Death is everywhere.
It happens all around us, every second of every day.
If its not humans, its animals, or plants, or even ideas.
The prospect of dying is daunting. The survival instinct rings true among every creature upon this earth, forcing us to strive to keep the light of life alive in our bodies.
Why is it our nature to survive? Why has it been engraved into the very core of our being, even to our genetics, to live the longest life possible.
The answer is simple; Life is Good, Death is Bad.
Why then, do we as humans constantly suggest that after our time on earth, there lies another life.
After life, reincarnation, they're all the same. They're a part of religion. Religions are all the same in some aspects.
They all are human attempts to help humans deal with the aspects of life found most unpleasing.
Chief among them, Death.
Muslim Jihadists blow themselves up, believing that they are going to dine with Allah and seventy two virgins.
People commit suicide searching for a better life.
I may be mistaken.
Maybe its out there. Maybe alternate life does exist.
But if it does indeed exist, how would we know about it.
I may again be mistaken. But Your life is quite a large bet to place on an assumption.
Death.
It is not a part of life.
It is the finale of life.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Time
Time.
We all understand its workings and its function.
It was created by man, like emotions, like religion, to help us comprehend the passing of our lives, and to give meaning to the space we hold so dear in our hearts.
People grow old.
We all understand its workings and its function.
The passage of time is a strange thing.
Why do things change?
Why do they deteriorate only to become something new?
Why does the universe continue to expand?
And why oh why do humans live in a society where expectations change with the passage of time?
The passage of time dictates everything, it is our overlord.
Its occurrence is inevitable.
We age no matter what we try, be it cosmetics, or cloning.
And as we grow, we are expected to do new things, to take on new responsibilities, until we reach an age where we are deemed useless and put away until we die.
The only thing that confuses me is that at times, I don't exactly feel my age. I see people who act far younger then they should. I see people who act far older as well.
Does this give us a way to defeat the passage of time?
Even with the deterioration of our bodies, one can act young. Even at a young age, one can act like an adult.
Only thing is, people are ridiculed for these actions.
Is it such a crime not to be a slave to the clock?
Individualism is so highly valued because of terrible predictions of conformity, and yet, so often individualism is shunned and beaten down.
Why is this fair?
because it happens to everybody?
because age is relative to everybody?
Grow up.
The world isn't fair.
Time isn't either.
We all understand its workings and its function.
It was created by man, like emotions, like religion, to help us comprehend the passing of our lives, and to give meaning to the space we hold so dear in our hearts.
People grow old.
We all understand its workings and its function.
The passage of time is a strange thing.
Why do things change?
Why do they deteriorate only to become something new?
Why does the universe continue to expand?
And why oh why do humans live in a society where expectations change with the passage of time?
The passage of time dictates everything, it is our overlord.
Its occurrence is inevitable.
We age no matter what we try, be it cosmetics, or cloning.
And as we grow, we are expected to do new things, to take on new responsibilities, until we reach an age where we are deemed useless and put away until we die.
The only thing that confuses me is that at times, I don't exactly feel my age. I see people who act far younger then they should. I see people who act far older as well.
Does this give us a way to defeat the passage of time?
Even with the deterioration of our bodies, one can act young. Even at a young age, one can act like an adult.
Only thing is, people are ridiculed for these actions.
Is it such a crime not to be a slave to the clock?
Individualism is so highly valued because of terrible predictions of conformity, and yet, so often individualism is shunned and beaten down.
Why is this fair?
because it happens to everybody?
because age is relative to everybody?
Grow up.
The world isn't fair.
Time isn't either.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Trust
Trust is as much of on an anomaly as Love
It is odd that the two things go hand in hand when they are so different, but in any relationship they are equally important.
To make an rough analogy; While Love is an emotion that will drive you to the ends of the earth, trust is the engine fuel that keeps it running.
But alone, trust is more. In family it is a sign of loyalty. In business it is a sign of mutual respect for efficiency and the law. Between friends it is what lets you know who's got your back.
In times long ago, the Bedouin tribes, before the coming of Islam, put family before clan, and clan before belief, and belief before friends.
This system ran on trust and honor, and without it, the world would surely be a different place.
This much is obvious, for trust is the first thing a person takes into account when judging another.
