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One major reason humans created the concept God is to cope with the pointlessness of life.
Take away the concept of God being in charge of everything, and you discover how inherently meaningless existence is. It starts to look more like humans swirling in rotation. Your parents gave birth to you and spent a huge part of their life trying to raise you well enough to repeat the same circle. After you, your kids take over to do the same, till infinity.
It seems like a circle of bored homosapiens who would be bored without other humans to remain emotionally dependent on.
Then there's tragedy. Forced on humans by nature, by accidents, by things that feel unexplainable. Humans experience grief, sadness, loneliness. All of it brings them face to face with the senselessness of life. It's daunting trying to make sense of existence. So humans created a coping mechanism, to deal with grief, to deal with tragedy, to keep their willingness to exist alive.
That's why when you lose someone, you start asking why we exist at all. What's the point of any of this. That's life's reality hitting you exactly where it should.
The invention of God helps fill the emptiness that reality leaves behind. Why face the pointlessness of life directly when you can hand the responsibility to someone else? Why should the death of everyone you've ever loved make sense to you, without something like God to hold onto so you don't end up devastated, dejected, or suicidal?
If we go by the logic of the God religion describes, humans shouldn't need to pray or suffer at all. A God that powerful, that sees everything and answers every prayer, should avert every tragedy before it happens, or tragedy shouldn't exist in the first place.
It makes more sense that humans, in their quest for survival, invented the idea of God to deal with grief, sadness, and hopelessness.
Is it working? For many people, yes. The concept of God helps humans cope with worldly problems that would otherwise expose how senseless life can feel.
But it has a downside too. The very solution created to deal with life's senselessness ends up creating more problems within the circle. People start asking why others kill in God's name. Why God isn't performing the miracles he's described to be capable of. And those questions return humans right back to a state of oblivion.
Here's where I land though.
Life is nothingness that you can choose to create something from. That something becomes your reason to keep existing, the same way some people create God to give existence a meaning. Every human is capable of that too.
Life is handed to you like a blank page with a pen. You decide how to fill it, what to make of it, with your own hands. You have the power to build, to change the world in your own small way, to leave it better than you met it. To help other humans. To make it a little more loving while you're still here.
We are all going to die anyway, and death is a state of nothingness itself. That's exactly why we should try to live as beautifully as we can while we're here. One by one, we all end up in that same nothingness. The real loss isn't dying. It's arriving there without ever having made proper use of the time you had.
So don't wallow in sadness. But if you need to grieve, grieve. Laugh out loud. Do the silliest thing. I don't think there's a way for humans to exist without hurting one another somehow. But try your best not to hurt people deliberately. And when you do hurt someone, tell them you're sorry. When you miss someone, call them. Don't hide what you feel. Let people know.
We only get to live once. Live it well.
I'm out.
Take away the concept of God being in charge of everything, and you discover how inherently meaningless existence is. It starts to look more like humans swirling in rotation. Your parents gave birth to you and spent a huge part of their life trying to raise you well enough to repeat the same circle. After you, your kids take over to do the same, till infinity.
It seems like a circle of bored homosapiens who would be bored without other humans to remain emotionally dependent on.
Then there's tragedy. Forced on humans by nature, by accidents, by things that feel unexplainable. Humans experience grief, sadness, loneliness. All of it brings them face to face with the senselessness of life. It's daunting trying to make sense of existence. So humans created a coping mechanism, to deal with grief, to deal with tragedy, to keep their willingness to exist alive.
That's why when you lose someone, you start asking why we exist at all. What's the point of any of this. That's life's reality hitting you exactly where it should.
The invention of God helps fill the emptiness that reality leaves behind. Why face the pointlessness of life directly when you can hand the responsibility to someone else? Why should the death of everyone you've ever loved make sense to you, without something like God to hold onto so you don't end up devastated, dejected, or suicidal?
If we go by the logic of the God religion describes, humans shouldn't need to pray or suffer at all. A God that powerful, that sees everything and answers every prayer, should avert every tragedy before it happens, or tragedy shouldn't exist in the first place.
It makes more sense that humans, in their quest for survival, invented the idea of God to deal with grief, sadness, and hopelessness.
Is it working? For many people, yes. The concept of God helps humans cope with worldly problems that would otherwise expose how senseless life can feel.
But it has a downside too. The very solution created to deal with life's senselessness ends up creating more problems within the circle. People start asking why others kill in God's name. Why God isn't performing the miracles he's described to be capable of. And those questions return humans right back to a state of oblivion.
Here's where I land though.
Life is nothingness that you can choose to create something from. That something becomes your reason to keep existing, the same way some people create God to give existence a meaning. Every human is capable of that too.
Life is handed to you like a blank page with a pen. You decide how to fill it, what to make of it, with your own hands. You have the power to build, to change the world in your own small way, to leave it better than you met it. To help other humans. To make it a little more loving while you're still here.
We are all going to die anyway, and death is a state of nothingness itself. That's exactly why we should try to live as beautifully as we can while we're here. One by one, we all end up in that same nothingness. The real loss isn't dying. It's arriving there without ever having made proper use of the time you had.
So don't wallow in sadness. But if you need to grieve, grieve. Laugh out loud. Do the silliest thing. I don't think there's a way for humans to exist without hurting one another somehow. But try your best not to hurt people deliberately. And when you do hurt someone, tell them you're sorry. When you miss someone, call them. Don't hide what you feel. Let people know.
We only get to live once. Live it well.
I'm out.
