The activities of a "Jazz" worshipper...

The most wonderful, least bitter person you'll ever meet...

Saturday, June 03, 2006

So this is blogging....

Hmm,

I used to have a blog before, but it kind of failed because I didn't have the effort to keep it updated.
I also "mumbeled" too much, and I didn't really have a point to make. I'll try and make an effort...

For those who actually care about what I have to say, I would like you to help me make my blog better, no idea how, but it would be quite nice if you helped me out.

Anyway, my name is Joseph Lynch. I currently reside in a pretty shabby village lurking around England. I attend Sixth form, and at time of writing, am doing Psychology, Biology, A+, English retake and Citizenship, although I doubt I will be able to make it into the next year of sixth form, especially the way I'm going.

I have two wonderful families, which consist of my Mum's family and my Dad's family.

I have five siblings, two cats (Named Mustard and Muesli) and two dogs, Jazz and Sparky (The former is pretty much worshiped)

I would consider myself of low academic intelligence and creative IQ, although thats never stopped me taking a shot before.

At the time of writing, I would consider myself secular. I am currently planning on joining the National Secular Society, and have a mild feeling of admeration toward Richard Dawkins.
I believe that humans screw up, its only natural. We're not evil, just a little bit stupid.

I believe that athiesm is a good path to follow. Quite a few actions by believers of a religion would be doing it to please a God or Diety, whilst athiests do it because they believe it is morally right (That, or for personal gain, I dont know).

Lastly, I believe the world would be a better place if we followed Bill Hicks. He might seem a little shocking at first, but as he said, "Listen to the message, not the words".

Anyway, hope to be posting here many times.

4 Comments:

  • At 05 June, 2006 13:36, Blogger Owen said…

    Oooh - new blog! First off, hello Joe!

    Secondly, it's good to read a blog that is interesting and actually has a point, but I wonder if I might make some comments from my point of view?

    I'll be honest - I don't like Richard Dawkins. I find his whole attitude and approach to Christianity misguided and confrontational.

    Although doing good works does please God, there is no reason to think that religious people just do good works for personal gain in the eyes of God. We must really want to go and help people, and many religious people do feel called to do this. "Freely we’ve received, now freely we will give".

    Of course humans screw up sometimes but God knows this. We certainly aren't seen as evil. The fact is, through Jesus, God will forgive us for all the times we screw up. Again, because God does this for us we should then forgive others in the same way.

    In this increasinly secular world people often forget the values of good that we should aspire to. We should love everyone (no, not in that way!) and forgive people. We should be willing to do something for others, and not see people who do these things as purely being out for personal gain. The world would be a much better place if people could do this.

     
  • At 05 June, 2006 16:53, Blogger Owen said…

    I should also apologise to all other readers of this blog. For some reason I can talk about religion for hours...

     
  • At 05 June, 2006 17:00, Blogger Owen said…

    Erm... sorry about all the deleted posts by the way. My internet's been messing up and submitting things twice...

     
  • At 05 June, 2006 18:17, Blogger Joe Mc'Lynch said…

    Dont worry about it mate :-)

    And dont worry, I dont 100% hate Christianity. It has taught me a lot of good values, and it helped me through a lot of tough times.

    I also have a lot of Christian friends and family, loads of them, and to say I hate Christians would be insulting and over the top (Btw, I'm not saying you say that ;-) )

    It's just the abuse I see a lot of religious people use to gain things. Although I wouldn't consider them true Christians, I will ask them why they would describe themselves as Christian, when they clearly act in the opposite way. Its like a subconcous version of cognitive dissodence.

    And a lot of what Richard Dawkins says I still have doubts about. I just agree with what he says when theres loads of evil undertaken in the world with some extremist minority groups doing horrible, hippercritical acts, claiming they're doing it for God, and then claim they're representing the rest of the Christians/Jews/Muslims/Hindusm, whilst the large majority just think "WTF are these guys on about?"

    Anyway, good thing we can talk online, eh?

    See ya'll soon.

     

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