Wake Up, Open the Door and Escape to the Sea.

In a matter of love and fate, we fall on our heels.
To love another is to first love yourself.
And to find what fate is dragging you to, is to simply listen.

You're alive only if you feel it.
And you're dead without even realizing it.
Taking artistic measures, I'm fresh out of memories.
It's like walking through a mist.
And people are only shadows.

A hint is to always read what I write in context.
That's the only way to understand it.
My mind; I think in context.
I can't help it.
I've always done it.


While memories are painful, I cast them out of my mind.
Always at work and distracted.
My art gives me peace of mind.


I'll give you what you're worth.
Who says pain isn't cheap?
Is it worth the ache in my soul?
Maybe you're just being coy.

Let's leave unsaid, what's let unspoken.


Discuss.

An Artist in a World Full of Pain.

I don't always discuss things.
I have an extremely artsy side to me.
Here is an example;

As I crawl, I feel you there.
You're out of view, but I can smell you.
I can smell your fear; it's radiating off of  you.
You have a fear of life and death and everything in between.

Everything is broken now.
She's cowering in the corner.
So tired of crying.
Just want to feel alive.
Just one more time.
One more time...


And her heart is waiting for your touch.
She's drowning in the lies you lied.
You killed her soul with all your hate.


All the pain I feel inside is growing more and more.
You said forever.
You lied.


When will you see?
All this pain...
We died for nothing.
We all died in vain.
You're the only one to blame.
You left me there, you'd let me rot.


I promised you my heart.
I gave it all up for you.
Here, I'm left with nothing.
Only faded memories.
I can't remember the sound of your voice anymore.


It's all so far from me.
I can feel him in my heart.
Breathing ever so slightly.
And I'm still dying inside.
I give off the essence of life.
But I'm still dying inside.


I wish you'd just leave.
Like all the times you left before.
But you're watching as I crawl away.
I smell your fear.
You know what you want.
And I know, too.


My memories are of you and hate.
I can't forgive, I can only forget.
She let you rip her to pieces.
And so did he.


Pain is more than what's on the surface, dear.
It's skin deep and you're reluctant.

I can't hear you anymore.
You're so far from me.
What was once the sweetest dream, is now the cruelest nightmare.
And when the moon comes out, the stars will fall.
Night will cure us all from hate.
Here, we'll be alive again.


We're coming back to life with the essence of death.


I can't remember who you are.
You're not the same as you were before.
You can't hold on to what you never had.
And dreams are keeping me awake.


Paranoia strikes and I crawl through the wire.
The dirt destroys her white dress.


And the panic is alive.
And the panic, you are dead.


I can feel the disease eating me from the inside.
I'm dying in the pile of leaves.
The vile will eat you alive.
And the song of October will bring you peace.


I can't feel you when I'm dying.
You're so far from here.
There's nothing that you can do.
You left long before I did.


She's breathing now.
And you're still sleeping.

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Discuss.

Death is a Disease.

Let's talk theories for a moment.
What if you could live forever?
What if death had a cure?
Would you want it?

You would think that it would be wonderful.
Well, certain people, of course.
Not everyone is the same.

But what if it was actually inevitable?
I'm not here to say that I have all the answers.
No one does.
But I do have one logical explanation.


The only way to gain immortality is through death.


Simple yet mindblowing.


Now, say we were to find a way to keep humans from aging and dying.
Would you want it? Or even believe it at first?
However, that'd be one hell of an infomercial...

Personally, what I want is contradicting.
But it also seems to make sense.
I don't want to live forever.
BUT, I don't want to die.


Same with another similar double-phobia regarding eternity;
I feel that eventually I'd want everything to just...stop.
See, I'm afraid of anything lasting forever.
And I'm equally afraid of eternity ending.


It's just that either scenario freaks me out.
But to each their own.
Discuss.

Death Plagues Us All.

I often wonder how the world has survived this long.
Look at how humans treat the earth.
It's pathetic.

We try to own what is not ours.
We abuse our limits.
And we stress our resources.

I see everyone do it.
I see myself do it.
I'm no better than anyone else.
But I try to avoid doing it.
I've awoken from the nightmare.


