Another day at the races
The news of the world isn't getting any better or is it merely because the only news I hear from 'out there' is the latest worst thing that has happened because it is what sells or attracts attention?
My own world is one of wonder and delight. It is not that all around me are happy people who smile all the time and have not a care in the world, but I do notice that there are some fairly satisfied folks out here who worked for what they have and appreciate what life has to offer.
Though I pick and chose what I use to guide myself through life, words like responsibility and morals do have an impact.
One thing I use often to explain the hows and whys of day to day stuff is 'god provides for those who do'.
I understand that I have not used the exact wording nor do I probably understand the inference of what was meant by the phrase as it was written but the simple truth is that I believe that even a blind pig stumbles on a truffle every now and then and we have to wait for our time to come.
Something like that.
'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you' is another favorite.
'It's nice to be nice'
'Greed kills'
'If you hate someone you murder them in your mind'
'There is no excuse'
All of this is high and mighty of me isn't it?
I am not casting any stones as I live in a glass house.
While I judge, I remember that I too will be judged.
If I am right, we will all die and go to heaven where we will be met and assured that we are in a better place and we will decide for ourselves mostly what will become of us for eternity after we are seated and given whatever we want for refreshments and are shown our lives from birth to death as many times as we need to watch and we will see all of the things that we did, all of the ants that we burned with a magnifying glass, all of the catty things we said and the results of such actions. At the end we will either beg forgiveness or explain that we did nothing wrong and scream as we descend to hell where we will suffer every mis-deed we ever did to others. An ant will hold a magnifying glass and burn us for each one we killed. We will wilt under the scorn of feelings of shame as others mock us for being slow or weak. We will starve as we know that someone has taken our food from our mouths because we were once so blind to others that we did nothing to help them survive one more day.
One more quote 'No person past the innocent age of childhood would wantonly kill another living creature knowing how tenacious our own grasp on life is'.
I will not go down in history as anything special.
I only hope that I do not go down in history as anything horrible.
I may not pity but I do empathize.
'There go I but for the grace of god'.
Life sucks and then you die. If I were a kid growing up in Afghanistan for example I might feel a little resentful of everyone. As it is I am not. I grew up with a perfect childhood and a wonderful adulthood even if some people would hate to be me.
I have nothing. I have everything.
I want nothing.
I want more.
I need something no one can sell me.
If there is a reason for my being I only hope I accomplish whatever it is. If I already accomplished such a thing and the rest of my life is given to me for my enjoyment then I hope I learn to live each day and remember to appreciate every moment for what I have been given.
It would be a shame to find out that each one of us lived in separate dimensions and starred in our own lives, everything else we perceive as reality being our imaginations and upon ending of our lives we find out that we had wasted the one chance of life by being the one whom we most likely were because of some imbalance.
That doesn't sound right.
We find out we could have been superman except for our lack of self confidence?
Something like that.
At least in my dreams I am able to be better than I am in day to day life.
Reality is for those of us who lack imagination right?
If it is true that one religion is the only way there is to get to heaven, like christianity, then what about the rest of us who don't go there?
I hear about how god loves us all since we are his creations and I say stuff like "If I was born on some island out in the ocean way back when and never heard of god like I have in my own life now, does that mean I go to hell just because? I mean god made us all right? So did he waste all those lives he gave to those others merely because they never heard of the bible or christianity? They lived good lives and never did anything bad and helped each other exactly like what god says we should do so don't they get into heaven?"
How about the mentally retarded folks who can't perceive of such a thing as a god? Is there no room for those gentle creatures in heaven whom I think are gods favorite since they probably never even have an evil thought in their heads ever?
Such a life huh?
We will all die.
What we do next with our lives might be why we are here in the first place.
If you all merely bit players in my life then I thank you for your time and effort.
I'm sorry for all I have done that has been bad.
I only wish I had an idea what I should do next.
My own world is one of wonder and delight. It is not that all around me are happy people who smile all the time and have not a care in the world, but I do notice that there are some fairly satisfied folks out here who worked for what they have and appreciate what life has to offer.
Though I pick and chose what I use to guide myself through life, words like responsibility and morals do have an impact.
One thing I use often to explain the hows and whys of day to day stuff is 'god provides for those who do'.
I understand that I have not used the exact wording nor do I probably understand the inference of what was meant by the phrase as it was written but the simple truth is that I believe that even a blind pig stumbles on a truffle every now and then and we have to wait for our time to come.
Something like that.
'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you' is another favorite.
'It's nice to be nice'
'Greed kills'
'If you hate someone you murder them in your mind'
'There is no excuse'
All of this is high and mighty of me isn't it?
I am not casting any stones as I live in a glass house.
While I judge, I remember that I too will be judged.
If I am right, we will all die and go to heaven where we will be met and assured that we are in a better place and we will decide for ourselves mostly what will become of us for eternity after we are seated and given whatever we want for refreshments and are shown our lives from birth to death as many times as we need to watch and we will see all of the things that we did, all of the ants that we burned with a magnifying glass, all of the catty things we said and the results of such actions. At the end we will either beg forgiveness or explain that we did nothing wrong and scream as we descend to hell where we will suffer every mis-deed we ever did to others. An ant will hold a magnifying glass and burn us for each one we killed. We will wilt under the scorn of feelings of shame as others mock us for being slow or weak. We will starve as we know that someone has taken our food from our mouths because we were once so blind to others that we did nothing to help them survive one more day.
One more quote 'No person past the innocent age of childhood would wantonly kill another living creature knowing how tenacious our own grasp on life is'.
I will not go down in history as anything special.
I only hope that I do not go down in history as anything horrible.
I may not pity but I do empathize.
'There go I but for the grace of god'.
Life sucks and then you die. If I were a kid growing up in Afghanistan for example I might feel a little resentful of everyone. As it is I am not. I grew up with a perfect childhood and a wonderful adulthood even if some people would hate to be me.
I have nothing. I have everything.
I want nothing.
I want more.
I need something no one can sell me.
If there is a reason for my being I only hope I accomplish whatever it is. If I already accomplished such a thing and the rest of my life is given to me for my enjoyment then I hope I learn to live each day and remember to appreciate every moment for what I have been given.
It would be a shame to find out that each one of us lived in separate dimensions and starred in our own lives, everything else we perceive as reality being our imaginations and upon ending of our lives we find out that we had wasted the one chance of life by being the one whom we most likely were because of some imbalance.
That doesn't sound right.
We find out we could have been superman except for our lack of self confidence?
Something like that.
At least in my dreams I am able to be better than I am in day to day life.
Reality is for those of us who lack imagination right?
If it is true that one religion is the only way there is to get to heaven, like christianity, then what about the rest of us who don't go there?
I hear about how god loves us all since we are his creations and I say stuff like "If I was born on some island out in the ocean way back when and never heard of god like I have in my own life now, does that mean I go to hell just because? I mean god made us all right? So did he waste all those lives he gave to those others merely because they never heard of the bible or christianity? They lived good lives and never did anything bad and helped each other exactly like what god says we should do so don't they get into heaven?"
How about the mentally retarded folks who can't perceive of such a thing as a god? Is there no room for those gentle creatures in heaven whom I think are gods favorite since they probably never even have an evil thought in their heads ever?
Such a life huh?
We will all die.
What we do next with our lives might be why we are here in the first place.
If you all merely bit players in my life then I thank you for your time and effort.
I'm sorry for all I have done that has been bad.
I only wish I had an idea what I should do next.
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