Thanks for the light

I believe there's a God. In fact, to be more specific, I believe there's One True God, a singlar power of pure goodness. However, I do not believe there's a Devil. Most people usually gasp disapprovingly at this 'selective' believing, insisting that if you believe in one manifestation, the other is a must. Like a bottle of wine and a wine opener, one cannot exist with meaning without the other. Don't get me wrong, I believe Evil exist. Evil, like Goodness, is a potential energy, a result of an act that people choose to do or an inclination of one's nature. I just don't think that there is a mystical individual who is the corporeal entity of Evil.

To me, God is a different story compared to those told by men. God is the creator, the watcher and the Judge in the court of appeals. God starts/create things and watches as it ends, as how all things must for new things to be begin. When we are at peace with it, we call it 'running its natural course'. When we are not happy about it, we call it 'bad things happening'. And sometimes, it's because the collision of humans' choices/decisions and nature's behavior just simply came to a head. It sucks but it is what it is.

However, I believe that whenever God intervenes, God only does so as the Judge in the court of appeals. In other words, when The Singlar Power of Pure Goodness intervenes, only good things happen and miracles are the result.

I know God exist because when things get bad, somehow something will happen, out of the blue and of a impossible mathematical possibility, that will shine a tiny light into the darkness. And that small ray of light sometimes is just enough for one to see the path, albiet full of rocks and hurts one's feet, but at least one notices the cliff one is about to walk over.

So whenever The Singlar Power of Pure Goodness intervenes, I give thanks for two things - thanks for reminding me that you are here and thanks for the light.

An eye for an eye, is the Death Penalty blind?

An eye for an eye, is that right?

There are many excellent arguments for it to exist yet there are just as many arguments for it not to. Many of the arguments either way have different sociological reasoning pertaining to specific countries. Strip all of that away for the death penalty is black and white. One is either in for it, or against it. Just like how one is either pregnant or not pregnant, dead or not dead. There is no in-between. If you say you are against it but would be for it when it comes to convicted serial baby killers, that means you are FOR it. That also means that if you say that you are NOT for it, you have to mean it when it's regarding a smiling psychopath who left no one with similarities to your DNA alive and every other person you care for broken.

The place where I come from 'is believed to have the world’s highest per capital execution rate, relative to its population' as stated in a 2004 Amnesty International report.

People get executed. I grew up with that notion. They tie a noose around your neck and look at a chart to figure out how to snap your neck instead of slowly strangling you to death. It was a fact of life. It was expected, it was the norm and it was the law. Yes, ever since I could form a rational thought I felt it was harsh and I did think that maybe case by case judging would make it less horrible. Yet I've never committed to that line of thought. Because it's a slippery slope. One is either in for it, or against it. There is no in-between.

I stand by Amnesty International - oppose the death penalty worldwide in all cases without exception.

The right to choose and Freewill

Written as a result of being in and reading about the current Prop 8 and Pro life issues here in California/USA

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There's alot of things in life you can't choose that affect who you are. Who you grew up with and what kind of place you grew up in. But because of Freewill, you can choose what you believe in and what to do which defines who you are. That's why dissent exist and more importantly, necessary. Some people believe abortions are wrong. Ok. Some people believe Gay Marriage is wrong. Ok. Some people believe killing a person with extenuating conditions is not wrong. Ok.

But to remove choice - such that one can't abort if one choose to or get married to whoever they both choose to - is like trying to remove a God-given-right which makes it as 'wrong' as killing someone. You removed his power to choose by ending his life. One can't make choices if one's dead, can they?

In fact, anyone can kill a person if they wanted to. The tragic beauty is that no one can remove a person’s choice to kill another person. It’s just a matter of consequences. Because this God-given-right, Freewill, exist and is for everyone - including you. Your power to choose between just believing in the ‘right’ choice or acting to remove choice is a self-proven demonstration of Freewill. And that makes anyone or group that works towards removing choice a fucking hypocrite.

The redeeming beauty is that you can exercise your Freewill to remove my choice just like how someone can exercise his or her Freewill to kill another person, but I’m still here with my Freewill to make you suffer the consequences which is to fight like fuck to get back my right to choose.