All-time’s most useless man’s invention

Religion has been on the spotlight in the last days. The necessity of belief in a higher being, invisible and therefore something that leaves us free to use our imagination, is as old as civilization itself. Science evolved to an unthinkable ground and still people reach out to someone they cannot see for help, seeking miraculous solutions for all kinds of life’s hazards, like disease or poverty, and sometimes more mundane stuff, like a job or even a marriage. Religion is the worst proof of mankind’s unlimited capacity of illusion and escape from what’s REAL.

When primitive men got a bit more clever, leaving the hunt behind, they began to occupy the land, clearing the path for agriculture and cattle breeding, abandoning their nomad lifestyle and creating better conditions of life and family raising. Not all were roses, as they become more dependant on the weather. A bad year could mean hunger and despair. So they turned to the sky. First to wish for rain. Then to pray for rain. There’s got to be someone or something up there that commands the rain, they figured. Reaching for the invented gods to bring them happiness, all kinds of things came to their minds to please the gods. They’re gods, so they must want sacrifices. So let’s kill animals for their sake, let’s martyrize ourselves in order to satisfy them, let’s select and slaughter a virgin because the gods will thank us and in return they’ll delight us with all kinds of pleasant things. So much for an intelligent form of life.

I can’t imagine the horrors people have been doing to each other all over the centuries on the account of religion. Children manipulated, led to believe in useless stories, instilling feelings of shame and self-doubt, leading to a life on unfulfilment, misery and unhappiness. And as if that wasn’t harmful enough, there are even sexual abuses to children induced by the all-mighty and untouchable representatives of the so-called church. And those are recent cases, but what about what has happened in the past? Now doesn’t that make you wish for some divine justice? But that’s the point, there’s isn’t any divine justice! There’s just people.

Holy wars, the crusades and their horrific atrocities by order of the pope, the Muslim “jihad”, the holocaust of the Jews, so many lives could be saved if that collective delusion called religion never existed. The Borgia popes scandals and corruption involving contracted murder and marriages of convenience in the family are interesting stories to read, there are even movies about it. In the Muslim religion, women are forced to cover themselves, shut down from education and basic human rights, punished to death by stone for adultery in some countries.

So we have a greater sense of conscience than other living beings, but that’s it. We will die like any other animal. Some argue this sense of conscience will continue after death, and some kind of reward or punishment will be applied continuously to us for what we did in the very short time we have in this world. Although death remains paradoxically the biggest mystery in life, there’s not much use in theories about some future lives or a ‘soul’ that remains alive after the body dies. If that was to be true, then what about Alzheimer’s in the final phase? People who suffer from it are still alive, but since their brains aren't able to function anymore where have their minds gone, are they still here or already in the other world? That's one of many reasons why afterdeath stories sound like complete and utter nonsense. A human being is an amazingly complex set of atoms, but it was created from nothing, and so it will most likely become nothing again.

Like John Lennon, I deeply believe all the people should living for today. Religion is insanity, it is completely irrational and dangerous. The sooner society finishes with it, the better. We are much above it.

Life's real aim adds up to FUN

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A desire to express some opinions and feelings whilst pursuing my goals in life is the purpose of this weblog. My hope is that whoever gets to read my posts discovers a different and interesting perspective in life, as much as I get from my everyday existence.

I believe in applying the least effort to get what I want in life. I don’t think going around and around some problem without facing it directly makes any sense. Without any waste of energy, we should focus on the whole scenario of things and join the resources needed to fix the issue and move ahead. Being it a small technical problem at home to solve up to defining what I want from life, I make it my most important rule for action.

On the other hand, everyone should have its share of fun, no matter the income or background. A lazy kind of life is as pernicious as too much work. Sure, it’s fine to set an aim of getting a large house, a car to make the neighbours go envy-green, appliances with advanced technologies, an extraordinary wife, fantastic job, but what if we don’t take a reasonable time for fun? One can think “well, perhaps that’s true, but isn’t sailing towards our goals fun too?” and I would answer that by saying that many times we have to engage in a strategic wait for the right moment, and we all know that waiting isn’t any fun.

Fortunately, my life hasn’t made me wait too long, but what I got today is mainly due to my plans and measures of action, and the only thing I’m certain about the future is that what I will have in my life is a result of something I set to happen.