Hey young Sebi. I just wanted to follow up yesterday’s post about uncle Pancho.
Unlike many people (including many friends and family) I do not subscribe to religion nor do I believe in what most people refer to as god. I do believe in the wonder and mystery of life, I do believe in consciousness (and that it expands well beyond my own puny consciousness) and I definitely believe that this thing we call reality can never truly be understood or even experienced by a mortal human being, which means that there are many things that I will likely never know in this human lifetime.
But back to my main point. There are three things that I feel are key to understanding and accepting an aethiest point of view:
- You must be prepared for the prospect of being wrong, and whatever comes with that
- You must remember that living a righteous life should not be dependent on getting some sort of reward (eternal life/heaven/etc) or avoiding some sort of punishment (eternal damnation, etc.)
- You must embrace the here an now and live life. This life. Your life. Right now.
There’s a lot more to all of this, and I’ll do my best to expand on it when the time is right. I love you little buddy.
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The wonder and mystery of life; the consciousness that is beyond our understanding, beyond religion, beyond good and bad, beyond reality, and beyond our ability to grasp or understand: THAT is God. No name, No religion, no race, the essence of the EVERYTHING and the NOTHING. Alpha and Omega. Thou art that.
Wonder and mystery are two of the things that make life grand. Thanks for sharing, Mr. Bravo!