Religion and friendship
I'd never quit the church but I don't believe in xstian paganism. There's a freedom of religion as there are religious communities. I don't care about anyone's ethical standards, but I find atheists are in general too sarcastic for me to understand them sometimes. Sarcasm might be a sign of intelligence but it isn't nice to use it as an attack.
Whether you believe in multiple gods, one God or animism or science, those are personal things you figure out what you want with your life or after death. When you've lived 25 years you are most likely to be curious about the views you have of the world and study religions and your philosophy in life again. I mean, religion loved philosophers because then you could argue better that God has to exist, whether as a designer of the natural world, or because evil exists. Kant had a good idea about moral laws. If you are extremist on your beliefs, you can seriously hurt those weaker to you or turn them and they won't be as loyal to the -ism, than if they had come to believe things on their own. "Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people." Marriage, upbringing of children, modesty, these are values, the fun life. The fallacy that god fills up the gaps that can't be explained with science, is an argument I stumbled upon too. I don't practice my witchcraft but nature has cycles, and the brain works in mental patterns, it's my psychology that I feel down to earth even with all the mother nature's disasters that shape the future of this human expansion that is threatening biodiversity. Thousands of years thinking humans had dominion over everything will bite us on the leg. You don't mess with nature, you just survive your best with the neuroplasticity you're given and use the tools evolution gave us, like thumbs, nervous system, bones. We can't survive on Mars. Not without gravity our bones can't.
When you deny facts and take billionaires to outer space... Aliens are us the more rounds around the sun we take. Friends trust each other. Does the moon compare itself to the sun?
Friends talk with each other. Friends support, understand, and don't want to gain from the other person. Friends aren't your mentors, therapist, or priest. You can drink to friendship. Cheers, but don't get co-dependent either. Friendship should challenge you, because everyone is full of opinions and opinion is like a butthole; everyone has one. Do you want to be remembered by your friends, take their time, appreciate them in return, with loyalty and respect? Good friends are hard to come by, so take a pet, or other passion to fill your life on earth for other people. Did God create us in his image, does Jesus love everybody, is the Bible too morbid to read at this age and time? Well,
it's all good stories, made to be absorbed by the purest of hearts. If you believe there is something wrong, there's strength in numbers and also stupidity because who we keep as company makes us alike. How many people do you know? Who can you call at any given time? Does it make you weak if you do? Babies like smiling faces. Think much and you'll frown upon any old thing.
Taking it for granted. Keep it light, keep it within social standards, keep on keeping on like a male dolphin because a woman's heart is like an ocean, don't measure it with a spoon. I'm very crap at summarising my texts? No matter the innards, different but same, nonsense or acquainted and think alike, oh how great it feels to be alive. Have a date at a cemetary. I made a ritual once on church grounds and it was seen as satan worshiping by the peasants, I called them. It's all in your mind, but you can't feel your brain like you can't feel a government. Religion has a history of burning witches, starting crusades, normalizing the abuse of women and our bodies... thinking goddess on the wall of early human caves and fertility statues, I just think. What went wrong?
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-Kajsa