I touched on it in a previous post, our purpose of being. If you stand back and look at Earth from a third person standpoint, we're just another species trying to survive. Everything we do, create and change is ultimately as meaningful in the universe as a monkey scratching his arse. Something as beautiful and perfect as love is merely an electro-chemical response to what our senses see, hear, smell, taste and touch. Every bit traceable, every bit easily manipulated. The same goes for eating chocolate.
Now this, all the above, is a wholly depressing thought. Some people in a crisis will look at these facts and think that since nothing matters, surely theres no point in doing anything? We're just another species stuggling to survive in an infinitely massive and complex universe. In essence we're highly selfish and arrogant to think that we mean very much to the universe at large.
But I'm thinking, yeah, I accept these facts. I'm still going to live my life according to what I think is fun. We don't mean anything to the universe so I'm going to mean something to myself. Love, chocolate, I don't care that they are a reaction of chemicals, it still gives me a feeling of goodness! Whatever happens when one experiences them, it is still something that makes us feel great! So whats so wrong with that? That it's simple so and easily analysed and replicated by drugs? Then hook me up to the drip of life, bitch! (Damn, that sounds corny but you wouldn't be "YES, YES!!" at the screen right now if you didn't get what I meant) These are still good feelings and should be experienced all the time, as much as possible.
Maybe it's nice to mean something to other people, family, friends, lovers. Perhaps that one should mean something to oneself and persue all that one holds dear and beautiul. That'd be nice.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
My Mind
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| If you're gonna read this, you have to promise to keep a wide open mind. OK? . . .OK. What is the mind? Whatever it is, I think that it is so huge that we have the capability to make up pictures of the stars in our heads more complex and incredilble than any combination of supercomputers on the planet can make. But it is also so small that it can be written onto our DNA when we are a handful of cells in the womb. We know and are 100% certain of its existance but it will never exist in any physical form. And if you think about it, it was pulled straight out of the blue. Our mothers and fathers are two very different people. They're different sexes, for one thing, for another they think differently, they like different things, have had many different experiences. So you would think that on a basic level, you should come out as almost a clone of them, fused together. But no, we too are very different people from our parents. Which is amazing! Its both their DNA, stuff that cant be re-written. Sure, we have different physical features but thats only as a result of a chemical reaction between our parents sex cells and DNA. Our minds though, our minds are such a mystery. If I had the same parents but was born into a different community, I'd still grow up to be tall and blonde with blue eyes with the same cells as I do now but I'd have a completely different personality. I think the mind is some kind of force or energy, some kind of invisible fog that floats through time and space, whatever you consider to be here and now and that at the moment of conception, a chunk of it settles into our feotus, drawn into it by some strange force. I think its' some kind of fog because when we die, that cant be it for our minds. Our bodies lose the capacity for living but our minds camt just die out and disappear. The experiencences we have had and felt, the memories we have, can they really just dwindle into nothing? If the mind is such a powerful thing, how can it fail to exist? I am stumped on this one. | |||
This. Is. Me.
. . .and you are welcome here. Hey, first post ever. I hope I can broaden those horizons with my many thoughts on many things, for that is what I do. I think. For starters, heres somehting I prepared much, much earlier.
I think that anyone who believes they are Atheists have a very narrow mind and view of the world. True believers in Christ, though almost certainly deluded, at least have that strength of will to take it on trust that they have been granted happiness after death.
I think that people believe in God just so they can forget about the fear that death places in them. When we forget about something bad or put it out of our minds, we feal much better and life is that little bit easier to get on with. I think that believing in a higher power and in Heaven ensures a great certainty in our lives. Without this certainty, a lot of the people on this planet would not be able to function in their lives. Because, without religion, what is there? Consider this as a human being. The only reason we are the dominant species on this planet is because of our ability to learn very, very quickly. We learned how to survive, we learned how to make things better for ourselves. We adapt and discover. So we are a very curious species. Not knowing things, anything, puts fear in us. Example: We are afraid of the dark/prefer the light. The darkness is full of uncertainty and the unknown so we are afraid to be there. Of course, we can figure out a lot about everything. Scientists have proved so much about time, space and physics. But we just can't figure out what happens after our deaths. So, if religion didn't exist, we wouldn't be human beings. We don't like fear, so we have to know about the things that are happenig to us. We can't figure out death: we make up our own answer and try to get on with our lives. We try not to think about things that upset us, because we're human. You consider all the bad traits in someone: selfishness, greediness, being mean. These might be bad traits but every single one of us is a subject to these emotions.
Every little thing we do is something we do because we think it is a benefit to ourselves. That is our only motivation to do anything. Even being generous, helping someone: We do it because we know it will make us feel better about ourselves. Helping someone to be happier makes us feel good.
