No One Knows

It is a good rant.
Some people can't bear "not knowing."
They'd rather believe -- have "faith" -- than admit we don't know or that really, deep down, we do know, and we simply can't face the fact that we will one day simply cease to exist. Religion is such a big business because it provides a service.
So I think religion allows some people to function.
But this is still a powerful piece in its frankness.
Thank you.
J.

I understand needing guidance by reading the scrolls of our elders, I just dont believe they had all the knowledge of this place. People develop into the religion or dogma they were raised on or associate best with personally and i get that. Ive fallen back on many texts to see my way through at times, so i understand the comfort of ancient wisdom. I just dont think we know dick about what's actually true. We cannot even glimpse what awaits us if anything even does. Shit Artemis turned a man into a stag where his own hunting dogs ate him up just because he glimpsed her realm. So even if you believed in an afterlife, many dogmas claim you won't know till you get there. We dont know shit :/

Thus I am a misanthrope...powerful piece of ink...my "spirituality" consists of knowing that a hell of a lot unknown hands helps me wipe my ass after a shit.
Cheers...Harry

Exactly, friend. Thank you for the support

Many people want others to figure out the deep questions of life for them, they choose to be followers, to enable them to place the inconceivable neatly into a box, so as their world and their life can somehow make sense.  Oh i have done my share of explaining the universe, the dimensions, the meaning for those willing to entertain the thoughts, so i suppose i should shut the fuck up about it, but in my defense i can at least honestly say that i didn't get it out of any text, book or poem, they are just possibilities i have thrown out there.  The big questions are what keeps me going and like any other human, i have a need to share my thoughts.  

Sure, we are like blind men arguing over the shape of an elephant and yes, until we can somehow learn to see, that is a ridiculous folly.  i do somewhat share your annoyance, but i am learning not to demand too much.  Today i mostly find people's assertions of the cloudy subjects to be funny and i think to myself, good sheep, carry on.

Love your rant and thank you for it, it got my noggin humming

Haha yes, I have my own personal experiences as well that show some insighr into the afterlife, but that is all it is. I do understamd human nature and how it is inevitable to try and make sensemof the signs and i dont mind reading about people's experiences. But I do loathe the confident disciple who knows everything that will occur when they die. It is folly and it is presumptuous in the most insulting way. If i were a god and i believed there were multiples of them, I too would be angered when mere mortals blatantly assume they know what i created with such certainty.