17/07/2010 by admin.

There’s everything to be said about happiness, without happiness life just drags on and on and on and on and day turns into night which turns into day, and so it goes on, you get the picture. Happiness fortunately for most people isn’t an issue it’s something they take for granted, and they accept too that at times in their lives that “happy” feeling is in short supply because of endemic circumstances and events no matter what they are, it happens to us all from time to time. But for some happiness is a real issue, they think that there is somewhere along the way a solution to finding happiness or that someone somewhere knows the secret or has the formulae. It’s both a sad reflection and an indictment about them that they are the prime and secondary cause of their own misery and unhappiness and always have been.

Happiness is something that always resides within us, it’s always there and always will be, whether we access it or charge our mind with positivity to make it all come alive is another story.  One can almost see sad people not that they always wear a glum expression as some hide that well from public gaze, but their overall stance and demeanour and conversational attitude doesn’t set the world on fire and often one thinks “why did they say that” as it smacks of both dullness and negativity. Sad and unhappy people are often selectively mean in many ways and always have an outlook that is rather stilted almost not giving others the option of goodness or success and thus pre-empting events with convoluted thoughts that lead nowhere.

There are today would you believe it courses on being happy, even magazines giving instructions from half deranged psycho -whatever’s on being happy, just think of psycho-whatever’s as giving help to be happy, it’s almost like inviting Dracula for your best friend, bite my neck now and let’s get it over with. There’s a commercial aspect to everything today, and there are the suckers who a just so gullible they jump at every opportunity to enhance their pathetic lives rather than just get to grips with who they are themselves. If you can’t be happy don’t expect someone else to be able to give happiness to you when its under your own control.  

Without happiness we are subject to all different forces of negativity including those evil forces exuded by the man made religions that foster guilt, hatred, fear, unrest, retribution, etc, and all the rest. We are vulnerable from even ourselves as well as others and we become very sensitive towards all aspects of life like taking offence and getting upset where none of that need apply whatsoever. We must be in charge of our lives and never ever farm it out or give control of any aspect of it to others or their stories of how some cretin can make your life wonderful by exchanging half your wealth (or even all of it) via a credit card. If what they were offering was that good it would be a global success and not just a success in raising money from the fickle and useless who are too lazy to do anything for themselves. 

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17/07/2010 by admin.

There’s a big fuss made about bereavement more than just losing a loved one, there’s a whole facade of pomp and flummery created and designed for effect, none of which has any significance whatsoever. It’s also easy when under emotional duress to coax people on and wallow in a part of their misery so that they become vulnerable by their own hand.

Whether you believe in God or not you are going to die, that’s for sure, so what you believe in is down to you. All the nonsense pertaining to respecting the dead is totally without foundation, and attending a funeral for someone you couldn’t be bothered to see whilst alive is absolute hypocrisy and pathetic. Life is for the living not the dead. Of course if you do believe then goodness knows what kind of man made rituals are put into place and effected for a fee by undertakers and priests, none of it is ever going to make the deceased come back nor give them better access to God. A funeral might make a good show and boost the ego and all of that but in the last minutes it’s all hollow, even if all those who attend loved the deceased it makes no difference to what’s happened. Priests have no more Godly powers or knowledge about the ‘after life’ than anyone else.

The pomp and circumstances that surround burials is also a load of old tosh, even though we have to be buried if only for the sake of hygiene reasons.  If our loved ones die in a fire, get drowned at sea, eaten by a lion, frozen to death climbing a mountain, etc, does it mean that because we didn’t give them a funeral they will never go to God? Of course it doesn’t. God and life is far bigger than our tiny little minds and those of organised religions whose sole purpose is to keep themselves afloat and whose reason detre is often no more than fighting amongst themselves and bickering about points of religion than being good and Godly people.

Where love exists and it does for most people if the deceased loved you then the last thing they would have wanted is for those who are left to carry on being miserable and morning endlessly, which many do. It’s a gross insult to the memory of the bereaved to dress in black and look like some pathetic and outcast person in society, and it’s a mockery of the years that one spent lovingly with the bereaved whilst they were alive. This  two face attitude perpetuated wildly by Middle Eastern religions, although not exclusively is not only debased it serves no other purpose than gross selfishness, all the wailing, berating, screaming and the like shows how useless the culture really is and why they never move on in life.

Granted, when a loved one dies, no matter who it is it does create a void within, there are things one would like to have said and done, dreams shattered, life changed, but this has nothing to do with God, this is purely logistical and emotional and all to do with the self. And for those who don’t believe in God, the atheists and agnostics and anyone else in between, just make the best of it whilst you are here because when you die that’s your lot.

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