Choose to Believe whatever you want to believe.
Choose to Believe
I was listening to NPR the other day, and they were talking about some kids at a secular "discovery" camp...kinda like a church camp...for kids that didn't really believe in god. The camp was not strictly atheist, but the kids sounded as though they were thinking as atheists.
They were all big talk about how they couldn't wrap their heads around religion and the idea of GOD...and then someone brought up death...and they all got bummed out...because they believed that without religion...there could be no life after death.
I thought that was sad for them, because they were afraid of non-existence. The good news is that they are young, so they have a long time to figure out that they can choose to believe whatever they want to believe and they don't have to accept any one belief system lock, stock and barrel.
Einstein is a perfect example. He was one our most celebrated scientists and he believed in god. He wanted to know how GOD thought.
I was listening to NPR the other day, and they were talking about some kids at a secular "discovery" camp...kinda like a church camp...for kids that didn't really believe in god. The camp was not strictly atheist, but the kids sounded as though they were thinking as atheists.
They were all big talk about how they couldn't wrap their heads around religion and the idea of GOD...and then someone brought up death...and they all got bummed out...because they believed that without religion...there could be no life after death.
I thought that was sad for them, because they were afraid of non-existence. The good news is that they are young, so they have a long time to figure out that they can choose to believe whatever they want to believe and they don't have to accept any one belief system lock, stock and barrel.
Einstein is a perfect example. He was one our most celebrated scientists and he believed in god. He wanted to know how GOD thought.
I don't the
specifics of his belief system, but
he is a good example of how a scientific person doesn't necessarily
HAVE to be someone that doesn't believe in some version of GOD.
Some of the children also mentioned skepticism as a belief system choice...which I am all for, but I take it to a slightly more radical point of view.
Allow me to explain the Yooper version of skepticism...wait...no time to xplain...lemme sum up:
Some of the children also mentioned skepticism as a belief system choice...which I am all for, but I take it to a slightly more radical point of view.
Allow me to explain the Yooper version of skepticism...wait...no time to xplain...lemme sum up:
- Choose to Believe: Knowledge is not perception.
I think and believe a lot of things, but because of the nature of my human existence, nothing is objectively verifiable.
This just means that any information I get on earth, has two possible entry points in my awarness:
1. The external world brought to me by my senses...the usual and ESP or intuition.
2. My internal world of thoughts, feelings, emotions, will, and desire.
Regardless of whether I sense something in the world or I just make something up in my head...all these inputs are subjectively reviewed, filtered and colored by my divided human mind.
So, I can't prove that I am not NEO in the matrix, or a brain in a jar, or a spirit in heaven dreaming that I am on earth...I have no way of knowing and or proving one way or the other that any of the information that I am getting is REAL.
So, that I being said, the best I can hope for is "true perception" or something that comes as close as possible on earth.
The real cool thing is that some part of me has knowledge of reality. I just don't trust it here with 100% certainty.
Having the "knowledge" and being able to access knowledge are not the same thing.
I can know something, and not remember it when I want to...and then later on...when I no longer care to know...I remember and go...oh, great! thanks!!!
So, I look at the external world in which I live in as less than really real...or kinda like a dream that I am sorta awake in. I don't believe any of it is real.
Since I am a true skeptic of everything I can think and or perceive...I believe ANYTHING COULD happen here in this earth world reality dealio.
Now, your "so-called" skeptics out there...the Amazing Randy crowd, will tell you that ESP, and special super powers are not objectively provable...to which I tell them...yeah your right...who cares?
If Amazing Randy could objectively prove to me the existence of any Physical object on earth or in the universe...I will give him a big hug...I know he can't...but I would hug him anyway.
- Choose to believe: I can't KNOW anything, so I can CHOOSE to believe ANYTHING!
So, here I am, in my
earth-dream existence. The only thing that I KNOW for sure is
that I don't KNOW anything.
I can choose to believe anything I want to believe. I will still not be able to verify if my belief system is right, or true...but I can act as if my beliefs are true...sort of the way science trusts theory's until they are proven wrong.
All bodies die...but since they are physical objects in a dream world...is a body's passing something to morn...not to me. I assume my consciousness will continue without my body.
When I go to sleep at night, I become "unconscious" my perception of time's passage is suspended and "I" go away. During that period of unconsciousness...I don't cease to exist...I just cease to perceive...I still am.
Same same for when my body ceases to function (I guess...I don't really remember).
I can choose to believe anything I want to believe. I will still not be able to verify if my belief system is right, or true...but I can act as if my beliefs are true...sort of the way science trusts theory's until they are proven wrong.
- I choose to believe that consciousness is eternal
All bodies die...but since they are physical objects in a dream world...is a body's passing something to morn...not to me. I assume my consciousness will continue without my body.
When I go to sleep at night, I become "unconscious" my perception of time's passage is suspended and "I" go away. During that period of unconsciousness...I don't cease to exist...I just cease to perceive...I still am.
Same same for when my body ceases to function (I guess...I don't really remember).
- I choose to believe that my brain/mind is more like a network interface card than an Hard drive
Doctors
THINK that memories are stored in your brain. I tend to
believe
that memories are processed in your brain, but not necessarily
stored...if they are stored in the brain...it's not the only storage
device that you
can access.
I prefer to think of my brain/mind as a network interface card that connects me to universal consciousness.
As I experience things in my life, the events are recorded in perfect detail and stored in the universe...which I can access with my brain/mind.
This makes more sense to me than the brain as a hard drive or a long-term memory storage device.
