I am going to state right off the bat, that all of you and I are going to heaven and there is nothing we can do about God’s unrelenting, unconditional love.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray for my soul to keep, Angels, watch me through the night, and wake me with the morning light. Amen”.
There’s nothing in there about hell, eternal damnation, the rapture, gnashing of teeth, or anything else like that. At least the children get it.
Many of you may have grown up in church reciting the Sinners’ Prayer right? It went like this:
“Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior”.
So now, all of a sudden we are sinners? Did you know that this prayer does not exist in the Bible? It’ doesn’t. Don’t believe me, take a look for yourself, I can wait…….
So now, to get into heaven you have to just recite this prayer and you’re in. That’s all there is to it. This seems easy right? Wrong. And furthermore, it’s totally unnecessary.
Now most everyone has recited the Lords Prayer which “is in the Bible”, in the New Testament (Matt 6: 9-13).
“Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever”. Amen.
Once again nothing here about hell, eternal damnation, the rapture, gnashing of teeth, eternal fire, Etc. Nothing, Nada, Nyet, Nope, well you get the idea.
We need to sort these issues out one by one, then you can easily research them for yourselves.
Prayer.
As we’ve already seen, the Children’s prayer, and the sinners prayer, are not even the Bible or holy scriptures. The Lords Prayer as noted in Matthew was more of a suggestion when people asked how do we pray?
The first and most obvious question is; When we pray, is that for us? or is it for God? Think about that?
This is actually a very serious question. You see, right before the verse with the Lords Prayer in Matthew, it says in Matt 6: 8 – “Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him”.
So, in essence, God knows what you need even before you ask for it. This makes perfect sense as if God is all-powerful, and all-knowing, as we have been lead to believe that God already knows what we need, and want, even before we form the thought. I would propose that prayer is for us, and not God. For me, my prayers are more of a stream of consciousness, and even then is mostly a prayer of thanks, as the old song goes, “Thank you Lord for thinking about me, I’m alive and doing fine”.
The Rapture
The entire idea of “The Rapture” was developed by John Darby in 1830, who heard it from a young girl’s dream. Darby did not get any traction with his ideas in the UK where he was from, but he found fertile ground for his ideas in America several years later.
We went over 1,500 years in Christianity without this ridiculous notion, and everything was just fine. Once again this idea is an artificial construct of organized/institutionalized religion, especially the evangelical and fundamentalist branches of Christianity.
Nobody is going to suddenly disappear or “be raptured” now or ever, as once again,
this entire concept was “not” born from biblical scriptures.
Hell and Eternal Torment
This is another biggie. This entire concept actually came about during the early 1500’s. Although, The Christian church has always held three different views of hell. Eternal suffering (Eternal hell and suffering), Annihilation (those that die without Christ are doomed to a period of suffering in hell until their sins Are atoned for), and Universal Reconciliation (God saved all mankind, even non-believers).
For the first several hundred years of Christianity, the “Universal Reconciliation” was the dominant view. But, evidently, this was too easy, so organized religion had to invent something that had more means of control. Evidently by this measure if you don’t believe in the right thing, whatever that might be then you are damned for all eternity to hell.
Wow! This view certainly doe’s not seem like a kind, and loving, God does it. But on an even deeper level, the obvious question is why? What would be the purpose of creating people, giving them “free will” and then damning them to an eternity in hell, when God knew that you were going to be this way? Seriously why? Did you know that there are over two hundred Christian denominations in the United States alone, how are we supposed to know which is the right way and which is the wrong way? Virtually all of them state something to the fact that, “theirs” is the right path, and all the others are not.
This of course brings up the really, really, thorny paradox of what happened to all the billions who lived and died before the time of Jesus? Or all the people in other parts of the world who never heard of Jesus or Christianity. Also, let’s not forget all the religions that existed, and still exist today, that was around before Jesus or Christianity? Are all those untold billions also doomed to eternal suffering as well? Personally, I think not. As on the face of this entire argument or concept, this is just absurd.
Organized Religion makes stuff up that is not backed by scripture.
There is a lot of stuff that was just plain made up by organized religion that doe’s not match up to any scripture. This is part of the dogma, or rituals, of a particular organized religion. This is especially true with evangelical and fundamentalist branches of the Christian religion.
