Lately

Jul 27, 2011 05:51

I wanted to take a minute and post on how I've been feeling lately...

I've been thinking a lot about Jen lately and I've been thinking about the BS that I've had to go through because of "God". Yeah, it's one of those posts.

I don't want to say, or make anyone believe I hate you if you have faith, it's the exact opposite of the case. It's when everything is about god, or when your existence is centered and focused so much on your faith that it overwhelms you and makes you someone who you're not.

I'm talking about the people who "thank god" for everything good that ever happens in their life, and those that believe the devil is after them every time they're tempted. Seriously? Do you really believe that even if such fantasies exist, that YOU would be important enough to bolster attention from either? And it's not God that gave you such a good life, it's the fact that you live in a country that is well-off. Welcome to Canada/United States/Wherever, because if you had been born in Uganda, you may not have been so fortunate... where you're born is not an act of god, it's an act of biology.

Add this all to the fact that you're putting all your faith in, and deriving everything you know about life from, a book that has proven itself to be, mostly invalid... IT'S NOT EVEN THAT WE, AS A PEOPLE HAVE INVALIDATED IT! It's actually invalidated itself. Add that to the fact that many faiths that put their beliefs in books have taken huge sections of those books and ignored them entirely. I like to pick on christianity, because it's easy. In the bible, it says you cannot eat shellfish, people do so every day. Additionally, Swine = sin; aka, no pig either. Also in that same book, it says if you're RAPED, you are obligated to marry that person, also, the rapist NOW OWES YOUR FATHER MONEY FOR LOSS OF PROPERTY. Also, slavery is encouraged.

This is the book you choose to put your faith in?

I'm sorry. That's retarded.

I'm not the sort that would find it acceptable to only read some parts of a book and be willfully ignorant on the rest. You either take the whole text as-is and find your faith in it, or read through it and determine, hey, this sucks, and toss it out. Don't take the book, cut out the parts you don't agree with, then found your faith on the scraps that remain (and there isn't much left after that)... again, THAT'S RETARDED.

I have my own faith, and I'd like to think, I'm a leader in this type of idea, and while I know I'm not, it doesn't seem like anyone else is doing what I do, and therefore, it seems as if I'm a leader in this type of idea. With that said, moving forward. My faith is of taking in the world around me and deciding for myself, what it all means. Through my experiences, I've had, and continue to have, and have had more and more frequently, moments that can be described as spiritual. Faith. Experience. Love. It's all around me, and in me and through me... but that's MY EXPERIENCE. As I move forward, I take those experiences, and I look at them very carefully, and decide what that means to me. Sometimes it's as simple as knowing what's going to happen next, not because it's predictable, and sometimes it's not, but because that's the inclination I get in that moment, and it turns out to be completely accurate. A form of telling the future maybe? I don't know, what I do know, is that when the feeling comes, I recognize and trust it. That's my Faith. Sure, my feelings are not always correct, but that's the errorlevel. It happens, I will be wrong, as a human, I accept that. What I do know is that the feelings I get are usually more accurate than not.

Here's a challenge for anyone "of faith" in the world. Throw it away. Throw away your childish, and sheepish notions about the world. Throw out the book, and press the reset button on WHAT and HOW you believe. When you have spiritual moments, where you get that feeling... rock it. I CHALLENGE YOU. Afterwards, decide what that was and how you can learn from it. Was it truly external, or just something internal? Observe the world around you and THINK FOR YOURSELF, rather than letting some book tell you how it is.

... Clearly, I'm passionate about the topic.

I'm usually about live and let live.

That ended when religion started fucking with my happiness.
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