Thursday, 27 February 2014

Rite and Rong.

Rite and rong, gud and eevil, levt and write, and only people that can read English will ever question the spelling.

Things that only mean something within a specific framework, concepts that need a specific background to have any meaning for you at all.  Words that lose their original meaning because circumstances changed, concepts that fall away because they are replaced with new ones that is more fitting to the society that is constantly evolving.

People grow and learn new habits, explore new horizons, set new goals, expand their knowledge, forget older truths, try to conform others to their standards, their worldview, their morals.  As the number of people grows and multiplies, the number of conflicting views grows and multiplies, till most people find a type of middle-ground that they are mostly happy with.

Religion and politics, race and culture, education and wealth, age and gender, language and intelligence, and of course, location, location, location.  Some of the biggest cornerstones of your worldview, of the way you choose to interact with others.  There is just too much information that we have no way to process, that we will never even know of, that we can never even take into account.  Things that skews our every thought without us ever being aware of it.  'Beliefs' that we take for granted and never query, because it is a given.  A 'truth' that was only true till it was proven wrong.

Angels.  Heavenly beings.  Ever wondered about them?  They stayed in heaven with God, where we will go if we believe that Jesus died for our sins.  Lucifer, one of God's favorites, tried to take over and was expelled from heaven, taking nearly half of the angels with him.  Does not sound too good, does it?  If nearly half of the angels left heaven, because they decided to follow Lucifer instead of God, what will we humans do?

Cannibals only eat people that they have great respect for, as they believe that you take part of that person's courage or strength of character, whatever you admire in that person, and it becomes part of you, when you eat of his flesh.  Maybe the disciples ate Jesus's flesh, and this was later edited out of the bible because it did not suit the church to have people ignoring the dead 'men of God', and eating only the people that set an example for the community they were part of.  We shall never know.

Nearly all religions preach that life is sacred, and that it is a sin to take it.  There is, however, always a few loopholes.  A non-believer?  Kill him, that is not a sin.  Adulterers?  Let everybody get together and stone them to death.  Enemies?  Raze their cities to the ground and remove all evidence that they ever existed.  If God, or to be more specific, God's spokesperson, commands you to kill somebody, it supersedes all previous commands.

Chose again.  Start to doubt the truth, test it, check for inconsistencies, make your decision based on your own experience.  If it still holds true, chose to still see it as a truth.  For now.  If it fails, acknowledge the fact and accept it.  for now.  You may have to change your mind again.

Life is not a struggle, it is not a race to run, it is not a play to observe, it is not something you can stop and carry on later, when it suits you better.  Life is a moment of experience, a moment of learning, a moment to choose.  Choose the way you want, and enjoy the experience.  It is only happening now, and it is the only thing of any value.

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