The universe is alive.
Do you see?
Everything is alive.


I want to take a step back, now.
I want to discuss something that many people seem to overlook.
Vegetarianism.


Animals can feel pain.
They scream while being slaughtered.
They scream because they don't want to die.
They can feel just as much as humans.
Yet we look upon them as a dish to served at dinner.


I cannot simply explain this with simple text.
Visuals are needed to get the point across.


This video is disturbing.
I hope you can stomach it;
This is a link. Click it.


Discuss.

The Scientific Rant Concerning the Skies and the Egotistical Universe.

In time Dark Energy will overrule Dark Matter causing the universe to expand into forever.

And in time there will be no new stars, the stars will die out, one by one.

The universe will be a very cold, very lonely place.

All body's of water will freeze over and there will be no lifeforms anywhere throughout the entire universe.

But it's completely illogical to say forever, because if nothing lasts forever than eventually forever must end.

I mean seriously, look around. how could anything last forever?

One day mankind will meet their demise and so will all other lifeforms.

So we need to live, yeah?

All that can really be said is to never waste a second of time, time is very precious, if not important.

And every second wasted is a second we cannot retrive.

As for time travel, if you go to the past you won't be able to do things over, you won't be able to say goodbye.

It's gone. You go there and you find nothing. You find your dimise.

And there will be nothing if you were to go to the future.

You'd be surrounded by buildings with lack of humans and/or animals.

As for religious beliefs; there is proof that jesus ever even existed.

The bible was re-written hundreds, if not thousands of times over.

And originally, there were about sixhundered and thirteen commandments.

Possibly more, possibly less.

However. It is quite funny, society really expects us to believe there's an invisible man in the clouds or 'heavens' of the universe.

And this invisible man; god, loves all of us.

But if you disobey any of the commandments or if you don't believe in him, he'll condemn you to hell, to burn and suffer for all eternity.

Until the end of time...but he loves you.

The north star is actually the brightest star in the night sky; Sirius.

And the 'three kings' is actually the three stars; Orion's Belt.

And the 'son' is the Sun.

It reaches it's lowest points durning Winter, but on 25 December, it is at it's at it's normal height in the sky and the is the 'son of god'.

And death is a part of life. Nothing to obsess over.

And life, is, well. Life. Haha. And there is proof of the afterlife.

Watch educatinal television and read a lot. ;] That's what I do. Lol.

But most of my knowledge is based on logic. There should be a logical explanation for everything. 'god' is science. Science is 'god'.

That's just how it works.

I've got a lot of theories, and a lot of theories on how to prove those theories.

That's all anything is until someone proves it.

The sky is so vast and empty.

Empty with so many healthy points of light.

We will one day find the Tree of Life.

We will one day see that the only way to gain immortality...is death.

Discuss.

An Explaination of the Divine.

Religion:
A religion is an organized exploitation of human spiritual vulnerabilities which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power, God or gods, or ultimate truth. People practicing religion are usually weak-minded and vulnerable, making them easy preys for religious leaders. It may be expressed through prayer, satanistic rituals, sexual orgies, meditation, music and art, among other things. It may focus on specific supernatural, metaphysical, and moral claims about reality (the cosmos and human nature) which may yield a set of religious laws, ethics, and a particular lifestyle. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience.
The term 'religion' refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction. 'Religion' is sometimes used interchangeably with 'faith' or 'belief system,' but it is more socially defined than personal convictions, and it entails specific behaviors, respectively.
The development of religion has taken many forms in various cultures. It considers psychological and social roots, along with origins and historical development.
In the frame of western religious thought, religions present a common quality, the 'hallmark of patriarchal religious thought': the division of the world in two comprehensive domains, one sacred, the other profane. Religion is often described as a communal system for the coherence of belief focusing on a system of thought, unseen being, person, or object, that is considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine, or of the highest truth. Moral codes, practices, values, institutions, tradition, rituals, and scriptures are often traditionally associated with the core belief, and these may have some overlap with concepts in secular philosophy. Religion is also often described as a 'way of life' or a life stance.

