Stop Preaching About God!

as an atheist, i think it’s possible that a god could exist… but only in such a way that would be completely inconceivable for the vast majority of people.

I will say this though: none of the holy books are even close. They’re all wrong. All currently known religions are wrong.

It’s possible that other people have reached similar conclusions as i have, but it’s incredibly rare for me to actually meet or even encounter any of them.

One thing is for sure: “praying” isn’t going to work. If you want to manifest changes in physical reality, you have to use your physical body, and those of others, to create/manifest them. In fact, that may be the entire point of all physical existence in the universe: to manifest a physical universe. ^^

As for the selfish vs selfless argument… it doesn’t need to be divided into contrasted halves.

It has to be both. Everyone has to care about both themselves and others, at the same time. If everyone could do that, and cooperate toward universally beneficial progress, the world would significantly improve. One of the major obstacles to that, is the people who want to use their advantages to control others, for their own personal gains (i.e. selfish). But being totally selfless often unnecessarily squanders one’s own potential, and dilutes their potency, and gives energy to people who are not really deserving of it, or even qualified to understand how to most appropriately utilize it.

I wish i could bring everyone to my level, all at once, but too many people started from too many different places, and as a mortal being, there’s just not enough time… and as a critically depressed being, who likely doesn’t have much longer in this reality, i just don’t have the energy to explain everything to everyone a thousand different ways, especially while most of them will resist anything that contradicts their preexisting convictions. I would like to be able to put everything i know, into a refined work of literature, so that those i didn’t have time to help, can still learn from what i learned, after i’m gone… but it just seems like an implausible and unattainable goal. Sometimes all i can really do is try to have some faith in humanity, in that they will eventually figure it out for themselves. Meanwhile, knowing what i know (which doesn’t include everything, and will surely be misinterpreted…)… i just want to live in relative peace, and not have anyone initiating aggression against me, just because i don’t want to go along with the ways most people seem to think i should be. I know better, and i won’t comply. I won’t initiate aggression, but i will defend myself if an aggressor removes the other choice. And even so, if i ever have to harm someone to protect myself from their aggression… i will still feel remorse for whatever damage is done, even if i know they deserved it. Why? Because they could have listened, they could have made a different choice, they could have chosen wisely, instead of to destroy. It takes an unhappy person to choose destruction over creation… and most people are only unhappy because they hurt from what other people have created. The only way to correct that, is to stop creating anything that hurts anyone unnecessarily.

Minimize the creation of undue suffering for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you’re imperfect or make mistakes. It matters that we all try; for our own sake, as well as that of the world.