The Last of My Kind

There are many different types of books in the world today. There are books to be read for enjoyment, others to further one’s for either educational or personal reasons, and then there are books that just make us laugh and smile and brighten our day. So if you were asked to chose to be any book in the world on the condition that you were the last one in existence, what a challenge it would be?? Out of the billions or trillions of books in the world how could one chose. Well it was rather simple for me to choose which book I would be because it’s a book that has touched more lives in the world than any other before or after its release. That book is the Bible.

Considered to be part of the 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written, there really is no book in history that compares to it. Not only as the basis for Christianity, The Bibles shows and teaches ideas that make civilized society as we know it possible. The Ten Commandments is the basis of what we consider right and just today. The Bible teaches that we are all imperfect beings, and rather than judging others and they’re transgressions against us, how we should forgive and learn to love our neighbors. That though we may have done horrible things in our past, it is still possible to change and to change for the better. However there are many atheists in the world and in 2004, as much as 9% of the United States population would be saying that “The Bible” really doesn’t have any importance to them because of their belief that there is no God. However one doesn’t need to believe in The Bible to be able to learn from it. It is true that not all the answers to life’s questions are written within the Bible but the lessons and principals are universal, which all people can live by and benefit from as Titus Shangadi shows. A man once a violent gang member, where anger and violence made up his existence and by studying the Bible he changed his personality and found happiness.

The Bible is an intriguing and important book that has no doubt influenced and changed the world. The lessons and principles that are within its pages show us the best that humanity has to offer: love, forgiveness, peace, happiness, honesty, joy, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self-control. However one of its most powerful qualities that we often overlook is the hope that it gives to humanity. The hope that we can change our lives for the better, that we are capable of more than just being a slave to our own desires and wishes, that though we are sometimes undeserving of kindness we are shown compassion. That is why I would choose to be The Bible, because the hope that it provides along with its teachings not only has the power to change the world for the better but to change humanity for the better.

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I Want to Believe

    Every day we go through life experiencing some degree of uncertainty. Whether that be going to work that day or deciding if we are going to have either the sushi or the calamari for lunch, life is filled with insecurity. So with uncertainty surrounding us every day, it's only natural that we look for things that are always certain, things that have been proven to bring some type of order to our chaotic lives. However there are many people today who believe in things that haven't or cannot be proven: Big Foot, the Loch Nest Monster, aliens, even the existence of God. However the question then arises in why? Why would someone believe in something that might possibly never be proven by science and society? Though many would be quick to dismiss such things, people chose to believe in them because of the possibility that they are true, though the lack of evidence.

 

    We tend to think of modern science today as something that has validity to it. Physics, Chemistry, Anatomy, things that have been proven and refined, proven and refined, over and over again through time to produce what we know today. However it hasn't always been that way. It was once believed that the Earth was the center of the universe until a man by the name of Nicholas Copernicus was able to prove that it was indeed that the Earth revolved around the sun. The reason that I mention it is because at the time, the idea of the sun being the center of the "universe" was foolish and ridiculous and those to think or believe other wise were shunned much like today. We look at people who believe in the Big Foot and aliens as idiotic. However this is the same ignorance that once was present when Copernicus proposed that the sun was the center of the universe. It is mentioned in the book How To Think About Weird Things that though the idea of Big Foot and aliens hasn't been proven "just because a claim hasn't been conclusively proven doesn't meant that it's false." That it is the possibility that I could be true that allows human being to believe that which cannot be proven.

    

    Many find it hard to have this sort of blind faith in anything. That might be the reason why many are turned away from the idea of a God. That it is hard to believe in an all powerful being when there is no way it can ever be proven and inevitably that is what it comes down to, faith. That though it may never be proven, it is the sense in believing in something bigger than themselves. So though we may never know why people believe in things that have not been proven, whether it be because of faith or because of the possibility it may be true, a part of humanity will always believe in the unknown, whether it is logical to do so or not.