Que sera sera

People and their different ways to learn. Oi. Never ceases to amaze and challenge me.

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I realize something - everytime I get into a discussion about the world and its various Godheads...I understand the need for different religions. But I percieve only ONE truth...THAT this truth maybe evident in all religions to other people...this I am unsure of.

Which makes me just as fallible as before. For here I am believing before EXPERIENCING that this truth is THE truth. I am on the path to experiencing this truth to be self-evident and uptil that point...I can only speculate that this is the truth. OR I can believe it and challenge myself to PROVE it wrong. Ha!

So I only ask myself...is it true that this truth is evident in all the various ways? It is highly subjective to perception, this much is obvious.

But Unity is evident. Even under our percieved differences, we are the same set of elements and senses. Superficially, as we hope to win over people to our cause...we believe them essentially to be the same. Needs are the same. Wants are the same. Therefore motivation's the same. So on some level we believe that by showing people what we are we can make them understand...but we must hope then that they are exactly the same underneath it all. Pain, love, success, happiness, it moves us all so much.

It is only perception that is the difference. And it(perception) is there for a PURPOSE.

Perceptions, Perceptions, Perceptions. Blonde, Brunette. Victim. Leader. God. Godless. Chaos, confusion, randomness, casualities. Fact, knowledge, power, lessons. We percieve differences, and thus there it lies. To satisfy us.

the KEY point being - IT IS US THAT PERCIEVE DIFFERENCES. I percieve differences. You percieve differences. You don't percieve differences because I TOLD YOU SO. THE POWER TO PERCIEVE ANYTHING LIES WITH US. If I choose to PERCIEVE the DIFFERENCES differently, then I will. If I choose to PERCIEVE NO DIFFERENCES, then I won't see any. If i choose to see my life as a random set of facts then it will be a chaotic life. If I choose to lead my life to some purpose, everything will accomodate itself in my line of sight.

It's a choice of perception and it is WILLFULLY OURS. I can change my outlook on ANYTHING I dislike. JUST LIKE THAT (snap). That is all that is needed. It is entirely MY power, and MY responsibility - how I look upon anything.

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We ARE the SAME, seems confounding only because WE WANT TO BE CONFOUNDED. Ha!

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I find something else about religions, besides dogma and self-righteousness, that sits uneasy with me - their Morality is a product of the fear of God. That morailty which lies at the feet of fear, is no morality at all, but a manifestation of fears power over ourselves. A fear we created for ourselves. We choose to cower, so we cower. We can choose to forget that there maybe a God and serve for serving alone, the POWER lies with us.

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Another thing I encountered today was how I percieve myself to be searching for an answer to a question that is so open-ended, to me. Why are we here? What is my purpose? And to me this hits the crux of the matter. It is the vital premise on which any philosophically sound argument must be seated on. And it must make sense. Absolute sense. And I realize that because we all are different or percieved different, the various answers that fulfill that equation are different.
For many, that question has no value. It doesn't mean anything, because of what they believe in. For example: If I believed in an all powerful, all-willing God, who may or may not condemn me, then my purpose becomes to do Her (or His) will, so as not to meet an untimely, unseemly, extremely painful end.

However, if I change my perspective as to who this All-powerful God refers to i.e. myself...my purpose becomes to do my will.

Now many will argue that the basic nature of man is Selfish. Absolutely. But who's to say this is a bad quality? Anyways, if the will of Man is selfish, people will argue that everyone will be out to get what THEY most want. But as they come to the realization that just as they are their own God, so is everyone else their OWN god, there will be a paradigm shift. One must hope.

Hang on one cotton pickin' second. How is this different from acknowledging that we are ALL humans and EQUAL. Shouldn't we be tackling that NOBEL CAUSE FIRST? Isn't that naturally intuitive and sound and easier? And yet look at what it is doing, people can't take other people seriously, no respect, no love. So what makes thinking of each other as GOD so much better? We can't even be civil and stop bombing each other long enough to realize that it might be people like us that are suffering.

