As long as there is life...wherever there is life...there will never be peace. If Peace is defined as a "lack of violence," there can never be peace. Life itself is inextricably tied now and forever with extreme violence. Extreme violence defined as death and killing.
Life cannot exist without violence. All life is food for all other life. In order to survive, all life must kill and devour other life.
I include all things in the known Universe as life--planets, stars, galaxies, all we can see and cannot see. Even these must face violence in order to survive. Violence IS Life! Nothing can survive without violence.
Humans may tell themselves they are the epitome of life; but we are not. We are not exempt from the Laws of Life. Violence is an innate part of each of us. As a species, we are no different than any other species. We say we are because "we are aware of ourselves." But who's to say that other lifeforms are not aware of themselves? Who's to say they have no language, no feelings? All life has the strongest of all traits--self-preservation. We are no exception.
There is No Purpose to Life other than to Just Be. It doesn't matter whether or not one lifeform can think. All lifeforms give way, sooner or later, to other more dominant lifeforms. It's a fact of life. It's the way life is. It isn't the way we would like life to be, but it is the way life is.
I don't believe in a god...a supreme being. Why? Because if there was a god and he is onmipotent, he is also flawed. He is not the beneficent and loving being many want to believe him to be. If he is, why would he create life to be so violent? Does it give him pleasure to see so much life being destroyed endlessly and infinitely? Must life suffer so violently in order to "earn" his "love?" What sort of being does that?
Our species are also very superstitious...in all things. Even those people who deny they are, are. We believe in spirits, gods, ghosts, demons, angels, the hereafter, heaven, hell, luck, all things supernatural. All those things are superstitions created by us. Why? To control the masses, to manipulate the masses...and to avoid admitting to ourselves that we are no different than the ground we walk on. We fear death so much that we grasp at any straw to convince ourselves that "when our bodies die," our "souls" do not. Death is merely a cessation of conciousness. We will all cease. There is nothing that can be done about it.
I'm not afraid of dying, I just want to cease without pain.
However, I have to admit that humans Are an Anomoly; we don't contribute anything beneficial to life other than our own. We are not a part of the food chain. We take from the food chain but we don't reciprocate as all other lifeforms do. Instead, we are more like the cancer cells that invade a body with humans as the cancer and the Earth as the body. Our only purpose seems to be to proliferate uncontrollably and indiscriminately and, in doing so, destroy all the healthy cells of the body. We are also the AIDS virus, destroying the Earth's ability to heal itself.
Our world, which encompasses the entire cosmos, is self-perpetuating. Everything we see, hear, smell, touch, or feel (and everything we can't) is recyclable material. Everything is being recycled over and over again ad infinitum. In that sense, I guess you could say we do live forever, that there is life after death. We just aren't recycled back into this particular lifeform.
There is a finite amount of material in the entire cosmos. In order for new forms to be created, older forms must be destroyed so their material can be re-used.
Someday, without a doubt, there will be no more humans on Earth. Humankind will end. Whether from without or within, I don't know. But it will end in order for other new life matter to be created. This is the Fate of everything, both animate and inanimate.
I guess the only thing to do is to enjoy your life while you're here and don't expect anything more. Because when you're recycled, chances are, you won't remember anything of this life. Our current conciousness is only temporary; it's only for the moment. It doesn't continue after our bodies and brains die. There is no need for it to continue.
All I have said is neither good nor bad...it just is.
The most that any of us can hope for is for our own end to be peaceful. On that thought, I hope that everyone I know and love and care for will die peacefully in their sleep when their time comes.
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