As an April Fools joke, the university that I will be attending next year released incredibly bizarre essay prompts for next year's admissions cycle. Although they were not meant to be taken seriously, I decided to write an essay on one of those prompts. Here it is: "To prefer evil to good is not in [...]
Category: God
Dear God, if there is one
Dear God, if there is one, I am in church now, thinking. Sitting in the same pew I sit at everyday of my life, watching the predictable procession of Easter and Christmas services, funerals and weddings: the same old cycle of birth and rebirth. I sat at this pew as a child, when I [...]
Purposes and Reasons
What’s the purpose? Of a beautiful sunny day, Of the golden shine of autumn leaves, Of the calming hush of ocean waves When I sit in the sports stadium And feel the rush of the cheering crowd Is it more than just a room stuffed with particles? Is this energy greater than the sum of [...]
God and the Multiverse
Recently, I found one of my posts, The Impossibility of Human Existence, linked in another blogger’s post called “Unmasking Anti Jehovah Sites and People.” Considering my post was about the theory of parallel universes, my blasphemy was definitely found out by this blogger. Congratulations on finding me. Guilty as charged! But in all seriousness, I [...]