Otherwise, whats the point in doing anything? To do something, we need to be properly motivated and the only way to motivate someone properly is to get them to see that doing the task will be in benefit to them.
I think if we all were not subject to these emotions we would be the perfect Communist society. Thats not written in a negative way, it is just an observation.
Anyway, where was I?
I think that all religion is born of fear of the unknown. If we, humans, don't know how something works, we fear it. At least, we did when we thought up religion. The first religions involved a lot of Gods. There was a God for everything, for the sun, for fertility, for nature, for everything. There were Gods for all these things because humans at the time didn't know how they functioned and didn't have the means to figure them out. So, instead of losing their minds over confusion and fear of everything, they invented a shield. Y'see, way back then, the human mind couldn't think of how those things worked but it still had one thing going for it: its imagination. I think that religion is such a great and valuable thing. Without religion, there is only uncertainty and uncertainty is very bad. I can't quite imagine what it would be like if humans didn't feel the need to be certain about things. I think that, if that was the case, we wouldn't have evolved at all. If we didn't have to be certain about everything, we wouldn't have to be curious. So we wouldn't care about survival or anything. So there would actually be no life on Earth. In order for anything to survive, thrive and function, there has to be curiosity in every living thing.
So, we have curiosity. We have such a large curiosity, for everything. So we if we are curious about something, we try to figure it out. If we can't figure it out, we try a differnt approach. Such as it is with death. We can't figure it out, its like trying to open a safe with a crowbar but the crowbar is on the inside of the safe. We have no idea. And that scares us. So, we devise a clever shield to proect us from the fear. And this shield is faith and religion.
I think that anyone who believes they are Atheists have a very narrow mind and view of the world. True believers in Christ, though almost certainly deluded, at least have that strength of will to take it on trust that they have been granted happiness after death.
I think that people believe in God just so they can forget about the fear that death places in them. When we forget about something bad or put it out of our minds, we feal much better and life is that little bit easier to get on with. I think that believing in a higher power and in Heaven ensures a great certainty in our lives. Without this certainty, a lot of the people on this planet would not be able to function in their lives. Because, without religion, what is there? Consider this as a human being. The only reason we are the dominant species on this planet is because of our ability to learn very, very quickly. We learned how to survive, we learned how to make things better for ourselves. We adapt and discover. So we are a very curious species. Not knowing things, anything, puts fear in us. Example: We are afraid of the dark/prefer the light. The darkness is full of uncertainty and the unknown so we are afraid to be there. Of course, we can figure out a lot about everything. Scientists have proved so much about time, space and physics. But we just can't figure out what happens after our deaths. So, if religion didn't exist, we wouldn't be human beings. We don't like fear, so we have to know about the things that are happenig to us. We can't figure out death: we make up our own answer and try to get on with our lives. We try not to think about things that upset us, because we're human. You consider all the bad traits in someone: selfishness, greediness, being mean. These might be bad traits but every single one of us is a subject to these emotions.
Every little thing we do is something we do because we think it is a benefit to ourselves. That is our only motivation to do anything. Even being generous, helping someone: We do it because we know it will make us feel better about ourselves. Helping someone to be happier makes us feel good.
Otherwise, whats the point in doing anything? To do something, we need to be properly motivated and the only way to motivate someone properly is to get them to see that doing the task will be in benefit to them.
I think if we all were not subject to these emotions we would be the perfect Communist society. Thats not written in a negative way, it is just an observation.
Anyway, where was I?
I think that all religion is born of fear of the unknown. If we, humans, don't know how something works, we fear it. At least, we did when we thought up religion. The first religions involved a lot of Gods. There was a God for everything, for the sun, for fertility, for nature, for everything. There were Gods for all these things because humans at the time didn't know how they functioned and didn't have the means to figure them out. So, instead of losing their minds over confusion and fear of everything, they invented a shield. Y'see, way back then, the human mind couldn't think of how those things worked but it still had one thing going for it: its imagination. I think that religion is such a great and valuable thing. Without religion, there is only uncertainty and uncertainty is very bad. I can't quite imagine what it would be like if humans didn't feel the need to be certain about things. I think that, if that was the case, we wouldn't have evolved at all. If we didn't have to be certain about everything, we wouldn't have to be curious. So we wouldn't care about survival or anything. So there would actually be no life on Earth. In order for anything to survive, thrive and function, there has to be curiosity in every living thing.
So, we have curiosity. We have such a large curiosity, for everything. So we if we are curious about something, we try to figure it out. If we can't figure it out, we try a differnt approach. Such as it is with death. We can't figure it out, its like trying to open a safe with a crowbar but the crowbar is on the inside of the safe. We have no idea. And that scares us. So, we devise a clever shield to proect us from the fear. And this shield is faith and religion.
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