Monday, January 02, 2006

Over the past few months I've began to realize that life is simply a series of unplanned events that happen with or without our cooperation. We are drifting helplessly through the endless void in the cosmos, doing what we can to fill the emptiness with some sense of meaningful purpose. When it comes down to it though, we have no purpose because we have no real control. All we can do is try to change the way we look at things. Change the way we interpret the information and occurences that are laid out before us in the random, chaotic manner that they are.

It can often give one a complete sense of bewilderment to step back and take a look at life as a whole. What makes us any different from those who have come before us, and those who will come after? When it comes down to it we are all composed of the same materials, and we will all eventually suffer the same dismal fate. We shall one day perish and become the helpless food of worms.

Now some would argue that there are people who do make a difference, and that things can change! Those people are perfectly correct. Things can change, and you can make a difference! But to what end? To what purpose does taking the higher road in life truly serve? A deeper satisfaction in knowing that you have done what the world has deemed "right"? Well I say fuck what's right and whats wrong, and fuck the man made dogmatic law that deems which acts are good and which are evil. If there truly is a God, let him be the one to judge us!

Many great people have lived and died and have done fuck all to change the world in the slightest bit. People live and people die. There is always hate, just as much as there will always be love. I am sick and tired of the bleeding hearts across the world trying to band together for some greater good that we can never conceivably acheive. People have been trying for centuries to bring about peace and they haven't taken a step closer to what they feel is such a perfect world!

There needs to be a balance, there cannot be love without hate, bliss without pain, happiness without rage. They depend upon one another and without one, the other would surely fall. If there was nothing but rainbows and joy around the world then what would we have to compare those feelings to? If a person has never suffered through pain, loss and regret then how can they ever understand the joyous song of laughter? If we don't experience the "bad things" in life then the good could never feel special. We would become numb to the perfection that we seem so desperate to achieve and simply create a new evil to idolize.

So forget what the Church and the media have told you is right and wrong. Forget the pre-conceived notions of perfection that have absolutely no basis within reality. Live life to the fullest extent that you possibly can, in the manner which you feel is absolutely perfect for you. Don't let some person you've never met tell you how you should and should not feel. Do not let some cult control the way you think about life and death. If there truly is a God then I am sure he would forgive any who had the courage to live life to the fullest degree which they could possibly imagine. I know that I would rather burn in the worst hell, rather than live in a kingdom of happiness built upon the guilt-ridden lives of an oppressed people.





{As a Post Script, I haven't slept in a day or two, so if this fails to follow any discernable thought pattern I apologize, this is simply what came out after a long time without writing.}

5 comments:

David Edward said...

one may wish to sleep more
and then to conside rrthe claims of jesus to be " The way, the truth, and the life."
I am considering those words as I start this new year.
I hope yours is full of good things

Hands of Loki said...

Good and Bad. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Anonymous said...

Great post, and I never did understand how it is that people can be punished by god for living their own life with their own rules. We would never experience life to the fullest if we lived it in fear of committing one sin, remembering that sin, and saying twenty-odd hail marys to finally get it off of our mind. I also enjoy how at 10,000 feet up you've got the look that you had when you killed the cigarette in the play.

Rhiannon said...

Growing up in a very radical fundamental baptist religion I agree with a lot of what you said here. Made to feel bad and to keep "repenting" as if you are some horrible human being because your imperfect and have a free soul spirit can really screw a person up! I felt so "free" when I finally became of age and got away from all that "evil sinners" and "repent" crap! I'm so tired of many born again "Christians" lecturing me what I should and need to do with my life. Its not their life or business. Why do they always keep doing that to people? I guess they feel it is their "duty" to "save" people..or they won't go to heaven or whatever. Maybe they should just look to themselves and take care of their own lives. I see the future sometimes(kind of pscyhic) before things happen in the world(wish I didn't))and it gets me into trouble if I say anything about that to people so I'm careful about who I say things too..as religious people see it or me as an "evil demon going to hell" because I am "different". I am who I am so tough if they don't like it! I cannot stand to hear people say "I'm a God fearing person"..how very very sad to feel and be that way! If God is there would he she want us to fear them? I don't think so..JMHO though.

I also agree with you about the good and bad of life. It seems if we didn't ever feel the good or bad, the darknest and the light, or suffering, then we would never have an understanding of empathy or compassion for other peoples suffering. We're just human beings, and I like the "secret of the darkness".

I think this is one of your best writing (lack of sleep sometimes actually helps writers block doesn't it?:-)) and I've read just about all of yours on here. Glad to see you writing again on here. Thanks for sharing it.

Your "real" please stay that way..

Blessings (not meant religiously but spiritually)
Rhiannon

Rhiannon said...

I made a collage recently of this woman dancing free spiritedness on the shorline of the ocean. I have it on my fridge. It says "Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there"--Rumi