Yeah, what he said!

I was catching up on this guy's blog Ryan's Random Thoughts when I encountered several entries of interest. His first one, although brief, basically summarizes how I feel about Michael Moore and has a link to a site that I haven't really read yet, but looks interesting. If you do go there, we should do as Ryan suggested and confirm those claims ourselves. His cherry-picking entry I actually laughed when I read it (cough) C---- (cough) as yeah, they are just damn annoying! But perhaps my lack of skill in those games has something to do with it too.

Hrmmm, we should get a forum or something for the discussions going on right now - but I'd like to confirm one thing. As I understand it, it's the faith in God that comes into play when judgement arrives, no? Someone please correct me on this, but I guess what I was trying to say (perhaps unsucessfully) in my other entry was that we all have a faith that becomes our set of "laws" and "rules" that we obey, basically without thinking. Chris brought up an interesting point (while not camping) that even in science/mathematics, we work under the axiom that 1+1=2. Sure, it works out for us right now, but it's also because we've built a foundation upon which 1+1=2 is the building block. He wrote a brief essay for his philosophy course or something about proving the existence of God and it was pointed out that many proofs for or against start off with the assumption of one or the other, so in essence, it becomes pointless as your proof goes in a circle.

Also, isn't the Tao (Dao) the way of "not doing" or "Wu-wei"? I didn't think it was smack in the middle of 2 sides or something, but essentially a belief that things happen, and to actively make things happen/not happen is to go against the Dao, especially since we cannot determine proper action as the Dao cannot be known. Bah, I'm gonna need to review my Eastern Religion notes...