A Day In the Life of Me

Death and life....

It has hit me in the last few days that life is not forever and death is not what you see in the movies. you sort of think of this but it doesn’t really hit you until you hear that someone close to you is going to die, you know that everyone is going to die some day but it seems all the more powerful if you know that they are going to die for sure of a certain illness/disease/ect. The only thing that one can do is spend as much time as they can with them before they are dead, even if it is only just being with them seems to make a difference.

This also makes me think that I will not live forever, how long will I live, how will I die, how will I live?

These are questions that no person can honestly answer at such a young age...

This brings me to my next question, what happens after death?

From what I have put together from my own beliefs there is no god, no heaven, no devil and no hell. But then what does happen to our conciseness does it just shut down and everything fades to nothing? Do we go on to become something else?

These are questions that no one can honestly answer from experience; if they can they are one of three things:

-(a) Full of shit

-(b) Not of this world

-(c) Stoned

I would think that the majoraty of people that say they can answer these kinds of questions are probably either (a) or (c).

This also provokes another question, where did the idea of god come from?

I personally believe that 'god' was invented to keep unruly citizens from causing trouble, this is done by making them believe that if they lived a good life that they would go to heaven. in a way killing two birds with one stone because most people fear death, to be human is to preserve ones self. So death would always be a great fear to the common person. The Christian philosophy said that if you have lived a good life you would go to heaven, so thus people would not fear death if they believed that they weren’t just dieing and not knowing what was going to happen, they would believe that they would be going to a better place. I think that at the time that the system was invented it was an ingenious plan to keep people from turning to murder and other criminal acts. But in a way they took away a part of people’s free will as they made people believe in what others did or they would be discriminated against, beaten and/or killed. This kind of act is not tolerated today. But it does make you think how back then the church had so much power and presence within the community that they could send a country to war, many wars were fought in the name of religion just because another country did not believe in the same god as the other.

This brings me to another question, what would society today be without religion?

For starters I would never have to hear some one tell me that what I'm saying is blasphemous. But would society be the same as it is today without religion, for one we would not use the same calendar that we use now as that was planed out on the beliefs of Christian people that the world was made in 7 days. There would not be quite the same set of social standards and morals, we could well have just died out. Now people that know me will tell you that I’m not a supporter of religion but still I don’t think that it is an altogether bad thing, but given the choice in medieval times without fear of reprisal would they have still believed the crap that they were feeding them. Also I wonder if many people clued in to the fact that it was one of there highest commandments “thou shall not kill” but when it wasn’t a Christian person that you were killing it was alright and god ‘gives you his blessing’ to do this. Was this simply not thought of or was it against the law to question the word of the church (this I do not know if someone is religious/into history could they tell me).

Well I cant be fucked writing anymore now so night….

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