My whole life can be summed up by a metaphor: a seedling is a young plant that's usually grown just to be transplanted. Get it? I'm the seedling; and my purpose here on Planet Earth is to absorb other people's negativity, wring it out, and move on to the next wild venture that coincidentally falls into my life. Only plot twist: there is no such thing as coincidence. Not that I believe in the white, male, Christian God, because I don't. I used to, but that's a story within a story.
Pantheism is the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality between the material universe and the fact that human beings are only manifestations. It denies "God's" personality and chooses to identify god with nature instead, which I think makes perfect sense. When we die, we decompose and become a type of fertilizer for Planet Earth that plants use to thrive. From there, the plants put off oxygen for humans to breathe with. The law of conservation of energy live in action!
If Pantheism explains how life works, Buddhism is the philosophy that should guide how we live. He wanted us to extract all the material bullshit from our lives and to truly find peace within. That hate and anger and sadness we project on other people doesn't make us feel whole. If we truly know ourselves and can learn to control how we react to situations, we can attain the closest glimpse of happiness human beings will ever be close to finding.
I don't I know how the Universe was created, by any fucking means. If I had to go with anything, I would say the Big Bang Theory, which was this cataclysmic event that caused the whole solar system as we know it to appear and expand. I see pictures and quotes on the Internet all the time mocking Atheists.
"Atheism: the belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason whatsoever into self-replication bits which then turned into dinosaurs. Makes perfect sense.
Okay, Smart-Ass McGee, when you put it that way, it sounds silly. Though the geniuses behind the theory of evolution, Big Bang Theory, and theory of relativity were probably closer to the truth than that book that claims an omnipotent being created the Universe, gave human beings free will, punished human beings for said free will, sent his son (who's also the man himself) to Earth to forgive human beings for things they do with their free will, and chooses whether you go up to spend your eternal afterlife in a Utopian oasis with all your family friends or whether you go down to spend your eternal afterlife in a fiery pit of misery and pain. Oh, and he is supposed to all of this out of love. In reality, it makes me people act out of this unhealthy fear and blindly accept claims that are clearly irrational. The Bible mentions unicorns, talking snakes, a man separating a whole sea in two halves, a voice coming from a burning bush, and a man turning water into wine. Makes perfect sense.
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