Religion
After getting into a debate about religion, i thought i would share my thoughts about it on here.
Religion was an idea created years and years ago to keep people conforming to the social norms of the time by 2 methods, fear and incentive. Fear of the destructive wrath of a so called higher being or a ‘god’, and the incentive that one might actually make it into a place called Heaven (along with its other connotations).
Personally, I believe that when people talk about God, Pray, etc it is another method of meditation (Buddhism basically), and that God is within each and everyone of us. People pray to say ‘Help me with this…’ when they are really meditating in order to sort the problem out in their head for themselves (i know it may be a bit stating-the-obvious…). As a Techie and coming from a Techie background, i always believed the notion of someone ‘out there’ an ‘down there’ was a stupid one, as there was only space and earth underneath/above us. And as a self-confessed narcissist, I could/cant help but feel apprehensive that someone who i cant see/nobody has ever seen could be the answer and creator to so many problems.