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Journal Entry: Sat Mar 15, 2008, 3:51 PM
Much of our time spent alive is wasted.

We fight over fictional lines in the sand. We bicker over ideas about the unknown that every single one of us thinks that we know. Philosophy can make you think, but all in all, its just fiction. Its advice from which we pick and choose. Advice is ultimately flawed based on the time from which it came in relation to the time that it is applied.

So what if we're just one small part of a huge chain reaction? Does there have to be a philosophical reason for everything? Is it necessary to ask impossible questions to appease the voided brain? It would be arrogant for anyone to assume to know why we're here. Imaginary friends made up by our ancestors will never answer those questions, and yet so many of us assume that they could.

The fact that those mythical deities are made by ancient cultures should be enough to show that the questions they raise are just as imaginably answerable. By assuming that there are deities, we assume that there is a purpose.

Each follower of every imaginary being wants to fight for what they feel is right based on nothing but the comfort they obtain through "faith". Souls become battlegrounds. Ultimately, we end up fighting over something that only exists in the minds of others. Souls aren't things that magically enter you when you're born, and exit toward the sky when you die; souls exist only in the minds of those that you've contacted. Souls exist only in the chemical memories of any being that can remember.

Tear us into pieces, molecule by molecule, and that is all you'll have: molecules.

We're all just a tiny part of one huge chemical chain reaction.

  • Mood: Overwhelmed
  • Watching: Into the Wild

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*blacksmithy84:iconblacksmithy84: Mar 15, 2008, 8:45:22 PM
Amen to that! Well phrased! An outdated book of fables offers a decent guideline of morality through which one should live their life, but I feel it should never be taken too literally...whether you follow a religion or not I believe it can have a fundamental purpose, it can teach a young person right and wrong but so can good parenting!; yet worshiping a falsehood, blindly, without pertinent validation is not for me, and nothing irks me more than being pressured to convert. If you believe in religion because it is self reassuring then be my guest, I myself grew up in a world of religion and it offered some moral advantage; I am glad I was raised in religion because I now understand why it is not for me!
*blacksmithy84:iconblacksmithy84: Mar 15, 2008, 8:53:03 PM
I pride myself in being a good person, who is seldom mean to others. When I can I try to help out my fellow man, that is my religion and where ever it takes me that is where I want to be! I don't understand how that cannot be enough, how donating money to the weekly collection basket well get me to a better place, if there is even a place at all to go! Yet blood is spilt over the slightest differences, so slight a hair could not split them! That my friend is a huge waste!
~jimloomis:iconjimloomis: Mar 16, 2008, 1:42:00 AM
Word Paul, word! Thanks for the comments! Why don't people see the horrid things that they do and say to each other for reasons based on nothing? Its sad.

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~PhantomsRose:iconPhantomsRose: Apr 30, 2008, 12:28:44 PM
This is freakin amazing. You rock.

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~jimloomis:iconjimloomis: Apr 30, 2008, 1:01:20 PM
Ha, thanks. So I noticed you're from PA... like it here?

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~PhantomsRose:iconPhantomsRose: May 1, 2008, 7:28:43 PM
Hell no. I think I'm allergic to snow, lol. Its pretty though with all the greenery on the mountains in the spring and summer. What part are you from?

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~jimloomis:iconjimloomis: May 1, 2008, 8:31:26 PM
Western PA, just north of Pittsburgh. You?

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~PhantomsRose:iconPhantomsRose: May 2, 2008, 8:49:25 AM
Northern PA, close to the NY border. A little bit aways from Williamsport. Its like squashed in the middle from Corning/Elmira, NY and there, lol. :)

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"I will love the Light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because He shows me the stars."