I have two words for you that completely disprove the “theory” of intelligent design/creationism: male nipples.

Think about it

I am here before you a man. A man who has just undergone an awaking within himself, but still just a man.

The entity that you once knew as Robot .21739 is no more.

I am entering into your time-space in a new form, call it evolved, or undone or whatever your mind can muse.

This shell of a being is now called The One that has Been.

Today I realized what I can only describe as the art of becoming.

When two entities enter into a similar realm, such as a human and a tree, there is something that can happen between these two entities that is complete and within itself whole. A simple act of climbing a tree can in some way be seen as a simple example of becoming.

There is a tree and a man below it. The man looks at the tree and ponders about it. “what can I DO with this THING?” so the man places his arm on the branch and gauges a feel of how it bears weight and eventually gives himself enough confidence that this branch will actually support him. So he pulls himself up. This man has never climbed this tree before. The object is forgien to him, yet all the same he is able to pull himself up and sit on that branch that he grabbed onto. How did he do this? He does not know. The tree was there He was there and they just became.

So far my understanding of religion is as follows:
Every religion is an attempt to understand the un-understandable, tame the un-tamable, and to control the uncontrollable. After a life of philosophical contemplation, it’s my conclusion that humanity’s three dimensions and five senses are hardly adequate to comprehend the infinite quantities of information (in the form of energy) that constitutes us and our surroundings. The previous statement tends to incite fear in its contemplator, because there is so little really known about our universe and an infinite amount that is as of yet un-known.

This is where religion serves its purpose; for better or worse, religion alleviates this fear by postulating a fundamental belief for its followers to rely on. The universe’s enigmatic abundance is less scary with a foothold: something to ground all other beliefs in. Religion takes the empty void and inserts something tangible for its believers to build upon. Even though different religions all start with different fundamentals, their motivations for doing so are all the same.

Either man practices a religion because of a societal reason (i.e. family, culture), or he is looking for some way to explain the intangible. It is my belief that if understanding of the un-understandable is within human reach, the answer was, is, and always will be inside of us. Each founder of the world’s religions found their path to righteousness, and as others became aware of this, they tried to make the founder’s path their own, and thus a religion is born. It is not my belief that one can become spiritually sound by methods that are not their own. In order to get the desired effect, religion has to be a deeply personal thing. This is not to say two people cannot both practice one religion, they can, as long as they both made the religion their own. Religion was not made by Ford in a factory, of essence it is and has to be completely customizable.

Considering that every man’s belief system is going to be fundamentally different from everyone else’s (even mommy dearest), we should learn to avoid fighting wars founded on problems that arose from conflicting belief systems. Even you and your mom will differ at some point, and do you really want to fight a war with Mom? In the assumption that no man would kill his mother over a difference in opinion, why kill a foreigner for his?

When all men cease to live by a religion that is not their own accept that we are all different (which we do?), then the world would harmonize into a state of perfect peace.

We are not human beings
having a spiritual experience.

We are spiritual beings
having a human experience.

There’s a thought I had the other day about religion. Before I tell you what it is I suppose I should preface this thought by saying that I do believe in a spiritual existence of some kind. That is, I think there is more to existing than what we think we know. All religions are aware of and based upon this spiritual essence. They call it god, with a capital g.