Definitions Of Religion:
Religious scholars generally agree that writing a single definition that applies to all religions is difficult or even impossible, because all people examine religion with some kind of critical eye, and the term is therefore fraught with ideological consequences for anyone who might want to construct a universal definition. Talal Asad writes that 'there cannot be a universal definition of religion...because that definition is itself the historical product of discursive processes'; Thomas A. Tweed, while defending the idea of religion in general, writes that 'it would be foolish to set up an abstract definition of religion's essence, and then proceed to defend that definition from all comers.'
The earliest definition of religion is from Johnson's Dictionary, which simply calls it 'a system of faith and worship'. Friedrich Schleiermacher in the late 18th century defined religion as das schlechthinnige Abhängigkeitsgefühl, commonly translated as 'a feeling of absolute dependence'. His contemporary Hegel disagreed thoroughly, defining religion as 'the Divine Spirit becoming conscious of Himself through the finite spirit'. Clifford Geertz's definition of religion as a 'cultural system' was dominant for most of the 20th century and continues to be widely accepted today.
Sociologists and anthropologists tend to see religion as an abstract set of ideas, values, or experiences developed as part of a cultural matrix. For example, in Lindbeck's Nature of Doctrine, religion does not refer to belief in 'God' or a transcendent Absolute. Instead, Lindbeck defines religion as, 'a kind of cultural and/or linguistic framework or medium that shapes the entirety of life and thought…it is similar to an idiom that makes possible the description of realities, the formulation of beliefs, and the experiencing of inner attitudes, feelings, and sentiments'. According to this definition, religion refers to one's primary worldview and how this dictates one's thoughts and actions. Thus religion is considered by some sources to extend to causes, principles, or activities believed in with zeal or conscientious devotion concerning points or matters of ethics or conscience, and not necessarily including belief in the supernatural.
The English word religion has been in use since the 13th century, loaned from Anglo-French religiun (11th century), ultimately from the Latin religio, 'reverence for God or the gods, careful pondering of divine things, piety, the res divinae'.
The ultimate origins of Latin religiō are obscure. It is usually accepted to derive from ligare 'bind, connect'; probably from a prefixed re-ligare, i.e. re (again) + ligare or 'to reconnect.' This interpretation is favoured by modern scholars such as Tom Harpur and Joseph Campbell, but was made prominent by St. Augustine, following the interpretation of Lactantius. Another possibility is derivation from a reduplicated *le-ligare. A historical interpretation due to Cicero on the other hand connects lego 'read', i.e. re (again) + lego in the sense of 'choose', 'go over again' or 'consider carefully'.

The Dawn of Life.

I found some extraordinarily interesting creation myths;

Creation Myths:

Finnish

Ancient Finns believed that the world was formed from an egg that was broken.

A bird was flying above the sea, seeking a place to make a nest and lay her eggs. She searched everywhere, but found nothing but water. Then she noticed the first dry place. In some stories it was an island, in other stories it was a boat and in other stories it was a body part of a floating being, like the wizard Väinämöinen. The place was too unstable for a nest: a big wave came and broke the eggs, spreading their parts all over. However the eggs were not wasted: the upper part of egg covers formed the sky, yolk became the sun, and lower parts of egg formed the mother earth. The first human was Väinämöinen, he was born from the maiden of air Ilmatar that was made pregnant by the sea. Väinämöinen ordered forests to be planted, and started human culture.

Norse and Germanic

The Voluspa opens with the Norse account of the creation of the present universe:

Old tales I remember | of men long ago. I remember yet | the giants of lore [...] Of old was the age | when Ymir lived; No Sea nor cool waves | nor sand there were; Earth had not been, | nor heaven above, Only a yawning gap, | and grass nowhere.

In the beginning there was nothing except for the ice of Niflheim, to the north, and the fire of Muspelheim, to the south. Between them was a yawning gap [[the phrase is sometimes left untranslated as a proper name: Ginnungagap]], and in this gap a few pieces of ice met a few sparks of fire. The ice melted to form Eiter, which formed the bodies of the hermaphrodite giant Ymir and the cow Auðumbla, whose milk fed Ymir. Auðumbla fed by licking the rime ice, and slowly she uncovered a man's hair. After a day, she had uncovered his face. After another day, she had uncovered him completely: Búri.

