Shining Thru

Does God exist or simply created in the minds of those who do exist?  Like a dream that feels so real when you wake up you need to check the facts of the day before to make sure that it didn’t really happen?  Is God created out of habit, need for something to be in control, need for something bigger, need for someone to blame???  Or does God exist rather people want to admit it or not?

There are many interesting short stories about if God exists or not….Some proving that God does exist, some trying to encourage faith, and some trying to prove just the opposite and leave people without any confidence in their faith….

None of these stories can actually answer the question of if God exists or not….Can anyone or anything prove the existence of God?  On the other hand, can anyone or anything prove that there is no existence of something higher than what we can see?

What creates faith?  What creates God?  Does the existence of God really matter if people have faith in something, isn’t it the faith that gives that thing the power?  Or does that thing reign with power even when there is no faith?  Does faith give God power, or does God strengthen faith?  Is there a God or not?  Does it matter as long as people believe in a God?

People’s different impression of God is so vastly different…some different cultures have multiple gods…some people believe in more a guiding force like fate or something similar….even all of the people who believe in the one all knowing…all seeing God..have incredibly different opinions of the personality (for lack of a better word) of that God….some people believe that he is all fire and brimstone..just waiting to throw you into hell…while others believe that is all loving and ever forgiving….some people believe that there is simply a higher life form such as aliens that live as we do, but are much more advanced and therefore have god like qualities. 

People’s beliefs are really interesting to learn about.  Especially believes on things that have no proof one way or the other.  At the very least, sometimes people can surprise you and give you something to think about that never would have crossed your mind otherwise…that is if you’re open to hearing other people’s beliefs and opinions. 

What is also very interesting is how our society pushes certain impressions of things like God and aliens….I once heard someone say that if a giant monster landed in a round or square space ship and came out with eight arms some people still wouldn’t believe that it was an alien…because we “know” what aliens look like…I am willing to bet that if we took a poll we would get just about the same answer from at least 90% of the population when asked to describe an alien.  They have been depicted for years and even generations now in movies and on TV, much less in books and comic books. 

How much influence does Society have on our beliefs?  What opportunities have we all missed because we refuse to see what is right in front of us or listen to something that seems off the wall just because we haven’t heard it before?

Recently watch “What Dreams May Come” In retrospect, I think it should be called “What Heaven May Come.”

I figured the movie would be an intricate portrayal of a man’s personal hell. It’s really a portrayal of how a man’s customized heaven readily became his personalized hell.

What would my personal Hell be? My personal hell would involve dying and waking up to realize that I wasn’t done yet. My personal hell would involve everyday things like night stands and couches. There would be annoying people and stupid people. In fact, my personal hell would pretty much be like Life, with the oppressive addition of Eternity. That’s what would make it a hell for me. As individuals, we tolerate existence because we hope beyond all reason that our lot in life will improve and then End. It’s the Goal that drives us. Progress is built into our genes and to be robbed of the possibility of progress, to be reduced to slow degradation, is the epitome of hell. It’s not the burning part that scares people, it’s the fact that it could last forever.
But you needn’t worry. Your God is a wuss.  Seriously. My God could beat up your God My God is a lot tougher than yours. He could prolly bench more weight. He’s prolly killed more Indians (and Afrikaans, and… and…). He expects more and His punishments are a lot tougher.

My God would shiver ye timbers.

Though, for the life of me, I can’t imagine what my perfect heaven would be. I can’t even imagine a God that gives a damn. I can’t think of a single scenario in which I’d chose to spend eternity. The idea of heaven is really counter to what we as humans are bred to be. It works against our souls and our basic nature and desire for progress. In this regard, Heaven doesn’t exist.

Conversely, I know that any Hell crafted by the God of my understanding would be a hateful insidiously evil place designed to make one regret every second of one’s miserable afterlife. A hell crafted by Him, would be a place of great woe.

Ponder heaven and reference it against eternity and then ask thyself: what dreams may come? What dreams, indeed.