This is a little something I wrote for the ‘My Phillosophy’ paper for Creative Writing at school, sorry for any spelling mistakes, I fixed them later… Hope you like it! :)
I’m pretty sure that the first question you would ask when we’re talking about religion and faith, would be – what does the word God to me? Absolutely nothing. It’s just a plain zero, plain absurdity that the people created just to feel protected from what was always there and what scared them the most which is the other people around them. If you want to understand this viewpoint of my life, imagine something like this:
A caveman living in the iron age who lived “ordinary” savage life back then, and got a wife and little son. Because his wife died when she was having a birth, he raised the son ’till he was a grown man who could take care of himself. One day he went hunting and when he got back the son was gone. He ran out in the woods looking for him and told him it’s very dangerous for him to go out in the woods because of the dangerous beasts that can eat him. The following day the same thing happens, so the third day the dad tells him that there are many invisible ghosts that could do very bad things to him if he doesn’t stop. He found him the next day all shivering and afraid in a corner of the cave, so he had to tell him that good ghosts exist too and will protect him if he listens to what he says. That passed on. That’s how God was formed.
I’ve very rarely been spiritual, mostly because my parents made me do that, but in one point in life I gave up because it’s pointless to believe in the fact that a supernatural being put an apple tree in a garden just to test will his new creations obey him – even though he already knew the outcome of that, because he is, after all, God. I don’t like rewards for my good deeds on the Earth, because I do it for what I feel in my heart instead of what most of the people do, pray to get a “better place” in heaven and a reward for what I did and what I did not while on my “stay” here. Wow.
Continuing to family values I believe that every person has his own freedom on how to create his family, nevermind their religious beliefs, their sexual orientation, whether they belong to this or that ethnic, racial, political group because saying “Love knows no boundaries” – which means exactly that, no “ifs” and “buts” – as a Christian and then forbid inter-religious marriages of your own kids defeats the whole purpose of you saying thing, doesn’t it? I’m not conservative, actually I hate the whole thing about homogeneous relationships, made up by old-fashioned conservatives which means that the relations are dealt between only by males and females of the same groups they belong to. Which brings us to the point about politics I wanted to make.
Modern day politics when dealt the wrong way, which is usually 99% of the cases roughly speaking, is something I despise I lot. I think of myself a libertarian and I want to maximize the liberty of the individual more than I like to capitalize the importancy of the government. Money and success, by me, would be no problem at all only if there are sober people on Earth who get the whole point of the free market – which is a part of the libertarianism I vow for. Which is really hard to get in a time like this when countries where they kill for being an individual and stand for yourself. As rough place as the Earth would sound to strangers, there actually are more people that share mutual respect than those who don’t and the thoroughly organized countries like the USA are one example of that, like the other saying: “A little respect goes a long way.”
And when I said all this, and you ask me what’s the most important thing in life, that would really get me thinking. Or probably not. Maybe it’s just how good we handle life and deal with the problems that surround us, so you take control of the problems and not them to take control of you, which is what many people, including me – fail to do.
I didn’t end up as most of my friends and I can surely say I’m really glad for it, because I can openly think and tell my opinion about anything without nothing else getting in my way while my thoughts and opinions flow like water gently through my head like a cold mountain river on a spring morning. Yeah, they would jump on the little rocks or maybe even sink into the ground. But in the end, will always continue their way through the woods and reach its way to freedom.
