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Sometimes you can do everything right but still fall short. This is called religion. Religion is an ancient practice in futility that is thought to be essential to obtaining eternal life. The concept of dying and sliding into oblivion is horrific to people because they don’t believe that they are not the most important thing that has ever existed in the universe. 

The idea of a finite existence is so terrifying that the resulting backlash (religion) includes convoluted incomprehensible practices that are comprised of reprehensible atrocities disguised as piousness. This insanity is necessary to allow the human mind to be distracted enough to ignore the logic and lack of evidence to support the claims of religion. And although eternal life is both highly implausible and inconceivable to the human mind, it is the escape clause to the alternative: eternal nothingness.  

The same people who are afraid of a true death are also people who don’t seem to be bothered by the billions of years that occurred before they were born. Why isn’t that period of time equally repugnant? Why do people expect to live forever but not have already existed forever? Isn’t forever “from eternity”? If forever only includes all of the time yet to come, then where did the essence of what people believe themselves to be come from in the first place? Was there a time when they didn’t exist?

10 Things I Believe

(or at least have an opinion about...)

1) I believe religion is an outdated phenomenon and that human beings will inevitably stop trying to connect to something beyond a physical presence. 

2) I believe that it isn't necessary to have a supernatural intentional agent to have a moral society.

3) I believe that the world will not become completely uninhabitable or damaged beyond all hope of repair. I believe that the human race will learn to undo enough of the major damage done before the situation gets totally out of hand and/or learn to adapt to a world on the edge of habitability. 

4) However, I believe that things will be completely different after human beings stop the complete destruction of the planet. I believe that it will be a world without many, if not most, of the current species of animals that we now know. 

4 a) I believe that resources will be very low and the population will diminish to a level in balance with the resources that will still be available. I believe that life will be much more difficult during this transition and that it will present unimaginable hardships for those who will have to live through this time of change. Also, I believe it is more difficult to kill a planet that one might imagine. If it possible to actually kill a planet, I believe it would take longer than the current thinking suggests. 

5) I believe that life will be found to be very common throughout the galaxy and that the universe is teeming with all manner of living entities. I believe that human beings are incapable of knowing all forms of life and that there are living beings that are completely beyond human understanding. I also believe that there are other universes where the laws of physics that govern this universe do not apply.

6) I believe that human beings will come to understand dark matter and dark energy and that there will be immense practical value in the knowledge gained. I believe the understanding of dark matter and dark energy will provide the "theory of everything" that will join the theory of relativity with quantum physics. I believe that this new understanding will bring great benefit to the human race. 

7) I believe that travel at speeds greater than the speed of light will become possible because of the fact that space itself is able to travel faster than the speed of light.

7 a) I believe human beings will piggyback on the edge of the expansion of the universe and even be able to travel though the multiverse and explore other universes.

8) I believe that human beings will explore and eventually settle on many other inhabitable planets throughout the galaxy and eventually beyond. I also believe that when the sun becomes a red giant and expands enough to envelop the planet earth, human beings will return to the solar system to witness the end of the planet from which the race began. 

9) I believe that there will come a time when money will become unnecessary.


10) I believe that I cannot, at this time, come up with a tenth belief. However, I will post more beliefs in the future.

11) No wait, I have the tenth belief: I believe that time travel will become possible after the "theory of everything" is discovered. I believe that quantum mechanics will meld with the physics of the observable and time travel will be one of the outcomes. I also believe that time travel will then become the most controversial issue to ever exist and that its resolution will take a very, very, very, very long time.

(Of course, I could be wrong about all ten of these things)

An open prayer to God, Creator of the Universe and other stuff

Dear Sir Lord God, 

Please stop making bad people and people with an IQ of less than 78. Also, I know you like Mormons a lot but we really don't need anymore of those either, no matter how nice they may be. 

Also, could you turn the thermostat down a little on earth? I know you must really like the earth since it's the only place in the universe you chose to put life. So, just in case you didn't notice (I know you have a lot on your mind caring for all that there is and all) it's getting a little toasty down here.

I realize how important it is for you to be worshiped and feared, but in all humbleness, wouldn't it be better to have only one religion? That is, of course, if you think there needs to be such a thing as religion at all. I don't think it matters what religion you might chose over all the others, but having only one religion would pretty much turn the entire planet into paradise on earth. I know that might make your heavenly reward thing a little less appealing, but if the whole world is singing your praises anyway, maybe you won't even need heaven anymore.

As long as we're on the subject of paradise on earth, why not go the distance and do away with all that is wrong in the world? If you need to be adored and revered, why did you make it possible for us to ignore you or not "believe" in you? Oh, yeah - that "free will" thing, right?

I guess the free will concept is a little hard to understand for us humans. After all, if you know all and see all and created all and are all that, then you already know which of us is going to ignore you, not believe in you or commit sins against you and you even know how it's all going to end, so uh, where does the free will thing come into play? But like I said, we're only human and we can't understand your mysterious ways. Which, if I'm being honest, makes it almost impossible to please you. But I'm not a complainer...

Lastly, I'd really like substantive and empirical evidence that you exist. I know this knowledge is one of your biggest mysterious no-no's. But it really seems like a big waste of my time to do your bidding for an entire lifetime if you're not going to be there at the end to give me your promised rewards.

In conclusion, if you do exist, I must admit that I admire your work, flowers are pretty and chocolate was a real stroke of genius. And I hope you don't hold a grudge against me or others who question your existence of effectiveness or relevance. I'd like to think that using the resources you gave us (like a brain) were given to be used. Otherwise, a spinal cord would probably have been enough.

Magic Wish of the Day:

"i wish i was born on july 3 1997 in los angeles to a filipino-indian mother and an american father and a 6 years old younger sister"

Comment: uh, I don't think that this wish is ever going to be possible. As far as I know, only 2 people can create another human being. That third 6 yr. old is redundant, or more specifically superfluous, oh hell, it's just damn creepy. Visit the Magic Wishing Well