Religion had good intentions, but nature has better
November 22, 2014 at 6:49 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2014 at 6:52 pm by LivingNumbers6.626.)
Perhaps I'm being incredibly far fetched, I'm not exactly an expert, just simply a silly dude, doing his silly thing: over analyzing everything...
So I've have been thinking a lot about my confusion about the outside world, well now that I left religion, the world I currently decide to reside in. Luckily, I'm becoming a little less dissonant with the controversial things of this world.
Homosexuality was an easy one. After leaving religious thought behind, there was obviously nothing immoral about it. I wish I had more gay friends. My first year of college gay people treated me so much better than my fellow mormons. haha.
Abortion...I'm still cut in the middle. But the thing is, it's none of my fucking business. I would prefer abortion to happen before the organism was anthropomorphic, but again...it's none of my fucking business.
Gun control, I'm quite the distrustful dude of any ruling organization. I believe in the right to defend...but I also believe in the right to think. If all or certain firearms became illegal, I am sure that in the case of tyranny that the people would be able to manufacture their own weapons.
Capital punishment...I don't fucking know.
Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana. I don't know. To everyone their own! As long as it doesn't harm anyone else and at least it isn't used an escapist hobby.
Tea and coffee...love the stuff. haha.
Fornication: just be fucking smart about it, be educated about it.
Masturbation: who cares? Everyone does it.
Pornography: who cares? Everyone has seen it at least once.
God: a meaningless question
Ghosts: ditto
Mormonism: shady as an MLM
Anyways, there is a theme here. Mormonism and the real world: an ex-mormon and his reconciliation with reality...if there is one.
The point is, humans seek to normalize everything. It's important to us. Opposing opinions are terrifying. So humans seek to unify under one thought, that way they don't have to think for themselves and that way they don't have to deal with the obvious grey-ness of life.
Human's hate the grey.
Human's love black and white.
But does this work? No, no it doesn't. The mormon faith has a clear cut answer to all of the topics listed above and asserts them as absolute truths, but if you look at their members...far from reality.
My father prefers I do not drink coffee but drinks green tea. My family suggests I avoid use of medical marijuana but is addicted to caffeine. My family prefers I avoid alcohol but suffers from gluttony. My family praises Jesus but is nothing like him.
Why do humans subscribe to a dogma but so ironically wallow in hypocrisy? The world is grey, so why do we try to suggest otherwise?
Why do we seek to trade diversity for certainty?
Why are we so uncomfortable with uncertainty?
Religion had good intentions to make humans feel certain and safe, but nature has it's way regardless. We're all victim to consciousness and rational.
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Hmm, after thought: political ideologies do the same. But is this ideal? Is there a black and white answer for humanity and will it make us happy?
So I've have been thinking a lot about my confusion about the outside world, well now that I left religion, the world I currently decide to reside in. Luckily, I'm becoming a little less dissonant with the controversial things of this world.
Homosexuality was an easy one. After leaving religious thought behind, there was obviously nothing immoral about it. I wish I had more gay friends. My first year of college gay people treated me so much better than my fellow mormons. haha.
Abortion...I'm still cut in the middle. But the thing is, it's none of my fucking business. I would prefer abortion to happen before the organism was anthropomorphic, but again...it's none of my fucking business.
Gun control, I'm quite the distrustful dude of any ruling organization. I believe in the right to defend...but I also believe in the right to think. If all or certain firearms became illegal, I am sure that in the case of tyranny that the people would be able to manufacture their own weapons.
Capital punishment...I don't fucking know.
Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana. I don't know. To everyone their own! As long as it doesn't harm anyone else and at least it isn't used an escapist hobby.
Tea and coffee...love the stuff. haha.
Fornication: just be fucking smart about it, be educated about it.
Masturbation: who cares? Everyone does it.
Pornography: who cares? Everyone has seen it at least once.
God: a meaningless question
Ghosts: ditto
Mormonism: shady as an MLM
Anyways, there is a theme here. Mormonism and the real world: an ex-mormon and his reconciliation with reality...if there is one.
The point is, humans seek to normalize everything. It's important to us. Opposing opinions are terrifying. So humans seek to unify under one thought, that way they don't have to think for themselves and that way they don't have to deal with the obvious grey-ness of life.
Human's hate the grey.
Human's love black and white.
But does this work? No, no it doesn't. The mormon faith has a clear cut answer to all of the topics listed above and asserts them as absolute truths, but if you look at their members...far from reality.
My father prefers I do not drink coffee but drinks green tea. My family suggests I avoid use of medical marijuana but is addicted to caffeine. My family prefers I avoid alcohol but suffers from gluttony. My family praises Jesus but is nothing like him.
Why do humans subscribe to a dogma but so ironically wallow in hypocrisy? The world is grey, so why do we try to suggest otherwise?
Why do we seek to trade diversity for certainty?
Why are we so uncomfortable with uncertainty?
Religion had good intentions to make humans feel certain and safe, but nature has it's way regardless. We're all victim to consciousness and rational.
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Hmm, after thought: political ideologies do the same. But is this ideal? Is there a black and white answer for humanity and will it make us happy?
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