Sunday, November 2, 2008

"god can change your life"?

So, in browsing other blogs today, I came across a google adwords ad with the title:

"god can change your life - see how"

I was taken aback at the sheer ridiculousness of this statement.

I suppose the ad was written for some christian organization, but man, whosever rhetoric it is, they are clearly not thinking it through.

if god is all-powerful and all-pervasive, there is NO WAY god is not already in your life.
and if god is already all around you, what would you need to change your life for?

people often, in my observation, justify the things that THEY want and desire for themselves as being something that "god wants".

if god is everywhere, in every thing, then everything is already what god wants, exactly as it is.

now if they had said - "awareness of god will change your life", then that has some meaning.

but still I am not convinced that they have this concept down either...

zomg

I am back in Japan.

And drinking milk.

And I love it.

What the heck?

It really does seem pretty incongruent that one of my must have experiences in a country in Asia would be a dairy product.
Traditionally, Japan hasn't really had a cuisine that used any dairy at all.

But nowadays certainly things are different.
I don't know if people drink nearly as much milk per person here as they do in the western world, but they do drink it, and it is common enough to appear at every convenience store.

The milk here comes from Hokkaido, and I don't know if they are just happier cows or what, but the creaminess is undeniable.
It tastes sooo much better than the milk back home!

as they say in the otaku culture over here...moe~~~~!