Beliefs are strange. 🍂
Good morning, how are you? I'm aware it's been rather quiet on my end and that It's been a week. Though, I'm not as busy right now and I have some thoughts I'd like to share.
I did have a post that became a draft last week, something regarding the menstrual cycle and my hatred turned to annoyance toward it as someone who does experience it. (A vent, really. Though I'll still post it eventually.)
Anyway, judging by the title, you can imagine what I'm going to say, and no it won't be me trying to prove that my beliefs are more believable.
Around the end of the school year, when I was in 8th grade, I ended up getting into a debate with this one boy in my class. Surprisingly enough, he was Christian, not that I cared all that much but it was an interesting revelation.
Nonetheless, the reason why we got into a debate was because I expressed the fact I didn't believe in God. I think his friends asked me if I believed in him or not, and I ended up saying no.
So, of course, the boy who I got into a debate with asked me why and what EXACTLY I believed in if not God. At this time, I was still trying to figure out my own beliefs; but I explained that I believed in rebirth after death, cryptids, extraterrestrials, and so on. (I will not explain why.)
I think the funniest part about it all was that no matter how many times he said that he respected my beliefs, he kept trying to argue with me and asked me question after question.
I eventually asked him a question of my own; "Where is your proof that God exists?"
He brought up the Bible.
I chuckled, not trying to be mean or disrespectful, but because I knew he was going to bring that up.
I explained to him that he couldn't get me to believe in God just by bringing up the Bible and showing me verses that didn't mean anything to me. It may be significant to him, but to me, it's just a strange book made many times in different forms depending on where you're from.
Perhaps it's coincidental that he didn't show up to school the next day, but I'll stop beating around the bush.
Our own beliefs are real and believable to us, and to others who share them. Yet, we should keep in mind that they aren't as believable to anyone else because they already believe in something of their own.
Whether someone believes in the more scientific, the more religious, or anything other aspect of life, I think it's best to just nod and move on.
- M.C.
I did have a post that became a draft last week, something regarding the menstrual cycle and my hatred turned to annoyance toward it as someone who does experience it. (A vent, really. Though I'll still post it eventually.)
Anyway, judging by the title, you can imagine what I'm going to say, and no it won't be me trying to prove that my beliefs are more believable.
Around the end of the school year, when I was in 8th grade, I ended up getting into a debate with this one boy in my class. Surprisingly enough, he was Christian, not that I cared all that much but it was an interesting revelation.
Nonetheless, the reason why we got into a debate was because I expressed the fact I didn't believe in God. I think his friends asked me if I believed in him or not, and I ended up saying no.
So, of course, the boy who I got into a debate with asked me why and what EXACTLY I believed in if not God. At this time, I was still trying to figure out my own beliefs; but I explained that I believed in rebirth after death, cryptids, extraterrestrials, and so on. (I will not explain why.)
I think the funniest part about it all was that no matter how many times he said that he respected my beliefs, he kept trying to argue with me and asked me question after question.
I eventually asked him a question of my own; "Where is your proof that God exists?"
He brought up the Bible.
I chuckled, not trying to be mean or disrespectful, but because I knew he was going to bring that up.
I explained to him that he couldn't get me to believe in God just by bringing up the Bible and showing me verses that didn't mean anything to me. It may be significant to him, but to me, it's just a strange book made many times in different forms depending on where you're from.
Perhaps it's coincidental that he didn't show up to school the next day, but I'll stop beating around the bush.
Our own beliefs are real and believable to us, and to others who share them. Yet, we should keep in mind that they aren't as believable to anyone else because they already believe in something of their own.
Whether someone believes in the more scientific, the more religious, or anything other aspect of life, I think it's best to just nod and move on.
- M.C.
13-15, T