However, deeper then the interactions between people each and every day, also lies trust. The kind that if broken, will never be repaired.
This is wrong.
This is an almost sacred bond that exists between human beings. It is the reason for every terrible break-up in the world, for every divided family, and for every mislead friendship.
Trust is also the last thing a person looks at when judging another.
Think of a world without trust.
There would be no honor, this is true, and chivilry would be out the window as well.
People could never be honest with one another, and economics would cease to exist on a whole, and with it, the rest of the world.
But also... every family would stay together to the end. Every relationship that should end well, would.
I am not suggesting that we forgo all trust, throw loyalty the wind, and live alone everyman for himself, but i think that trust once destroyed is an unfair fight.
Humans are not infallible.
We all deserve second chances.
Always forgive, never forget.
Trust is as much of on an anomaly as Love
It is odd that the two things go hand in hand when they are so different, but in any relationship they are equally important.
To make an rough analogy; While Love is an emotion that will drive you to the ends of the earth, trust is the engine fuel that keeps it running.
But alone, trust is more. In family it is a sign of loyalty. In business it is a sign of mutual respect for efficiency and the law. Between friends it is what lets you know who's got your back.
In times long ago, the Bedouin tribes, before the coming of Islam, put family before clan, and clan before belief, and belief before friends.
This system ran on trust and honor, and without it, the world would surely be a different place.
This much is obvious, for trust is the first thing a person takes into account when judging another.
However, deeper then the interactions between people each and every day, also lies trust. The kind that if broken, will never be repaired.
This is wrong.
This is an almost sacred bond that exists between human beings. It is the reason for every terrible break-up in the world, for every divided family, and for every mislead friendship.
Trust is also the last thing a person looks at when judging another.
Think of a world without trust.
There would be no honor, this is true, and chivilry would be out the window as well.
People could never be honest with one another, and economics would cease to exist on a whole, and with it, the rest of the world.
But also... every family would stay together to the end. Every relationship that should end well, would.
I am not suggesting that we forgo all trust, throw loyalty the wind, and live alone everyman for himself, but i think that trust once destroyed is an unfair fight.
Humans are not infallible.
We all deserve second chances.
Always forgive, never forget.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Part of Life
"Grief"
There is nothing like the true sadness and the epitome of inner disruption known as grief.
Dealing with it can be the hardest thing people must do in their lives.
It is truly unimaginable to those who have not experienced it.
One can act somber at a funeral for a distant relative, and one can morn for the loss of an unknown teen in a car accident involving a drunk driver.
But quickly the incident floats from your mind. You go on living, and you soon assimilate it into your life, because loss, like anything else, is a part of life.
And you see those who were close to the ones lost. You see their tears, and you wonder, why do I not feel this way?
It is because what they feel is grief. Not just sadness.
Grief consumes you, like a mass of air pressing in and around you, until all you feel is an oppressive wave of nothing.
Emptiness is left. If that makes sense.
The emptiness, it feels, stems from the loss.
Whether it be trust, life, limb, or opportunity that is destroyed, the emptiness is apparent, and it does not go away easily.
Alone, in one's pain, so it seems, one stumbles through each day until sleep takes them, haunted by something that will not go away.
Cannot go away.
For all those who feel as the world feels, my deepest sympathies.
To me, Life is like a novel. It is long, sometimes incredibly boring, and full of love, loss, and conflict. However, it isn't over until the final page, on which always lies a happy ending.
There is nothing like the true sadness and the epitome of inner disruption known as grief.
Dealing with it can be the hardest thing people must do in their lives.
It is truly unimaginable to those who have not experienced it.
One can act somber at a funeral for a distant relative, and one can morn for the loss of an unknown teen in a car accident involving a drunk driver.
But quickly the incident floats from your mind. You go on living, and you soon assimilate it into your life, because loss, like anything else, is a part of life.
And you see those who were close to the ones lost. You see their tears, and you wonder, why do I not feel this way?
It is because what they feel is grief. Not just sadness.
Grief consumes you, like a mass of air pressing in and around you, until all you feel is an oppressive wave of nothing.
Emptiness is left. If that makes sense.
The emptiness, it feels, stems from the loss.
Whether it be trust, life, limb, or opportunity that is destroyed, the emptiness is apparent, and it does not go away easily.
