Okay, I'll be honest, I'm usually a sceptic. I don't believe things easily - I toss aside the fantastical, the mythical, the conspiracies and the tales, and I strip things down to pure logic and science.
Or at least I try not to.
Horror films never (used to) phase me, nor did religious preaching, or paranormal investigations. I like to think that I can steadily hold the bombardment of rubbish and ridiculous notions at bay.
I do not succumb to faiths or teachings, or to threatenings of demonic absorption, or eternal damnation.
Or at least I try not to.
And yet, of course, I know there are many things we cant explain in our lives. There are many questions that we really have no answers to. But I believe that, behind every question that looms over mankind, there is an answer out there somewhere - But I don't believe that those answers will be found by lots of hairy old men sitting around on their ass and thinking, constantly creating new rules and fables in order to drive people to believe what they want them to believe.
Because that's what religion is all about. It's a bunch of elderly men, seeking power, reeling out lie after lie, in order to answer the questions that they're too scare to admit they don't have answers for.
It is fables, stories and rulings, created in order to attempt to control a populace, which in essence, they are aware they could never really control.
It's about leading that same populace, and themselves, to believe there is some fantastical eternity of life and joy after you die, in order to mollify their extensive fears of death and destruction in the world, and to justify and coincidental suffering that occurs during their life.
This shouldn't be the case. The acknowledgement that death exists and surrounds us every day, should be what drives us to attempt to make our lives better and worth living, for our own personal sakes. The fact of the matter is, your lifespan, and your physical presence, pales into significance at the age and sheer size of the whole universe. Your life is short, and (as hard as it is to hear) seemingly insignificant. There are people, of course, who contribute greatly to our world, and then there are people who don't - but you should strive to be one of the contributors. Every little action brings something. A hug where someone needs it, or that idea or dream you had, you should go for it, because, at the end of the day, you really have very little to lose, when you think about where you are in time and space.
The acknowledgement of death should be what makes you grab life by the balls and try to squeeze as much fun and love out of it as you can.
It shouldn't be some ridiculous story of a divine being, whom guides you through your life, coddling you and reassuring you all the way. What you should understand is that life is shit! Shitty stuff happens to the best of us - honestly - you are going to suffer, at some time, one way or another, and no story, or little hymnal or righteous act will stop that. It may help ease your ravaged conscience, and help convince you that all will be forgiven one way or another - but there is no-one up there to forgive, besides those you have hurt. If you fuck up, or something goes wrong, there's no fate, or divine intervention that's caused it - It just happened.
But that should be the reason you try hard at what you do, and if something goes wrong , believe that it'll all work out in the end, and that you'll come out the other side much stronger - not because of some retributional force like Karma, but because you made it happen yourself, and that that the people around you whom love you, helped you get where you needed to be.
Because you can never underestimate the power of love.
Believe in yourself, and believe that you can make things happen - don't let the opinions of others cloud and cling to you, because they will drag you down and they will never truly understand who you are. Because if you can believe in that, and you work your hardest, that's all you can do at the end of the day - all anyone can ever really ask of you. People who believe that your best isn't good enough, aren't worth your time.
Don't blame your failings on some "all-powerful-being", and don't blame yourself too much by the same token - because in the end, when you've tried your best, and you've failed still, you should rest easy, knowing that was all you can do.
But if you do need some support - don't turn to a God, because they just aren't there - self delusion is a wonderful thing, but too much will drive you insane. Turn to someone real, solid and sensible (or sometimes, they don't even need to be sensible). In times of hardship, when you're losing your way, or struggling to carry on, turn to a real person, who will comfort you with love.
We all, despite what we may believe, have someone who loves us - and the people who love you, want to help you where they can. Of course, some of these people will need your support from time to time, and sometimes they will hurt you. But you need to accept that everyone is going to hurt you in your life, one way or another, you just have to hunt down the people worth suffering for, because they are who you need.
Sometimes it's hard, because these people are hidden, in fake intentions and persona's, and you don't know how to develop the correct relationship with this person. But it's then you need to realise that love is not divisible and split into categories.
Love is a constant, that surrounds us everyday - it is simply the intensity to which love is felt that varies. People, as so often happens, find it hard to judge the varying intensities of feeling, and so, confuse them self, thinking they love someone when in fact they feel nothing more than lust, or the strong bond of friendship. People like this will realise sooner or later how they actually feel, and they will begin to understand, and be able to give you the love they need. You can either get over it or move on, or put it down to experience and leave them behind - the decision is of course, yours.
Love is so much more important than anything else, and ironically, it is religion that tends to preach it's benefits most of all - because everything in the universe that has been created by man, has been based on a fundamental idea or belief. These ideas get morphed and abused, made into something they aren't and used as a weapon against our world.
Of course, I'm not saying there aren't people who don't believe the religious concepts faithfully, and I don't mind that.... I try very hard not to judge, and I myself once believed the good lord would rescue my soul, but I'm saying what I believe, in the hope of enlightening people, or perhaps just making them think - I don't say anything with a view to forcing people to believe something.
Each to their own.
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