What You Can Do Today
I was giving somebody some tips of what he could do just in case he’s in a totally lost and some Christian, appeared and said that this is a better tip than what I had given.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:34)
I honestly don’t think it’s better to wait for God to respond to your prayers than you doing something about it. It’s just some lame excuse not to do anything. When you are at lost, isn’t it better to find a way than just wait for what will happen the following day? At least, in the end of the day, even if what you did didn’t help much, at least you did something and you wont regret that you did it too because you know you worked hard to do it and at one point, you learned something out of it. Like for example you are in a low financial situation, isn’t it better to look for side jobs around town or look for something where you can earn money to support yourself rather than pray and kneel all day in front of the altar asking God for financial aid? It’s as if God would come down from heaven and give you money. Nothing will happen if you would just sit there and watch at the sky wait for for a dove to deliver your monthly allowance from God or wait for God to burn the plant standing beside you just to respond to your petty problems on which, you yourself can resolve. You’ll just trouble yourself more by doing it, not to mention fooling yourself too. I’m not telling people to stop believing in God. I’m telling people to stop relying everything to God when you can find ways to do it yourself.
As Tony would always say, nasa tao ang gawa, hindi na kailangan ang awa.
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November 26th, 2006 at 12:31 am
I have this thought that those who are smart knows this in their heart, even the person who originally said that oft-quoted Pinoy proverb. Nasa tao ang gawa, nasa diyos ang awa. If you remove “awa”, gawa can still do the work. God doesn’t add any value. Physics don’t need awa for its theory to work. That’s one of the earliest lessons I learned, aside from the lesson of mathematics that that no god is powerful enough to be able to change 1+1=2.
cheers!
Tony
November 27th, 2006 at 10:43 am
That’s an interesting point but what if they say, that God doesn’t need to change 1+1=2 just to prove his existence.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
“God doesn’t need to…”
No god can really change that because it’s already true by definition. 1+1=2, 2+2=4. You cannot even argue with small kids about that. But I did once met people who said that 1+1 can be 5 or any other number besides 2. I stopped arguing with them.
November 29th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Hello all, glad to see this forum here. I agree, deeds not creeds is my doctrine, from my Unitarian Universalist beliefs. Just to be clear, I’m not here to evangelize or nothing. Are there other UU-Atheits here? I’d love to make a post as well if i could about God!
November 30th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Hi Joseph, you are free to post your comments but I am afraid we cannot grant you the privilege to post “main” articles about god for fairly obvious reason that this is an atheism site. We have a real forum, just click on the links… Welcome!
December 1st, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Thanks - and I didn’t mean that I was going to post an advocacy piece about God. But more to quote a UU colleague who once said, “tell me what God you don’t believe in, and probably I don’t believe in that God either.” There…hope that wasn’t too offensive. I have always been and probably always will be a skeptic about God, but I can’t help but thinking about it..and it seems to me that for one to call themselves an atheist, which I have strongly considered personally, you are clearly thinking about God, or the absence thereof. look forward to being in dialogue with y’all!
December 1st, 2006 at 4:42 pm
1+1=2; 2+2=4 are none arguable facts. Since time in memorial, it’s been that way even if in primitive ages. In a kindergarten’s language, supposed you have a rock, and you add another rock beside it, there would naturally, logically be 2 rocks unless you pounded that other rock and it was divided into 4 pieces, the it would become 5 rocks. But in that case, the pounding of the rock is not included in the scenario because the scenario only stated that you are just to add another rock to an existing rock. Therefore, that pounding of the rock statement was just added later on to turn the situation against the winning debater resulting him to “defy” his logical reasoning and eventually make him lose the argument. This is an often scene during debates since there are people who are stubborn enough not to accept another’s reasoning.
This is not a forum. This is a blog.
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:06 am
Hi Joseph, we have a few forums around, you may also want to join them. If you have a piece you would like to put into this site, you can also email it to that forum so we can take a look at it and if it’s not about advocating god, maybe we can put it here with the appropriate disclaimer.
cheers!
December 25th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Cool thanks. Merry XMAS - do Atheists in the Philippines celebrate that? I’m with my Catholic in-laws and they are really intense during this period. Anyways, I agree that 1+1=2 is key…it seems to be taught as 0+2=2 where 2=god in so many orthodox faiths! God AWFUL.
November 13th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
There arent enough facts of the situation to make a fair judgment of whether the christian’s advice was to be taken in the context of what was expressed here. However, whatever the case is, it is important to take note that the passage is about not spending the time of today worrying but instead doing what it is that could be done for today.