No One Dimensional Perspective

Saturday the 2nd of August 2025. It's very hard for me to you know really have a one-dimensional perspective on religion to be honest. Right now I'm really thinking about like you know I'm really thinking and contemplating about the validity of religion really and truthfully

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because sometimes I can get a little bit skeptical that's really and truthfully like the whole point of this reflection, to be honest, it's just about my skepticism.

Because often at times, like whilst it can be easy to use religion as a means of like, you know, focusing on the brilliance of being alive, often at times it can also be used as a way of ignoring just how dark the place can get really and truthfully. And I've always, kind of like in my last, in a very significant chunk of my being alive, I've always found that there are things that I want to believe in because it sounds nice,

it is nice, it soothes my ego, it makes me feel better about being alive. When really and truthfully, like sometimes there are things, sometimes that's just a way of like, you know, coping with like the harshness of survival, so to speak. And often at times when we want to believe in something,

like, you know, often at times, the more pleasant idea of being alive or the more pleasant idea of what happens in afterlife is just basically normally like the more pleasant outcome that we focus on, like, you, like let's say for example, believing in a creator, like it's far more beneficial

and it's far more great for a creator to exist as opposed for a creator not to exist. And of course, like many people's egos, we all gravitate towards that possibility. We all gravitate towards that, but it's not, usually, I'm not trying to, I'm not necessarily trying to make a prediction

here and say that it isn't I just know that the way that the mind works we always gravitate towards the things that sound better and not necessarily kind of like gravitate towards the truth for what it is