How about diving back into philosophy?  It’s been about half a year since I posted on such a topic, so now seems to be a good time.  Ok so where to start?  I still have difficulty understanding how we really control our own actions.  I sometimes wonder how big of a part religion plays in our lives. For an example, I believe in God, therefore I believe the bible.  Well if I believe the bible, that means I should believe in prayer.  Well don’t get me wrong, I do believe in prayer, but does God already know if that prayer is going to be answered?  Doesn’t he already know the outcome?  For an example, let’s say that I have a pet frog.  Say the frog gets stomped, but he doesn’t die.  Ok, so I am going to pray for my frog.  I pray and ask God to heal my frog.  Did God already know whether or not that prayer was going to be answered?   In other words, did he already know whether or not it would be healed?  I know that we can’t know everything, but isn’t time absolute to God?  Doesn’t he see the beginning and the end of the timeline?  I don’t think that God travels with us through time.  See the human mind can only look at time one way.  We can’t comprehend that God doesn’t time-travel like we do.  And yes I just said we travel through time.  That’s true if you think about it.  We are always in a state of traveling from the past, to the future.  There really is no present if you consider it.  It’s all either past or future.  Well the majority is anyway.  That’s why deism makes sense to me.  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe in it, but I can see why it’s more logical to some people.  I think it makes sense to people without faith.  Seeing isn’t always believing, but I think that a lot of people have to have God write something in the sky for them. 

Ahh yes, this attempt at a philosophical post turned into religion.  Not intentionally, but see that makes sense.  Religion and Philosophy tie in to each other a lot.  Now granted, they also contradict each other.  I believe that philosophy is mans attempt to understand God, or bring God to a level that we can understand.  So do you believe the statement that everything happens for a reason?  Because if that’s so, I’m writing this blog why?  What purpose will it serve?  Could it save someone’s life?  Could it kill someone?  Gandhi has a really good statement on that thought (and I posted on it about a week ago, but it pertains to a different situation this time): 

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. 

Definitely a good point.  That pertains to the Chaos Theory (butterfly effect).  Of course in Gandhi’s time that was probably not to popular of a belief, but who knows Gandhi may have known about it.  That tells you right there that most likely, philosophy, religion, and science all play a huge part in a lot of great minds over the history of the world.