Alone, in one's pain, so it seems, one stumbles through each day until sleep takes them, haunted by something that will not go away.
Cannot go away.
For all those who feel as the world feels, my deepest sympathies.
To me, Life is like a novel. It is long, sometimes incredibly boring, and full of love, loss, and conflict. However, it isn't over until the final page, on which always lies a happy ending.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Society's Love
"Love"
Of all the emotions created by humans in order to interpret and to channel feelings, Love is the most difficult, the most complicated, the most terrifying, the most beautiful, and the most powerful of them all.
There is no definition for the word, it cannot simply be defined. Its definition is relative.
One can define sadness, or hate, or joy, or anything else, but not love. For if you attempt to write it down, it changes on you.
Different people have tried to control it, or to bind it in words, and they have failed miserably.
One could say that a newly wed couple love each other more then anything else, and yet, either would be willing to kill to protect it. Or for it.
That is not love. That is selfish desire, or uncontrollable rage.
In my own short experiences, i have not found love, or maybe i have.
That is the true question; When do i know i am in love?
Some say, in the absence of a material explanation, that you "will know" when it happens to you. But i find this to be purely unhelpful.
I have experienced desire so great for something so unyielding over a long period of time, and thought it to be love. It certainly felt like society described it would. Deep, burning, and painful. I felt the "Will Know", but saying "I love her" caused me more pain and grief in rejection then anything else i had yet felt.
Looking back, it was not love, but desire that drove me; the kind of desire that makes you pour out your soul into something, only to have it broken and shattered into a million pieces when dropped and forgotten.
I have also experienced a relationship of powerful mutual affection, one that made me feel so happy, so full, and so complete that i could want nothing else. Again, the "will know" strikes.
Society says that one does not know love until one comes of age and matures.
What am I allowed to feel?
What do i do with this terrible, unrecognizable emotion held captive within me?
I cannot call it Love, God forbid! the L word appears to be a taboo on my life. Uttering it reverses all things good.
The word scares me.
Using it improperly in a serious situation spells emotional suicide for any human.
This is wrong.
The key is knowing when one is in love, but with no definition, one cannot know.
Therein lies the problem.
If there is no definition, no set principle, then society has NO control over what is proper.
Teenage "Love" could be interpreted as a sophomoric and passionate cry for understanding, and for action, or it could be a real feeling undiscovered and even forgotten by those who shape the world and its youth.
Adults.
We are all human, and we all act in similar ways.
Now that I have explained the problem, my take is simple. Go with your gut feeling. If you feel a "will know", do not let society tell you that you are wrong. How can others know your feelings based on their own?
We are all humans, but we are all different.
You know what love is. Do not be afraid of it.
Of all the emotions created by humans in order to interpret and to channel feelings, Love is the most difficult, the most complicated, the most terrifying, the most beautiful, and the most powerful of them all.
There is no definition for the word, it cannot simply be defined. Its definition is relative.
One can define sadness, or hate, or joy, or anything else, but not love. For if you attempt to write it down, it changes on you.
Different people have tried to control it, or to bind it in words, and they have failed miserably.
One could say that a newly wed couple love each other more then anything else, and yet, either would be willing to kill to protect it. Or for it.
That is not love. That is selfish desire, or uncontrollable rage.
In my own short experiences, i have not found love, or maybe i have.
That is the true question; When do i know i am in love?
Some say, in the absence of a material explanation, that you "will know" when it happens to you. But i find this to be purely unhelpful.
I have experienced desire so great for something so unyielding over a long period of time, and thought it to be love. It certainly felt like society described it would. Deep, burning, and painful. I felt the "Will Know", but saying "I love her" caused me more pain and grief in rejection then anything else i had yet felt.
Looking back, it was not love, but desire that drove me; the kind of desire that makes you pour out your soul into something, only to have it broken and shattered into a million pieces when dropped and forgotten.
I have also experienced a relationship of powerful mutual affection, one that made me feel so happy, so full, and so complete that i could want nothing else. Again, the "will know" strikes.
Society says that one does not know love until one comes of age and matures.
What am I allowed to feel?
What do i do with this terrible, unrecognizable emotion held captive within me?
