25 september 2018
I read the feels on here and wonder how life can be so hard for people. It doesn't seem fair.
I'm a religious fellow. Maybe I'm an odd guy out on ~town, I don't know. I've read more than a bit about the perspective that many have about the futility of religion. To be honest, the "religion" bit- that is to say the organizational part of it- does seem quite ridiculous at times. But, the faith bit, the belief bit, the metaphysical bit; all that has brought me a lot of peace. The "rules" bit seems to really get under people's skin, and yet many of the methods of living that you find scattered in all sorts of faiths really are well conceived, even if you don't agree on their source being divine.
My point is this: life is hard, there is pain and suffering, there are all sorts of pitfalls and snares. You can go through it without a belief in anything that you can't see or prove. You can also explore belief a little and see what you find. You can explore obedience to religion. I see people exploring all kinds of other things, but it seems to me that folks are somewhat reluctant to really explore faith.
Just a few thoughts.
In other news: The LCM's CDC6500 is down, "due to a component failure in the chiller unit." That is a bit sad, but it's quite OK.