Ymir fathered Thrudgelmir, as well as two humans, one man and one woman. Búri fathered Borr. Borr had three sons, Vili, Ve, and Odin, who killed the giant Ymir. In the vast flood of Ymir's blood, Þrúðgelmir was also drowned, although not before he had fathered Bergelmir. Bergelmir and his wife hid in a hollow tree trunk and survived. Odin and his brothers used Ymir's body to create the universe : they ground his flesh into dirt, and the maggots that appeared in his flesh became the dwarves that live under the earth. His bones became the mountains, and Odin strewed his brains into the sky to create the clouds. The universe comprises nine worlds, of which this earth (Midgard) is central.

They placed four dwarves: Norðri (North), Suðri (South), Austri (East), and Vestri (West) to hold up Ymir's skull and create the heavens. Then using sparks from Muspelheim, the gods created the sun, moon and stars. As Odin and two others (differing between the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda) walked along the beach, they found two pieces of driftwood. From these, they created the first human beings: Ask and Embla. Ymir's eyebrows were used to create a place where the human race could live in; a place called Midgard.

The gods regulated the passage of the days and nights, as well as the seasons. Sól is the personified sun, a daughter of Mundilfari, and wife of Glen. Every day, she rides through the sky on her chariot, pulled by two horses named Árvakr and Alsviðr. Sól is chased during the day by Sköll, a wolf that wants to devour her. It is foretold that Sköll will eventually catch Sól and eat her during Ragnarök; however, she will first give birth to a daughter as fair as she. Sól's brother Máni, the personified moon, is chased by Hati Hróðvitnisson, another wolf. The earth is protected from the full heat of the sun by the shield Svalinn, which is placed before Sól.

Hindu

In Hindu philosophy, the existence of the universe is governed by the Trimurti of Brahma [[the Creator]], Vishnu [[the Sustainer]] and Shiva (the Destroyer). The sequence of Avatars of Vishnu - the Dasavatara (Sanskrit: Dasa—ten, Avatara—divine descents) is generally accepted by most Hindus today as correlating well with Darwin's theory of evolution i.e. the first Avatar generating from the environment of water. Hindus believe that the universe was created from the Word (Aum/OM : ॐ) - the sacred sound uttered by every human being at the time of birth. The first five great elements or Panchamahabhuta (Sanskrit: Pancha—five + Maha—great + Bhuta—elements) are: Akasha, Vayu, Agni, Ap, and Prithvi.

Hindus believe that the cycle of creation, preservation, and destruction has no beginning, Anadi. Hindus thus do not see much conflict between creation and evolution. Another reason for this could also be the Hindu concept of cyclic time, such as yugas, or days of Brahma. A Day of Brahma lasts 4.32 billion years and the night of Brahma also lasts for 4.32 billion years. Days and nights follow in cycles (unlike the concept of linear time in many other religions). In fact, time is represented as Kālá Chakra, the wheel of time.

In earlier Vedic thinking, the universe emanated from a cosmic egg, Hiranyagarbha (literally, 'the golden embryo'). Prajapati was born from the Hiranyagarbha world egg. Prajapati was later identified in the Puranas with the Demiurge Brahma. Various devas are credited with certain acts of the process of creation, as personified entities representing the laws governing the universe. For instance, the act of propping apart the Sky and the Earth suggests early ideas of an expanding universe. The Purusha Sukta hymn of Rig Veda further personifies and describes the story of the creation of the universe from the remains of a gigantic primaeval Cosmic Man, Purusha,or Viswakarma sacrificed at the Purushamedha yajna.

In Hinduism, nature and all of God's creations are manifestations of him and he pervades and observes the entire universe. Hence all animals and humans have a divine element in them that is obscured by avidya - ignorance from illusions of material, mundane existence.

