I've heard at least a couple different people scoff at the idea of luck because luck implies randomness and God has ordained every single molecule to operate exactly for a specific purpose. I don't get that. If I spill a glass of milk, I am not going to revel in God's providence in that. I call that "bad luck" because it's bad and as far I can tell, there is no purpose in it. Knowing that God works all things together for the purpose of Christians should temper the negative reaction that I have toward it, but the reality is a lot of things happen just because. Why did God create mankind? "to be glorified" Ok, so why is mankind not doing its job? You can explain things like that from The Bible, but aside from these microcosmic explanations like "mankind was tempted", "God is glorified in His wrath", and bla bla bla, the fact of the matter is we're in a giant melting pot and we don't know why we're here. We can to an extent explain it, but the explanations that God has provided only go so far. We're at war on multiple fronts and we would not have chosen that path had we known what we were getting into. And there's no going back. Why? There's no point in trying to wrap your mind around such things. And there's even less of a point in trying to wrap your mind around a minuscule occurrence like the power going out or tripping over a log. Those are bad things that DO NOT HAVE AN EXPLANATION. God has one, somewhere in the incomprehensibly vast terrain of His mind, but He's, generally speaking, not going to provide it and we'd ultimately be wasting our time asking Him such things. It's bad luck. You can substitute it with a bunch of unnecessary words, or you can just say "it's bad luck" and move on. Times when something truly awful or indescribably good happens might deserve an examination, but even those things, we ultimately usually don't know why they happen and God does not owe us, who cannot hear His voice and cannot fully comprehend the written documents He has provided us, an explanation. If He gave us an explanation, we'd most likely be too dull of hearing/discerning to even be aware that He's talking to us, much less WHAT He's saying.
You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
It was kindofa neat time in my life, but it also kinda sucked
Hold on my heart Spotify playlist
covering that crazy time in my life 1991-1995.
Monday, November 11, 2024
I'm vengeance 🤬
Literally have no interest in watching the new Batman movie when ever the heck it finally comes out .. At the rate it's going, by the time they get the trilogy finished Robert Pattinson will be as old as death. And then there's this stupid Godfather Goes To Gotham City TV show... no telling how much of that is going to factor in to the movie which should be on home video by now. I think they might have started filming it finally. Warner Bros. is so obsessed with this "DC universe" nonsense. They're not going to be Marvel. It just ain't happening. Just make the new Batman movie already!
Anyway.... also really skeptical about the portrayal of The Joker at the end of the newest Batman movie. It's like they were running out of time and just hired some dopey off the street and quickly wrote some half baked dialogue for him. Maybe that's the direction they decided on. I'll probably watch it eventually and might even be excited when the trailer gets put up, but this trajectory that Warner has been on with the Batman property over the past 10+/- years just ticks me off.