My body feels lifted...
I use to believe that in order to obtain something of equal value must be given or lost. This is the law of equivalent exchange. But like I said, that's what I use to believe. In fact this isn't true. It's a lot like Karma, the idea that if your good, good things will happen to you, and if your bad, bad things will happen. Yet...I now know that it's not so cut and dry. In fact nothing is perfect like that. Everything is ever changing. In regaurds to equivalent exchange then you have to factor many other things besides the input and output. It's not some formula. And along these lines, someone once said that "No one has all the answers..." to which my response was "That may be true, but I believe that we all have at least one if not part of an answer". Is that one of the answers? I always felt that my answer was that religion was missing one aspect of their teachings, and that was the teachings about the void. I was also asked "What is your purpose?" to which I had no answer. Is it really up to me what my purpose is? If it is then is there really such a thing as a divine plan? If I do have my own purpose and everyone else or most other people don't does that mean that I am above them? I think not. No matter how much better I may have it than people, we are always equals. The same goes for the reverse, no matter how much better off other people have it than me they are still my equal. I take this to a different level. I give thanks for the animals that have died so that I may eat. I'm sure they didn't want to die but they still did. Does this mean I'm going to stop eating meat or animals, no. I do not feel regret. I do however feel like I owe them thanks. I thinks some people take this to giving thanks to god at dinner or at the begining of every meal. I'd rather give my thanks to the animal's soul whose body is now on my plate. Anyone that has seen me around animals knows that I have a certain way with them. It feels like I can comunicate with them. Not like a dr. dolittle but as if our souls can comune and we can feel each other's emotions. Did I gain this through equivalent exchange? I don't know. But before I go I will say this. If each person has one answer, then that means that there are over 6 billion answers. Is that a fail safe, to give everyone one peice of the puzzle. Or is each answer the purpose of the indiviual which when put together reveals the answer of the question "Why are we here?".