Several scholars have attempted breaking the code of cosmogenesis of the Rig Veda. According to Rig Veda, creation happened gradually. The universe in its primitive form was made up of Ishwar Tattva, which primarily spread homogeneously throughout the universe. The complete equilibrium and homogeneity, when broke, arose an inhomogenous state of the primordial fluid, Ap. With the transformation of undifferentiated primordial fluid into differentiated fluid through polarization of opposites, the universe moved from a homogenous to inhomogenous state when particles were formed first.
Babylonian

The Babylonian creation myth is recounted in the 'Epic of Creation' also known as the Enûma Elish. The Mesopotamian 'Epic of Creation' dates to the late second millennium B.C.E.

In the poem, the god Marduk (or Assur in the Assyrian versions of the poem) is created to defend the divine beings from an attack plotted by the ocean goddess Tiamat. The hero Marduk offers to save the gods only if he is appointed their supreme unquestioned leader and is allowed to remain so even after the threat passes. The gods agree to Marduk's terms. Marduk challenges Tiamat to combat and destroys her. He then rips her corpse into two halves with which he fashions the earth and the skies. Marduk then creates the calendar, organizes the planets, stars and regulates the moon, sun, and weather. The gods pledge their allegiance to Marduk and he creates Babylon as the terrestrial counterpart to the realm of the gods. Marduk then destroys Tiamat's husband, Kingu using his blood to create humankind so that they can do the work of the gods.

Egyptian

There were at least three separate cosmogenies in Egyptian mythology, corresponding to at least three separate groups of worshippers.

    - The Ennead, in which Atum arose from the primordial waters (Neith), and masturbated to relieve his loneliness. His vomitus and saliva became Tefnut (moisture) and Shu (dryness), respectively. From Shu and Tefnut, were born Geb (earth), and Nut (sky), who were born in a state of permanent copulation. Shu separated them, and their children were Ausare (Osiris; death), Set (desert), Aset (Isis; life), and Nebet Het (Nephthys; fertile land). Osiris and Isis were a couple, as were Nepthys and Set.
    - The Ogdoad, in which Ra arose, either in an egg, or a blue lotus, as a result of the creative interaction between the primordial forces of Nu/Naunet (water), Amun/Amunet (air), Kuk/Kauket (darkness), and Huh/Hauhet (eternity). Ra then created Hathor, his wife, with whom they had a son, Hor (Horus; in the form known as Horus the Elder), who was married to Isis. This cosmogeny also includes Anupu (Anubis) as lord of the dead, amongst others.
    - The third group, for whom Ptah was eternal and everlasting, and he spake the world and all the gods into existence, in a similar manner to Judaeo-Christian belief about their concept of God.

Over time, the rival groups gradually merged, Ra and Atum were identified as the same god, making Atum's mysterious creation actually due to the Ogdoad, and Ra having the children Shu and Tefnut, etc. In consequence, Anubis was identified as a son of Osiris, as was Horus. Amun's role was later thought much greater, and for a time, he became chief god, although he eventually became considered a manifestation of Ra.

For a time, Ra and Horus were identified as one another, and when the Aten monotheism was unsuccessfully introduced, it was Ra-Horus who was thought of as the Aten, and the consequent cosmogony this inspired. Later, Osiris' cult became more popular, and he became the main god, being identified as a form of Ptah. Eventually, all the gods were thought of as aspects of Osiris, Isis, Horus, or Set (who was by now a villain), indeed, Horus and Osiris had started to become thought of as the same god. Ptah eventually was identified as Osiris.

A late version of the narrative has it that the Supreme Being (God) was Atum-Raa and he uttered the words of creation to create the Primordial water of Nu (The celestial Ocean) Naunet. Naunet contained everything in embrionic form. From this, Atum-Raa uttered the words of creation to bring life into the world. This life took the form of an egg. From this egg came Raa, the light of God who caused all life to come into existence. Raa was represented by the Egyptian solar disk (also symbolised in Nordic, Germanic, Greek & Vedic tradition by a Sun chariot as well as referenced by biblical texts Elijah (prophet)). Ra, the light of God in nature, later became manifest on earth through the disc of the sun (eten) and appeared in the form of Dosher - the sunrise at the beginning of life on earth.
Aztec

The Aztec narrative describing creation proceeds with an Earth mother, 'Coatlique', the Lady of the Skirt of Snakes. She was decorated with skulls, snakes, and lacerated hands. At first she was whole without cracks in her body—a perfect monolith (a totality of intensity and self-containment, yet her features were square and decapitated). Coatlique was first impregnated by an obsidian knife and gave birth to Coyolxauhqui, goddess of the moon, and to a group of male offspring, who became the stars.

