Realigning my perceptions, God again
“Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing were growing many flowers and many weeds. One explorer says, “Some gardener must tend this plot.” The other disagrees, “There is no gardener.” So, they pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener…. So they set up a barbed wire fence. They electrify it. They patrol it with bloodhounds…. But no shrieks even suggest that some intruder has received a shock. No movements of the wire ever betray an invisible climber. The bloodhounds never give cry. Yet still the Believer is not convinced. “But there is a gardener, invisible, intangible, insensible to electric shocks, a gardener who has no scent and makes no sound, a gardener who comes secretly to look after the garden which he loves.” At last the Skeptic despairs, “But what remains of your original assertion? Just how does what you call an invisible, intangible, eternally elusive gardener differ from an imaginary gardener or even no gardener at all?”" - Anthony Flew
OK. I’ve had enough. You win, alright? I don’t care anymore. Yes, yes, I know, it’s my own fault. I’m the one who brought it up. I hope you all learned something from this, because I sure did. When you raise the issue, you have to be ready to tread a long, hard and lonely philosophical road, something I’m not a) qualified to do, or b) willing to do. Maybe if someone contacts me and offers me a hefty scholarship to write a thesis on the subject, then I’ll dive back in, but until then, the subject is now off limits. I know you all warned me about it, and I appreciate your patience in the face of my neurotic rantings, but I hope you can understand that I had to reach this conclusion on my own. Good? GOOD.
*push out the jiiiiive… bring in the loooooove…*
By the by, it’s still open day on religion. You can’t take that away from me. (*snicker*) But the “G” word, henceforth a completely separate concept, is strictly verboten. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have motherfucking homework to do. Yes, I still go to university, apparently.
