Do we decide that all life is precious according to some higher power "___'s" law , for obviously it is not when war is at hand yet we do so conclude in our law . Do we make this capital offense for reasons of the body possessing a soul or for that life's value & potential for living fully those rightful days that would be his or her naturally , to live & grow and experience all that they could . That life is one's first & most precious possession by virtue of the mother that gave you life thru her pain in childbirth, to raising, teaching & protecting our young till maturity & the society that decides this "right of the individual" to seek its enlightenment and the value we place on "living" . The chance to work towards that happiness & the protections to do so from harm...
His concluding words of the passage in Glanvill -- "Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will."
Interesting enough this tempest in a teapot of the belief in an afterlife, in spirits that were better chracterized no higher than some persisting primitive superstition and the will intent on inerpreting natural events thru the lens of a mind held in belief's sway , in fact it is "belief" that in some ways aids reason and man can perfectly perform other thought processes & functions even to the highest order . Even though all & everything around points to one reality , that when one is dead one is gone and that is the end of all things . What has cause so too has end and that voilition of your life (or lack of) may be passed on but you yourself are gone, but why so much fear of death ...because it is perpetuated in the teachings .
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself ~ D H Lawrence
A world is born & it dies , the same is true we know for the stars that also live a span & die ...yet it is only we that may live forever for it is our deepest fear & our greatest conceit to think so and those good well meaning madmen thought to unite into one whole under this hallucination & illusion in the face of everything around them does come to its end . But we doth protest & protest loudly & softly ,in the vast popular life of the youth seeking society to the stubborn churches that carry this torch of insanity successfully for it is so intertwined with some good moral & ethical examples and the comfort that this offers .
The belief in "heaven" to my eyes is the greatest weakness of religion and paradoxically its greatest strength ....imagine that . Everyone in their hearts have his or her doubts but since its so unimaginable why question it . But its the right to live in any fantasy one wants as David used to say , different strokes for differnt folks .... just keep its civil & humorous .
*here you just cant help yourself , i know ;o) |