The fundamental difference between the two ideas is thus. As humans, 'per laws of nature' we are subject to everything around us. We are in control of very limited resources, that may or may not be meted out proportionately. We may or may not feel jipped. We are victims of nature's wrath, God's wrath, neighbor's wrath, the neighbor's dogs' wrath.

As God, well everything is within control. We CHOSE this. We chose to get attacked by a yippity dog. Why? Well, we have a lifetime to figure THAT out and it isn't even that HARD once you get started. WE are in control. Nothing that happens to us, is without our consent AND thus can be changed. If we feel too lackey to change it, then we became this lackey person in order that nothing may interfere with our intention. Some things move us so, because we chose to have them move us so. Other things, not so much.

Now if I were to replace the word GOD with HUMAN, the effect is drastically different. For humans we percieve limitations in abilities, for GOD there are no limitations. But the difference is just OUR PERCEPTION. They are both, after all, just words.

Returning back to this hypothetical idea of us all being GOD: There is no willful supersupposition of anything. You do what you do, I do what I do. We both do what each is meant to do, and here, it would seem we have the makings of a hedonistic society. One that shirks responsibility and one that indulges in pleasure and pain at will - it would seem. One thing it seems to take away from everything before it is that its purpose will become unclear as we each indulge in that which makes us happy NOW. This may only be a deviation if we don't understand where true happiness stems from.

When we really begin to understand the nature of our reality in this space time - one thing is the only constant. Change. And change means impermenance. Which means that there is no way to indefinitely extend the happiness we experience, not even at great costs.

Unless there is a method of introspection that is invoked at the beginning of this process which has to be self-initiated, as to what constitutes TRUE happiness, it will be entirely just as chaotic or ordered as it is now. Unless the person aware of there being no good or evil, realizes that they are spozed to realize this for a purpose, that the worlds purpose falls into perspective only if you consider for a minute that it is the same every where/every person you look at - the outcome of this each one for his own becomes predictable.

The tendency is to believe what we can see. But we see a lot that we can't believe and we can't see a lot of what we believe. Nevertheless with that overwhelming point in mind...when we see what we think will make us happy, naturally we want to have it. But like the object of our happiness, happiness associated with it is temporary and transient...as it fades and transfers our attentions to another object, we covet that, it ONLY makes us happy, so on and so forth.

But isn't happiness, even if for a short while, a cause on its own? Absolutely. But unless I become a finely tuned person that recognizes where my happiness stems from and why, I won't ever be able to achieve that which will make me happy indefinitely, notwithstanding the impermenance of things around me. And lets face it...I want that which makes me happy all the time. I know I'll tire of toys and people after a while, so I seek that which will enthrall me for eternity.

Eventually the pursuits in this direction mimic our pursuits now. There being very little moral leverage to either. The same chaos and confusion will reign supreme before the calm makes itself apparent. Before the paths all converge and the desires all melt into one.

I guess my point is...it is useless to argue that the world is in shambles. It is where it ought be. We destined it so. And it may yet turn out ideally.

Thus, though I may deny another man's judgement on the good and bad of life...it is the will of the masses that prevails. And also for some purpose. Thus, at some cost, the world view changes every few centuries or so and it teaches those who come afterwards a different lesson. We may forever become the planet to experience hedonistic tendencies and willful destruction in the name of a cause - a place to experience to the utmost - transience and the opposite of peace, love and harmony. But it will be so at our behest. Only because we CAN, shall it happen. Or we can change. We can begin to be that where peace and love and harmony reign, but because of their impelling nature yet their impermenance we shall be motivated finally, on this plane to become the place where the will to meet "the Ultimate Truth" comes to fruition.

Who's to say we always weren't there?

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There is NO different. I am everyone. Brotherhood is a cover for me to serve myself.

We are therefore the Is is? NO. The Is is therefore we are. We are all the same, because, before our perceptive dualities, there was that which was the same.

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If seeking knowledge gives me such Joy, what will experiencing it do?