It's fascinated me how the most chaotic ideas ever proposed in our history could reshape our world. It's also interesting how the most stationary ideas led us to ruin & destruction over the millennia. Which is ironic.
In popular belief, surely the effects are vice-versa.
In our pursuit of pointless Order for improving ourselves, we've forgotten that no idea is perfect, hence the term "change with the times". We've accepted the notion that some ideas are so perfect and unquestionable, that even constructive criticism is taboo. It's almost like we're programmed to not explore every subject we can - when the world moves along, keeps changing. We're mentally stationary; while the world around us evolves. To a large extent, this could be attributed to fear. Fear of the unknown. The answer to it is trying to comprehend the unknown; not creating these feel-good, illogical, unnecessarily complicated, folkloric answers to answer everything we don't know. And then, coming up with ways to encourage and, as a consequence, persecute everyone else into believing it.
Religion has a persecution complex. It's built on the idea that if we suffer in this lifetime, we're going to enjoy ourselves for eternity.
Imagine, for one second, that life after death is an impossibility. What, then, is the point of not enjoying life to the fullest possible extent; and what stops us, mentally and physically, from pushing ourselves in extremes we never imagined ourselves to be capable of. By that rationalization alone, every religion is a death cult, let's face it. They're all obsessed with the idea of death, and a fictionally constructed afterlife - because the only thing human beings are scared of more than death, is the idea that there's nothing after death.
Think of how much your life and your perspective would change if -
1. You learnt you would live forever
2. You had one day to live
And in both cases, assume your belief in an afterlife is zero
The first scenario gives you endless possibilities - although it suggests infinite boredom too. At some point, you'll wish for death because you just want your existence to cease.
The second scenario leaves you in a fix, almost a catch-22 situation - you're rapidly running out of time, therefore you want to experience as many things as you can in the last possible minute. Every moment, thus, is infinitely more valuable to you than for anything or anyone else who has more time than you do.
We're all sucked into the idea that we have to struggle through life. Fine. If that struggle and everything else tied to it in life does not in any way, make you happy, what is the point of existence, and what is this pursuit of everything for, exactly? Life can only be experienced once, might as well make the best of it.
Existentialism isn't a pessimistic idea. It just takes away some of the widely-accepted superstitious, far-fetched concepts of happiness. In reality, there are no limits to attaining it. //
In popular belief, surely the effects are vice-versa.
In our pursuit of pointless Order for improving ourselves, we've forgotten that no idea is perfect, hence the term "change with the times". We've accepted the notion that some ideas are so perfect and unquestionable, that even constructive criticism is taboo. It's almost like we're programmed to not explore every subject we can - when the world moves along, keeps changing. We're mentally stationary; while the world around us evolves. To a large extent, this could be attributed to fear. Fear of the unknown. The answer to it is trying to comprehend the unknown; not creating these feel-good, illogical, unnecessarily complicated, folkloric answers to answer everything we don't know. And then, coming up with ways to encourage and, as a consequence, persecute everyone else into believing it.
Religion has a persecution complex. It's built on the idea that if we suffer in this lifetime, we're going to enjoy ourselves for eternity.
Imagine, for one second, that life after death is an impossibility. What, then, is the point of not enjoying life to the fullest possible extent; and what stops us, mentally and physically, from pushing ourselves in extremes we never imagined ourselves to be capable of. By that rationalization alone, every religion is a death cult, let's face it. They're all obsessed with the idea of death, and a fictionally constructed afterlife - because the only thing human beings are scared of more than death, is the idea that there's nothing after death.
Think of how much your life and your perspective would change if -
1. You learnt you would live forever
2. You had one day to live
And in both cases, assume your belief in an afterlife is zero
The first scenario gives you endless possibilities - although it suggests infinite boredom too. At some point, you'll wish for death because you just want your existence to cease.
The second scenario leaves you in a fix, almost a catch-22 situation - you're rapidly running out of time, therefore you want to experience as many things as you can in the last possible minute. Every moment, thus, is infinitely more valuable to you than for anything or anyone else who has more time than you do.
We're all sucked into the idea that we have to struggle through life. Fine. If that struggle and everything else tied to it in life does not in any way, make you happy, what is the point of existence, and what is this pursuit of everything for, exactly? Life can only be experienced once, might as well make the best of it.
Existentialism isn't a pessimistic idea. It just takes away some of the widely-accepted superstitious, far-fetched concepts of happiness. In reality, there are no limits to attaining it. //
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