People are always arguing and sometimes killing each other over our beliefs. On one side you have the fundamentalist extremists of whatever religion saying that anyone who doesn't believe as they do is a damned infidel. On the other side of the coin, you have the extreme materialists who feel that anyone who has spiritual or metaphysical beliefs is a damned idiot. Then you have those who are caught in the middle who believe that something beyond the material is at least a possibility but don't claim to understand the exact nature of it. We catch hell from both sides.
What if, however, we looked at it as everyone having their place in the scheme of things?
What if those among us who find the spiritual iffy and prefer the purely scientific are programmed that way, so to speak, in order to specialize in those things of a material nature?
What if the true believers among us have some sort of line to the higher realms and can help keep the rest of us connected?
What if those of us who are in between are this way in order to help keep the balance between the two?
What if we weren't constantly tearing at each other's throats but instead were working together for the good of this world at least, and perhaps even the good of the Cosmos?
When we go against our nature, it causes us pain.
I have found that every time I try to see the world from a purely materialist point of view, it makes me profoundly unhappy. To a hardline materialist, this probably means that I'm simply a miserable, delusional, mentally ill person who needs illusion in order to survive a difficult life which, when it ends, will result in me becoming a pile of ashes and mercifully existing miserably no longer.
Perhaps they're correct, but they may not be. The one thing the agnostic knows is that we don't know anything for certain regarding the possibility of spirit, afterlife or such.
I cannot see the world through the eyes of a true believer in any of the major monotheistic religions, because for me, it doesn't ring true. This does not mean that their devotion to their particular deity of choice is incorrect, it only means that said devotion does not work for this soul.
I'm something of a polytheist, but again, an agnostic one. At this point I'm not especially concerned with deities. I need to work closer to home. I enjoy working with and receiving ideas from the realm of spirit, but I realize that many people either do not approve of or disbelieve in what I do. With very little in the way of support, sometimes it is difficult for me to continue. This is when I start to shut myself down.
I want to be that person who shows others like me that it's okay to be what you are, but I don't know if there really are others like me. I want to be the person who tells others, whether they are like me or not, that it's okay to be what you are, but I don't imagine too many people give a rat's ass whether I think it's okay or not.
I would just like it if we could try to understand that maybe it is not a bad thing to be someone who focuses on the material realms, or someone who focuses on the high spiritual realms, or someone who is drawn to the dark realms, or someone who feels drawn to that which is between. I feel that if we don't start working together rather than tearing each other down, there is not much hope for any of us.
~Cie~
