I found the questions but I've lost the answers
I'm reviving the Quote of the Day! Here it is, for March 1.
"If nothing matters, then all that matters is what we do."
- Who said it? I don't know.
I've been thinking about spirituality a lot today, among many other things.
I was brought up Christian, not super strict in the church-going sense, but for awhile now I've pretty much been agnostic... like a lot of people my age, testing new waters, a bit undecided and open to learning about all the religions and beliefs. And really, aren't they all the same at the core (the spiritual ones anyway)? They have different interpretations, different methods, ways of practicing and expressing their beliefs... which is the way things are in varying human cultures.
I want to believe there's a higher power to all this madness, that things happen for a reason, and that I require a soul of some sort to operate (heh, googlism said I did). And I still have hope that it's the case, still grasping onto what I was bought up with.
Even so, this soul, this spark of energy that keeps us alive is a pretty amazing thing. It allows us to love, to live, to affect things, to perceive, to dream, to yawn, to brush our hair and have eggs. But the questions remain: What happens to that spark of energy when we die? Do we stop perceiving things? Is it all just one big dream? Does it disappear, become a part of the earth, or does it escape into the ether, into heaven or hell? The ideas of heaven and hell, are they just fantastical ideas we've created to explain it all? Also, these forces at work inside and outside ourselves, do they only serve the purpose of balance in the universe on a molecular level?
I keep asking these same questions, over and over and over... and over some more. Because I'm a human, and humans sure are curious creatures. I know I'll never get any real answers.
Will you give me the answers?
"If nothing matters, then all that matters is what we do."
- Who said it? I don't know.
I've been thinking about spirituality a lot today, among many other things.
I was brought up Christian, not super strict in the church-going sense, but for awhile now I've pretty much been agnostic... like a lot of people my age, testing new waters, a bit undecided and open to learning about all the religions and beliefs. And really, aren't they all the same at the core (the spiritual ones anyway)? They have different interpretations, different methods, ways of practicing and expressing their beliefs... which is the way things are in varying human cultures.
I want to believe there's a higher power to all this madness, that things happen for a reason, and that I require a soul of some sort to operate (heh, googlism said I did). And I still have hope that it's the case, still grasping onto what I was bought up with.
Even so, this soul, this spark of energy that keeps us alive is a pretty amazing thing. It allows us to love, to live, to affect things, to perceive, to dream, to yawn, to brush our hair and have eggs. But the questions remain: What happens to that spark of energy when we die? Do we stop perceiving things? Is it all just one big dream? Does it disappear, become a part of the earth, or does it escape into the ether, into heaven or hell? The ideas of heaven and hell, are they just fantastical ideas we've created to explain it all? Also, these forces at work inside and outside ourselves, do they only serve the purpose of balance in the universe on a molecular level?
I keep asking these same questions, over and over and over... and over some more. Because I'm a human, and humans sure are curious creatures. I know I'll never get any real answers.
Will you give me the answers?