I read a story about a doctor that was trying to find where long-term memories where stored in the brain. For his experiment, he trained a cat to do a trick and made sure that the cat remembered that trick for a long time.
Then he started cutting out pieces of the cat's brain (yikes!) until the cat finally died due to lack of brain matter.
All the way up until the cat died, the cat could do the trick.
Of course, this doesn't prove anything...but it does fit in nicely with the metaphor I am trying to explain.
I prefer to think of my brain/mind as a network interface card that connects me to universal consciousness.
As I experience things in my life, the events are recorded in perfect detail and stored in the universe...which I can access with my brain/mind.
This makes more sense to me than the brain as a hard drive or a long-term memory storage device.
I read a story about a doctor that was trying to find where long-term memories where stored in the brain. For his experiment, he trained a cat to do a trick and made sure that the cat remembered that trick for a long time.
Then he started cutting out pieces of the cat's brain (yikes!) until the cat finally died due to lack of brain matter.
All the way up until the cat died, the cat could do the trick.
Of course, this doesn't prove anything...but it does fit in nicely with the metaphor I am trying to explain.
- I choose to believe that love is more real than fear
Love is fear's
opposite. If you don't love something (an idea, a person,
whatever) then, at some level you fear it.
I like to believe that a goal of my earth-dream is to learn about fear and learn to embrace fear and love that which I fear.
If I am an eternal consciousness that exists outside of space/time and doesn't require a body or planet to exist...what do I really have to fear on earth?
I'll tell you what...life in hell!!!
Life on earth can be a life in hell...or it can be a life in heaven or somewhere in between.
If I start feeling as though I am living in hell (I am in pain, people don't like me, I am being tortured or raped or the things and people in my life are being threatened....yada yada)...
...I close my eyes and remember the "truth" as I choose it.
...wait that's right....I am kinda dreaming this earth experience....
...not only that...but my internal state, thoughts, will and desires are reflected back at me in the day-to-day world...
...so why am I choosing fear and pain right now?
Generally, it's because I am tired and or hungry...so it's time for a snack/meal/nap...and maybe a little mediation on the "truth".
Those people out there in the world ARE ME giving me whatever I ask for.
If I feel fear on the inside...I SEE fear on the outside...
If I attack someone on the outside, then I feel attacked on the inside.
If I DEFEND on the outside, then I feel defensive on the inside.
I have learned to embrace, love and help what I fear in the earth dream. If someone "attacks" or insults me in the world...I assume they are requesting my love and assistance. Maybe I can give them some food, money, or just a kind thought...why not? they are ME.
Love is real...fear is the illusion or belief that love is gone. Fear you can feel...but that doesn't make it real.
I like to believe that a goal of my earth-dream is to learn about fear and learn to embrace fear and love that which I fear.
If I am an eternal consciousness that exists outside of space/time and doesn't require a body or planet to exist...what do I really have to fear on earth?
I'll tell you what...life in hell!!!
Life on earth can be a life in hell...or it can be a life in heaven or somewhere in between.
If I start feeling as though I am living in hell (I am in pain, people don't like me, I am being tortured or raped or the things and people in my life are being threatened....yada yada)...
...I close my eyes and remember the "truth" as I choose it.
...wait that's right....I am kinda dreaming this earth experience....
...not only that...but my internal state, thoughts, will and desires are reflected back at me in the day-to-day world...
...so why am I choosing fear and pain right now?
Generally, it's because I am tired and or hungry...so it's time for a snack/meal/nap...and maybe a little mediation on the "truth".
Those people out there in the world ARE ME giving me whatever I ask for.
If I feel fear on the inside...I SEE fear on the outside...
If I attack someone on the outside, then I feel attacked on the inside.
If I DEFEND on the outside, then I feel defensive on the inside.
I have learned to embrace, love and help what I fear in the earth dream. If someone "attacks" or insults me in the world...I assume they are requesting my love and assistance. Maybe I can give them some food, money, or just a kind thought...why not? they are ME.
Love is real...fear is the illusion or belief that love is gone. Fear you can feel...but that doesn't make it real.
- I choose to believe everyone should choose to believe for themselves...cuz what the hell do I know.
I
don't want to suggest that I want you to believe what I
believe...rather just suggest that you don't have to accept the
pre-packaged "isms" as they are offered up off-shelf.
You should look to create a belief system "ala carte". Pick and choose what you like to believe.
For instance, just because you don't like religion, that doesn't mean you can't believe in some idea of "God".
I don't think there is a old man sitting in heaven with a white beard that stands in judgment of my behavior...(not that's anything wrong with that).
I don't believe in SIN...(not that's there is anything wrong with believeing in sin).
I believe in hell, but only because folks are unconsciously choosing to put themselves through a hell dream on earth....for whatever reason.
This is my belief system...you should make up your own! I could be wrong and then it would be my fault that GOD sends you to hell...I just couldn't live with that ...
;-) (<-------that's a wink!)
You should look to create a belief system "ala carte". Pick and choose what you like to believe.
For instance, just because you don't like religion, that doesn't mean you can't believe in some idea of "God".
I don't think there is a old man sitting in heaven with a white beard that stands in judgment of my behavior...(not that's anything wrong with that).
I don't believe in SIN...(not that's there is anything wrong with believeing in sin).
I believe in hell, but only because folks are unconsciously choosing to put themselves through a hell dream on earth....for whatever reason.
This is my belief system...you should make up your own! I could be wrong and then it would be my fault that GOD sends you to hell...I just couldn't live with that ...
;-) (<-------that's a wink!)
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