To those bloggers out there currently reading this post, I pose a question to you: During Prof. Ogden's lectures for Hey Nostradamus! did any of you at any point have the thought of "screw homework afterwards, I need to get to a church and FAST!"?
Anybody? Anybody? I think I see a few hands in the back.
Either way, I know that's how I felt pretty much EVERY lecture. Just the mention of God, Heaven, Hell or what-have-you and inside I get all piny, maybe it's my soul trying to give me some sort of kick in the ass, or maybe I shouldn't have eaten that sixth Pop Tart. I don't know. Nor can I say with certainty that I know that I'll go to Heaven or if there even is one, nor if I'll see some of my loved ones there if I do. But either way, what I do know is that previous experience has told me that religion and I do not mix. I have nothing against religion of any sort... I just usually find a way to screw myself over and find it better just to keep my distance.
Perhaps that feeling was doubt as Prof. Ogden kept saying, but the thing was I never got it while actually reading the book, only during lecture. But, then again maybe that's because I read the book at my own pace and stayed within my comfort zone, while with lecture it's pretty much anything goes.
All this leaves me with is more questions that answers, which I suppose was Coupland and Prof. Ogden's point... but gosh darn it! I want answers!!
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That's funny that that made you want to go to church, because his lectures had sort of the opposite effect on me. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of belief and doubt going hand in hand as he says. It was almost like the Prof was advocating agnosticism or something, that you can never really adhere to one religion because you should be doubtful at the same time. Maybe I misunderstood him...
I'm with Graham; lectures certainly did not make me question my atheism. I did get the same feeling of "agnostic promotion", though. Ogden did raise a good point along with this, however; uncertainty is key to all human interaction. No matter how strong one's relationship with a friend, girlfriend, or supernatural deity may be, the true strength of that relationship lies in the knowledge gained from questioning said relationship.
More on that later.
I just felt like I had to run to some place of worship or another... and I think I may have pinpointed a part of why I felt that way. Guilt. For some reason or another the lectures were guilting me into going to church.
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