Wondering about God? Opinion Journal’s Best of the Web shares a plethora of conceptions of God. (Scroll down the page; it’s the last item. You may need to give them an email address.)
My personal favorite?
Common-law God. Since the beginning of time has assumed sole responsibility for Godlike acts, but has not legally been established as “God.”
Choices are good. Everyone says so.
I, however, am the kind of person who prefers NOT to have choices. I’ve mentioned this before, but I only applied to three colleges (four if you count the college that lost my application), and I only applied to five law schools (four if you consider that one was a school I was almost positive I wouldn’t end up at, for geographic reasons).
That’s how I roll, you know. Limited choices work well for me. I think this is because I don’t like having regrets. And I usually find that when you have lots of options, at least two or three of them will be really good options, and hard to distinguish from each other. In other words, lots of options = greater chance of regrets.
In other words, I have some choices now, and I would almost rather not. The options are terrific, and choosing between them will not be easy. And I don’t want to make a choice. For now, at least, I can put it off. Maybe some new information will come along and make the choice easier for me. Or maybe the options will get more difficult.