Then one day Coatlique found a ball of feathers, which she tucked into her bosom. When she looked for it later, it was gone, at which time she realized that she was again pregnant. Her children, the moon and stars did not believe her story. Ashamed of their mother, they resolved to kill her. A goddess can only give birth to a litter of divinity once. During the time that they were plotting her demise, Coatlique gave birth to the fiery god of war, Huitzilopochtli. With the help of a fire serpent, he destroyed his brothers and sister, murdering them in a rage. He beheaded Coyolxauhqui and threw her body into a deep gorge in a mountain, where it lies dismembered forever.

This precipitated a great civil war in heaven which crumbled to pieces. Coatlique fell and was fertilized, while her children were torn apart by fratricide and them scattered and disjointed throughout the universe. Who remained were Ometecutli and his wife Omecihuatl that created life. Their children were: Xipe Totec the god of spring, Huitzilopochtli the Sun god, Quetzalcoatl the 'light one' and 'plumed serpent', and Tezcatlipoca, the 'dark one' and god of night and sorcery.

Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca saw that whatever they created was eaten by Coatlique who floated in the abyss eating everything with her many mouths. To stop her, they changed into two serpents and descended into the water. One grabbed the goddess by the arms while the other grabbed her by the legs, and before she could resist they pulled her apart into different pieces. Her head and shoulders became the earth and the lower part of her body the sky.

The other deities were angry at what the two had done and decided, as compensation for her dismemberment, to allow her to provide the necessities for people to survive; so from her hair they created trees, grass, and flowers; caves, fountains, and wells from her eyes; rivers from her mouth; hills and valleys from her nose; and mountains from her shoulders.

Still the goddess was often unhappy and the people could hear her crying in the night. They knew she wept because of her thirst for human blood, and that she would not provide food from the soil until she drank. So the gift of human hearts is given her. She who provides sustenance for human lives demands human lives for her own sustenance.
Mayan

The Maya of Mesoamerica creation story is recounted in the book 'Popol Vuh'. Tepeu and Gucamatz came together to create the world. Whatever was thought of by Tepeu and Gucamatz came into being. Next for creation are the creatures of the forest: birds, deer, jaguars and snakes. They are told to multiply and scatter, and then to speak and 'pray to us'. But the animals just squawk and howl. So Tepeu and Gucumatz try to make some respectful creatures from mud. But the results are not great, and they allow the new race to be washed away. They call upon their grandparents, who suggest wood as an appropriate medium. But the wooden people are just mindless robots, so Tepeu and Gucumatz set about the destruction of this new race by means of a rain-storm. This causes the animals to turn against the wooden people; even their pots and querns rebel, and crush the peoples' faces. The wooden people escape to the forests and are turned into monkeys. Heart-of-Sky then make yet another attempt at creating a suitably respectful race, and finally succeed by fashioning humans out of maize-corn dough.

Discuss.

Fate and the Strained Thoughts of Billions.

(old blog, I just wanted to post it here)

How can you kill something that’s already dead?

You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve asked myself that exact question.

As well, how can something come from nothing?

I do believe we all came from nothing, and in turn we must go back to which we came.

Death is a word that can scare anybody into living.

But life is a word that can scare anyone to death.

I’ve thought about, maybe everything is just an illusion.

I’ve also pondered whether or not everything we know is true or not.

But then you think: KARMA. It has absolutely NO elemental properties.

That’s when you realize, there must be something, right?

You just don’t know what, and that’s what will drive you insane.

That’s what will kill you.

You eat up all the physical boundaries you’ve set for yourself until you’re nothing but an open wound to society.