There is a lot of misguided, just plain wrong, or toxic theology out there. “Snake handling” is one such belief. In the NT, in the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 16:18 is says: “They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover”.
Seriously, these misguided pastors get bit by rattlesnakes, and even die every so often because of this particular misreading of scripture Didn’t God also give us intelligence and wisdom to do the right things? Maybe the Disciple Mark was negligent in not stating “do not try this at home” or “only to be attempted by trained professionals”.
I saw an entire list from the evangelical world of stuff not to do which included: Selfishness, witchcraft, incest, drunkenness, false accuser, lust, stealing, swearing, unbelief, envy, lying, hating parents, filthy talk, gay, whisperer, back biter, hypocrisy, shacking, worshiping false Gods, cheating, hater of God, theft, whore mongering, having an affair, rock roll, heavy metal music, etc.
Wow! This is clearly a long list and only a fraction of them were mentioned in the scriptures. The only explanation for all of these things is a means of control by the church to its parishioners. There are clearly a lot more here than “The Ten Commandments” Who made up all the rest? We do know that is was certainly not God.
There are some branches of American Christianity where you have to ask your Pastor for permission to marry the person that you love and want to spend the rest of your life with. Seriously, Who is the Pastor to decide who should and should not marry? Isn’t this elevating Pastors to the level of God? I mean certainly, it’s perfectly OK, to have premarital counseling with your Pastor if that is what you think you may need, But for you to have to get his or her blessing? I think not.
Another thing to be really leery of is if someone approaches you, and says; “God told me to tell you_________? You can be sure that in a lot of cases they are full of shit, or misguided in their thinking, especially, if this is not what God is telling you. Always, trust that small still voice inside of you to provide the right answer to you when you need it the most.
God’s Wrath in the OT
We have all read or heard the stories of God’s wrath, genocide, and his killing off of entire towns of men, women, children, and babies.
Let’s set one thing clear right off the bat. The last chapter of the Old Testament (OT) was written roughly about 415 years before the birth of Jesus.
To be perfectly clear, the authors of the OT had never spoken to God, had never seen God, and as a conquered, and enslaved peoples they imagined a God that would come down and slay their enemies, and everyone else who had any part in enslaving them. They used a lot of hyperbole, which was common at the time to describe how they wanted God to perform the ultimate retribution on their collective enemies. Doe’s this sound like a kind and loving God? I think not. Jesus was born over 400 years later and set the record straight.
Weaponizing Scripture
Anytime anyone, Pastors, family, friends, etc. start quoting scripture by stringing together old and new testament scriptures in new and unique ways is not quoting scripture. They are creating their own unique theology, which frankly is dead wrong and not anything Jesus said or did.
The proper way to read scripture is to read the entire chapter from beginning to end. You also have to keep in mind, three things in particular:
Time: The time it was written and the author’s understanding of the world at the time it was written.
Context: What is the context in which it was written. An example of this is all the letters that Paul wrote where he was talking to “particular churches” in Corinth, Rome, Ephesians, etc., and was discussing problems and issues that were unique to them. This does not necessarily apply to us now.
Culture: What was the culture at the time and what did they believe?
By keeping these three things in mind we can gain a far better understanding of what the authors of the Bible were trying to tell us. Also, it is critically important to not try to place our 21st century way of thinking on first and second-century man. We certainly have a far greater understanding of things than 1st and 2nd-century man did so let’s try to keep that in mind.
Another example is tithing to the church. Unless you are part of the Priestly Tribe as one of the twelve tribes of Isreal, this doe’s not apply to you. Read the scriptures on tithing, and you will see what I mean.
Inerrancy in the Bible
Essentially there are a few different branches of Christianity that believe that the Bible was inspired by God, and is the perfect word and intent of God.
God di not write a single word of the Bible! The Bible was written by men who were inspired by God, several years after the fact, that is an entirely different thing. The Bible as we know it is full of contradictions and errors as man is not perfect, and can only write about what they know, or think they know about God. We already know that there are loads of errors in the Bible both intentional and unintentional.
How did I get here?
I went to a Methodist church when I was a teenager, and participated in the youth group. If truth be told, I was more interested in the girls than any sort of religion. I did all the usual stuff including testimonies, baptism, etc.
