| Re: Finding Faith
Sorry, I'm going to be... a bit chatty.
It's easy to have faith if you're blind.
Afterall, the blind need to trust things that they can't see.
So, if you want to easily have faith, close your mind to things and just trust.
... that's the easy way out.
Faith is never easy to have in a world that needs to see things to believe it. Faith is also never easy to those who question...
The ones who seek more answers, will only find more questions. And the more questions found, the more Faith seems like... a fantasy.
To the blind who ask questions, they just look to a Book to find answers... they think they're philosophers and true questioners of life, yet they never seem to question "What if this Book is lying to me?".
...they're afraid to... afraid to be cast out, afraid to be hated, afraid to be damned.
Understandable, but cowardly.
If a person seeks a true answer, they'll stop at no means to obtain it.
... but even that can be dangerous: Sometimes people find the truth, but it's not what they were looking for, and they're consumed by it.
...so what is the truth?
...the problem is, there's more than one REAL answer.
We humans believe that if you give a name to something, it can always be identified and will always be the same in function and possibly appearance.
...we created that logic so that we had a foundation to stand on.
We believe in that logic so much so, that we stop change!
We try our hardest to stop a species from dying out (even if it wasn't our fault), we try our hardest to prevent storms to cause the destruction they were made to do, we try our hardest to rebuild what was lost... and find those who try to create change: A menace.
Yet it has happened over the thousands-millions-billions of years the universe has existed, species fight for survival and dominance, plants create poisons and weapons to destroy the other plant, the earth battles itself to create more land and space.
And everytime, it reached a point, where it all needed to stop and restart.
...like a forest fire, it destroys... yet leaves so much room for new life to begin anew.
We humans stop this from happening. We detest the idea of something evolving more to what it can be... because if it does, we can no longer identify it... it becomes something like "magic" to us, something unexplainable... something... dangerous.
Yet, have you noticed that we destroyed these dangerous things even in our Faiths?!
Take all the Holy Books from every religion!
Name one that you 100% know it wasn't altered to protect the group that owned it!
Name one that you 100% know it wasn't altered to better fit the change in cultures!
...something strange has happened in our faiths...
Religions have become corrupt through the years we humans existed... and though they change for the better, they still follow a corrupted book... a corrupted tablet... a corrupted bamboo scroll...
Only the hermits who lived by themselves, who learned things through self-discovery have found untainted truth... and they know one thing: They need not spread it.
For those who truly wish to seek the truth will find it. And those who happen upon a truth that they don't deserve, will only corrupt it for their own use.
... but is that to say these holy books hold no truth?
... you read them, and think to yourself "That is beyond true."
You feel as if that rule has existed beyond the existance of humans...
... truth is, you can find a Foundation everywhere... even in the most "evil" and "corrupt" places.
There's truth in everything, even in a lie.
And when you look at it, you'll realize something...
what that is, is up to you to find.
... but for me, "A higher being exists. A being that manifests and creates. A being beyond words and recognition... the holy books all refer to such a being exists. ...the holy books seem to have related rules and worships... that higher being came to us and talked to us, 'walked' with us... and we just misunderstood it." is all I'm willing to share. |