{"id":392,"date":"2008-03-17T19:21:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2008-03-17T19:21:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:21:40","slug":"if-there-was-a-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"If there was a god&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought in the shower today as I was analysing patterns that have taken place in my life, that quite often when something did not work, something else pre-dated it. Is it God trying to tell me &#8211; &#8220;Hey dude, nuhuh, that ain&#8217;t gonna work, move on and keep on movin on!&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>If I was to believe in the existence of a god-like being (especially so the Christian version of a god &#8211; seeing as my upbringing is R.C), then there would be some things that would change in my life.<br \/>\nBeing that I am self important (as in fact to some extent I believe every human is, everyone would like to think they are special) and not being an ass hole I would assume that god would take a personal interest in my life. I would have to thank Her for my good fortunes and constantly look for &#8220;signs&#8221; from Her with which to guide my life.<br \/>\nThat bad tea in the morning? Can&#8217;t go to work&#8230;.. A Mitsubishi crashed outside my house &#8211; I must forever avoid the marquee&#8230;. A girl I met has the same birthday as an ex who cheated on me &#8211; a sure sign.<br \/>\nSo basically, believing in a higher omnipresent being would set a precedent in my life that would lead to constant paranoia and superstition, finally, being unable to cope with the fact that She was out to get me, that I wasn&#8217;t good enough. That unless I did something drastically right, I would go to hell.<br \/>\nIt is in my interest to live life the best way I know how, without any interruption or weight placed on my decisions due to a deity that may or may not exist and may or may not give a damn about how I live my life and what turns it takes&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/37\/75861588_ac3cc17c5f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought in the shower today as I was analysing patterns that have taken place in my life, that quite often when something did not work, something else pre-dated it. Is it God trying to tell me &#8211; &#8220;Hey dude, nuhuh, that ain&#8217;t gonna work, move on and keep on movin on!&#8221;? If I was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}