Before you complain…
I rip on god and Jesus sometimes like this morning. I get emails ([email protected]) that tell me I can’t be sure god doesn’t exist. I shouldn’t be so arrogant, even though they’re emailing me. They want me to prove god doesn’t exist or shut up.
This is all well and good, but it’s just not how the world works. Only god. And that doesn’t work for me.
Own the fact that you can’t prove god exists.
If I said, “prove the sky is neon green or I don’t believe shit you say,” I’d be like the prove god folks. See, god has never been proven. I’m not the one responsible in this argument for providing proof of anything. I don’t have to. It’s never been done. I’m just going with the flow of human knowledge. And that’s fine. What you should think on is doing your own research. I don’t need a teacher or homework. I’m the one in the conversation actually aware of what proof is and who needs it. Sorry that bothers you. That might be a good follow up question; the whole “my lack of faith bothering you on my own website” thing.
Conservatives in this area (Texas) do this a lot on everything from guns to god. It drives me bonkers. They have zero evidence, have done zero research, and conjure “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Want a monocle and a funny hat? No shit, Sherlock. You prove nothing with that mindless dribble.
Look around?
When you want “proof,” do your own research, sure. But If you come up believing something as if you know it, it’s not on me to convince you otherwise. Your eyes should do that, or other senses. Because, guess what? No one else sees shit.
A lot of folks need to get better at arguing. One way of doing that, a big way, is owning the burden of proof. For example, I’m not the crazy one for thinking all of you believers are crazy. Have you thought about that? Man? (Always a dude.)
I’ve been told to prove my feelings on god a few times by a couple friends and fun folks online. I do not ever have to do this. It’s been done for centuries. I’m on to shit like about how sin and forgiveness fuck folks up. I will not bother disproving a god that’s never been proven to begin with. No one should have that job. But they sure as shit ask you to do it often enough.
Why this is important, at least to me.
What blows my mind is how this mindset has infiltrated everything, everywhere. For some reason, even in the studio, online, back on socials.. “I was wrong,” was rarely if ever expressed. Happens everyday here for a while, but until I worked at my best learning mindset, I was not wrong about much. Even though I was wrong on just about everything.
Without my learning mindset visual to slip into in my brain, I don’t take on as much new information. When that happens, I’m rarely wrong. Easy mode. But when I’m taking on challenging concepts that shape my perception of the world, I have to be willing to be wrong about some things.
Key:
What this means to me, if I just flip the equation, the more I can see I am wrong, the more I learn. This is one of those profound moment things for me. It makes it fine to be wrong. I know that’s very different in me than most folks I come across. I’m wrong for the sake of learning, if I am. And if you’re right, I’m open to it. “Willing” strikes me as a keyword too.
If you can claim growth, which I can, then owning where you were wrong is also seeing steps to mistakes that will never happen again. It’s prevention. It’s learning. Be wrong, it’s fine. I’m wrong all the time. People tell me I’m wrong a lot. I give it to them about half the time. But they need to know how arguing works. Like, who needs to have proof, here?
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