I became really disillusioned after that. Especially, trying to understand how God allowed all that suffering and did absolutely nothing about it. This is how I was taught and was pretty mainstream thinking at the time… I could not accept a cruel God like that. After all, if God was an asshole like that and killed innocent women, children, and babies, and would sentence you to hell for eternity just for believing or not believing the right thing then I wanted no part of God. After all, what did I have to lose right? Nobody could or would answer my questions.
I became really disgusted and became a seriously intense Atheist after that for the next 45 years, or so. The funny thing is I was really happy being an Atheist. Until I met my current wife.
My wife Patria, is an ordained Minister (I was not aware of it at the time when we met) She never, ever, tried to convert me which for me is the ultimate in belief and Christian values, but I digress. Both of my wife’s parents were Pastors, as are her brother, and sisters, kind of a family affair. You get the idea.
The only thing that my wife used to tell me all the time was, God, is love. That’s it. Period, Full Stop! I thought about this for quite some time. If God was only “unconditional love” why did all this stuff keep happening? And what kind of God would kill babies, women and children, and the like. I could not, and would not, accept this as reality. I mean what did I have to lose by not believing, as I would end up in hell either way. So, to make a long story short, I was fairly content being where I was at.
So, as any good husband, I used to buy these books on theology for my wife, and I still do. One day I bought this book by Keith Giles, titled; “Jesus Unbound, Liberating the word of God from the Bible”. I started flipping through it and found I couldn’t put it down. That book literally changed my life!
I never even considered the fact that you could separate religion from the Bible, and follow Jesus in a Christ-concentric relationship and belief system. Without the confines of religion. This was a game-changer for me.
Who would have ever thought that you can follow Jesus without the confines of religion, and actually commune with God directly without the filter of religion?
I’ve never looked back since that day when I mostly read the book Jesus Unbound in a little over one afternoon. Wow! This is amazing, and really heady stuff. I soon found other authors/theologians who helped me solidify my beliefs in God. And all that all means.
I found out right away that organized religion did not have the answer for me. The answer I was looking for was right there all along, I just had never considered it before. I did not need or want religion, I only needed a “direct” relationship with Christ without the filter of religion and I found it at last.
Sure, there are a lot of people that do not, and will not agree with me. You know what, that’s OK too. We all need to find our own way and I believe that God considers intent, so when we fail, we can just pick ourselves back up and try, try again. Personally, I find it liberating to be free of the bonds of religion in my relationship with God.
The Many Pathways To God
I have come to believe that there are many, many pathways leading to God. God does not care what religion you subscribe to, or no religion, or belief at all. These pathways all represent a different path to the divine understanding of God. Some paths are fairly straight and narrow, some pathways meander around and back again before continuing on again. It’s our choice which path we choose.
Remember, God does not judge us! We judge ourselves. All God’s children go to heaven, and there is nothing in God’s unconditional love that can change that. Yes, you are going to heaven, as is your dog or cat as well. We have nothing to fear.
God made sure of that.
This song has always been very inspiring to me. I hope that you find it inspiring as well.
As Always,
I Am,
Tom Dye, The Safety Guy.
If you have any comments please feel to leave a comment below, Please be respectful to me and others. We are all seekers here..
References:
(Obviously, I need to give credit where credit is due to these brilliant scholars….
- Keith Giles; Jesus Unbound, Liberating the word of God from the Bible
- Keith Giles; Jesus Undefeated, Condemning the false doctrine of eternal torment
- Keith Giles; Jusus Unforsaken, Substituting Divine Wrath with Unrelenting Love
- Keith Giles; Jesus Unveiled, Forsaking Church as we know it for Ekklesia as God intended
- Jesus Unexpected, Ending the End Times to become the second coming
- Derek Flood; Disarming Scripture
- Barbara Brown Taylor – Holy Envy, Finding God in the faith of others
- Barbara Brown Taylor – Learning to walk in the dark
- Rachel Held Evens – Inspired
- A More ChristLike God – Brad Jersek
- How Jesus Became God – Bart D Ehrman
- I saw Satan fall like lightning – Rene Girard
- The New Oxford Annotated Bible
- The New Testament (a new translation) by David Bently Hart
- Aramaic to English translation of the New Testament
Some Of The Things I Think About All The Time…..
