I think within 20 years I'll write a book.....

Kizzume

I think within 20 years I will write a religious book, but it won't have the trappings of what people usually think of as "religion".

There are beliefs that I have that are really strong, and they're a conglomeration of SO many things, but they've been very hard to explain. Some of the concepts are heavy on:

Looking within yourself and realizing your potential and your drawbacks

Understanding that in every direction, zoomed close to something here or zoomed out to the farthest depths of what we know of the universe as, everything is infinite, like the universe as we know it is the equivalent of a cell on something that is a tiny microscopic part of a universe that is a cell on something etc. etc.

Understanding how much the flow of of "energy" is the key to life and everything and how much control we have over it

Understanding that we don't "control" things the way we think we do, we ACTUALLY have as much control as the earth does in revolving around the sun--we are like machines that can be programmed through repeated motions and actions, and through chemicals that our bodies make that come out of the situations we put ourselves in--we can program ourselves to feel one way or another about something into eventually feeling a different chemical response to a situation.

Understanding the "feeling" of infinity and why you don't need manmade anthropomorphic middleman (God) to get there. The feeling of infinity is what most religions seem to focus on as to that "feeling of righteousness" or that "spiritual high". This feeling is something that can be re-created through internal things--not having to use any sort of "sacred rituals" or fripperies to get there, this feeling is what you get when you feel "connected", and it is a chemical that the body creates.

Now, my viewpoint on this feeling of connectivity and balance could be quite wrong, but I believe there is a philosophy connected with getting this feeling, with getting this chemical to go off in the body. I personally think it is dangerous when people are able to use something manmade, artificial, and with life-crushing rules, to make this feeling happen because it makes people think that they are somehow more "righteous" than other people because they follow this set of rules or that set of rules that have been followed for generations, and it allows people to be judgmental in ways that go so far beyond mere opinions of people, it can turn people into things worse than Hurricane Katrina or tsunamis or devastating earthquakes--they become "evil" instead of being either misguided people or people who simply don't follow those rules, while others are looked at as saints no matter what they do because they make it look like they try to follow those rules and publicly ask for forgiveness when they get caught.

I think if we just get rid of the middleman, the concept of some anthropomorphic "god" sitting there finding us more important than everything else just starts to look a little silly.

I've spent so much time trying to figure out how to word this sort of thing, and I know eventually I will have a very short religious book, probably 20 pages long is all it will need. It needs to be something that young people are able to understand as well. We shouldn't throw out the good things about what religion does for people, and I believe there is a way to do this. It's just going to take many years to figure out how to word it.

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

Sounds like great stuff man. Have you heard of Wayne Dyer? He has a book (many actually) called The Power of Intention, and it focuses on, amongst other things, the energy that binds us all, tapping into that energy, and what we are at our core. PBS has had him on many times speaking from his books. I'd like to see what you're talking about come to fruition.

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:35 am Post subject:

Wow! I hadn't read that or heard of it. I think I'm going to see if the local library has that. Smile

Thanks

Hiedi · Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 97

Maybe I should write a religious book as well. I could call it, "Hiedi's Ninety-Five Theses Against Modern Mainstream Christianity". If nothing else, it would be a good way to vent some of my past frustrations.

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject:

LOL