Keep It Scottish, Stupid!

Migrant Caravan en Route to US Border After Biden Announces End to Title 42 Restrictions
March 31, 2022

One fundamental aspect of leftists is the insistence that reality is whatever they say it is.  'It doesn't exist if you don't believe in it' is the closest they get to sincere beliefs, although obviously they don't give it any thought.  They must save a lot of money on food because they only get hungry if they believe in hunger.  Don't believe in hunger, everything becomes much easier.

Well maybe hunger is too complicated for them to understand and it's not like they ever have to face it, so what else is there to point to that doesn't exist unless you believe in it?

Guns?  Can't ban something that doesn't exist.  They keep wanting this law to ban fictional objects, how would they enforce that law?  Sending men with guns to arrest anybody who doesn't obey.

Gasoline?  If you don't believe in oil, there's nothing to put in cars that would kill the earth, problem solved.

Gravity?  They could just go up to the roof, announce to the world that they don't believe in gravity and start walking.  What's the worst that could happen?  It doesn't exist unless you believe in it.

These are all very basic concepts that have been around for a long time and blatantly disprove their insistence that reality is whatever they say it is, but they uniformly ignore all that.  They'll change the world for the better because they say so and we just have to obey at all costs.

Obedience is the only part of this they stand by.  This would explain why they go along with pretending there are other genders and imposing that on everyone else.  You'd expect them to be the first ones to say 'if you don't believe in any gender other than male/female, they don't exist.'  But no, reality is whatever they say it is, no one else gets a say.

That's what we need to fight, reality is reality, A is A, whether they like it or not.

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The most obvious objection to this is belief in God.  A three year-old could think of the basic question 'why doesn't God show Himself?'  It's the easiest excuse for disbelief.  Faith just isn't enough.

For me it was a very easy decision.  Either there is a God or there is no God.  If there is no God, it doesn't matter whether or not you belief.  Personally I think there's a convincing argument that belief in God works better whether or not God exists but again, there's no genuine proof for that.  But if there is a God, then belief in God works better than not believing in God.

That was pretty simple.  Belief in God works better than disbelief and if there really is a God, He'd prefer it that way too.  I don't remember specifically when I came up with this idea - I remember the circumstances but not the year - and it's probably not remotely original.  We've all been thinking about God all our lives regardless of what we believe, I can't be the first one who came up with this.

This is a very simplistic description but as humans, we prefer it that way whenever possible.  I definitely think that on God's level, the individual matters.  If Heaven and Hell actually exist, I'd bet a lot of atheists have woken up in the former and a lot of believers have woken up in the latter.  God is the one who judges us.

If nothing else, look at all the people who died with literally no way of knowing God existed, the thousands of years humanity existed without knowing about Him.  Not to mention infant deaths.  God created them, then killed them before they even became conscious, but since they didn't believe they'll be in Hell for eternity, sucks to be them.

I give very little thought to whether Heaven/Hell exist and even less thought to things like reincarnation.  That's just above my pay-grade, we'll find out when we get there.  I go back and forth on what results I'd like to see but it's essentially just killing time until we see for ourselves.

Meanwhile we've got to get through every day on Earth and I really can't conceive of any reason why God never gives us a literal example.  Joe Biden is giving a speech and suddenly turns to dust, on camera.  A note is left behind saying "Don't do that again, or else" and signed "Love, God."

That's totally within God's capabilities, right?  It would sure dispel any doubts about Him and it would be fun to watch.  So why have we gone through all these centuries and have nothing more than faith?

Well, we also have organized religion.  I'm sure religion has its benefits and probably many more benefits than drawbacks but I am just not a fan of it.  I think it's just too collective, too focused on the group.  That requires organization, rank structure and leaves every individual with the opportunity for power and corruption, exactly what we're supposed to avoid.  God can function in that environment, but so can His adversary.

I definitely come from the side that supports the individual.  We're all here for something but only God knows what that is.  That's fine.  But individually or collectively, what are we supposed to do about it that doesn't create still more problems in a world of misery and disaster?  We really need the help and there's only One who can bring it.  The alternative is eternal despair.  Why else are we here?

As always, there's no answer.  Just more reasons to get depressed each day.  The last few years haven't dented my faith, it's just made me a lot more willing to get this over with, for me if not for everybody else.

Is there any more than that?  I hope so but who knows?