Free and pure thought is a wonderful thing. I’ve discovered and learned so much just by thinking quietly, often about nothing in particular. It is in these moments of reflection that I extrapolate conclusions from the multitude of information I receive every day.

One of the biggest problems with the world today is that people don’t have enough time to think. If you have a job it usually takes up a good portion of your day-to-day life and thought processes. Then if you watch TV or play video games (two things that I’m extremely guilty of) you lose another large portion of time that could have been spent thinking. I believe the point of the media in this country is to stifle independent thought. The media feeds people information on a mass scale, it gives whoever is in charge of it the power to insert thoughts into the minds of millions of people.

In an unprecedented press conference White House press secretary Scott McClellan announced to the American people “You guys, you seriously have to try this shit, it is out of this world man” as he held up a small vial of what was later confirmed as LSD. “No seriously you guys this shit is great” McCallan noted as he called on the “melting dude in the front” to ask the next question. When asked where he had gotten it from McCallan responded “Oh Michael Leavitt knew some dude from his days back at the EPA who hooked us up. He’s really been doing the human services part of his job around here, we got some real great chi going.” Over the course of the press conference McCallan was said to have had Baskin Robbins ice cream cone delivered to him at the podium though sources disagree on its flavor. Its is reported however that McCallan was constantly speaking about how delicious his ice cream cone was and that it was “really improving his life at the moment.”

When interviewing the rest of the White house staff everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. That is everyone except for president Bush, who according to his secretaries, was holed up underneath his desk screaming that the “evil brown people” were out to get him. Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice were found out on lawn in font of the White House discussing the clouds and how they really understood why people love kaleidoscopes. They both did not give statements as they were getting ready for some “serious tree climbing” in the near future. Overall the mood seemed pretty good throughout the White House despite the apparent lack of work being done. Though sources suggest that many members of the cabinet were getting some great metaprograming in before getting back to work.

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.