new quote
inspirational March 30th, 2004i was reading lance armstrong’s book from last year, every second counts and ran across a new quote that struck me:
“it’s unequivocally clear that life begins at birth and ends at death, and if most people on this planet understood that they would lead their lives very differently. we find religious or mysterious forces to fill in for our inadequacies, but heaven and hell are both here on earth every day, and we make our lives around them.” — j. craig ventner
it really speaks to a lot of the things i have always felt about the world and how people live in it. so many people are looking for a miracle or a signal from a higher power. stop looking for what isn’t there and instead make it happen for yourself. abrasive yes, but as honest as it gets.
May 26th, 2004 at 3:35 am
Once in a while I come to your site. I think the reason is because I believe you’re not true. While at work you are intelligent, know your technical sh*t, and for some reason like to make sure people know that; I find that you are not as correct about things you honestly don’t know.
While I get the gist of your point above concerning this quote, I wonder how you know that “what isn’t there”? How do you know this? You surely don’t know it with the certainty of ITS because I don’t think there exist any logs (unless were talking about sacred texts) to provide warrant to your belief in the non-existence of the “what”. It seems like you are pushing a beleif here based on…faith??
May 26th, 2004 at 7:14 am
i don’t quite follow your statement that i’m not “true”. but ignoring that for a second i’ll address your later comment. first of all i don’t understand how you can attack one of my statements concerning a quote while at the same time not see the holes in your own argument. you ask me for logs of information to warrant my belief, where are yours? there are two sides to everything and you have as much information to back up your statement/belief as i do. what’s more likely, a higher power who is all seeing, all doing, all knowing, all powerful, and who’s disciples wrote about him in a book that’s been reinterpreted through the decades? is that more likely or is it more likely that this religious front that the churches use is all made up? i wonder how people waste their lives believing “what is there” as you would say when they are in fact trusting man’s interpretation of a “story”, and a good story at that. but in the end, it’s just a good fictional story with information that people can live by. finally, one thing i’m not sure if your clear about or not, but this is a blog that documents things that interest me. it is far from my physical manifestation of my belief structure or knowledge, it is my interest set to electronic paper. like all humans my interests change with time, this is my log of those changes in my own words. to say that i am “not correct about things i don’t know” makes no sense at all in this context. this is my representation and interpretations of things as i see them. i’m sorry i’m not a goody goody religious follower who spouts the gospel according to a novel. i present my personal interests as i see them. developing an understanding during ones life is what makes people unique. if you don’t like my interpretations then don’t come back and read, but don’t attack my interpretation just because you don’t agree with it. you have no foundation or understanding of me beyond your 6-8 hours at work.
May 27th, 2004 at 12:47 am
I’m not sure what all that was about? You do a lot of assuming here…which is different than how I know you at work. All I really asked is How do you know that “what isn’t there”? You never did answer that. Instead, it seems, you digressed. Could you provide some warrant to your honest, but abrasive statement of belief? Thanks. I’m interested in the truth, btw. I wonder if you might have it.