Monday, September 14, 2009
{ 7:40 PM }
this email is from my mum.. i guess she want to relate something to me...
i'm thinking
like the professor, but things arent always as i think. there may be other explanation to something... being inside the problem, you tend not to see what you're really saying/doing.. you are
clouded in your mind and cant see the truth in another light.. I seriously need to believe in god and in faith... i'm too sure about what i think and reason out is always correct and things will never change or take a turn... it'll need to changeif you have time, read the following email.. =)
Professor : TEALStudent : RED> > The professor stops pacing. 'Science says you have five
> > senses you use to
> > identify and observe the world around you.
Have you ever
> > seen Jesus?'> >
> >
'No sir. I've never seen Him'
> >
> > 'Then tell us if you've
ever heard your Jesus?'
> >
> >
'No, sir, I have not.'
> >
> > 'Have you ever actually
felt your Jesus, tasted your
> > Jesus or smelled your
> > Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus
> > Christ, or God for
> > that matter?'
> >
> >
'No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't.'
> >
> >
'Yet you still believe in him?'
> >
> >
'Yes.'
> >
> > 'According to the rules of empirical, testable,
> > demonstrable protocol,
> >
science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to
> > that, son?'
> >
> > 'Nothing,' the student replies.
'I only have my
> > faith.'
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> > 'What about darkness, professor.
Is there such a thing
> > as darkness?'> >
> >
'Yes,' the professor replies without hesitation.
> > 'What is night if it isn't
> > darkness?'
> >
> >
'You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not
> > something; it is the absence of
> > something. You can have low light, normal light, bright
> > light, flashing
> > light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing
> > and it's called
> > darkness, isn't it? That's the meaning we use to
> > define the word. In
> > reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able
> > to make darkness
> > darker, wouldn't you?'
> >
> > The
professor begins to smile at the student in front of
> > him. This will be a
> > good semester. 'So what point are you making, young
> > man?'
> >
> > 'Yes, professor. My point is,
your philosophical
> > premise is flawed to start
> > with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed.'> >
> > The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this
> > time.
'Flawed? Can you
> > explain how?'>>> > 'You are working on the premise of duality,' the
> > student explains. 'You
> > argue that there is life and then there's death; a good
> > God and a bad God.
> >
You are viewing the concept of God as something finite,
> > something we can
> > measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It
> > uses electricity and
> > magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood
> > either one. To
> > view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the
> > fact that death
> > cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the
> > opposite of life, just
> > the absence of it.'
> >
> > 'Now tell me,
professor. Do you teach your students
> > that they evolved from a
> > monkey?'
> > 'If you are referring to the natural evolutionary
> > process,
young man, yes,
> > of course I do'
> >
'Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes,
> > sir?'
> >
> > The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as
> > he realizes where
> > the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.
> >
> > 'Since no one has ever observed the process of
> > evolution at work and cannot
> > even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are
> > you not teaching
> > *your opinion*, sir?
Are you now not a scientist, but a
> > preacher?'
> >
> > The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until
> > the commotion has
> > subsided.
> >
> > 'To continue the point you were making earlier to the
> > other student, let me
> > give you an example of what I mean.'
> >
> > The student looks around the room. 'Is there anyone in
> > the class who has
> > ever seen the professor's brain?' The class breaks
> > out into laughter.
> >
> > 'Is there anyone here who has ever *heard* the
> > professor's brain, *felt* the
> > professor's brain, *touched or smelled* the
> > professor's brain? No one
> > appears to have done so. So, according to the established
> > rules of
> > empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that
> > you have no
> > brain, with all due respect, sir. So if science says you
> > have no brain,
> > how can we trust your lectures, sir?'
> >
> > Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the
> > student, his face
> > unreadable.
> >
> > Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers.
> > 'I guess you'll
> > have to take them on faith.'
> >
> >
'Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact,
> > faith exists with life,'> > the student continues. 'Now, sir, is there such a thing
> > as evil?'
> >
> > Now uncertain, the professor responds, 'Of course,
> > there is. We see it
> > everyday. It is in the daily example of man's
> > inhumanity to man. It is in
> > the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the
> > world. These
> > manifestations are nothing else but evil.'
> >
> > To this the student replied, 'Evil does not exist sir,
> > or at least it does
> > not exist unto itself. Evil is simply *the absence of God*.
> > It is just like
> > darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe
> > the absence of
> > God.
> >
> > God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens
> > when man does
> > not have God's love present in his heart. It's like
> > the cold that comes when
> > there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is
> > no light.'
