My son, the Buddhist

Trey: You Only Live A Few Times  
Drew: You mean You Only Live Once  
Trey: Nope, I'm Buddhist.

me at the moment

My emotions are all over the place right now. I can't even sort them out. Happiness, sorrow, excitement, fear, anticipation.. and just.. so much. I am too overwhelmed from so many angles. I am not complaining in the least. I am just scattered more than usual. Soooo if I jump from mood to mood or thought to thought, just hang in there.

Amoral without god?

In my philosophy class we had to answer whether or not belief in god is reasonable. No use of religious texts could be used, this was strictly an opinion piece. I wish I were as eloquent as Lance. He speaks so clearly and so well. I tend to get jumbled up.

Additionally, there was a girl who had the argument that if god was not real then we would have no moral codes because without fear of the creator we would all be amoral. I was floored. I am not amoral. I might not be a saint but I am far from amoral. The thought that we can't control ourselves without fear of burning for eternity made me sad. Has she no faith in people at all? Does she think I will murder people at my own whim because I do not fear the flames? It made me very sad. Being without a belief in god does not make someone without a conscious or a sense of decency. I know beautifully kind atheists and I know very cruel Christians. People are people regardless of which side of the god line they are on. You have good and bad apples on both sides. How very very sad she made me.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. -Naomi Wolf

If you are a thin lady I celebrate you. If you are a curvy lady I celebrate you. If you are an athletic lady I celebrate you. If you are just round all over I celebrate you. Be who YOU are, not who society thinks you should be. You are your own master. Obey yourself, your desires, your dreams. 

Kisses,
DJ

(cross posted across all my blogs/journals)

Connections

Science is something I am a fan of. Honestly though, sometimes I think things are just bigger than science. Connections are. The human connection is grand and I am not sure there is a math formula for that. I believe in connections. I believe in science. Maybe there IS an explanation I just don't know about, but maybe, just maybe, there is no explanation other that famous Tumblr phrase "because reasons".