Watchmaker

Sunday January 1, 2006 - 8:53PM EDT

First question. Who came up with the idea of nuns' and priests' celibacy? That shit is fucked up. If you need any more proof for the wackiness of Christianity than that your crazy.

Read the last few pages of Edison's diary. He briefly went over criticism of humankind's idea of god. Seems he believed in god but heaped criticism on those who believed god is this active being listening to problems and affecting the ways of the world. To him god created the world and just let it be. I'm pretty sure this was the Watchmaker view that was prominent back then. Especially for someone like him. Man of science and whatnot. I remember for some odd reason in my ethics and philosophy classes going over it briefly but the teacher talking about it being dismissed as wrong or obsolete. Not sure why it was dismissed.

When I think about the structure of society sometimes things just don't make sense. Too many things are just taken because of tradition. The idea of afterlife or heaven or hell or whatnot is so utterly damaging to society. Thinking that there is something else out waiting for us after death makes people act crazy. The reasoning that makes the current world scourge of terrorisms' suicide bombers righteous in their minds is the same reasoning that packs many faithful into churches and temples.