That woman from a few weeks ago who was trying to convert me to christianity, she came back again yesterday and gave me a little pamphlet. no harm in reading it, i thought, so i accepted it. the cover page raised questions such as "why is there war or suffering", "how can i find happiness" etc etc. once i opened it up, all i saw were basically quotations from the bible, followed by "therefore the bible has answered the question". isn't it self-evident that such circular logic is completely unreliable? there is a god because the bible says so; the bible is accurate because a god wrote it is simply not an argument to begin with. im not saying that there isnt any evidence for the existence of a god, and in fact there are quite a few arguments which i find quite persuasive (like how a being capable of reasoning cannot be purely physical unless it was designed by another being capable of at least the same level of reasoning), but no, she decided to get me to believe a source which she has yet to prove to be true. dont they see that this is the exact reason why the invisible pink unicorn and the church of google were created by atheists to mock them?
also, according to the same pamphlet, the woman is a jehovah's witness, which is actually a religion which is not allowed in singapore because they are not allowed to participate in anything involved with the military, including NS. which also means that i will probably get even more visits from her cos i'll have to refuse to anything she says in accordance to the law. zzz irritating...
school starts again tomorrow. final count of homework is about 50-60% done i think. well at least i can say that i finished my homework rounded up, eh? not looking forward to the imminent tongue-lashing from all my new teachers, waking up at 6am and going home at 6pm, new topics being taught, and of course A levels and splitting up with all my classmates and friends afterwards. still, in spite of all that, i still look forward to the little things in life: things like talking cock in the canteen during breaks, the ultimately unproductive mugging sessions that end with everyone eating and chatting, and the everyday jokes from friends and classmates that make you go LOL and WTF at the same time. if 2009 has taught me anything, it's that life is never bad; it only ever becomes good in ways more subtle than before.
i just checked KM and it turned out there was some info posted about H3 a few days ago (damn, have to make it a habit to check KM more often, cos the cat high student portal was near-useless). the lesson schedule has been confirmed, and it will be after school every monday and thursday. i was hoping for tuesdays and thursdays so that it will not affect hockey training, but at least it's only until 5.30pm so i guess i can rush back in time for stickwork (after all, it's only crossing the overhead bridge. i've never been so glad that hwachong is just across the road). feeling quite daunted now that the schedule has been presented to me and i finally see how much commitment this is going to take. hope im not spreading myself too thin over too many things and end up screwing up all over :X
here's an A7X song called Crossroads. it's about a person who tries to decide between christianity and atheism, and ends up choosing neither. quite a nice song :) i really like how the lyrics acknowledge that even though atheists often criticise the church of using fear and force to convert people, many atheists themselves are also guilty of mocking christians over their faith (The left (refers to atheism in the song) isn't better it's just more of the same; Condemning all these people for what they believe). i just thought that it would be a fitting song for this post.
