In this world, there are truly people who worry about afterlife. The question is, do they embrace religion more stubbornly due to the fear of afterlife, or do they worry about the afterlife, then only they start to embrace religion and hoping it could be their savior? There are also another group of people who embrace religion, in hoping to get better life on earth (better money, better love, etc). Truly met such person in person, and he is not ordinary guys, someone loaded with big company. What I understand is, he always make donation to church (well, just to his church k), as the lord help him to reach where he is today. I am told, the more you give, then you will continue receive blessing to to successful. Kinda sound like my mom, but hers is .....donate to temple, burn joystick and attend the ceremony,etc.
Someone ask me recently what my religion is. I think my answer is A. What is A? What it means? Another question from him. My A stand for agnostic theist and also as A in general. Just as food got pyramidal chart to show the importance of different food categories, the A is all of us regardless of race/status/intelligent level below the horizontal line, while higher power deity/angel/messenger/son/mother all contained inside the triangular enclosure. Lastly, THE ONE (no matter under what name each religion wanna call HIM (really HIM? Does he truly have sex organ to differentiate? Everyone always implying THE ONE as a HIM, but how do we know about this? Because the book written by another human (priest/khalifah/king, etc) said so? Wasn't all of these ppl were the authority during their time?
How do you rules a bunch of wild animals? Just like how I exude dominance over my dog to get him to behave. I don't give him treats and I don't pat his head! When I raised my hand pretending to hit him act could always scared him. He'll shield away, or look down because he knew I am angry and when I do, he won't get his treats. This is how exactly authority wanna to create class and status differences, so they could rules with no objections. Those who dare to object will be deemed as disobeying God's will, and those will be purnished. How difference is their tactic over mine, other than they are using on human being and on much larger scale.
What I don't understand is, why human kinds could not merged all religions and be united, rather than now, religions is being used as reason to divide us all. Do everyone here rather believe GOD suddenly so interested in colour and thus create different kinds of dolly to give rise to etnicity? If there is only one Eve and Adam/Hawa dan Adam, how do the colours changes? Wasn't the gene mutation and survival theory much more acceptable? Or maybe people rather believe in GOD & afterlife in order to deal with their fear of the unknown. To think we already got the pre-paid report card (to do good deeds and everything which supposedly order from GOD)before dying is rather soothing to our nerves, thus relieving anxiety.
I got one truly fanatic aunt, who told me straight to the face " if you don't convert to christianity, you will never be saved when THE JUDGEMENT DAY is here, and you will not see me again as I will be in Heaven, while you in Hell". I remember I was young then, but shot her back with "How do you know?Jesus told you personally?If the GOD is truly so blind to threw everyone who hadn't claimed "he/she believe in Jesus and that he died to cleanse us from our sin" into hell, while others whom claimed such but are such bad person for the majority of their time in planet earth , then this is not the GOD I want to know. Nor this is the GOD with full of loves. The same goes for other religion who claimed similar thing, but I cited this example because it happen to be one of my encounter with someone I loved (my dear aunt). I knew she meant well, but I just hated how narrow minded she'd become.
Since kiddo, I goes to her church, read bibles (both sides, hehe I got many Malays friends in school), and also Buddhism docrines when my grandpa died. I cried when I read Virgin Mary stories, and I love Jesus character in the story, so does Siddharta Gautama life and wisdom. I liked them all, so does how I loves Japanese/Chinese/Thai/Western Food. Everything is different, but all is unique in their own right. Of course I did not embrace all blindly. Say, Thai food, I don't like their green curry and their fried moths, so just have tom yam and pandan chicken. I don't like raw squid, but loves salmon and green tea ice cream, so have it! Life is simple, that is why we are being created without the knowledge of cells, and then mitocondrian system within cell, then photon energy firing inside,etc. We are the one who complicate things, making our life much more miserable than it should be.
A friend stated he is getting old, but still want to save more money to buy 2 more properties in which he could not live in. Well, yes..for investment I know but for what? For the remaining 30 yrs of your life here in this life by working all days, and the only "me" time is nice bath and reading someone else inspiration/life? If what you wanted is so simple, then I truly think you could retired now so you read all day long and wait for that day to arrive when you will finally know if there is a HIM or not! Quiet time is not at all boring, but I thought "the one" who danced crazily over loud music should not be varnishing from your life, as he should be still there, able to dance happily over a great happening music at the comfort of his home, in front of a house's hifi. You once wrote the path to heaven is to see things thru a child eyes. To truly be with a child-outlook, you should be able to see the wonder of a single flower and also to dance like zombie if you feel like it. Of course, I could not tell you all these. Hopefully, your GOD will answer the prayers you just said tonight.