The foundation of life begins to crumble out from under your feet and you fall.

You fall and fall and fall.

You fall until you hit the floor of eternity and thus you destroy everything you know.

And when it’s all over, only then will you realize the fate of eternity is much greater than the fate of the universe.

Because they are the same, until they return into oblivion.

And to heal yourself is to know why you are wounded.

And to harm your soul is to realize the design in which the fate of all elemental boundaries will play out.

You will NOT get eternity handed to you on a silver platter.

You have to earn it, the same way you had to earn your life.

Life is great, right?

I mean, even though you never get out of it alive.

Death creates life. Life creates death. It's a never ending cycle.

We're caught in the middle.

We didn't ask to be here, I know I certainly didn't.

But we're here.

There has to be a reason.

There is no fucking way that it's just coincidence.

No fucking way.

Now, I'm extremely open-minded, but religion just never made sense.

I despise organized religion. It's disgusting and ridiculous.

But, I will not disrespect said religions.

It's not my place and I'm not that rude.

I like the idea of Agnosticism.

It just makes sense to me.

And it's nothing like 'give me all your money'.

It's more like, 'there is no way of proving nor disproving any deities, I cannot prove there is or isn't and neither can you.'

That just makes so much more sense to me.

And it's blunt.

Very blunt.

Discuss.

Religion in the Perspective of an Agnostic.

This is from my blogs on MySpace. I figured they would be appropriate for Blogger. :]

Atheism is just another belief.
Believing in the existence of god is just as ignorant as believing in only science.
Contemplating both, yet not caring for either is the only sensible thing.
Hence- Agnosticism.

So. You have two things; Logic and belief.
Personally, I side with logic.
Belief, however, can mean multiple things.
But in this case, obviously, we're panning towards faith (belief, ya digg?)

Okay, as an Agnostic, it's only natural for me to side with logic.
I can be very complex, but I stick with what I know.
Humanity is simply not meant to know if there is or is not a god.
And I'm perfectly fine with that.
I'm happy with that.
Because, as an Agnostic, I don't have this fear that if I do something wrong.
And if I don't repent, some invisible man will set me on fire.

Now, let's think about religion.
And let's think about what it has caused since the dawn of it's first appearance.
Don't worry, I'll explain each.

Religion has caused;
-Fear.
-Genocide.
-Betrayal.
-Hypocrisy.
I'm sure there's more.
But, I'm trying to cover the basics.

Explanations;
-Fear: The fear that there is an invisible man is in the clouds and he watches everything you do, and if you do wrong by him and if you do not ask for forgiveness, you will be tortured for all of eternity. The fear that one day, soon and very unexpectedly, the rapture will come and those who followed his laws will be taken from their families and friends to be in heaven, while the sinners are left to die in a war of fire and disaster. That everyone will be judged according to what they believe and what they practice.

-Genocide: Religion has caused countless wars and unnecessary murders. People have killed their own families because they were convinced that they were either evil, possessed, witches, etc., when they were simply just living freely and tied to no god. Hundreds of people, falsely accused of being witches, were burned alive. Religion has caused numerous civilizations to turn against one another and crumble.

-Betrayal: As explained in 'Genocide', people turned on their own families and their own people because of religion. People destroyed lives because of religion. Etc.

-Hypocrisy: Oh, this is a fun one. See, it even states in the bible, that you should NOT push your religion upon others. That you should NOT be overly religious. It says nowhere that being gay is a sin. It says nowhere that anyone should hate someone because of a different religion, race or sexuality. Christianity is so crooked and they've bent so far back that they don't even realize that their spine is split in two.

I'd very much like to know your views on religion.
You know mine.

I am not trying to prove, nor disprove, anyone's belief or disbelief.
Believe what you want.
Just don't make it the center of your universe.
Don't try to make others convert to a religion that no one can prove to be correct or otherwise.

Be happy with what you believe.
Don't make such a big deal.
Yes, it's sufficient for an interesting argument.
But, that doesn't mean shove it down someone's throat.

Try watching 'Zeitgeist' (part one).
You might learn something.

