Are you a christian, uberman? Do you believe in that God/Jesus?
I ve read about buddhism, all kinds of ancient philosophies, rationnalism, psychology, psychanalysis, theology, anthropology, ethology, of course i ve studied biology, physic and maths too etc and nowhere did i found the proof a god exists or doenst exists.
The only thing i 'know' is that there are good people and evil people, and that most of the times they ve been conditionned to be either good or evil by their own past influences, parents, grandparents etc, which means they didnt even choose to be who they are or act the way they do. Most evil people arent aware they are, to them the way they interact with others is just normal, considering that's how they ve been raised. There are some universal values that can be shared by everyone tho, well it's called humanism.
Again we do not choose anything. We have very limited freedom, we re all here to study, work , contribute to the whole thing that generated us, reproduce, die just like other animals. We re all programmed to execute automatical functions (eat, sleep, drink, shit, fuck, reproduce,work) that keep us alive long enough to give birth to offsprings and to teach them how to survive so they can give births to offsprings too and so on. Sometimes happiness, joy occurs in the middle of all of this, when your odds of survival seem good and when you dont have to worry about eating, sleeping etc. But in occident as people get richer and richer, they paradoxally get dumber and unhappier than ever, even with all their material possessions. We re living like kings compared to ours ancestors, yet are as if not even more sad.
To me intelligence in humans is just a better of way communicating with each others while other animal species only grunt and roar. We discuss, invented languages, more complex ways of dominating our environment, but the ultimate goals are still the same, dominate, raise socially, fuck, eat, drink, reproduce, share knowledges with offsprings, build shelters, protect us from weather, travel from a place to another etc, to insure our own survival and the survival of our offsprings.
I believe in humanism, i 'believe' we are social animals, wich means we are animals who try to cooperate a bit more often than other animal species, but that it doesnt take long to figure most humans would still kill their neighbours instead of being killed if they d be forced to if for example ressources were getting scarce.
I still didnt make up my mind between the scientific explanation of life (evolution, natural selection) and the religious one. The fact that without evil, goodness looses its meaning, and vice versa. It means there will never be heaven on earth because if everything was perfect, it wouldnt make sense anymore, considering evil gives its meaning to Goodness. How can we explain that? To me both heaven and hell exist at the same time on earth, you just have to pick your side when you re an educated adult who freed himself from his past negative conditionnings he didnt choose.
Everything is very controversial when you think about it. Doctors must be happy every morning that people are getting sick, cause it gives them a reason to exist, it's quite paradoxal isnt it? yet it's the truth. Without sick people, there would be no need for them. Can we say they prey on sick people, that they are assholes?
One thing is sure religious people (genuine ones) create happier and more contributing individuals in our societies, while atheists are compulively obsessed by their little existence, materialism and hedonism. Religious people want to reproduce because they have faith in themselves and life as a whole, while atheists dont give the taste of life to their kids who as a result do not want to reproduce, hence occidentals getting replaced by third worlders.
At the end of the day we re all animals trying to survive at all costs and we re only trying to cooperate if we can get something out of it for ourselves.
Spiritual, humanist, social animals, for those who are educated. For those who arent, we can clearely say they re just animals. They survive at the expense of others. Problem is when these people are too numerous.
There s some kind of perfection in the way everything works, in the way everything little piece is connected to all the others, in the way you always get something depending of the way you acted originally. The law of karma, causes, consequences. Basically all religions and philosophies say the same things about all of this.
I believe we re the sum of what precedes us; both psychically and physically. Nothing more, nothing less. 'I' is just the sum of automatisms and conditionnings inherited by those who spawned, who inherited them from those who spawned them, and so on. I believe the only absolute is that everything is relative and that we re just machine programmed to adapt, that our brains are computers that exist for the sole purpose of calculating how to adapt the best way to your environments, so life keeps going on, and on, and on, and on etc. Sometimes i feel like life is perfectly just, at other times i feel like it's absolutely unfair. How to justify a kid would be given birth in a fucking african shithole and die of malnutrition after a one month or two, while another is born in north america, live for 30 years, being spoonfed and spoiled beyond belief, and ends killing himself because his parents didnt love him.
The more I age, the more i believe there has to be an explanation for everything, because thinking there might be none would be too depressing.
Once adults, and especially once parents, we have the opportunity to create, shape life, from scratch just like God himself. That's another incredible thing.
So did someone give us all these opportunities (it would be our mother and father!) or did we build the belief there was someone who gave us these opportunities?
I think natural selection shaped , wired our brains so we take pleasure in reproducing and raising our kids, if not, we wouldnt want to do it, and life wouldnt make any sense at all. So is hapiness, and our constant search for it, just a product of evolution, or a right given to us by some invisible force? Is this force good or evil? Arent good and evil themselves products of evolution that shaped, wired our brains that way?
