Life, death and awareness.

[Huin]

9. Seeking to understand but not quite getting there.

I have often wondered how and where I should be classified. I too am getting up in age. As I told my daughter just today. When I compare my life to one of those wooden yardsticks, though we don't know for sure where we are at any particular time on that scale, statistically I may already be somewhere past the 35 inch mark. Maybe not yet.

My theory why there are so many religions is quite simple. Someone has a need for power and is a fast talker. That person starts a religion and convinces people that his way is the way to eternal life hereafter. To keep his followers the founder of that religion teaches that his way is the only way and if you don't belong you will end up in hell. Eventually that founder passes on to whatever there is hereafter but the religion remains because of what the founder instilled in his or her followers and they, in turn, instill in their offspring.

Of course with freedom of religion guaranteed by our Constitution, there was room for lots of those founders over the years.

What I don't understand in your discussion is the sentence: "With life for an aware being I think it better to not have intelligent life."

What are you saying by that. Should we, being aware of life ending in death be better off being morons?

If that is what you are saying I need to respectfully disagree with your thought.