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It’s good to delve through the thoughts of someone that I agree with on so many levels. I was just reading you “The Adventures of the Damned Human Race” Dear Jesus, Save me from your followers. Amen. column, and there is just one thing I wanted to point out– a mistake that I could have (and on some level do sometimes even now) easily made:
“Here, like most religions, there is an inherent contradiction; if Santa Claus is able to monitor a child’s every action, why is he not clued in to their desires as well? Why does Santa, or one of his thousands of liquored-up minimum-wage proxies, have to ask what a child wants for Christmas if he already knows everything?”
although it does seem suspicious, eccentric, or unusual- that is not in any way a contradiction. this is not to say that I believe either Santa Claus or God to exist ( My stance: if God exists, he must exist only in perception (i.e. cannot exist independently from the mind) or the definition of God must be finite– God must be imperfect, and limited in what he can do or see. my reasoning for this is actually primarily do to perception: a perfect and imperfect God is impossible to know, or even be aware of. the reasoning for this is simple: if something is infinite and perfect, that means that it also is not lacking in any way, and furthermore, there would be no standard by which to compare, because the very existence of such a standard would render God imperfect / finite, because such a standard would inherently not be part of God, meaning that God is incomplete and finite.
if you know a bit about the subject, you should appreciate the relevance of the Uncertainty principle. and Schrödinger’s cat. that is, the moment that God is acknowledge as God, he is no longer God anymore. Another way that I look at it: because humans are imperfect, our perception is also imperfect.
thus, anyone who believes in God believes in an imperfect God– so if they believe that only a perfect God exists, and that this is the God they believe in, they are lying to themselves on an intrinsic level.)
something that might attract your interest: Gnosticism. as well as being far more compatible with the Bible than any other established religion (with Christianity being little more than a puppet of (American) culture- an over-glorified Santa Claus designed to ensure control over entire nations, and using the Bible to justify its hypocrisy (even though the inconsistencies are so great it could be considered incompatible with the Bible) in addition, Gnosticism believes in an imperfect God, and after delving into wikipedia’s article /etc, I was surprised by how logical it was. in many way, it was quite literally founded on logic, or Logos, to be precise.
but nevertheless, it is *theoretically* possible that Santa Claus exists, and that he simply likes to see the expressions on the kids’ faces when they tell what they want. It’s possible that kids don’t know what they want, and he humors himself by having an ego-trip over their self-ignorance.
It’s possible that when his proxies to get drunk and smoke, or act gay or on drugs– they are only doing this to let people’s guards down while they record high quality video/audio of the kids while seeing their delightful expressions telling what they want– possible through tiny spycams peering through the clothes. of all the possibilities, I think the last one is most probable.
It’s way too suspicious to me that this one man would give presents to billions of kids around the world in one day, all out of good will. Even more suspicious is the fact that Santa Claus only gives presents to kids, and seems to favor preteens. That’s right, I think that Santa Claus is a pedophile from the future. “he sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when your awake…” So creepy!
Come to think of it, that would also explain his elf fetish :P
suppose that a perfect God exists: by believing in such a God, and due to our perception believing in an imperfect God, it would be an insult/blasphemy/heresy to the perfect God to hold such a belief.
no matter what God we believe in, it will not be that actual God we believe in, but believing in the God created by the perception itself.
thus, the only difference between believing in God and believing in ourself is a lack of honesty. like it or our, the God we believe in is just a part of our perception, and our perception is just a part of ourself. Even if a perfect God exists, the only God we will ever know is an extension of ourselves– that is, either we are God, or we are part of God (depending on the way you look at it, and also whether God is perfect– but if perfection and infinity is required for some entity/etc. to be called God, then I would have to say God does not exist.
After all, what good does it do to acknowledge “x” if we will never know what the value of “x” is? In this world, appreciation of something is proportional to how limited it is– Something cannot be totally appreciated until it has been totally corrupted- until then we take it for granted. That’s part of what it means to be human.
