RE:arcade fire update on life
(Date Posted:04/06/2008 17:20:41)
Don't mind me arcadefire. Hehehe...Sounds like you are giving yourself pretty good advice...or at least are in the process - asking yourself questions / reflecting on your past, deciding what were mistakes ...and saying what you want.
Sounds like to me you are aware of all the kinds of things ..the quick fixes - first the religion, the pot/drinking and the idea that having a girlfriend will someone how 'fix you up' or complete you.
but
I get the distinct impression that ..what you are feeling or going through although difficult or confusing is telling you something?
Maybe its as simple as....
I want life to be easy - very easy (magical) because I'm scared to change what I'm doing. And what I'm doing is 'not much' -
Avoiding the challenges of life...like actually going out to places where there is a possibility of meeting new people.
?
I hope this doesn't sound too challenging to you arcade....believe me its something we all do or not do at sometime or the other. You are not alone in this - heaps of people find life sucky at one time or the other and get pissed off with themselves.
Heaps and heaps of people like or liked the idea or comfort of sitting in church with 'wishful' thoughts - that also relieve the individual of taking direct action in their own lives.
Good post - great that you can be so open and honest.
(Message edited by snakechic on 04/06/2008 17:26:35)
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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God
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