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Loving on Delusion I

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

My friend recently wondered why I would think it’s impossible to [truly] like someone on first encounter. She explained to me that sometimes you’d see that guy and be like, “wow, he’s cute, I like him”. Or, for the guy, he sees that girl and likes her. I understood her point(s) and as I mentioned yesterday, this form of liking is often delusional.

Richard Dawkins made an interesting analogy explaining delusion, he explained: if a person wants to play basketball like Michael Jordan, they could from a young age start training real hard, these person is being realistic, s/he might one day play like or better Michael Jordan. On the other hand, if a person decides that wearing the same pair of sneakers that Jordan wears will make them a basketball superstar, the person is being delusional. And as I see it, this is how many of us get to like people.

We see that person we think we like and start getting to know them, sooner or later we figure, we never really like them after all; we where just lusting in the first place. We might not want to believe it but truly liking someone takes moments of ups and downs, and of discovering, and of let down and putting ups–these all take time, time many of us would care less to spend.

Maybe we should blame the fast society [culture] we are in. We want fast food, high speed internet, 3G (4G) network, sleek and fast phones, video chats–we want everything right now! And this has trained us to think, we can either like that person now or never.

Or maybe we can blame the media. They tell us how imperfect we are, or how our perfect partner should be; they ‘recommend’ solutions to fix us and he dutifully fall into the trap and set delusional mental blocks.

Maybe it is our peers, family or friends. That close friend has a guy, or a girl; they pressure us into thinking we need one too and we dutifully yield to conformity, thinking every one we come across is a  potential ‘partner’.


My week on twitter (2009-12-27)

Sunday, December 27th, 2009
  • Loving Buddhism, really… #
  • @home and restful #
  • @work…IM, text, or FB #
  • and of course, it's late christmas….chking out how the rest of the night goes…. #
  • @work, yea I know, it's xmas day, gotta what I've gotta do though….IM or text… #
  • really digging Eastern Philosophy, carefully studying [Soto] Zen Buddhism for now…#fb #

My week on twitter (2009-12-20)

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

My week on twitter (2009-12-20)

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

My week on twitter (2009-12-13)

Sunday, December 13th, 2009
  • ..and then they said, "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. And when we opened them, y, they now had the land and we had the Bible. #
  • reading the best "Music Theory" book ever; oohh…I've searched for a book like this in forever…#fb #
  • : the more I know about music, the more I'm mystified…bring on the upright Bass, timbales, bongos, congas,…vamos a hacer buena música .. #

My week on twitter (2009-12-06)

Sunday, December 6th, 2009
  • glad there's the music that makes the smile stay on the faces…. #
  • re-thinking College, and I frankly share my thoughts on my Arm Chair >>http://bit.ly/6GDwt4 #
  • can anyone kindly give me inputs on my resume.>> http://www.bit.ly/dele_resume ?? all comments welcomed #
  • back fully on tweet, tweet….. #
  • @MMFlint nice…c you there in reply to MMFlint #

My week on twitter (2009-11-29)

Sunday, November 29th, 2009
  • "greedy people competing, makes the world go round"….I love Paul Krugman #fb #
  • too busy to tweet late, or maybe its just having more important things going on, twink, twink. #

My week on twitter (2009-11-29)

Sunday, November 29th, 2009
  • "greedy people competing, makes the world go round"….I love Paul Krugman #fb #
  • too busy to tweet late, or maybe its just having more important things going on, twink, twink. #

Hallucinating God

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

From my long lost archive (an evolution of my thoughts about God from years back):
Most time while taking my long drive commute from either home to work, home to school, or school to work, I use the valuable time to compose thoughts (most of which result in some blog post) or maybe solve some mental problems while listening to mostly smooth jazz or classy a-cappella (The Singing Penguins is my favorite) from my car stereo. Not like you care –
I have a longing that that wasn’t the end of my observation on people’s relation to God, or better to say- religion. After a careful thought and regurgitation of thoughts, I came up with yet another random thought.

I remember asking a colleague what her view on religion was, she said she is agnostics; they are not sure if the existence of God is true of false. They believe that either could be true and live their lives in accordance with no full dedication to either extreme of believe. Meaning neither the existence of God or non-existence is soluble.

In recognition of agnostics, I figured that it’s more appropriate to now center talk on agnosticism, atheism, and theism. Agnostics really don’t have much case to stand for or oppose so I wouldn’t bother thriving on them either, atheist believe that the existence of God is only an illusion created by the mind (and I will add, and societal values) but in reality, God doesn’t exist. Theists believe that God exist and His existence is a matter of faith in the mind of the believer, it’s not provable by physical means (science included).

While this might not be the clear-cut generalization of people’s beliefs, this kind of generalization is safe enough.

On the Theist God

The God of the God believer is omnipotent (can do all), omniscience (knows all), and omnipresent (everywhere). Considering that this cannot be proved, I will face the all-in-all of the God on the bases on which it stands. As common of all theist, some kind of God created the universe and all therein, we governs and watch over us, he expects us to be obedient to him, and lucky enough, if you’re a Christian, he will reward you with heaven if you do what he likes and wants you to do; otherwise, you will be severely punished.

Does it need any scientific solution to recognize this regression? If God could be so careful and intelligent to design this would and all that is therein, to have it carefully planned and wants continuous obedience of his subject, why then would he want to have it destroyed. No, someone is losing the scope of my argument. The argument is not that he might not be interested in destroying what he spent so much time on; it is on his all-in-all capability. Since he knows that all will be destroyed in the first place, then why bother creating it and making those that will live in it go through the trouble of trying to serve him considering he already knows those, who will actually come to live with him.

Why does he have to send his ONLY SON to come and die for “us” so that we can come and live with him in heaven? Oh, those this sound like an argument against Christians who believe in God? Well, nearly all religion believes in some God’s creation of this world, right?

Irrespective of anyone’s creative narrative about God designing this world, until it can be explain the creator of God, the creator of God’s creator, the creator of the creator of God’s creator, infinitum, the creation story might seem cooked up.

Like I already explained in my previous post, it’s not that the knowledge of God terribly matters to some, it just seem that the knowledge without it makes you empty – note! Not the knowledge of its existence (as that’s what we’ve been continuously brainwashed with since birth), but the knowledge of the questions of its existence. It’s necessary we start raising our consciousness to some otherwise societal soluble issues.

Some still might question me that, what about the Holy Books? Are you holding doubts in them too? Obviously enough, since the principal character of the holy books actions is under spot light and seems not to be holding ground, the claims about him will likewise hold little ground too.

It will help to note that to some existence, there might be some spirituality that can’t seemingly be explained by science NOW, but it’s not impossible, let’s just give it time.

My week on twitter (2009-11-22)

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
  • no be gentleman…. #
  • …..we are all atheist after all…. #
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