Ok, here is a quick barrage of miscellaneous thoughts that I have been pondering over the last couple of days.
Why are we never satisfied with who we are? I was thinking about this after Nicole, my beloved girlfriend, and I were walking in the park last weekend. We saw a group of people sunbathing. She used to be a missionary in India, and she commented that in India everyone seems to esteem lighter colored skin. Here in the U.S., the trendy folks are obsessed with having a tan. I guess what is beautiful to one person may be considered out of style by another.
By the way, who decides what is in style? Are there a bunch of artists and designers in Milan who hold a secret conclave trying to decide what should be in and what should be out? Why is bright orange ever considered trendy? Why do teenage boys now want to have haircuts that a few years ago would have been reserved for hippies, skater dudes and mostly girls? Why would anyone ever want to wear pants so low that their underwear is showing?
Speaking of underwear, why is it spelled "underwear" and not "underware?" One thing that I have noticed in life that is truly evolutionary is language. Words begin as slang. Then they become commonplace. Sometimes words start out as two separate words. Then they become used together so frequently that they get the honor of being hyphenated. Then, we throw out the formalities and eventually bang the two words together into one. Some words die out through natural ion. Some words give life to new words or multiple meanings or endings. Wow, maybe Darwin is right about there being evolution in life? He was just wrong about where it takes place.
While on the subject of bad ideas, why do people thing it defies logic to believe that the entire universe was created by God, but it makes sense that everything spontaneously came from nothing? That is almost like me walking down the street and all of a sudden I see dogs and people pop into existence out of thin air. Everything that has a beginning must come from something. The reason why God doesn't fit into this category is because He has always existed. He has no beginning or end.
Even more destructive than the attack on the existence of God by scientists and teachers is the way that most of society has embraced relativism. The mantra of the masses is do what feels right as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. One big problem is that we frequently don't know how our actions will affect others. What we may think is harmless can be quite destructive to others.
Good and evil have been grayed in the new mindset, especially among those under 30. Tolerance has become defined as accepting everyone else's belief system instead of simply getting along with them. This has relegated man to the position of God even though many people wouldn't be quite so forward as to say so.
Most people would find it strange to discover that the relativistic mindset, the indulge your desires and follow your own moral code way of living is straight out of the playbook of the devil. If you were to read the Satanic Bible, you can find the same type of thinking in its pages. Although the Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor Lavey is just one form of Satanism, it reflects the idea that the devil has been trying to sell mankind since the fall - "You can be your own god."
