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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

hedomism or pious?
April 20, 2002 - 8:14 pm

death really is what gives definition to life isn't it?

if you really believe in religion then you know how you have to act when you're alive or you know what shitty deal you get.

if you believe that after life there's nothing...then it only matters that you enjoy the time you have.

that's the funny thing about religion. religions put forth rules by which people must live. if you break the rules you go to 'hell' or something bad happens to you, lower reincarnation or whatever.

think of the religion you profess to follow. how many of it's rules did you break today? this week? this month? this year?

how many lies did you tell? did you cheat?

honestly, how many sins did you committ? can you be that honest? i'm not asking what you can rationalize away...the white lies or whatever you call them. to stick with lies, a lie is a lie is a lie. how many mortal laws did you break? did you go 36mph in a 35 zone? did you j walk?

did you even stretch the truth just a tad?

we are all going to hell. show me someone who says they've never committed sin and i'll show you someone who died at birth.

the above only matters if there is something after death. books tell us there is. what do books know? books are written by man and therefor not pure or direct from god. look at the catholic priests, the voices of that god on earth. they have sinned. how can you be sure the priests who wrote down the various stories that became the bible wrote it down correctly? who can say the vatican choose the right books to make the bible out of?

did you know that? that the bible is collection of books choosen from many, many tombs...who can say they picked the write books? you think god wouldn't let that happen? perhaps. would god let a pedofile become one of his voice on earth? well, if there is a god. he did just that for years and years.

religion is all about faith. it's something that gives us reason for things we can't understand. if you need to know why someone died, it's part of god's plan.

the christian god is an arrogant god. he says we should spend 1/7 of our time in building built to worship him. if i told you you had to spend each tuesday in worship of me, what would you say? how arrogant would i be? how childish would i be to need that much attention?

has not god flocks of angels and the already dead to sooth his need for affection?

i'm being blasphemous i know. that's not my point.

my point is what does come after life?

is there a heaven? a hell? limbo? nohting?

does what we do now matter?

that's the question that truly matters. who cares where we came from or anything else. we are here and i'd love to know the answer...but i'm here and what i need to know is do my choices now matter in regards to anything else?

is a life of hedonism as valid and just as a pious life?

we have only the words of the living to guide us...be those words divinly inspired or not..there's no way to know. it's a roll of the dice.

what if you deny yourself all through you life...you worry and fret and then there's nothing?

what if you say screw all the rules and then there's hell?

we are mice in a maze and no one has told us for sure if there's cheese at the end or not.

i have no idea what's for real and what isn't. i have no idea who is a real friend and who isn't.

i just happen to think life would much better if people decided to treat everyone as they would like to be treated.