Zech's Blog

If a person was forced to slightly injure themselves with a blade or a rock, they would of course be reluctant to do so for fear of pain. I don't support the idea that children should be taught to ignore pain but I’m wondering, if a child from birth was raised up with the mindset of “Pain, unless it is permanent is not a bad thing. It is merely the nerves in your skin informing you of a disturbance, and it will not effect you because it will heal and it is only other peoples mind that makes them fear pain.” Would the person that grew up under this principle be less reluctant to cut or scratch themselves if the need came. Would they be less intimidated of people that would possibly harm them? And would they be less afraid of monsters and horror films because of their lessened fear of pain.

Sense people’s emotions effect their bodies physically such as when your in an excited mode, for example: angered, happy, scared, aroused - These will make your heart move faster, will give you energy, and sometimes adrenalin and will most likely clench your muscles. On the other hand if you are bored/discontent, grieved or depressed your body will slow itself down lessening the speed of your blood and relaxing the muscles. So this question is: If someone where to master the infuence of their emotions (even though that’s highly thought of as impossible) and if they could control what they felt, could they bring there body to such a low or high as to eventually cause themselves death?

It says in the bible that God is supposed to be perfect and have tremendous love for us, and he proves it by helping us through hard times and if we go on His path then we our lives will be fullfilled and what not. So i'm wondering why it is that If God is so perfect, loving, and good, that he created the devil to fall and evil to come into the world and for people to go through so much pain and suffering and then a lot eventually go to hell and burn without dying for eternity. Because he is so perfect why wouldn't He want a perfect existance? It was His choice to create pain and evil but the bible says there is no evil in Him. SO I asked this question to a few people and the best answer I think is if there was no such thing as evil then there would be no standard for good or bad so nothing would ever be good. That's a very interesting idea which goes with the conclusion, but my reply to that theory is I'm sure God could create beings to understand evil and not do it just like what will happen in heaven for eternity, because there is no sin there. Anyways the main answer that alot of people including myself in the past have came up with is He gave us evil and pain for obsticals to prove that we love Hiim whole heartedly, but that answer wouldn't make sense because he didn't make us capable of love like that and he knew we would screw up anyways so he made Jesus die for us, so if He wanted us to prove ourselves then He probably would have made us capable of doing so. So my last thought is that, what we think is perfect good and righteous is not perfect at all. God made good and evil so if he's perfect that means that what we consider good is not perfect but the balance of good and evil is what defines His perfection.

The phrase “He/she are in their own little world” I think is actually the truth for everyone. We only define reality when we make the choice to accept information that’s been given to us. Therefore nobody can have the same perception of the world than another. If an infant is shown a bumble bee, he sees a yellow and black mass, that is buzzing in the air. Later on in life he’ll find out that it is called a bumble bee, that it collects pollen, lives in a nest, and may sting you if it feels threatened, even though that isn't all to know about the creature. That knowledge has just changed his reality of the world. The more someone knows the deeper and more involved theirs is. That doesn’t mean it will be a better existence just a more in depth one. The simple minded can be perfectly content with the knowledge they have, and sometimes not knowing things will bring more happiness than being aware of them. If two people where brought up in the same education, the same home, and same relationships, they would of course still have completely different views on things and reality. Every little thing that we process of information will effect how we see things. Like if you see a person get angered by a certain happening, we will observe what they are angered by, and then either agree with them that is negetive or accept it in disagreeance, forming an oppinion. Small things like that alter our lives every day, and everyone is finding new information through different means. I don't know anyone elses mind works accept my own but how do we know what is real or not? and it's incredible to think of how many different types of perceptions of this world there are in the world. again it's not a question just something to think about :]

God has given us so much more than we need to survive. He’s given us things such as emotions, understanding, languages, an literature. All those we don’t need to live but He’s given them anyways. But in this understanding and emotions and languages and literature, it has taken away our contentment and peace of mind. If we where simple minded such as animals we would not be grief stricken, or greedy, or prideful or enraged but God offers peace and contentment and happiness back to us through Him. Some people could counter that statement by saying animals can be greedy, or enraged, some might even say prideful. But I believe that that is wrong and that animals only do what their instincts tell them, to gather things for their own survival even if by taking it from another isn’t greedy it’s just gathering. If a mother animal is ferociously protecting her children its not because she feels anger its because in her instinct of survival she wants to prolong her race. And animals that flare their beauty around of course are not prideful they are either trying to attract a mate or are already just that beautiful. So my question is now: Is our higher understanding a blessing or a curse? Wouldn’t it be easier to live life without pain and pride and sorrow, and worry? And also does God want or need acceptance from us? Why else would he require us to worship and adore Him, and marvel at him. It says in the Bible he is angered by his people that grew away from Him, But I don’t get why and all powerful, omnipotent, all knowing infinite being would need our acceptance and approval

I was thinking today how strange the though of me not existing before I was born. All my life I've had the undeniable fact in my head that I am alive. It's usually not a thought that I specifically think of, but sense you are thinking of course you have to be living. Then I started thinking about God and how he was never created and how he's just been there for eternity. There has never been a time where he was not existent. So if God is all existant everywhere and every when for eternity wouldn't that mean that our souls have always been alive through him? Even before the earth had began His consciousness (or whatever He has) was in the middle and end of earths time way beyond that. And way before earth began he already had the intention of when to create it and already knew the how many hairs where on the head of everyone who live on it. It says in the bible our souls will never sees to exsist and if God is, was and will always be everywhere in time, so doesn't that mean he's been with us for eternity, so we are eternal beings?