Meta-Theology: Religion / Spirtuality is Personal but Let's Explore it Together Anyways

[FastTadpole]

Religion is a personal thing.

Personally this is my take on it ..

Do what you know is right, not what you are taught or what you think is right. I think everyone knows what being a spiritual being is deep down if we dig past all of the rationalizations and misconceptions that we have been fed from papal and parent it is very clear to see. I am careful not to classify the entirety of organized religion or any other cultural morality system as totally incorrect, there is a lot of decent messages put forth in the religious texts. There are also messages of historical, cultural and scientific importance buried in these writings with the same stark mix of varying validity. It is difficult for even lifetime scholars to separate fact from fiction.

There is no doubt that scripture of all origins has been compromised misinterpreted and omitted outright to suit the ones controlling the preachers throughout history. Many times the human need for spirituality was hijacked from and by the inception of a religion. In instances where there was merit, it evolved from a moral guide as intended to a political tool over the centuries. The more distance time clocks on the pages, the more pronounced the divergence in most cases.

I just don't see why we need to have spiritual beliefs taught to us if we are, in fact spiritual beings that have a relationship with a deity, monotheistic being or the universe(s) itself. Would that relationship not be an inherent part of our being. Would it need a middle-man or an organization? Would it need to be given tribute?

When I need guidance I look deep (or bit more to the shallows if it is more apparent) within myself for an answer. I live in the moment and trust my inner guide for wisdom and seek only knowledge from outside myself.

Even children have access to this wisdom for the most part better than adults if they are not compromised by the force fed value system. The "Lord of the Flies" mentality likely would not wash if resources and protectionist information were not in perpetual scarcity as they are orchestrated throughout the globe.

I do not discount mentors or role models as inspiration but I would never blindly follow anyone ever again, been there - done that. Faith has been a downfall for humans from "our sins are all washed away if we simply ask forgiveness" to "you will meet with 72 virgins in paradise". Redemption is earned, not wished for or accomplished in a single ritualistic act no matter the ends or means. Love combats fear but does not always overcome it and anything worth doing is likely going to be difficult.

I don't mean to be preachy and have oft been timid to voice my thoughts on such a controversial minefield of divergent beliefs. I'm just putting it out there, the way I see it. We all have our own perspective on what spirituality does or does not mean to us personally but ultimately it comes down to what we do with our life through the efforts we put forth every day. That is what really defines what and who we are -- what we believe or intend is secondary if not irrelevant.

That's a quickie summary as far as my thoughts go on the subject and is by no means written in stone pending further enlightenment. It is my core belief system in the here and I am intentionally vague as to whether I lean towards a particular religion, teaching or any at all - because as I stated "religion is a personal thing". Anyone else that wants to share their views, add or pick mine apart step right up.

My hopes are to find more commonalities among us than differences. This subject has been a passionate topic that has some strong opinions and has led to divisions both forum and tracker side. Either that or maybe we can all agree to disagree and move on to what we can do as a group rather than as fractured sects and as individuals for some common goals and direction.

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I enjoyed reading your post but i did not quite understand the impetus of it. I think you are definitely right about children and the effect of perpetual scarcity and mind attack. But I don't really buy into this thing that people are adults, anymore. The system aims to and by majority succeeds in keeping people in a state of perpetual intellectual infantilism all the way upto death, no?

"Love combats fear but does not always overcome it and anything worth doing is likely going to be difficult."

Fair point but what if you don't even feel love for people anymore? In a callous reductionist view one could contend most people are simply potential liability in the emerging global police state/camp. I live in the land where the stasi was created - where people spied on each other for the state. It was very effective.

"The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" by `Robert Tressell` (Noonan) is how I feel about it.

In terms of personal spirituality, one of my own beliefs is that when our non physical consciousness transposed to function through atomic bosonic matter or what not in a perpetual cycle of generation and dgeneration that..difficult to explain in type.. I think that we are quarantine because we are melded to some other form of life - you know the oft cited scenario whereby a person has a little angel on one shoulder and a little devil on the other? weird shit no? I feel that the state of complacent ignorance is a pathology of fear too - like the grey area - unfortunately that seems to be the arena of active effect but without one's own personal jet plane there seems little that can be done in the beleaguered "western hemisphere". People don't even realise they have been gene raped by the Djinn. kinda sucks.

Who was it you followed "blindly"? My, that is cool candour, FT. I am so fucked with issues about authority that I can't even hold a boss..I mean "job" - luckily being thought of as beyond repair in the eyes of this oh so sane system means that I have been simply written off as damaged goods thus far. Fine by me - I don't ever want to have a boss ever again.

Another belief I have is that a soul is absolutely possible; and doesn't require nanotechnological neuron binding "chips" either - I mean the type the elite would have..not the hypothalamus controlling/borg manifesting secret backdoor switch it on after a year or three drone chips for the post industrialised washed but nevertheless dirty with blood money in real terms, masses.

I really don't take that idea of non physical continuance of consciousness after physical death as granted though, I do think absolute dissolution completely possible if not inevitable unless one "works" on it etc .-I thought that was what the old mystery schools were tripping on anyhow - they kept it from the masses though - in a way that, if it were real, that would be like murder really, if you think about it.. keeping people in "the dark" and the soul is fizzled out. weird stuff probably. perhaps the hologram is the prison and a nasty one at that. who knows?

You know, if lots and lots of people took the chip and then had "rage" switched on it would probably make a really fucking good cutting edge zombie film - i wonder when they will make that one LOL

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I know it is like any other zombie film but it would be a chip getting switched on - maybe by an evil computer or something - it could have a twist - that the people got better or something. without even "straight to video" there is no hope for it, I guess.
I thought your post was really good - that is why I made a proper (or so) reply.