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My friendly neighborhood Jehovah's Witness just showed up again. I almost hid this time when I saw the car turn in, but I figured that was a bit childish of me and faced up to the conversation. I never invite her in because it would be all "careful of the cord here in front of the door, it's for the grow lights for the tomatoes, and let me move this chair out of the way, and steer clear of that computer Eor's building, and please don't look at the dirty dishes and my desk..."
We had a nice talk about how hard winter has been, ice dams in rooves and frozen pipes, tough bushes that will survive getting snow heaped on top of them, etc. And of course she gave me a pamphlet about "Is there a God?" saying that I had told her that I 'wondered' if there was a God. I almost started to tell her that, according to what I'd been reading earlier today (thanks to MandC_Read and Justincase) the Sethians say that the Creator-of-Earth-God was a descendant of the original Unknowable God, and that according to what I was reading, leaving the Garden of Eden might be construed as a positive thing, getting out from under his control, because he was kind of evil. However, I thought it might be best just to stick to what I had been trying to express to her the last time we talked, which was that I think that if there is a God he would be so far beyond our understanding that we could not hope to know anything about Whatever It Might Be (I'm not going to say "Him") in this life.
She might eventually force me to put into words a lot of things I'd rather not talk about. It seems indecent to talk about such things. I'd rather talk about embarrassing bodily functions than personal beliefs, frankly. Discussing religion as mythology or tradition or culture is fine, but this messing about with trying to convince other people of things, and exposing one's own thoughts on the matter... I don't know.
Hey, but you get a post from my discomfort. Also, I found out that the sun is warm on my doorstep and I don't need a jacket outside even though there's still a lot of snow on the ground. This makes me feel better about going to the dump and such like things. :)
We had a nice talk about how hard winter has been, ice dams in rooves and frozen pipes, tough bushes that will survive getting snow heaped on top of them, etc. And of course she gave me a pamphlet about "Is there a God?" saying that I had told her that I 'wondered' if there was a God. I almost started to tell her that, according to what I'd been reading earlier today (thanks to MandC_Read and Justincase) the Sethians say that the Creator-of-Earth-God was a descendant of the original Unknowable God, and that according to what I was reading, leaving the Garden of Eden might be construed as a positive thing, getting out from under his control, because he was kind of evil. However, I thought it might be best just to stick to what I had been trying to express to her the last time we talked, which was that I think that if there is a God he would be so far beyond our understanding that we could not hope to know anything about Whatever It Might Be (I'm not going to say "Him") in this life.
She might eventually force me to put into words a lot of things I'd rather not talk about. It seems indecent to talk about such things. I'd rather talk about embarrassing bodily functions than personal beliefs, frankly. Discussing religion as mythology or tradition or culture is fine, but this messing about with trying to convince other people of things, and exposing one's own thoughts on the matter... I don't know.
Hey, but you get a post from my discomfort. Also, I found out that the sun is warm on my doorstep and I don't need a jacket outside even though there's still a lot of snow on the ground. This makes me feel better about going to the dump and such like things. :)