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With this post I create a new section of my blog. For the first time ever, my blog has officially become a place where I shall post about religion - before, I tried to keep it free from such heavy topics as religion and politics and I have faired well in the religion department. Ok, so you'd have to read a post about religion every 6 months or so, but now I have a whole SECTION dedicated to it. Tremble, my dears, tremble!

The question I put before you today, is - wait for it! - the case of God. 

Is there, in fact, one in existence? Before you all tell me your personal experiences, let me allow you to inform you that a singular personal experience with the lack of any witness doesn't count as evidence of God. Let me disqualify too, "I have a gut feeling." In the words Stephen Colbert, "your gut has more nerve endings than anything else in your body. It's what my gut tells me. For those of you who don't believe me and check it up, only to find this is completely false, this is because you looked it up in a book. Look it up in your gut! Your gut knows the answer." In essence, 'my gut tells me it's true, therefore it is' is not sufficient either. Allow me also, to disqualify proof of the Divine from the NT. It is not possible to prove something from a document whose validity is reasonably and logically contested by a large number of people (the majority living on earth, actually) be brought as a proof of God/Jesus/etc. Also, you just can't prove the thing you're trying to prove, from the thing itself. It's like me telling you all I'm your master and you must serve me, proof of which I am telling you that I am your master and you must serve me (for those of you who see this as a valid proof, e-mail me ;-) I'll get in touch). Byt this same standard, the OT and koran, as well as book of mormon or any other religious text may not be quoted in order to verify itself.

With that out the way,  let the arguments begin!

Ask yourself: why do you believe in God? Without quoting any of the abov. In fact, you must choose from the options below:

1) I was brought up like that
2) I don't know
3) I don't really, deep down
4) It just seems correct
5) I believe that God exists based on all the evidence before me (please state what evidence)
6) I believe He may not exist, but am too afraid to deny His existence lest bad stuff happens to me (pascal's wager)

alternately, choose from this list:

A) I'm an atheist
B) agnostic
C) a believer
D) combination of B and C
E) combination of A and C (wot?? how's you get that?!)
F) combination of A and B (eh?)

choose one, dears!

for the formative years of my life, I was indifferent (more or less). I have been (C) for most of my life, but now I waver between A, B and C. 

I've said goodbye to AG for the very last time! There shall be no more meetings up, or anything like that...finished, gone, out the door, end.

Surprisingly, I'm not that bothered - bothered enough to write about it on a blog, yes, but then I'd write about any good friend I would no longer be seeing again - but not really "OH MY GOD ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!" bothered.

Nossie, I realise you've been waiting eagerly for my response to your message you sent about a week and a half ago now, please forgive the delay, I just dont have much time these days. It's about half written though. I'm going away too, shortly, so don't know when I'll actually complete it. I don't know how long im going away for either, so can't help you there. Anything between 5 days and 2 months... 

Where am I going? To explore the world!
Well, at least to the French Alps, after that, who knows? I'm thinking other European places (yes arty, Europe is the world, as are countries immediately next to it), then maybe on to Israel, though the latter is looking less likely.

Anyway, must be off! Take care all. Until next time (I apologise I havent been leaving comments on your blogs, I don't actually have internet access anymore, in addition to being tres busy just now...but I have read ants and helens and artys...just not in the past four days or so)

So read road signs across London and the south, for those who can't avoid going up past Watford, for some reason.

I've always wondered why the good people at the Highway Authority felt that the directions for the north need to be in bold. I've never seen signs saying "The SOUTH" (you must tell me if there are) - but place names, road names, motorway names and directions to other places - such as central london, which is given simply as "the City" - are all lower case letters. So why is it "The NORTH?"

I always felt it was a bit ominous to call it "the north," like it's shrouded in mystery, a place where the normal southerner wouldn't venture unless they absolutely have to. Of course, the explanation may be far more simple than that - northerners have a hard time reading, so they need to enlarge the print for them.

That, at least, is the explanation as per DJ. Feel free to introduce your own thoughts on the matter...!