Starting from the ground up...

Recently my sister sent me an article from the NY Times about Scientology. Mainly, it followed one man's journey into and then many years later, out of the church. I won't lie, it scared me. Not because there were claims that the church was committing crimes against humanity, which there were, but because these people for the most part seemed to be happy living what so clearly presented itself to me as a lie. (To clarify, if there are crimes against humanity being committed, that is clearly horrendous but the claims are thus far only from people who have left the church and I don't want any unproven fact to weaken my argument. So for now I am counting this claim as slander and am confident that if it is happening the undergoing FBI investigation spoken of in the article will find the truth of the matter).

I am cocky, or as my best friends put it: I, "overestimate my abilities." Sounds pretty horrible, yet, I feel as if all revolutionaries by necessity also overestimated their abilities. Progress is only obtained by believing something that was never before believed. Therefore, in the interest of progress, I am going to try and prove the Truth. That is, I will try and prove the greatest Truth on Earth, why are we here?

First, I will argue the on the existence or lack there of of a God. From that argument, I will argue why it is we are here. To do so, I will explore many of the most popular religions and unearth their strengths and weaknesses. Hopefully this will lead to an objective outlook on the Truth, which by the time I am done will be clear.

Blogger's note- I know this is a bit heavier material than my blog first assumed but this, I believe, will help me to get a better understanding of myself and the world and should certainly help others to understand me by seeing my passion and my style of thinking. To my Christian friends, I do believe their is a God and that Jesus was His son. However, I am going to try and put that on the line and be as objective about this topic as I possibly can and not just try and make it prove what I want, as that tends to be my biggest problem in writing essays generally. I won't get anywhere if I don't find it within myself to really respect others' viewpoints and to truly question my own. It is only because I have a strong sense of faith that I am letting go the fear of questioning and believing that I will be caught up by God's Truth again by the end. This topic will be structured loosely in essay form and stretched out over several blogs I imagine. I hope you like it!

The Three S's

It is said that in college, there are three S's: studying, sleeping, and a social life. You can only ever have two of the three. In my case, one of the three is usually all I can expect. Tonight/this morning, I am choosing to try and have a social life for a minute. For those of you who don't know me, I am sorry, for that is most assuredly my fault for being a wuss and not wanting to leave my comfort zone of my very limited circle of friends (friend). I am limited at this point in my life needing to do well in my studies, but I don't want to hide behind that excuse. My position has always been that if something is important to you, you make time for it. From now on I will be making time for the people in my life who don't know me and I respectively don't know. I may not have a lot of "social life" time, but I will try to learn and share what I can with it. For now, I am writing this blog since I have so very little otherwise to offer. And also, I'm jumping on the bandwagon!

Here, I will write about my life and my passions. Just like my mind and my personality, you can probably expect this blog to be all over the place. Hopefully you'll enjoy it.