It isn't cool to believe in God anymore. It's just not. It wasn't ever really that cool. Honestly I've been made fun of for being Mormon my whole life. So it never surprises me when someone reacts in disgust to my beliefs. That doesn't bother me, it's always happened and it's always going to happen as long as I'm on this Earth. Maybe even after this life considering I believe people are going to have the same personality in the next life as they do here. However there is something that bothers me about the world lately. There is a complete refusal to accept anything that might be based in illogical reasoning. In other words people don't believe in fairies anymore.
Even religious people these days claim they can use reason to explain God. It's impossible but they try because being religious would be much more popular if you could prove there's a God. There's so many things religious people do that are just "because God said so". There's no good reason for gay people not to get married, it doesn't make sense to wait til you're married to have sex, there's no relationship between drinking and smoking and being a bad person. The only logical part of my lifestyle are the parts that agree with general ethics. Like not stealing, not killing, not lying, etc. These rules just make it so society can succeed as a whole. However There's no logical sensible reason behind keeping most of the rest of the commandments , and I don't see anything wrong with that. My favorite part of being religious is that I don't have to have everything figured out. I can just have faith. Faith that there's more after we die, that there's more behind cells than numbers and formulas.
So yeah you're right, I have no good reason to disagree with gay marriage. God said that's not what he wants for society and that's good enough for me. Does it suck for gay people? Of course it does.It also sucks for everyone that cares about gay people including myself. It also sucks God said I can't have tattoos. I'm an artist, i would love to cover myself in art. Are people that have tattoos bad? Nope! Am I going to be sinning if I get a tattoo?Yes. Does that pale in comparison with being expected to not marry who you love. Yes, and I know it does, but it's just an example of what it means to live by a different law. I'm ok with it. I really am. I want to believe in fairies, I want to be illogical when it comes to faith.
I'm ok with it because logic would say, after death there is only oblivion, after suffering there is only silence. Logically the brain stops and that's it. I'm not ok with that. It doesn't matter how much I think through it. I can't say I don't think there's more after this. No matter how much science I learn I still can't say, I don't think there's a God. It's hard to be religious, but I prefer it to thinking that after so many people suffer so much in this world, there's no greater reward for them in the next life. So go ahead burn me at the stake, I'd rather be hated than believe anything else.
Monday, August 3, 2015
Thursday, January 8, 2015
A Sign in Space by Italo Calvino
First of all this chapter requires effort to understand but it's really interesting. https://learningsuite.byu.edu/plugins/Upload/fileDownload.php?fileId=1fa943cc-hltV-xs1K-1H9v-Tw881d6f00f1
Second it's been a really long time since I've posted anything and I'm pretty mad at myself for it because I was doing really well. Sometimes I wish if I was going to fail at something I wouldn't have moments of success at it so that I wouldn't be so let down when I did finally fail.
I am going to discuss the article but since it's been so long I have news items I'd like to put out there.
I am finally in an actual bachelor's program at BYU so I will actually graduate college after all. ( yay! small confetti popper sound) I did not get into illustration or design but I am in the the 2-D studio art program and although it's not exactly what I want to go into, I think a more fine art production education will serve me well. Also Europe and the Carribean were great and I definitely suggest going to either to anyone. Just make it happen, it's worth it.
Ok the chapter...
It's about the creative process and creativity. It discusses these things through the perspective of an unknowm entity in an unknown galaxy type space who learns the ability to create. Just a sign to start with then fancier signs all the while other entities are learning the same ability.
We discussed it in my New Genre class and I didn't get to say what I thought because I rarely talk in class. There was a question posed about whether or not it was discouraging to think of the amount of ideas and talents out there when faced with creating. My opinion was that it was neither discouraging or encouraging but was instead truthful. Either you can be overwhelmed by the competition or you can keep up and keep creating.
The chapter also described hindering other artists by not sharing secrets in order to remain original. My thoughts on this are that is has never been beneficial to be in competition with other artists as similar as they may be. Michelangelo destroyed his Pieta by carving his name into a sash across Mary's chest which he did because the general public assumed the sculpture to be by a competing peer of his. He regretted that action for the rest of his life. Now hundreds of years later people still pray in front of this statue. The lesson learned is that being jealous and worrying about what other artists are doing rather than using their art to grow only sends you backwards in your creativity.
Second it's been a really long time since I've posted anything and I'm pretty mad at myself for it because I was doing really well. Sometimes I wish if I was going to fail at something I wouldn't have moments of success at it so that I wouldn't be so let down when I did finally fail.
I am going to discuss the article but since it's been so long I have news items I'd like to put out there.
I am finally in an actual bachelor's program at BYU so I will actually graduate college after all. ( yay! small confetti popper sound) I did not get into illustration or design but I am in the the 2-D studio art program and although it's not exactly what I want to go into, I think a more fine art production education will serve me well. Also Europe and the Carribean were great and I definitely suggest going to either to anyone. Just make it happen, it's worth it.
Ok the chapter...
It's about the creative process and creativity. It discusses these things through the perspective of an unknowm entity in an unknown galaxy type space who learns the ability to create. Just a sign to start with then fancier signs all the while other entities are learning the same ability.
We discussed it in my New Genre class and I didn't get to say what I thought because I rarely talk in class. There was a question posed about whether or not it was discouraging to think of the amount of ideas and talents out there when faced with creating. My opinion was that it was neither discouraging or encouraging but was instead truthful. Either you can be overwhelmed by the competition or you can keep up and keep creating.
The chapter also described hindering other artists by not sharing secrets in order to remain original. My thoughts on this are that is has never been beneficial to be in competition with other artists as similar as they may be. Michelangelo destroyed his Pieta by carving his name into a sash across Mary's chest which he did because the general public assumed the sculpture to be by a competing peer of his. He regretted that action for the rest of his life. Now hundreds of years later people still pray in front of this statue. The lesson learned is that being jealous and worrying about what other artists are doing rather than using their art to grow only sends you backwards in your creativity.
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