Contradiction.
October 13, 2008
Our generation is weird. We hate labels, love contradictions and make little sense of our world. I learned something a few years back that helped to clarify my thinking in a generation where anything goes, especially the weird.
This thing I learned is called the principle of contradiction, or the law of non-contradiction. Basically it’s just a rule of thinking that says contradictory statements cannot both be true at the same time.
So we can’t say that God does and does not exist. Either he does or he doesn’t. Just putting an ounce of thought into this demonstrates that this is true. If God exists and he is sitting there right in front of you then he obviously doesn’t not exist. If he doesn’t exist anywhere out there in the universe or beyond then he obviously doesn’t also exist. Got it? Pretty simple.
So I plead with our generation, please stop saying that everything is true. It can’t be. Happy thinking!
I leave you with Walking Contradiction by Green Day
