Bone wrote:I dont follow a god or goddess, I believe there is a higher power/energy that I refer to simply as the "IS" as it just...is. I don't feel that it is aware or concious in of it's own, or that it gives two rats asses about what we do... it just "IS".

We as an aware species will do as we will, rewards and punishements are our own. I do believe in the grand scheme of things nature will balance itself though. Not in the Karma sense, my view of universal law is very like one Newtons laws of physics ie: for every action the is an equal and opposite reaction... Nature balancing itself. Look far enough an it applies to all things.

With me however this could all be clouded by the fact that I believe most of what we refer to as religion is how we humans find comfort with the unknown and the unexplainable. Science has dispelled so many things that just centuries ago we refered to as acts of god, or supernatural. Therein it would seem only logical to me to find scientific law, applicable as a way to find my answers in the spiritual realm.

To some, that would say I lack faith. Actually I have faith in the universe will balance. But lack the ego that I am so important that the "IS" cares what I do. To my own end I live my life to be the best person I can, and enjoy waht life has to offer me. That means in large living my life to get along with others in the world and thus continue my own existance. Hey the Christian 10 Commandments aside from honouring god parts are nothing more than guidelines for how to survive interacting with other people.
Ya kill someone, steal from them, or sleep with their loved ones ect, is asking for problems in your continued existance. People don't take kindly to that stuff, and violence as they say begets violence, and humans are vengeful creatures by nature.

I accept that I could be all very wrong in my beliefs but, they make me comfortable enough in my own existance, and to me thats what it's all about.

Hope that all made sense....

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