I cannot call it Love, God forbid! the L word appears to be a taboo on my life. Uttering it reverses all things good.
The word scares me.
Using it improperly in a serious situation spells emotional suicide for any human.
This is wrong.
The key is knowing when one is in love, but with no definition, one cannot know.
Therein lies the problem.
If there is no definition, no set principle, then society has NO control over what is proper.
Teenage "Love" could be interpreted as a sophomoric and passionate cry for understanding, and for action, or it could be a real feeling undiscovered and even forgotten by those who shape the world and its youth.
Adults.
We are all human, and we all act in similar ways.
Now that I have explained the problem, my take is simple. Go with your gut feeling. If you feel a "will know", do not let society tell you that you are wrong. How can others know your feelings based on their own?
We are all humans, but we are all different.
You know what love is. Do not be afraid of it.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Present
"Live in the present my friend"
The only way to argue this is with counter arguments.
One cannot live in the future, in order to do that one would simply sit and think ahead and never take action, causing a complete loop of the exact same thing.
One cannot live a majority of the time in the future as well, for if this was to happen, then one would be caught up in a systematic and logical order for things.
Life is like Chess, except more complicated. You can plan ahead, and plan ahead, and your opponent will always do something somewhere down the road that you didn't expect.
Unfortunately in life, its horribly impractical to think this way. Its not a game. There aren't any rules. and you have millions and billions of opponents.
It is too much for one person to try to comprehend. Leave the future alone.
As for the past, we have all heard it before; One cannot dwell on the past, and live well in the present.
Why is this though?
The truth again lies in thought power or brain capacity. (For lack of a better term).
If you waste all of it thinking about what happened and not about how to be better because of it, or how to fix it, or how to get over it, then you'll never get anywhere.
and even if you are trying to stay in limbo, thinking about stuff is kinda an oxymoron.
all in all.
you are best off living in the present.
making it up as you go along
just like anything you do, if you try too hard, you'll end up doing less.
The only way to argue this is with counter arguments.
One cannot live in the future, in order to do that one would simply sit and think ahead and never take action, causing a complete loop of the exact same thing.
One cannot live a majority of the time in the future as well, for if this was to happen, then one would be caught up in a systematic and logical order for things.
Life is like Chess, except more complicated. You can plan ahead, and plan ahead, and your opponent will always do something somewhere down the road that you didn't expect.
Unfortunately in life, its horribly impractical to think this way. Its not a game. There aren't any rules. and you have millions and billions of opponents.
It is too much for one person to try to comprehend. Leave the future alone.
As for the past, we have all heard it before; One cannot dwell on the past, and live well in the present.
Why is this though?
The truth again lies in thought power or brain capacity. (For lack of a better term).
If you waste all of it thinking about what happened and not about how to be better because of it, or how to fix it, or how to get over it, then you'll never get anywhere.
and even if you are trying to stay in limbo, thinking about stuff is kinda an oxymoron.
all in all.
you are best off living in the present.
making it up as you go along
just like anything you do, if you try too hard, you'll end up doing less.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
"God"
"God"
Who is God?
This topic is by far the most complicated of any.
I say now that i truly mean no offense to anybody reading this.
I believe that religion was created by humans, for humans, to cope with, and to understand the world in general.
Their is no adamant proof that any God, anywhere, in any religion exists.
That being said, there is no adamant proof of a singularity, a big bang, or a reoccuring universe, and there still remains the greatest question of all. Where did we come from, What was before.
You cannot create something from nothing, much in the same way that you cannot make something into nothing.
There are arguments both ways, however, God confuses me the most.
Imagine if you were God. And you made humans in the likeness of yourself. Would you not get fed up with them praying every single second of every single day? Would you not simply hate the lords prayer? If i were God, and I created people, I would simply love for them to just leave me alone!
The one thing that i would find most humorous of all, if i were God, was that when i created a storm on the seas, or sent an earthquake trembling through a city simply because i wanted to, I would get billions of prayer requests from unrelated people across the world to help their souls. A bit counter intuitive.
For this arguments sake, lets say that God's abilities far exceed any humans. Lets say that he is simply a being beyond our comprehension.
Then the problem arises, which God/gods are real?
You cannot say that they are all the same, one entity interpreted different ways, because all religion counteracts all other religion. They say completely different things.
