutorials in this site but you can neomail me about Neopets-related stuff. My Neopets username is anoneh.
Raph: Feel better soon!! (See the double exclamation marks?)
Thanks a lot, hun! I’m feeling much better now… I love ya! xox
[Quote] “It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.” ~Muriel Spark
