The problem with people like you and me, Ernesto, is that we see things as they really are, and we aren’t afraid to look. As silly as it seems, most of us humans would simply rather not know. Their illusions and fantasies are so much prettier than the truth, to them.
This is why I know there’s a God, and why I have no religion. Religion is for those who are still looking for God.
This is why I have no politics. Politics are for people who want to stand for something that confirms their illusions. It gives them a sense of power. A false one, but they can’t see that.
Something I’ve mostly refrained from doing through all my blogging is to get very deeply into my own philosophy. Ernesto’s inspired me to do so now. So since hardly anyone ever reads this anymore, anyway, I feel safe in passing this on.
All my life I’ve held TRUTH to be GOD, and I was right to do so. The Bible says that God is Truth, God is Love, and people read that and don’t understand it. If you want to be in the presence of God, put yourself aside because God will take up all the room.
When we believe, it’s because we don’t know. I know the sky is blue and grass is green. I don’t believe that. I know it. Truth is always unobscured, there is never anything in the way, no haze in front of it, no fog, no doubt. The ability to see Truth is as native to us as eyesight itself.
When we believe with all our hearts, we do it with a feeling of Hope and of Trust, and as often as not, our Hope and Trust are in vain. When we believe, it’s because we either want to or have no other choice.
We choose, based on our degree of life experience. The greater our experience, the better our choices. Most of our choices are based on a small amount of knowledge combined with our best guess and our strongest hope, and most of our choices are gambles and risky. Guessing is no substitute for knowing.
We believe in a world that doesn’t exist. One made up of opposite poles. Good and evil, left and right, high and low, sweet and sour, more and less. All wrong. Wrong because we think the world is created by our reaction to it. That because there is light, then darkness must be something different, and because every time the light goes away, darkness replaces it and is therefor opposite. It never occurs to us that it’s the same as light, it’s just less, and less, and less light.
Politics is exactly the same. Politics is simply a collection of opinions that a person or a group of people have, and those opinions will be different than the opinions of others, so then you have political parties, and governments, and elections, and bar-room fights and assassinations and all sorts of discord.
Opinions are a waste of brain waves. If you want to get outside of your foolish opinions, stop thinking and look at the truth. There are no opposites. There is no up or down, here or there, black or white.
Nothing is sacred. Nothing is “holy”. Abortion is not a sin. There is no such thing as sin. Sins are Taboos created by human societies to regulate behavior. Just as Dark is simply less Light, Evil is simply a lack of Love.
Human life is not sacred. It doesn’t matter when a person becomes a person. Laws are not Truth, Laws are just laws and not always good ones. What people think is of no importance. Against the scope of our Galaxy, a human is barely an atom and our Earth is a grain of sand on a beach. We are not important.
Our lives are an invisible flicker in the passage of time. What binds us together with all life is the consciousness we share. As long as life exists, consciousness exists, and consciousness is the same for all creatures. If you want eternity, find it there.
Nothing has a Right To Life, that’s just an expression we made up because we’re afraid. Being remembered by others is not immortality. They too will die and the Earth itself will become a cinder. If you want to worry, worry about how clearly you perceive the Truth while you live and have the opportunity to do so. Our lack of vision is what kills us.
If you want to see the Truth, stop trying to see it and just look.
Philosofic. Existencialist.
“Believing is the oppositive of Knowing” (Nietzsche)
You ARE a Philosopher, Black Sheep. And one of the finests.
Ancient Greeks practiced abortion because they have no choice: their society just could not survive as a Welfare State increasing Health Care to more and more born-citizens blind, weak, unshaped, unable to work or fight as soldiers. For them, abortion was a better choice than killing children just born. At last, they were avoiding more and more suffering — for the children, for parents, for the whole society, for everything.
CHOICE is the key. It was make our character. But, if all the choices got made after us (by doctrines, ideologies, religions, etc) so Human Beings are less than robots, programmed to obey every command and choose nothing. Then, with no choices, there’s no Humans — only slaves.