Have you ever wondered how we can kill and hate in the name
of religion or God? Surely there is a contradiction here. Most religions
advocate peace and love above all things yet the followers of these same
religions find no contradiction in hating or killing those who do not agree
with them. This contradiction does not only apply to the apparently religious
it applies to us all. The question could be ‘how is it possible to hold two
opposite beliefs at the same time?’. The answer to this question is we can do
this very easily because all our beliefs are self referenced. That is we create
our own beliefs in any form and with as many contradictions as we like. The
power to believe anything is in a way godlike we can create a universe of our own
in which our beliefs do not have to be consistent they can be anything we want
them to be. This is not something that needs proving for the evidence is
everywhere we look. It is because of this ability to believe anything we wish
that we slowly but surely move towards states of insanity. The only thing that
could possibly halt this movement is suffering and so it is that the more our
beliefs deviate from what is true or actual the more we suffer. The more we
suffer the more we are directed towards noticing the beliefs we hold that cause
that suffering. Although we have the capacity to suffer a great deal without
noticing the link between our suffering and the beliefs we hold the suffering
cannot stop until we do.
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