So
I'm watching Rick Warren's talk on TED called Living a life of
purpose. He believes that servitude is what people's lives are geared
toward or engineered by god. I can empathize with this. I don't agree
that it had to be god to make it so, but I do think its an important
part in understanding on the route to self awareness. I just watched
another talk about the backward understanding to show how evolution
has created things with such a magnified purpose today. I simply
cannot just throw out the idea that it isn't, at least in some sense,
about you. It doesn't make sense to say how awesome you are and how
much god likes to watch you live if its only about god. I can't grasp
it. I want to live for someone else. At the same time I'd feel
validated and happy because my evolutionary drive, which is
inherently "me," was pushing towards the best mindset for
self preservation. I think inherent self centeredness is not
something to be ashamed of or looked down at, just something to be
recognized. It doesn't take away from any expression of love. It
doesn't invalidate any choice about the areas I choose to acknowledge
as purposeful. Its just there. I really dislike when people say "you
weren't an accident." When they say it, it implies that science
is simply calling you an accident and therefore without purpose. It
automatically presumes that a basis for existing based on fact and
understanding is meaningless and propagated by some form of evil. You
can have purpose and find meaning in life as a result of evolutionary
process. You can say that the very fact you made it, are at the tip
of the information age's ladder is the "reason" for you to
exist. Warren goes on to talk about influence. How you should use
yours for those that don't have as much. I don't really know what to
think about this statement. It, to me, tends to reduce people he
views as "lesser" to having less influence than the famous
basketball players he talks to. In all actuality, despite the road
being bumpy or not, to me, everyone has as much influence as they
allow themselves. They can say something or impart an idea and it can
randomly take off whether it was said by a basketball player or
homeless guy. Obviously, the publicity will be one sided and the
connections are in favor of the rich. The overlying idea stays the
same. While you may have this drive to live for something else its
not your charge to step in and profess it for anybody else. I wish
more than anything I could be all I could be for ms. Dream girl, but
no matter how crazy I make myself over the subject its not my job to
use my influence, knowledge, or sense of self to impose over her my
views on why I think we're meant to be. I just simply want to be
because it just feels right and seems to make sense. Without
religious views and pressures from other outside influences, I have
faith that, we could just be.
Exist together to find another purpose or greater sense of right that
couldn't be realize apart. Living evolution. If its my charge as one
of the best and brightest to perpetuate the evolutionary chain and
provide for a promising future, you can bet I'll be the one to find
someone so fitting its literally painful to think of settling for
anything less.
It
goes back to the arguments about what we can't explain. The voids
that people want to fill with god because science hasn't gotten there
yet, or may never get there. My "definition" or
personification or embodiment what have you of "god" would
be that undeniable and inexplicable force making you faithful in
something.
It doesn't have to be beyond all reason. It doesn't have to be in
denial of other things. It doesn't have to be pre ordained and
waiting for you. Perhaps you can't always perfectly reason and
logically deduce you faith, but its still there. I'd hate to think
that love is just a fundamental principal of evolution, and then
again what if? Guess you'd have to understand a lot about the nature
of evolution. Either way the point is, without faith altogether one
can't seem to find purpose, not because they don't have faith in god.
God then again because the excuse, crutch, for people too tired or
ill informed to know how or where to look otherwise. So again, your
faith doesn't reason or justify your convictions and beliefs it
simply comes about because your born opinionated. Is that feeling in
your gut a ball of residual fear propelling your "faith" or
a driving force from something so right its diminished by mere
definition?