By Tom Dye
On April 15, 2017
In Humanity, News Commentary, Opinion, Satire, Tales of the Absurd
Some Of The Things I Think About All The Time…..
I want to make one thing perfectly clear right off the bat, I am an enigma, and believe it or not, a vast amount of people consider me to be a world-renowned scholar of esoteric knowledge, I contemplate things that many would not or could not dare to think about.
Being a scholar of esoteric knowledge I have lived my entire life based on the profound wisdom of John Houseman, who once said, ” A wise man believes only in lies, trusts only the absurd and learns to expect the unexpected”
So, because of all this, I find myself thinking about a lot of things that most people probably haven’t even considered thinking about before. I am going to share a few of these thoughts with you to see what you think. Feel free to comment on any one of (or all) these profound revelations.
Please remember all these opinions are mine, and mine alone, and are not meant to disrespect anyone’s personal beliefs or philosophy in life. If you are offended, by my opinions and my beliefs then you should stop reading this article right now.
Life & Death
The Afterlife
I hear religious people all the time talking about the glorious afterlife they’re going to have after death. Really? How do you know that? What if you’re wrong? Just saying. I know one thing for certain, believe me, I have thought about this a lot. “Life is a sure thing, and death is definitely to uncertain for my liking”. I equate this to someone who is relying on winning the lottery as their retirement plan., the odds are totally against you. You may want to have a plan B, just in case Plan A, doesn’t work out
I don’t know about you, but not one person that I have ever known, or even ever heard of that had died, has ever come back, appeared to me, came to me in a dream, or anything else for that matter, and extolled the virtues of being dead, and how awesome the afterlife is, and encouraged me to try it for myself.
Think about that for a moment. Although, I have had living people tell me that I should just die, or that I should just kill myself. Obviously, I didn’t listen to them and don’t plan to, not now and not ever.
I know exactly what some of you are thinking right about now. “You have to have faith and you have to believe with all your heart”. OK, I get that. I have heard this literally uncountable times before.
Here is something to consider, I had a good really good friend Brad, (who by the way has also passed away, and has also never tried to contact me from beyond the grave either). Anyway, Brad believed with his entire being that aliens would never allow a nuclear war to occur between nations on Earth and they would immediately intervene if one was imminent. He had absolute unshakable faith in this and believed it with all his heart.
I know this first hand, as Brad and me, discussed this topic on numerous occasions. Brad never wavered in his belief, or for that matter ever produced any kind of proof, or any kind of evidence that this was actually the case, not an alien manifesto, or any proof at all. I personally thought that this was not something that I would want to rely on in the brink of a nuclear war.
I had serious concerns, what if the unspecified aliens were on vacation, stuck in trans-galactic traffic, or were asleep when a nuclear war on earth started. I mentioned my concerns to Brad, and he was still supremely confident and absolutely believed that the aliens would intervene and that I was foolish to be concerned at all.
So who’s right? and who’s wrong? That’s the part I am still contemplating.
Did you know that 80% of Evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump? I would be really interested in knowing how anyone could possibly unite, or find common ground between these two opposing forces. I do know that I can’t seem to wrap my head around this one, no matter how much I think about it.
According to evangelical Christianity, If an atheist lived a good life, helped the poor and disadvantaged, did not lie, cheat, steal, or kill, essentially lived a good upstanding life by any measure but somehow failed to accept Jesus Christ before his/her death, they would be condemned to hell.
However, if Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler, or Ted Bundy, did accept Jesus Christ and ask for forgiveness before their deaths, they would all go to heaven. I am sorry but this just sounds absurd.
Scientologists
Scientology was invented by L. Ron Hubbard, a somewhat well-known “Science Fiction author”.
According to dummies.com “Scientologists believe that people are immortal alien beings (called thetans) who have forgotten their true nature and are trapped on earth in a human body. Scientologists believe that each thetan has lived numerous past lives, both on earth in our physical bodies, and on other planets. Scientologists also believe that by undergoing a series of classes and teachings (called auditing by the church), people can free themselves of their human form and reclaim their true selves.
Seriously? I think I’ve read the book and it ends badly for your bank account.
Here’s what I believe, as the great philosopher Forrest Gump once said, “Stupid is what stupid does” and “That’s all I have to say about that”.
