The truth is that there are no gods, all religions are fabrications by individuals or groups seeking to control or reform society into their own held ideals. Violence and disruption occurs when other individuals or groups reject what these religions purport as truth. Though Islam is currently the biggest disrupter of human tranquility all religions contribute to the chaos. For the sake of mankind’s continued existence all religions must be rejected. People must begin to accept responsibility for their own actions instead of attributing them to a non-existent god. Using a god as an excuse for atrocities must end.
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I will not go quietly into the night!
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Death is blackness, a release. A sleep from which you do not awake. No awareness exists, so you know not, you are dead, or that you ever lived. There is no pain, no depression, no desire, no anything. Blissful unawareness, non-existence. No worries, no struggles, no concerns. Life is to be enjoyed, reveled in, but death should not be feared. Death is not a part of life, as it begins when life ends. In essence you come from death, and back you someday go.
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There seems to be a connection, directly or indirectly, between mental clarity and environmental order.
When a room is in disarray, mental clarity becomes fogged, uncertain. Even depression results. Productivity in thought and deed becomes slowed or non-existent.
A place for everything and everything in it’s place. This saying is evidently accurate. Order creates order. Disorder creates disorder. It is as simple as that.
People try to make things more complex than they are. Perhaps it is because they expect something to be complex and when it isn’t their mind goes to work overtime to make it so.
It is so true that the simplest answer usually turns out to be the best and most accurate.
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We attended the Mansfield Cruise in for 2008, an annual gathering of antique and custom car aficionados.
Although there was a breeze blowing if you did not remain in the shade the sun became uncomfortable in short order.
There was a considerable gathering of enthusiasts, more so than last year. We found many areas of the blocked off streets full of cars whereas last year those areas were empty.
I took a few pictures which are now displayed on the site here. I marvel at the amount of work some of these antiques and custom cars must take to maintain. Some of these old automobiles have never looked as good, not even when new. I did take some video that reflected the atmosphere present at this event, however, I have not found a way to upload it to this site. Perhaps there is no way.
I found the loud music more of an annoyance than an entertainment. Perhaps if they had speakers scattered around the park, set at a more reasonable decibel instead of a central point with blaring speakers that threaten to melt you into the ground, I might have enjoyed it more. After all, they were playing tunes which were from the bygone eras, long before they were even born.
I think young people trying to relate to old people are just as pitiful as old people who try desperately to relate to young people. Your reference points are just not similar, and you end up looking the fake you are. Many people can relate to differing generations and understand completely what the reference points are. Even so, they face the appearances test, and usually fail to relate on those grounds. "You just look too darn old, or young, get away".
Some of my musings included looking at diehard smokers and wondering how long the political correctness police will allow that activity to continue. They weren’t exactly well received by people and most left when someone fired up. The smokers seemed to congregate, sharing their addiction, like some kind of death club.
Another thing that attracted my attention is how the strangest people seem to appear at these events. From midgets to the deformed seem to relish in these events. If you even so much as glance in their direction, I found, you get the ‘evil’ eye from them. If a look can kill, I would most certainly be dead, simply for a glance. Maybe these people are always in the central park and it is the people who are attending the show who are invading the turf of these rude and un-sociable individuals.
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On the one hand you have a culture which espouses freedom. Perhaps not every member would allow such freedom if given an opportunity to limit it. Nevertheless, the freedoms are available by law.
On the other hand you have an archaic culture, steeped in religious dogma, and ruled by force.
The archaic culture, by it’s nature, cannot permit freedom of thought, not even by distant cultures unrelated to it. It believes the religion by which it lives is the only way, and feels compelled to force all other humans to abide by it.
So, you have two groups, one for life, one, evidently opposed to it.
Conflict is inevitable.
The annihilation of one group is inevitable.
Which shall it be?
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And so it turns out, religion was fabricated to provide meaning, however artificial, to empty pointless lives. The meaning of existence, unfathomable, was conceived by mankind, to provide a basis for continued existence. A purpose was invented, and a final goal.
People were simply unable to accept that existence was the product of a rare accident. Human existence, in essence, was and is no more important than the existence of the lowest of microbial life.
The base purpose is nevertheless, the accumulation of knowledge about the material universe, hampered only by the quest for knowledge about the unknowable spiritual realm, which may not even have existence at all.
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