saturday's postscript

I'm probably going to offend a lot of people with this post, but I need to say something.

First of all, I'd like to say sorry because I missed jumpstart. But to tell you the truth, I wasn't really in the mood for another conversion session tonight. If anybody wants to know, I'm pretty close to being an atheist. I won't deny that there isn't a higher being, but I see no reason for there to be one.

If there is a higher being, whats to say that there isn't any other being thats even higher? or perhaps one even higher than that? This could just keep going on for ever and ever so theres not really much point. I don't even believe in heaven. To me, its the same as having a 'dog heaven' or 'elephant heaven'. They're just stories and concepts. I don't see how people can say that just because we're human, and we can understand concepts of right and wrong (human invented concepts at that), that we should be judged on these concepts in the afterlife.

On my walk yesterday, I saw two magpies harrasing and chasing a kookaburra, even going so far as to bite its neck. It reminded me of something from one of John Marsden's 'Tomorrow when the war began' series of novels. Nature doesn't understand human concepts. Evil isn't present in a snake because its a snake. In fact, evil wouldn't exist in the world at all if humans didn't actually invent it. Something is evil only because we choose to call it so. We tend to complicate the world because of these concepts, and it doesn't help us with the bigger picture.

So what is the bigger picture? We're bags of water, held together by skin, and kept upright by bone. When we die, we let the water go, and the bag falls apart. Our soul is the interaction of nuerons within the brain and it dies with the body.