Science
Gravity
People generally agree that the discovery of “Gravity” is one of the most fundamentally important discoveries of all time. First, Issac Newton, but he was wrong, and then Albert Einstein finally described the fundamental concept of “Gravity” as we know it today.
I want to put forth the idea that this was actually not as big a deal as people make it out to be. You see, gravity is always there, even on holidays, overnight, and the weekends. Someone would have discovered gravity sooner or later anyway. Seriously this seems pretty obvious to me.
Climate Change
99.9% of scientists and scientific bodies around the world tell us that climate change is real and is being caused by mankind because of our industrial activities. I accept their findings. After all, I am not a climate scientist.
The part of climate change that I to contemplate is the thinking of those who deny it’s real. Virtually all climate change deniers start their denial with, “I am not a scientist, but…..”
That’s right you are not a scientist Bozo, so who are you to refute them with your own bullshit. Donald Trump says that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. What????
Sarah Palin is another climate change denier, so that should tell you everything you need to know.
Personally, I’m with the scientists on this one.
Discovering America
When I went to school they taught us that Christopher Columbus discovered America. No, he did not! The Americas were always there. Columbus was actually sailing for the West Indies, but being the really piss poor sailor that he was, he made a wrong turn and ran right smack into America. So, Christopher “Wrong Way”Columbus made a wrong turn, and somehow “discovered” something that was there all along. I mean seriously, it’s not like you could miss it or anything. Columbus was way, way, overrated. Not to mention the fact that he was an asshole, and a slaver.
Hell, the way I see it, “Gilligans Island” had a more believable plotline than Christopher Columbus discovering America.
Aliens (Extraterrestrial Life)
I have been thinking about this for a very long time now. When I talk about aliens I am referring to the kind from another planet, not to be confused with undocumented people from one country living in another country without permission.
We seem to have two kinds of supposed alien visitations. The first type is where alien beings visit some poor uneducated fool named Billy Bob in the middle of nowhere, abduct him against his will give him some sort of inexplicable anal probe, release him and go on their merry way.
This makes no sense on several levels. How many anal probes would alien beings require from human beings? and what would be the ultimate purpose?
I would think that if alien beings wanted to reveal themselves to Earth they most likely would not appear to Billy Bob in the middle of nowhere, they would be a lot more effective landing at Central Park in NYC, at noon on a Saturday, where thousands of people would see them. Not to mention the fact that this would be a lot better place to gather their anal probe data as they could collect hundreds at once. I would be willing to bet that they could find several people who would even volunteer for anal probing.
The other type of alien sighting consists of either coloured lights in the night sky or supposed video of some sort of alien craft just buzzing the Earth. I often wonder if aliens just buzz the planet just to fuck with us for fun?
According to the theory of Occam’s razor, with two facts being equal, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Unidentified lights in the sky, or (usually fuzzy images) of unusually shaped craft flying over someplace seems like a stretch from other more simple explanations.
I do believe that considering that there are literally billions of planets and galaxies out there that there is certainly a great probability that there are other forms of life somewhere in the universe. Don’t get me wrong, I certainly do not have any proof to support this belief, this is just a very strong statistical probability.
Here’s something to contemplate. I am going to science the shit out of this one, so hang on. The closest star (another sun) from Earth is 4.24 light years away. It is a binary star system and Faint Proxima Centauri is the closest one.
A light-year is a distance that light travels in one year. According to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity – E = mc2 this equates to 186,000 miles per second. To put this into perspective that means that if you could travel the speed of light, it would mean that you could travel from Earth to the Moon in 1.3 seconds. Also, according to the Einstein’s relativity, one cannot travel at, or faster than the speed of light.
So, by the laws of physics, as we understand it, travelling at .99% the speed of light, it would take an alien race sometime more than 4.24 years each way just to reach Earth. Of course, because of time dilation, they would only experience a trip of only about 14 days, while 4.24 years would have passed on Faint Proxima Centauri.
So, ignoring pesky things like having to slow down, orbital mechanics, and everything else, If aliens left Faint Proxima Centauri at,99% the speed of light somehow slingshot around the Earth and go right back home. These alien astronauts would have aged only about 24 days while everyone else on their planet would have aged 8.48 years. BAM! Mic drop!
