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Getting in deep.... No.... I don't mean vajayjay. Edition
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Getting in deep.... No.... I don't mean vajayjay. Edition Every now and then, The Beast likes to pretend he's a deep thinker who can make other people think deeply as well. Today is one of those days. I've avoided writing about the topic of religion on here for the most part. It's just one of those topics that can leave too many people butt-hurt. I want to write about a fairly general religious subject though, that won't specifically make fun of any one brand of batshit crazy people. Ha.... I made myself LOL on myself. The subject I'm speaking of is prominent in many religions.... the belief in a Paradise/Heaven/Valhalla/Happy Happy Joy Joy for Eternity Rent Controlled Afterlife. Most people that I've ever listened to who try to descibe what they believe this afterlife will be like are extremely vague. Beyond, "It will just be peace, and joy, and love, and reuniting with loved ones forever!", there's never much really deep thought put into it. I don't personally subscribe to any religious doctrine, or belief in anything beyond our time here on Earth, and what we do with that time. If I had to conjure up an image of what I think an eternal paradise would be like, I can only come up with something that wouldn't resemble anything like what most other people look forward to. I picture an overall erasure of the self, or the ego. Borrowing from an online dictionary for a quick definition: 1. the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought. 2. Psychoanalysis . the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physical environment. In order for any "paradise" to function as such, you wouldn't be able to take along any of the mental aspects of yourself that make you.... yourself. We, as humans, simply have too much baggage upstairs for it to be useful and functional in that sort of environment. Even if you were reunited with loved ones and family who passed away ahead of you, you most certainly have favorites, and others who you didn't care quite as much for. With the rare exception of those individuals who would rather set themselves on fire, or in some other way sacrifice themselves rather than to take another's life, or engage in warfare, we're simply a species with a great deal of animal rage beneath the surface. Look at the faces of parents at any little league game to see one of the lower levels of what eventually blooms into international warfare and hatred. It would simply be impossible for anything resembling any definition of Paradise/Heaven/Valhalla/Happy Happy Joy Joy for Eternity Rent Controlled Afterlife to exist if we took our egos along with us when we went. I can only see a harmonious and functioning paradise as being something akin to an ID driven beehive, with each of us fulfilling our "purpose" without question, without feeling, without deep thought. A colony with a hive mind, all dedicated to servitude toward whatever your idea of the creator (queen bee) might be. It simply doesn't work if we take along all of the thoughts, feelings, attitudes, beliefs, and ideas which make us individuals. There would exist as much wiggle room for disagreement, hatred, lust, anger, and all of the other baggage we have here on Earth which makes humans.... human. Our concept of time would have to be altered as well. I don't care how fun. cool, awesome, pleasurable something is..... it eventually gets boring, old, tedious, and mundane. Few people who say "This is the coolest thing EVER!, and I'm going to love it for my entire LIFE!", are still saying that at 60 when they first uttered it at 12 years old. I could probably go on, and actually wrap this post up in a clear and concise way..... but I'm bored. |
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I am a buddhist.. so my belief is for reincarnation rather than a heaven for all of eternity.. where and what you reincarnate as is dependent on your karma.. your actions that you create now. How long you stay there is also dependent on your karma before you get projected elsewhere.. To me this makes alot more sense. I could go on and on and on about this.. and in fact i do!! LOL.. but for now... i'm bored too.. Wannabe/Sexpot - which one do you want me to be? 
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