You know, sometimes I wonder why everyone believes that there is some kind of supreme being or whatever, and when I think about it I realize that it's because they want something to believe in, because it helps them get through their lives happily.

But what if there is nothing and the only thing there is well, nothing but a void.

Then what? Where is your god now?

Y'know, I tried believing in god, I tried going to church, but it never ever worked for me because I'm not stupid like everyone out there who believes that if you believe in anything else you go to hell, it's stupid.

If your god is supposed to love EVERYONE then why do christians do nothing but judge and criticize?

Honestly. Why would someone create people and do it a certain way, with a divine plan and whatnot hate his on 'children'? It's stupid.

I'll bet most of the christians that read this don't even know how many commandments there really are.

Ten commandments? That's a load of shit.

There are six hundred and thirteen ORIGINAL commandments.

But the fucking bible has been rewritten so many damn times I bet none of you know that.

Well, you do now, but still, it doesn't matter.

Now, I've got nothing at all against any religion, but I hate it when they dump that shit in my face, I DON'T CARE!

I'm an Agnostic, now, I know a lot of people think that means I don't believe in anything, well, that's not true, Atheists don't believe in anything, Agnostics believe there is something there, but we're not really sure what it is exactly.

Because see, I don't know which religion, if any are true, and neither do you.

But again, believe whatever it is you want, but again, don't throw it in my face.

Don't be like, 'if you're gay you're going to hell' or 'god hates fags' or whatever.

You people are completely oblivious to your hypocrisy.

But like I said. I'm not here to judge nor am I here to alter your beliefs.

By all means, believe in what you want.

Just don't try and change someone else's outlook on religion.

Because that's not very christian, now is it?

I'm not saying all christians are the same, but I am saying most of them are.

Just all I'm saying is give other religions a chance.

Everyone has a right to be who they are.

And not even a petty law can change that.

Homosexuals and everything else are completely normal!

I'm an extreme Agnostic and I LOVE my beliefs.

But you don't see me prancing around being a dick to everyone.

Shit, Buddhism could be the right religion, nobody knows.

We all wanna believe that what we are will get us where we want to go when we die.

And who knows, maybe every religion is correct.

Maybe if you believe when you die you go to heaven, that's where you go.

Maybe if you believe you go through the whole Buddhist process of reincarnation, y'know, maybe you do, nobody knows for sure.

And maybe that's the thrill of the ride.

Discuss.

For Those With Parents That Were Never There.

Abuse and the essence of living doesn't matter here.
You have an amazing education, yet they still don't care.
You go from doing nothing with your life to top dog.
You go to college. You're the first person in your family to do so.
Somehow, it still isn't good enough.


My story is one of billions.
Unique in certain attributes.
But in the essence, it's all the same.
My father walked out on me when I was eight months old.
My mother was present, but still not there.
My brother raised me.
When he couldn't, I raised myself.


My mother only cares about money, and she used my brother and I for it.


I was abused.
Mentally, physically and emotionally.
I'm psychologically scarred.
My mother's ex boyfriend sexually abused me when I was only eight.

At thirteen I started doing Cocaine.
I was on it, heavily, until I was seventeen.
In that time I did every single drug at least once.
I got hooked on Heroin.
But I quit without rehab. All of it.
I knew I could do better.
And I am doing better.
I'm sober now.


My entire family disowned me.
No one knew that I was on drugs.
I never wanted anyone to know.


But regardless, my family looks upon me as a problem.
My mother ignores me.
She's tried to kill me.
But I got out of there.


My brother was the only father figure I ever had.
He was my brother, father and best friend.
But something happened.
And now he's no longer there.


The only other person in my family who gave a fuck was my uncle.
Well, great uncle.
But he died on 1 January, 2008.
At the funeral, the only person to comfort me was my brother.


Other people have it worse.
But it's not a contest.
Everyone has their own personal version of hell.
I just told you mine, in summary.


To those who have it much worse;
You're not alone and there are people who care.
Even people who don't even know you.
I'm an activist.
I'm against mental, emotional, physical, psychological and sexual abuse.
People talk to me; people that don't even know me.
Everyone needs someone who will listen.


Discuss.