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Agnosticism

Recently, a friend of mine asked me about my religion status on Facebook. She was curious to know why I was no longer a Christian, what made me change, and what all of it means to me now. At the current time I am not prepared to share the reasons why I denounced my faith in the Christian religion, but I will give you my answer to the last. This is what I told her:

For me, agnosticism basically means that I don't believe in anything that can't be shown. I have a difficult time believing in abstract ideas, especially during the time I was trying to wrap my mind around Christianity. This is something that makes sense. It's science, which for me is the only constant thing. Science has formulas and methods and systems that have been proven infallible over the centuries. It is not a religion for me, per se. I do not see myself as a religious person. Agnosticism is simply a tag name for the way I look at the things around me. When I ask why something happened the way it did, there is a simple and concrete reason for it.

Take, for example, the death of my very good friend, Will Christen, a few weeks ago. I found out that he died the day after it happened, and my first question was, "Why?" Then I looked into it, found all the information that was to be had, and discovered that it was simply an accident. The vehicle flipped, and he hadn't been wearing his seat belt. Others may profess that it was the hand and/or will of God, that it was "his time to go", but to me it was simply an unfortunate happenstance, aided by the catalytic detail that he lacked proper safety restraints.

In short: I believe in nothing; I put my trust in science.

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I thought that a few of you might be curious to know. And currently, this is my standpoint on a lot of things. I am aware that there are gaps and loopholes in my way of thinking, but they exist in any process, religious or not.

Cheers,
Jax.

It's Been A While.

Well, it has.

So far this year, not a lot has happened. I took up snowboarding and discovered I'm not half bad. Work continues to take up most of my weekends, and school obviously consumes the week. Next Thursday I'm going snowboarding with my best friend, Erika. That'll be really entertaining. I'm hoping to fly out to Arizona to see my brother over spring break, which should be awesome.

Yup.