What that means is either extraterrestrial aliens have either discovered other laws of physics and technologies that we don’t have any understanding or comprehension of, which is not beyond the realm of possibility, or it could be that we are just separated by too vast distances to ever meet or have any meaningful communication.
Let’s just imagine for a moment that an alien culture only 4.24 light years away sent us a modulated communication by a powerful laser. Assuming that we could even understand the message, and answer it right away, the message would take 4,24 years to get here and another 4.24 more years before they got our response. Just saying hello to each other would take 8.48 years. A generation would have lived and died before any sort of meaningful communication would have occurred.
I am going to be thinking about this one for quite a long time.
Our own solar system is vast. For all the science geeks out there like me here is a fascinating video that illustrates, in real-time, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and travelling across a portion of our solar system, from a human perspective.
Fake News and Alternative Facts
This is one area where I attempt to contemplate some sort of meaning but somehow I always fail miserably. Although that doesn’t stop me from trying.
Did you know that pollsters recently did a survey where they talked to lots of people and presented them with a conspiracy theory without any basis in fact or offering any proof and a full 33% of the people believed them without question?
What the fuck is wrong with these people? Whatever happened to critical thinking? What I find interesting is how the 33% of the people who obviously believes anything, without proof or basis, in fact, or reality, is about the same percentage of people who voted for Donald Trump.
Is this a coincidence? Who knows. Although I believe that there is a strong probability that this is actually the case that 33% of the people are actually morons who will believe anything, without proof, or facts, no matter how absurd it might be.
I actually had a friend tell me recently that Breitbart news was going to be the “new” New York Times. Are you fucking kidding me? The New York Times is a Pulitzer prize winning news source. Breitbart news, not so much.
Donald trump recently tweeted that NY Times, NBC, ABC, MSNBC and CNN News are enemies of the American People. This is incredibly dangerous and is certainly just Trump’s propaganda. Just because mainstream news organisations report his own words or report actual news that is critical of him or his policies does not make them enemies of the American people it just makes them news organisations doing their jobs as journalists.
Conversely, if the mainstream news organisations mentioned above are enemies of the American people, then that would infer that biased or outright fake news sites e.g.- FOX News, Breitbart, Infowars, or the Drudge Report are not. Sadly, people actually buy into these alternative facts.
The main issue that I try to contemplate is why? Another important question is why do people vote against their own interests?
I listen to NPR three hours per day, read the Huffington Post, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Bloomberg, NY Times, Washington Post,and Politico every day to try to get a good understanding of events and to try see if there is a consensus regarding the day’s news events. Notice that the common thread between all of these news sites is that they are all award-winning mainstream news sources.
I am still stunned when I wear my NPR tee-shirt that Trump supporters will point to it and say that NPR is a liberal news organisation. Seriously??? NPR is about as fair and balanced as you can get and they always present both sides in every news story they produce, and furthermore, NPR doe’s not provide any sort of commentary one way or the other, they present the facts from both sides and leave it up to you to decide for yourself where you stand on the issues at hand. Isn’t this what real journalism is all about?
Since when did NPR suddenly become the enemy, or somehow become a liberal news source? They haven’t, and I can’t imagine that they ever will be.
Thomas Jefferson once said, “Democracy is founded upon a well-educated population” He was right then, and he is, even more, right today. The internet and fake news sources have enabled people to validate their own beliefs regardless if they are true or not.
I get it, It is really hard for some people to change their belief systems when confronted with indisputable facts to the contrary. However, as human beings, this is how life is. The real truth of reality is not what you want it, or believe it to be. Reality is what it is, and will find a way to reassert itself with a vengeance the longer it is denied. There is only one truth no matter what you may personally believe.
One thing that I am absolutely certain of, there are no “alternative facts” only facts. There is only one truth, it is only true, or not true. The sooner we all realise this the better off we will all be.
The sooner you realise this fundamental truth about reality, the sooner you will learn to become a thinking human being.
As for the rest of this stuff, I will keep contemplating it so you don’t have to.
Some of my other important contemplations that I am still working on include, why is it that a USB connector is designed to only go in one way, but you have to flip it around three times before it finally goes in? and why is it that they keep looking for Big Foot, but never seem to find one, either living or dead?
As Always,
I Am…..
Thomas Dyson
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