It’s definitely time to take a break from the computer geeky blog posts (so much for jaunting into the realm of pessimistic optimism). Sad thing is though: I still can’t find the ability to coalesce all of these wonderful thoughts zipping through my head into any sensible words.
I decided to cheat a little bit. I’m grabbing a blog post that’s somewhat infantile in scope compared to what I’ve been experiencing and thinking about lately, but it’s still relevant. It’s stolen my from OkCupid profile. (If you don’t know what OkCupid is, you most likely don’t want to)
Without further ado:
Agnosticism, Atheism, Neutrality, etc.
Originally posted May 18, 2007 - 10:11pm
By impulsive strike I’ve been bid by myself to write in my OkCupid journal for the first time. My brain is a bit of a mess of random ideas (only a few of those which surface and spread their taint/joy across the world).
So I figured I’d write about the one thing that I’ve been currently thinking about fairly regularly throughout the past few weeks. That would be my beliefs and how they fit into my overall view on life. Ah, the Internet and blogging, what a wonderful environment to spill entertaining drivel…
My major state of mind is something I can define fairly accurately as “Neutral”. But it’s not a neutrality in the sense that every single thought and idea I have is stuck in some gray area, but more that most of them are pushed far toward one absolute and stuck there, and that there are no gray areas. That is to say, that even the gray areas themselves are an absolute in and of themselves (contradictory? sure! but it’s the best way to put the little electric pulses going through my head into aural words)
So, that leads down into religion, beliefs, and faith in general. I used to try and consider myself an Atheist until I realized that Atheism is pretty much the exact same thing I wanted to avoid with Religion when I “denounced” my faith (read: phased out naturally as I started getting some concrete ideas about the humanity and the world). That thing is closed mindedness. Now, granted, most of my friends are Atheists, and save my step father and step brother, I am the only pronounced Agnostic I know…but I’m not trying to rub anyone the wrong way (unless you’re born-again Christian and want nothing more to send me to hell with just mentioning that I don’t believe in God…you suck and I think you should know it!)
I see Atheism as just another form of faith, except that instead of believing in a God and raging against the non believers, an Atheist’s faith lies in that there is no God spiced with some pretty hefty rage against the believers. (this is generalized I know, but work with me here…) Atheists are some of the most open minded people I’ve ever met in my life, but I’ll still say that the majority of them are hypocrites when they’re calling themselves Atheists and open minded in the same breath. Just because you don’t believe in any God doesn’t make your mindset any less monolithic than those of the strongest thumpers out there.
There’s more that I could go into than my attention span would ever allow, so before my train of thought takes a nose dive into the water, I’ll end this here and continue at a later date - preferably earlier in the day before my neurons are all fried and frayed.