Some discussions

Met up with JJ after his exam today.

He bought me Elva Hsia's album for a surprise. :O) I have been wanting to buy it for quite a while. I mostly buy compilations. Can't bear to splurge too much on CDs.

We stopped talking about the incident. And as usual, when I am with him, I don't have those negative thoughts. I don't feel any resentment or bitterness. Instead, we just chatted normally. So he joked that he needs to buy a lot of super glue to stick me to him, and that he doesn't mind to be with me all the time, so that my mind won't run wild and set myself into depression.

Sometimes I try to slip the topic of religion into our conversation. I won't try to convert him. But i would like him to know more about the religion, and let him decide for himself whether he wish to adopt this belief.

He said that Toaism has a lot of Gods -- Confucious, Monkey God, This God that God. But, Christianity only has one Jesus Christ. There are so many people on Earth, how would Jesus be able to hear everyone's prayer and attend to everyone's needs?

My reply to this. Firstly, Toaism doesn't have a lot of gods. Toaism is a way of life. The numerous gods were came up by some followers who distort the religion, altering the religion with their superstitions.

Then, Jesus isn't the one that we pray to. We pray to God, father of Jesus and the entire human race. And I just say that if we are being created by God, we won't be that intelligent and wise to be able to decipher the ultimate truth. It's true that a human leader can only take care of the needs of a limited number of followers. But, we cannot assume that God wouldn't be able to do that. We cannot use our own human logic and use what happen on Earth to decide what should happen in Heaven too.

I said that this is a very common question by many. Another very common question is that if God is merciful and love the human race, why would he allow disasters such as the recent Earthquake and subsequent Tsunamis to take place? We didn't quite use religion to explain this phenomena, but had similar opinions.

Nature has its order and will regulate by itself. The human population cannot keep on growing. Natural disasters happen for some purposes, one of which is to control the population size.
!!! I need to sleep liao.. Haven't finished what I want to type. Anyway, i know it sounds "inhumane" and unfeeling to say that the disasters are to make sure that Earth would not be overpopulated and so some people have to die. Of course, I feel sad and think that these people don't deserve to die, but this is just an opinion on the broad picture of Nature.

Before I forget.. JJ said that Japan's geographical location is such that it is prone to many natural disasters. But not so much now. It's because the Japanese can contribute a lot, positively, to the rest of the world. So, they are staying. You might say that The Japanese are also very intelligent to lessen the damage and carnage from natural disasters. But, if God wants to wipe off more Japs, their intelligence would not be able to stop Him. It's just personal opinions here.

He said that countries such as Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka are very badly hit for similar reasons. It's quite mean to say this, but it seems to be a reflection of Charles Darwin's concept of evolution --The fittest survive. These countries are also very heavily populated, so perhaps, that 's why God target at these countries --reduce their population, therefore reducing the entire world population. also that they cannot contribute as much to the well being of the entire world, and so they were chosen to go. the fittest survive concept also applies in the sense that these countries are just not as "fit" in terms of economy, technology advancement levels etc to be able to lessen the damages from a catastrophe.

KK..I know a lot of my arguments are not very well elaborated and solid. But it's cos I needta sleep. I am in a hurry... i still haven't finished typing! hmm.. Nitee.. oh ..I want to write about some intellectual talks I have with him. Simply happy to finally have a boyfriend who "speaks my language".