by TechMage » Jul 16, 2002 @ 11:21am
Happyness comes from within. Good and bad come and go like waves in the ocean. So ride the good waves and the bad and be happy through both. The only thing you can truely count on in life is change. I think religions are crap. They all have conflicting and confusing accounts. They are all man made in my opinion. Most religions were written by tons of different men and women and thats why one passage disagrees with another passage.
People have spent their entire lives trying to make sense of any one religion and they never do. If they think they have, someone else will point out something they missed and all there work was for nothing. Why do you think there are so many denominations and factions of the same religion. I personally look at human knowledge of religious subjects as piles of garbage. If you dig through them you find alot of shit, but also a few treasures. I grab the treasures, and leave the shit. I have found more tid bits of wisdom in journals, articles, quotes, and other non-religious material, then I have in religious books.
As far as the afterlife, the birth of existence, God, gods, spirits, and everything else otherworldly. Who cares? As far as God, gods, spirits, ect go, I think they are all just the product of the subconcious mind of thousands of individuals. But, maybe they exist outside of ourselves. Or maybe since mankind has believed in them for so long, they have became real. All I know for sure, is that they are rarely seen. When they are seen they are disorted, and everybody has seen them differently.
As far as the birth of existence goes, there are thousands of creation stories, and none of them can be fully proven true or untrue. The afterlife has been protrayed as either the wost place for a human to be or the best. And what some people consider the worst, others think is not so bad. And what some people have consider the best, others think is not so good. Nobody has ever retured from the afterlife to tell us.
And if they have (like Jesus, Buddha, ect), then they haven't brought back any solid proof that they were really there. I think a agnostic mind, is the only way to deal with this stuff. It's impossible to prove true or false, so don't even try. Well thats my two cents. I hope you enjoyed.