here's life

,,,and I don't know what to say. So, there is this Philosopher at work, who has a plan to fix the world. A Utopian plan based on everybody being nice to one another and not being greedy. So far so good---it's worked before... He uses many biblical and pseudo-biblical ideas and metaphors. He takes on the label of "Christian", but usually doesn't stress it, because he talks about philosophy, not so much religion. I usually disagree with most of what he says because it is almost right, and almost plausible, and maybe I am just pretty much an antagonist. Today, after we had discussed something, I mentioned that part of my problem was that I can't seem to divorce my beliefs and philosophy---and so we got onto religion. He reiterated that he was a christian, but that he thought that the way that everyone in the world can get along is by all the religions coming to a compromise, because if you get down to the basics of all religions, they are pretty much the same. I suggested that he meant people could not kill others, but try to help others eventually see the light. No, that would be me waiting until I could conquer you, or prove you are wrong. What we need is a "world conscience" to turn around the way the world is going. Each religion will have to give up some beliefs, and come to a consensus about what to believe. I can't really tell him that actually, the others are wrong, and I am right. Where is my evidence? What would it accomplish anyway?

Often I find that I hate him because what he says has no obvious, glaring flaws, and even if it does, he philosophies it away. He seems remarkably patient when I attack his ideas---maybe he confuses my backhanded disagreement with the not-so-witty banter that floats around the office. It isn't as easy as I figured curing someone of wrong conclusions using logic would be--you can't just show that a view leads to eating babies--after all, if it's you or the baby... Without a lot of time, it seems that I have no direct, clear, reason for what I believe if I don't use Scripture or other evidence that would seem inadmissible in a secular debate. Maybe I need to make it obviously un-secular. Or, just ignore the stream of almost-correct views on life (I've ignored the glaringly false ones) and just do my work, and let it be. Or, bring a constant flow of anecdotal stories about my own walk with God. Hmmm,,,mostly I see my failure to regularly connect with God on a personal, reciprocal level.

And, I am not sure that posting such stuff on a public forum isn't uncouth, but, where else can I get advice about my day-to-day life?

# posted by abu : 7:30 PM