Journal # 3 The Stranger

Benjamminism... :)
1. There is an omnipotent, omnipresent God that controls/allows every thing and action every taken by anyone to take place.
2. People and the world are inherently evil, but can become good if God works through them.
3. Things happen because of a master plan, but that master plan has an order to it.
4. Religion as an institution may be unneeded in the future.
5. People are all, at their core, Hedonists.
6. Nihilists are suppressing their emotions and disallowing themselves to feel attached to anything.
7. Anyone is capable of making any available choice at any time. (I am relatively unsurprised by anyone doing anything, whether it seems against their character or not.)
8. There is Absolute Truth, although I don't believe we can know what it is until whatever is in the afterlife...
9. The choices people make matter most when they affect others.
10. Teenagers rarely have sturdy philosophy. And I am no exception.
11. This is but a small taste of what I may or may not believe. One night is really not enough time to come up with a decent philosophy of any kind in my opinion. I didn't feel like I had enough time to fully explore my true feelings on these issues.