philosophy part I: religion... is there a god? it doesnt matter

ive decided to write about my personal philosophy

this is fairly complex, and inspired by a friend of mine who has written his personal philosophy down, albeit in a completley different medium, and not for all the world to see, but written it down nonetheless.

i think alot. alot. im always thinking. the problem with this is that i've never written it down before, so this is going to be very interesting for me, and hopefully for you too. it is also going to be fairly long, so im going to do it in parts.

i'll start with religion. i believe that the universe we live in may or may not have a god or higher being. what i definitely think is that it doesnt matter if there is or not. if there was a higher being how created all that we now accept as reality, it would most likely not be a conscious being as we know them. it would be an unknown force guiding the way everything works. what this means for the average human is that you live for yourself. this force (different concept from star wars) doesnt care whether you screw your wifes best friend. it isnt going to send you into some place filled with brimstone and fire. this does NOT mean i believe that wrong is right, i just dont believe that we should use god as a judge, especially as we dont know what hes thinking, but he knows what we are thinking. we should use society as a judge, we have come up with all these rules, so lets stick by them and take the credit instead of giving it to some guy in the sky who gave us two huge stones with do and donts.

the problem with not believing in god is that there is no certainty. you cant ask someone whos seen him, because you only see him when you die. this means that the most important part of religion is faith, which i have plenty of, but not in a mere concept. the afterlife is also a very hard thing to talk about when your an atheist/agnostic/whatever the hell i am, but again, i don't think it matters. Christianity talks about 'Judgement Day,' the seconf coming of Christ to judge the earth. i believer that we do meet god (or my idea of it) and that there will be a judgement day, but it isn't in the distant future. for somepeople its right now infact! the ultimate judgement in this world is death, and everyone is ultimately judged when they die. this concept may sound at odds with my previous ideas about the nature of god, but the point about my belief is that they are open. it is just a string of concepts, meaning that it is incredibly flexible and changeable.

sorry for that fricking essay, but its something i wanted to get out of my system. in part II i may talk about how i believe people should live. so life in general.

and thanks to lost for my first comment on this blog! please feel free to comment if you read this, i cant tell how many unique views i get from the built in stats...