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| 16.6.2010 | 1 year ago
Wow, uh that’s a big question… Physically (depending on how you go) there’s probably an immense amount of pain, but I’m sure there is also a comfort in knowing that it will shortly be gone. Not just the physical pain either, all the emotional pain that has accumulated over the years probably washes over you like a cold tide on your feet as you wake from a nap on the beach. There’s a bit of confusion, and you’re overwhelmed with the hundreds of thoughts suddenly congesting your brain. Regrets, slamming into misunderstandings, crushed next to a set of lost lovers, behind a dream long abandoned. I’m sure there are good things you remember too, home cooked meals and your first kiss. Those are thoughts that make you remember that this place wasn’t so bad. It was hard and full of pain and heartache, but it also can be fun and full of laughter. It’s definitely better than the unknown. Then it ends at the split second you realize you still want to live. And after that… who knows?
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| 14.6.2010 | 1 year ago
I just had the answer for you this morning too, but I can’t seem to remember what it was now because it changes for me so often. I guess the adventure is the purpose, just the simple satisfaction of knowing you did it. Whatever “it” may be. For me, right now, “it” is simply — be happy. Sometimes in life we get too caught up with what it’s going to take to make other people happy. Our teachers, our parents, our friends, our lovers, all have wants, and needs, and feelings, and preferences. If your not careful, the point will come where you are working so hard to make these other people are happy, that you are the one whose happiness goes away. I never want to be unhappy. I never want to be that grumpy old man on the block, filled with rage and regrets, with no teeth but you could never tell anyways because I never smile. Nope. Not me. Each morning I wake up, I ask myself “What is it going to take to make me smile today?” and I go out and I find just that.
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| 4.6.2010 | 1 year ago
I don’t believe in much more than myself to be completely honest. I agree that a supreme being is completely possible, but overall I would have to say that the concept is less convincing than aliens, exorcisms, or homosexuality. Those are just three examples, and not necessarily good ones at that, but I guess what I’m saying I have a hard time taking that leap. I have a hard time believing in anything that I can’t see or hear or touch or feel in any sense of the word. I definitely don’t believe other people, and at the end of the day what else is there is to convince me of a God, but the insincere words of another man.
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| 3.6.2010 | 1 year ago
Of course there is a god…what kind of question is this? How does ALL of this come to be without a divine source? How did the miracle of life begin without the touch of divinity? What caused us to become the most advanced species on the planet? Only god can give all this. The real question is what religion gets god the most. Is it yours?
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| 31.5.2010 | 1 year ago
Is there a god? I don’t think so. The very idea seems ridiculous…an all knowing and all powerful creator that somehow existed before everything? What created god? Where did it come from? Why create us? What else has this god created? Are we special if there are others? What is the point of all this? Believing in a god makes more questions than answers. Not that science is perfect, but at least science gives me some sort of proof and doesn’t rely on pure faith… No, there is no god…and if there was I wouldn’t support such a being…
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| 25.5.2010 | 2 years ago
I believe that God exists because he is what brings us together. My parents believed, and growing up Sunday was always the day we would spend time with the family. As I child I twas my favorite day of the week. Church was the only routine I had outside of school, and the only thing that was exciting about church was looking forward to the dinner after. When we got back to Grandma’s house, she would always cook while mom and dad and my aunts and uncles would talk in the front room, and my cousins and brothers and I would play in the back until dinner. When we would finally all gather around the food we would have to hold ourselves back from touching the food until someone said grace. It was our tradition, and I never want to forget what brought us all here to begin with – God.
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| 23.5.2010 | 2 years ago
We live to prove ourselves to a higher being. This being may not really care, but we do it anyway. Each action is something that may be judged and weighed. Each action is a condemnation or a blessing, a boon or sin against the sacredness of the god you choose. That is if you believe….
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| 23.5.2010 | 2 years ago
The purpose of life is to participate in something larger than yourself. As part of a workforce, or a family, or a religion. Join a book club. Play in a band. Get up, find something that moves you, and pursue it to the fullest degree. Whatever it is that makes you happy. Just do just that. Please be respectful though. Don’t go pissing in your neighbor’s yard killing all his well trimmed grass because you think it’s funny. You know if you go around acting like that for too long, someones going to come around an start pissing on you.
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| 23.5.2010 | 2 years ago
The purpose of life is to die. That’s the cheap way out – I know, but it’s the truth. Try though you will against the hands of time, we we’re all born to die. Prolong that slow walk into the grave as long as possible. Do what ever it takes. Eat what ever it takes. Stay alive. Later on down the road, though everyone’s looking around at the funeral home with this amazed look on their faces, asking me if I can believe he’s gone. And I’m embarrassed to tell them, “Well yeah, that was kinda always his plan.”
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| 23.5.2010 | 2 years ago
Give back. Put more into it than you require in return. At work, in the community, in your relationships with your friends and your family. Sounds like a lot don’t it? Well nobody said it was easy – it’s not. It’s always been hard. You think the caveman’s job was easy? No, and neither is yours. But I know you can do this — better yet you know you can. Look at the cavemen… they did it! Look at who’s doing it now, then look at yourself. Now you can do all this – and still be home by dinner.
