In my experiences as a heavily philosophical and agnostic individual who was raised in the church and places his highest priority on the pursuit of truth, I have reached some rather difficult and harsh truths that have compelled me to share some advice with anyone who will listen, especially since I've fallen victim to them myself. Take these with a grain of salt, because even my own word should not be blindly trusted. These are just food for thought.
- If you desire to seek truth, don't expect to find something new; the answer's in front of you right now, and all your search is going to do is show you what's already there.
- If you spend your life always questioning everything, you will render yourself incapable of ever accepting any answers. On the other hand, if you never question anything, someone else will surely be your puppeteer.
- One consistent paradox in our universe is that the ones who have all the answers are the most confused, and the ones who think they're found are indeed all the more lost and seeking company.
- Do not expect that there's something greater than living life, because you will never know until it's over. Instead, appreciate what you have in front of you now because it could be gone at any time, and it's better to not live forever and know that you lived than to let life pass you by in waiting and then worry about whether or not something will really happen when it's over.
- Whatever inspires you, keep it, use it, and cherish it, because when the going gets tough, it may very likely be the only thing that keeps you alive.
- Don't ever consider giving up on life. As much as it seems it will end your sorrows, all it means is that you don't know that you are valuable and that there are many others like you who need someone like you. Your pain can be someone else's healing, and seeing someone's life impacted by your hands is the singlemost meaningful thing that can become of your life. Furthermore, that person's life wouldn't have been the same without you.
- No one knows what the hell they're doing. There are people who are honest enough to admit it and others who think they have to appear that they have it all together. In the end, we are all clueless, and those who try to prove otherwise are only wasting time and energy empowering their imminent demise.
- Everyone's opinion weighs the same. No one person's individual worth or opinion is worth any more or less than yours or mine. We all give good advice and bad advice, and we all bleed the same and are just as capable of saving the day.
- No God is worth following if there are political hoops to jump through. If he wants a relationship with you and he's all-loving and all-understanding, then he's/she's/it's not going to be just as dysfunctionally fucked up as human beings that we should prove ourselves to one who intimately knows every fiber of our being. Hence, if he/she/it wants a relationship with us, he'll/she'll/it'll know how to start and maintain one.
- Don't worry about vulnerability. It's only a state of being when you're not in control, and when everything is stripped away, that will be all that's left. Therefore, face your vulnerabilities as soon as you are comfortable with so that when the day comes that all is stripped away, you will not fear the shame of them. Own them and learn to manage them so that they will not become you but rather be an unwanted part of you.
- "Reality" is not an explanation of existence; it is a means of explaining perception.
- If there is such thing as eternal life for mankind, there must also, for consistency sake, be eternal life for all other living creatures. If we believe that other living creatures have no eternal life, then what has made us so special that we, an ignorant and arrogant species, be so privileged with it?
- One of the several reasons history repeats itself is because we have a notorious tendency to not learn from our mistakes and/or create new ones.
- A day in anyone else's shoes will put anyone's own thoughts in perspective. If you are racist, sexist, prejudiced in any way, just think about that. People of different races didn't decide what color to be. People of either gender didn't decide what to be. Heterosexuals and homosexuals alike didn't decide what gender they seem to naturally be attracted to.
- Assholes aren't born; they're made by other assholes. As a bit of an asshole myself (and anyone who disagrees with that and thinks I'm nice hasn't really spent a day with me in real life; in real life, I'm a lot like Tony Stark from Iron Man or Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon), I can vouch for my fellow assholes and say that we are people who spent a long time being hurt and believing we deserved it and kinda learned a bit late in life (in my case, around when I turned 22) that we didn't deserve that shit, we tend to lean toward the other extreme and become the biters. Now some of us bite everyone because we're paranoid and think that everyone's a potential biter, or they're more like me where they only bite the people that show themselves to be biters. What it boils down to, despite the fact that fighting fire with fire doesn't put the fire out, is that you get to the stress point where the only way to maintain sanity is to stop caring and develop a sense of apathy. It's that apathy that leads to becoming vindictive. So there's today's episode of "How It's Made". =p
So yeah, at first those were serious, then I think I made it a little too personal. Oh well, if you've even read this far down, you're either laughing or rolling your eyes, but the beauty of being me is: I don't have to care. =p
Take care of yourselves, and I'll update this news post when I have something to report on the movie or any major events. Just some food for thought for you guys.
