weBLOG for August 28th, 2004

I know, I go from funny quote from a funny movie to a serious quote from a fucked-up movie, but I can't help it. I see alot of movies. And my choice of movies is just as eclectic as my choice of; well, everything else. So the last quote was from the movie "House Party," when Kid ends up in jail. I can only imagine that CPT means "Colored-People Time."

St. Augustine, in opposition to various Christian cults of the time, that believed Good and Evil elements were in constant battle with each other, stated that there was no evil independent of God. He ruled that God endowed us all with a seed of good, and the only evil in the world are those seeds that become perverted. Those that misuse God's gifts are the evil ones.

Of course, I'm paraphrasing.

So I get to wondering if it has to be willful misuse of this seed that leads to evil. Because, as alot of you know, seeds can just go bad from disuse also. Can evil spring from disuse of God's seed also?

I know alot of you grow up believing in predestination in some form or another. So to you all, it just has to do with God's plan for each of us. However, just as Augustine didn't believe in Manichean ideas such as Good vs. Evil, he also didn't believe in predestination. To Augustine, our lives depended on our choices with all of God's gifts before us.

What troubles me is that I'm afraid I'm perverting these seeds God has set into me. I've been bestowed with all these gifts, and here I sit, not doing a damnable thing with ANY of them. All of these seeds of goodness are either being misused or disused.

And while all of you either agree with me, or think I'm conceided, what are you doing with your seeds? Even if you think you have no seed, or seeds, God gave each of us the seed called Life. And I know alot of people, myself included, that waste that particularly precious seed.

God willing, everything will work out.

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