Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
This photo is of the church across the street from the state capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska. I have a blind faith in spirituality but no faith in the religion and words of man. I don't need that to believe that there must be something more to life. But, if there isn't anything more to life and when I die, I turn into dust or ashes, then there isn't anything to worry about. If I no longer exist - I won't care that I no longer exist, only those left behind care. They fear their own mortality and losing the souls that mean the world to them.
Do we fear losing ourselves or losing others the most? If my spirit is energy, then the energy returns to the atmosphere. I don't want to lose the people I love. I don't want to lose them while they are living as much as I don't want to lose them when they pass away. I believe that our existence on this earth is a meaningful one, but I don't believe that we hold more meaning than the animals, the plants, trees, and all the creatures that inhabit the planet.
Religion separated from the earth does not seem like a religion to me. Heaven and hell hold no meaning when the beauty of nature are not given true value. I remember sitting in church as a child, wanting to know why people blindly believed, and why I couldn't believe like them. I imagined people were like me, they didn't really believe in the religion they were told of. That they went along with the story as not to stand out from the group. But as I'm growing older I'm wondering how you can blindly believe in anything without logic and reason.
I still believe we are stardust, until someone proves that we are not. You all matter, in fact you are all made of matter.
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