brown_thumb
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I no longer believe in God, at least not in the one we're taught to believe in. I no longer believe in heaven or hell. I don't believe in karma or any other form of 'spiritual' justice. I've never seen it. It seems the people who are the happiest and wealthiest are those who lie, cheat, steal, deceive and take advantage of others far less fortunate than they. It seems those worst off are decent, kind, giving people of good nature. We dare not turn our backs for a moment, not even to our friends and family. Of course, there are exceptions in both cases, some of which are extreme... I know of a few.
I haven't prayed in a very long time because no matter how selfless and heartfelt those prayers are, they fall on death ears or no ears at all, leaving those we love to suffer in the cruelest of ways.
What I do believe is most of what we're taught about faith is utter nonsense. What I do believe is, what really matters is how we treat each other at the macro level, during our time, here and now. There may not be a tomorrow to make amends. What I do believe is, as our society continues to deteriorate into madness, travelling ever deeper towards selfishness, coldness, and cruelty, it becomes abundantly clear we're rapidly headed into a hell on earth... and that only around the next bend.
The next major economic collapse will not only be catastrophic but will wreak nearly complete devastation of life as we know it. Without the most basic of essentials available to the masses, and with our increasing unwillingness to help one another rather than taking everything we can get, it will get bloody. Our political system has become so pervasively corrupt that few we've elected care about anything other than increasing their own wealth and power. They know very well where our country is headed and they want to be on the top of the heap. There will be no savior to help us.
I stated that I don't believe in God and that's largely true but only in the sense that I don't 'know' the truth and I'm certain no other living creature does either. I'm agnostic. I believe in everything, and nothing. There are no 'absolute' truths.
Even as a kid, I always filtered out the obvious BS and tried to hold onto the things which I believed really mattered. I often use the term 'boiling down to the last few beans in the pot', meaning to toss out the obvious nonsense while retaining what's important to the issue at hand. Often, that means ignoring 99.9 percent of the data submitted. What I lost long ago is that last remaining .1 percent.
Our thoughts are tainted with the bullshit we've been programmed to believe. We've been brainwashed to believe in things which allow others to manipulate and control what we think, say and do... religions, socioeconomic systems, patriotism... all of it.
I'm so sick of the entire mess that I can no longer keep my thoughts on an even keel... not that it matters in the grand scheme of things.
I haven't prayed in a very long time because no matter how selfless and heartfelt those prayers are, they fall on death ears or no ears at all, leaving those we love to suffer in the cruelest of ways.
What I do believe is most of what we're taught about faith is utter nonsense. What I do believe is, what really matters is how we treat each other at the macro level, during our time, here and now. There may not be a tomorrow to make amends. What I do believe is, as our society continues to deteriorate into madness, travelling ever deeper towards selfishness, coldness, and cruelty, it becomes abundantly clear we're rapidly headed into a hell on earth... and that only around the next bend.
The next major economic collapse will not only be catastrophic but will wreak nearly complete devastation of life as we know it. Without the most basic of essentials available to the masses, and with our increasing unwillingness to help one another rather than taking everything we can get, it will get bloody. Our political system has become so pervasively corrupt that few we've elected care about anything other than increasing their own wealth and power. They know very well where our country is headed and they want to be on the top of the heap. There will be no savior to help us.
I stated that I don't believe in God and that's largely true but only in the sense that I don't 'know' the truth and I'm certain no other living creature does either. I'm agnostic. I believe in everything, and nothing. There are no 'absolute' truths.
Even as a kid, I always filtered out the obvious BS and tried to hold onto the things which I believed really mattered. I often use the term 'boiling down to the last few beans in the pot', meaning to toss out the obvious nonsense while retaining what's important to the issue at hand. Often, that means ignoring 99.9 percent of the data submitted. What I lost long ago is that last remaining .1 percent.
Our thoughts are tainted with the bullshit we've been programmed to believe. We've been brainwashed to believe in things which allow others to manipulate and control what we think, say and do... religions, socioeconomic systems, patriotism... all of it.
I'm so sick of the entire mess that I can no longer keep my thoughts on an even keel... not that it matters in the grand scheme of things.
