On Monday, one of the questions asked was, “Is it possible to live your life with contradiction?” Let’s try a harder question: Is it possible to live your life without contradiction? I think contradiction will find its way into your life no matter what circumstance or position you are in. It seems like one of those things in life that are just bound to happen. There are probably two categories of contradictions: internal and external. Going with the latter, external contradictions are more observable than internal contradictions. One could provide many examples, like a person who regularly attends church and practices Christianity, but his practices stay in the church. Outside of the church he sins willfully and holds no respect for his religion. Maybe we are blind to our external contradictions sometimes. The blindness could be a self-defense move in order to protect us from the devastating reality that reality, in itself, is a contradiction. I don’t see life and death a contradiction, but rather an inevitable cycle shared among every living thing. However, I do find what we are capable of doing and what we could be capable of doing a contradiction. We are blessed, through evolution, with a complex brain capable of higher thinking. What makes this a contradiction is that we can think outside of the box—solve problems, invent formless ideas, create anything that we can possibly imagine—and yet we cannot act upon it every time. How cruel of a contradiction is this? Now for the second contradiction, the internal contradiction. I think internal contradictions are the ones that you believe with your heart/soul and mind. An example of this would be hearing a new piece of information that didn’t sit right with you. You tried to accept it, but deep inside you cannot accept it. It defies not just your logic, but it defies you morally. What if you were told you had to accept this information no matter what and that it was the absolute truth? Could this same situation happen if you are being preached at in a church?