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minigolf with moses and mandi at sentosa was good fun. we did some messed up course with ridiculous slopes and obstacles. some of them were un-conquerable and if not for the limit of 15 strokes we gave ourselves, we'd probably still be there hahas. 18 holes later, it was back to the train station to grab a drink at the 7-eleven. unfortunately, moses the man got ever so slightly tipsy after a huge 500ml of TigerBeer. yep, all 5% of its alcoholic content :) haha
headed back to mandi's area for a hearty botak lunch and andrea got her broom and wallet from moses, and me and mandi. happy belated! pictionary and mandi's place was preceeded by warped conversations between moses and andrea with regards to push-pops, sucking licking and the like of which you dear reader are only too able to imagine. haha
word checks on urban dictionary was pretty good too. educated now aren't we? searches included golden shower, chocolate starfish, bagpipe, cream puff and pie, and pearl necklace. go have fun searching them yourself if u want!
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.They talked about so many things and various subjects.When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists.""Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children?If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.
The customer turned back and entered the barber shop againand he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist.""How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber."I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist becauseif they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."
"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me.""Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
i got this in an email from my grandmother. and i think its a nice story. but, i dont agree with it. i find it hard to believe that out of the many thousands upon thousands of people who've passed away in various accidents and natural disasters, none of them turned to god and look to him for help. there must have been many who were fervent and practising belivers of their respective faiths, who still unfrotunately died in whichever tragedy. and its a point which many people choose to bring up in attempts to sway someone from their faith. god saves doesn't he? well what was he doing while they suffocated, drowned or burnt to death? he obviously doesn't exist.
you can argue it in many ways, to prove and show that god just doesn't exist nad that he's not real. for example, mandi once asked me whether it was possible for god, to create a stone he couldn't lift. a paradox of omnipotency that's pretty convincing as proof that god cant be omnipotent, and hence he cant be god and so he wouldn't exist. rest assured mandi remains as faithful as she ever was. so yes, there're many strong arguments against the idea of a god.
but to me, i don't think its that important that i know for a fact that there is this god that i pray to and whom i believe can somehow sometimes affect my life by some degree. If at the end of my life, my supernatural self discovers that there really is no god, i wouldn't feel cheated or disappointed just because i lived my whole life believing that there was a god helping me in some way. or that i based some of my morals or decisions in life on my faith. because in the end, my belief- founded or unfounded, helped me lead a better life for myself and i would have been better off with that possibly false notion of a god as well. whats to feel cheated about?
i heard recently about a friend who actually stopped going to church because he was convinced that there is no god. which is sad because no matter how capable you think you are, we are as humans inherently flawed. hence there will be many times when we need to reach out beyond ourselves in order to accomplish something, and for some, this would be when the notion of a mightier being than us comes in useful, as a means of motivating ourselves. and so for my dear friend who lost track of the meaning of the word belief, it will be in these times that he may be caught and perhaps slightly helpless.
God bless you my friend.
headed back to mandi's area for a hearty botak lunch and andrea got her broom and wallet from moses, and me and mandi. happy belated! pictionary and mandi's place was preceeded by warped conversations between moses and andrea with regards to push-pops, sucking licking and the like of which you dear reader are only too able to imagine. haha
word checks on urban dictionary was pretty good too. educated now aren't we? searches included golden shower, chocolate starfish, bagpipe, cream puff and pie, and pearl necklace. go have fun searching them yourself if u want!
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.They talked about so many things and various subjects.When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists.""Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children?If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.
The customer turned back and entered the barber shop againand he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist.""How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber."I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist becauseif they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."
"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me.""Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
i got this in an email from my grandmother. and i think its a nice story. but, i dont agree with it. i find it hard to believe that out of the many thousands upon thousands of people who've passed away in various accidents and natural disasters, none of them turned to god and look to him for help. there must have been many who were fervent and practising belivers of their respective faiths, who still unfrotunately died in whichever tragedy. and its a point which many people choose to bring up in attempts to sway someone from their faith. god saves doesn't he? well what was he doing while they suffocated, drowned or burnt to death? he obviously doesn't exist.
you can argue it in many ways, to prove and show that god just doesn't exist nad that he's not real. for example, mandi once asked me whether it was possible for god, to create a stone he couldn't lift. a paradox of omnipotency that's pretty convincing as proof that god cant be omnipotent, and hence he cant be god and so he wouldn't exist. rest assured mandi remains as faithful as she ever was. so yes, there're many strong arguments against the idea of a god.
but to me, i don't think its that important that i know for a fact that there is this god that i pray to and whom i believe can somehow sometimes affect my life by some degree. If at the end of my life, my supernatural self discovers that there really is no god, i wouldn't feel cheated or disappointed just because i lived my whole life believing that there was a god helping me in some way. or that i based some of my morals or decisions in life on my faith. because in the end, my belief- founded or unfounded, helped me lead a better life for myself and i would have been better off with that possibly false notion of a god as well. whats to feel cheated about?
i heard recently about a friend who actually stopped going to church because he was convinced that there is no god. which is sad because no matter how capable you think you are, we are as humans inherently flawed. hence there will be many times when we need to reach out beyond ourselves in order to accomplish something, and for some, this would be when the notion of a mightier being than us comes in useful, as a means of motivating ourselves. and so for my dear friend who lost track of the meaning of the word belief, it will be in these times that he may be caught and perhaps slightly helpless.
God bless you my friend.
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