Monday, 16 June 2008
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Deception, Truth and Beauty
Once again, not by me. Neither is this post by someone I would call a friend. Not that they are an enemy, just I don't know them that much and don't really have a desire to, if you get me. But as they are in my life and a very very good friend of someone close to me, I would once again like to know your thoughts. Thanks.
Amyetta"The end of the world is nigh. You can find the evidence right here.
Lately topics of religion, spirituality and all that jazz have been coming up repeatedly and independently of one another. So here I am giving my take on how I find a spiritual balance in a vast and terrifying universe filled with vast unimaginable reaches of darkness and cold unfeeling stars.
First the question of God. Do I believe in a single all powerful deity of all encompassing power, love, forgiveness and heavenly rule?
Sort of.
God to me is not some conscious creature, watching humanity from heaven and demanding, pleading and arguing with us to follow him by turns. God to me is everything, everywhere. Ask any scientist or man of god and both will tell you there is an order to the universe, a marked state towards quantifiable and repeatable formulaic efficiency. The man of god will tell you that this is God's will inacted in the universe, the man of science will tell you that this is scientific cause and effect. To me this IS god. The natural beauty of the universe is that it is so vast and dark and complex, but beneath that complexity is a divine simplicity.
God is not seperate from the universe hiding in some abstract heaven. God is the universe, and heaven is right here. By the same token so is hell.
You see I feel that when people are focussed on their own 'eternal soul' they are striving for a selfish view of rightness and goodness. That if they act in a moral way that honours their abstract god it is enough. To me I feel that we have all we need to make Earth and the universe into heaven if we really set to work on it. We should strive to make the world a better place, capable of supporting and nurturing its vast population of lifeforms (human and otherwise). We should be aware that there will be more and more generations thousands, if not millions of years hence that should benefit from their predecessors existence rather than suffer for it. I'm not just talking 'save the earth' hippy garbage either. I'm talking sociological advancement and I'm talking scientific achievement.
But what about an afterlife?
What about it? Does it matter if there's an afterlife.
Riddle me this.
If I act in a morally responsible way to myself and my fellow man, because I feel that a moral act in and of itself is justified is that worse than acting morally responsible to get a ticket to heaven, like some kind of magic cookie at the end?
What about the immortal soul? This goes back to the previous question. Firstly, I don't know if there's such a thing as a soul, but I do know there's such a thing as a mind. A soul has a lot of damning questions involved in it. Does a chemically imbalanced psychopath doom himself to hell when he indulges his need to kill? If he was created by god, why would god damn this man to an eternity of hell because of a chemical imbalance in his short lived body? Now with reason, and intelligence we might come up with a chemical, psychological or punitive way for us to change the actions of this psycho. His mind becomes his own again and joy to us all.
The fallibility of man, is probably the biggest driving force behind this philosophy. Religions are institutions built by man, the bible, the quoran, the book of the dead and scientology pamphlets were all written by men. With the bias of humanity behind it, whether its delusion, social imperitive, fear, love or greed the point is that these people are all people. Just like I am people. I might be wrong about my idea, about how the universe works, but thats why I don't force it on you. I don't ask you to change your world view to be more like mine. Also I don't ask you to blindly accept my world-view. Question it, argue with me if you must, try to convert me to your own spiritual path if you feel the need. You'll fail, because I'm a stubborn sonofabitch. I might make you cry, because I'm an arrogant bastich. If I change your mind though, don't hold it against me. At the very least, you might start to really love the beauty of the universe in all its mundane moments, without any external aid. I mean, you need something to keep you interested while you wait for heaven right?
Anyway, I'm off. Clearly I've deleted nothing. I don't care. This is a place for me to say things when I want to say things loudly enough for people who care to listen.
Peace, Love, Tranquility and the Infinite Universe,
AND TACOS!
P.S. If God was a seperate being, he totally created Mexicans for Mexican food. If God is the universe, then he is Mexican Food too."
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