Would you blame this on the fallacies of humans for not interpreting God in the right way? Who could you blame. You cannot blame the Muslims, for what if you had been born into a Muslim family?
So then, which God/gods are real?
One singular religion cannot be correct. For that to be true, it would also mean that a vast majority of the worlds population was wholly incorrect about God from the get go. It just seems so improbable.
Let us turn to Christianity. It has been around about 2000 years. It also believes that the Greek and Roman Gods of old are myth.
But they were steadily believed in for a good 2000 years as well.
I know little about the nature of God/gods, but i do know that they do not simply just die and go away.
Where are those twelve great Olympians now. Were they defeated by Christianity's God in some epic war in the heavens?
That goes against God's teachings. "Love thine Neighbor"
I ask again. Who is right?
Who can be right?
It just doesn't make sense. It doesn't add up.
This is why i am Agnostic. I am undecided.
I do not know what to believe when so many are apparently "wrong".
Religion is not a blessing. It is not greatness. It is just a story. An idea. An idea so well supported that it seems to be reality.
Over the history of the world, there has been more bloodshed for religion, for one God is right over one God is wrong, than anything else.
If there is a God, did He mean for the crusades to happen? or the inquisition? or even WWI?
If He is all powerful, He could have stopped it.
But He did not. Can you say He loves you?
Can you say He loves all those people He let die?
Who is God. or rather. What is God?
He is certainly not the being you preach him to be.
I believe that makes your religion, "wrong"
lets fight over it.
Who is God?
This topic is by far the most complicated of any.
I say now that i truly mean no offense to anybody reading this.
I believe that religion was created by humans, for humans, to cope with, and to understand the world in general.
Their is no adamant proof that any God, anywhere, in any religion exists.
That being said, there is no adamant proof of a singularity, a big bang, or a reoccuring universe, and there still remains the greatest question of all. Where did we come from, What was before.
You cannot create something from nothing, much in the same way that you cannot make something into nothing.
There are arguments both ways, however, God confuses me the most.
Imagine if you were God. And you made humans in the likeness of yourself. Would you not get fed up with them praying every single second of every single day? Would you not simply hate the lords prayer? If i were God, and I created people, I would simply love for them to just leave me alone!
The one thing that i would find most humorous of all, if i were God, was that when i created a storm on the seas, or sent an earthquake trembling through a city simply because i wanted to, I would get billions of prayer requests from unrelated people across the world to help their souls. A bit counter intuitive.
For this arguments sake, lets say that God's abilities far exceed any humans. Lets say that he is simply a being beyond our comprehension.
Then the problem arises, which God/gods are real?
You cannot say that they are all the same, one entity interpreted different ways, because all religion counteracts all other religion. They say completely different things.
Would you blame this on the fallacies of humans for not interpreting God in the right way? Who could you blame. You cannot blame the Muslims, for what if you had been born into a Muslim family?
So then, which God/gods are real?
One singular religion cannot be correct. For that to be true, it would also mean that a vast majority of the worlds population was wholly incorrect about God from the get go. It just seems so improbable.
Let us turn to Christianity. It has been around about 2000 years. It also believes that the Greek and Roman Gods of old are myth.
But they were steadily believed in for a good 2000 years as well.
I know little about the nature of God/gods, but i do know that they do not simply just die and go away.
Where are those twelve great Olympians now. Were they defeated by Christianity's God in some epic war in the heavens?
That goes against God's teachings. "Love thine Neighbor"
I ask again. Who is right?
Who can be right?
It just doesn't make sense. It doesn't add up.
This is why i am Agnostic. I am undecided.
I do not know what to believe when so many are apparently "wrong".
Religion is not a blessing. It is not greatness. It is just a story. An idea. An idea so well supported that it seems to be reality.
Over the history of the world, there has been more bloodshed for religion, for one God is right over one God is wrong, than anything else.
If there is a God, did He mean for the crusades to happen? or the inquisition? or even WWI?
If He is all powerful, He could have stopped it.
But He did not. Can you say He loves you?
Can you say He loves all those people He let die?
Who is God. or rather. What is God?
He is certainly not the being you preach him to be.
I believe that makes your religion, "wrong"
lets fight over it.
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