I look up at the night sky and I know that we are part of this universe, we are in this universe. But perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us.
Category: Religion
Death of Deity, Birth of God
- Love unites and promotes humanity. This is a universal truth put forth by all the prophets, even the Deceived.
- The universe is God. Your environment is God. You are God. Acquiring knowledge and understanding about your universe, your environment, yourself—these bring you closer to God.
- There is no deity, there is no man-god. God is an experience, not a deity. Every moment of your experience is eternal: you are with God always.
- There is no afterlife. Belief in afterlife is immoral and is perpetuated by the Deceived. It encourages disassociation from your life now and your environment now; disassociation from the true God.
- Life is violent, death is inevitable. You must accept it and never fear it. Violence and death create change. Change is the only constant.
- Fight against your darkness. Every being is brought into the world as an animal: this is darkness. Finding the light is learned. Seek to expel the darkness by bringing knowledge into the world. Practice discipline and self-awareness to overcome your animal nature. Do not neglect or deny your animal nature. Know it thoroughly so that you may conquer it completely and not be led by it. Find the light and perceive the light. Go into the light. Good things will happen.
Agent Cooper Helps Leland Die
Leland, the time has come for you to seek the path. Your soul has set you face to face with a clear light. And you are now about to experience it in its reality. Wherein all things are like the void and cloudless sky. And the naked spotless intellect is like a transparent vacuum. Without circumference or center. Leland, in this moment know yourself. And abide in that state. Look to the light, Leland. Find the light. Into the light.
Battle of Self
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
— Buddah
Anne Rice on Being a Christian
I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.
Buddah Loves You
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.— Buddha
Worldview Remedy
We will have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and the environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.
God in School
Religious freedom is protected by the constitution of the United States along with freedom of speech. Anyone has the right to proclaim, discuss, or speak about their “god” in any public place in the United States. To make any certain “god” or any certain “religion” a mandatory requirement would be an oppressive infringement on the rights of others to retain their own beliefs without suffering the implied fear of conformity to the established rites of the dominant culture. Pray to your “god”, it is legal. Enforce rules to make me pray to your “god” instead of my “god”, it is not legal. Remove “god” from public school curriculum entirely and therefore remove the struggle of dominance and intimidation. It clears the way for learning, as school is meant to be an institution for education and not an institution for endorsing religious beliefs, dogma, or doctrine. Mandating a definition of “god” does not belong in school. Grammar and math and geology and physics and chemistry belong in school. The belief in “god” is something that is inherited through the family and traditions of each individual citizen. If a person wants their children to learn about their “god”, they should take them to their church or temple or synagogue or mosque or full moon bonfire. Send them to school to get educated about communicating and perceiving the world around them.
When my Grandmother died, I cried my fucking face off for days… and drank a lot of whiskey. I loved her more dearly than anyone and it was the greatest loss that I have suffered in my short life here on earth. When we got to the funeral, to my heartbreaking dismay, I was not allowed to grieve her death and mourn with my family. Instead I was made to suffer through a brimstone hellfire sermon and sternly told that I will burn and be tortured to suffer in hell for eternity for not being a believer in my family’s faith of choice. I was denied my emotions. I was denied being a human being. I was castigated and cast apart from life and family by that ceremony. I was infuriated and disgusted and remain so to this day. I do not believe in my family’s “god”. The personal denial that I suffered at my Grandmother’s funeral is allowed and accepted among family but that level of struggle, denial and rejection does not belong in any school or public establishment.
My own personal belief is that my family’s brand of religion is a social and psychological control mechanism to keep the congregation complacent and passive and disconnected from their true selves. It helps society to run along smoothly and keeps the humble cogs from finding their higher selves and breaking out of the machinery. Breaking out of the machinery is freedom for some and destruction for others… it’s been a lot of both for me personally. I can not deny that doctrine is a good and helpful thing for those who cannot perceive its true purpose or muster the bravery of accepting the unknown that lies beyond abandoning faith. But if you are able to see beyond the comfort of its oppression, you can find the truth. It is difficult. It is painful. It is real. It is freedom. It is my god.
Nightwatch
It’s easier for a man to destroy the light inside himself than to destroy the darkness around him.
— from Night Watch, screenplay by Timur Bekmambetov and Laeta Kalogridis