Death

"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?" 

-Epicurus 

What is death?  What happens when we die, where do we go?  Do you believe in an afterlife?  What if when we die nothing happens, we just die, and no longer exist?  Does that frighten you?  Do you feel like you will be trapped in a coffin underground for eternity?  If we do just cease to exist how could we feel?  We wouldn't feel anything.  Not existing wouldn't be so bad.  It wouldn't be anything, good or bad.  I find that a relief.  

I dreamt I died once.  It was from a car crash.  I was in a room trying to move a coat on a rack, exploring my new powers as a ghost.  Then it struck me that I didn't need to worry about the things that bothered me in life.  I came to realize that I was carrying a burden of thousands of thoughts that had concerned me for years.  Tiny burdens piled on burdens, like tiny sacks of sand in a great big bag on my back.  I had forgotten the contents of most of the bags and now I was free to release all of them.  None of them were of any consequence to me in my new form.  I was free.

Once again with meaning

In the end, everything is a gag.
-Charlie Chaplin

Meaning. I propose to you nothing has meaning. It only has meaning to you, or me or whoever but in essence there is no meaning in anything. Whole civilizations have existed and disappeared. Their world had meaning to them now it doesn't even exist. One day we will not exist. What holds the meaning when no one exists? We need to believe that meaning exists. We need to know there is purpose. We want to live forever. We don't want to die without leaving something behind to be carried forward be someone else. We want to exist after we die. We need to believe but that doesn't make it so.  

It is a great cosmic joke.  You see a picture of someone one hundred years ago thinking about what they need to do and how what they do is important and then you realize the joke.  You are that person and you will be gone and forgotten or remembered for a while but not the way you really were.  You can't take yourself too seriously.   

Desire for knowledge

When I was a kid I started thinking about how things are and came to be here on this world. I wanted to know what was really going on. The available knowledge was not satisfying and there were these big questions that couldn't be answered by anyone. Like the purpose of life and where we came from and why are humans different from the other animals. Religion claims to answer most of these questions but it is also vague and you are told to have faith and that is the way to be good and go to heaven etc...

I will try to answer these questions. But I think you should know now that I don't believe in what I call the Santa Claus like religions. They don't really make any sense.

Religion, if you scratch below the surface, is born out of the beliefs before it. It all comes from worshiping the sun and nature and luck to survive. It is all man made. It is now used as a source of power by the authorities. God if it exists, is different from anything we could understand or imagine and is not man made or if we can relate to God then it is man made and not god.

So you can begin the cathartic process of freeing yourself from any guilt served to you by religion.

We are apes

This may be obvious to some people and abhorrent to others but the fact remains we are the fifth ape. We live in tribes and all we do is to meet our basic needs. Altruism and other wonderful attributes are the result of evolution. Not anything else.

Welcome

This is my hopefully anonymous blog about what I think about the world. I hope it is anonymous because people have been killed for expressing their thoughts freely. And I want to say what I believe is the most probable truth. So if you are ready to open your mind and perhaps have an open dialogue about what is really going on then log on.