what I really believe

Things I know

I do know some little things about life, here at the ripe old age of 29. And, as far as I can know, they are fundamental as to how life works. I have religious beliefs, and then there are the beliefs I have despite what others preach as “right” or whatever. Here are some:

Things we humans get hung up on simple do not matter; for example, the bad things the neighbor did years ago, the cuss word your teacher punished you for, but she says at home when she gets mad.

Profanity is only profane because we assign it as so. How a thing is said of course matters. Sometimes spoken profanity makes the communication more accurate. Such as, instead of saying “I really disagree with you, sir” you may be thinking in your mind “what a bunch of bullshit.”

If you feel bad about a thing you have done, well, there is a reason for that. Probably you did it with the wrong intention, motivation or something. Your concience helps you know where your really at. You can know in yourself you did a wrong thing even when it looked exactly like the right thing to everyone else, and vise-versa.

All people feel. Your background, ethnic culture, doesn’t really divide you from others unless you let it. Basic humanity overcomes basic culture. Don’t we all have fingerprints and beating hearts?

Life is not, contrary to the american way, a pursuit of happiness. In my way of thinking, it is a pursuit of right ways vs. wrong ways and hopefully making the choices rightly, thereby finding ones self happy with it, and content. Its not a contest.

Most things in life, to my best guess, just are. They were planned to be just that way, beyond explanation.

What seems like a conincidence may really have been providence. If you bother to believe in providence; meaning, many people claim God did a thing, but actually, he didn’t, he just let the thing happen. But sometimes, God really does, really does make a thing happen. Usually not.

If I came into some money, it would make me happy for a little while. It is like this: money or a good sex life can make you a little happy for a little while. Then that feeling wears off. Feelings waver too much to last very long about anything.

Music is a basic human need. It can make you feel what you didn’t want to feel, or what you wanted to feel. It can have you wishing to sing and cry at the same time. Or make a liar out of you. Music is a basic essential element of every known culture that ever existed so far on earth.

We humans are connected forever to the earth and the animals. When I was not in contact with these, I began to feel myself die. When I came home, and got to touch the dirt again, and be with the animals again, I felt life come back to me. I don’t know why God made us like this, but you read the first few chapters of genesis and see that I am right. I need the dirt and the animals and they need me. After all, we are all made of dirt according to the scriptures anyhow.

We are all self preservationists. Don't tell me you are thinking of charity when you have missed a meal yourself. You are thinking about filling your own stomach first, am I right?