Selfishness is a word thrown about a lot now days you cant escape it. I'm sure most of you have been called selfish at some point of your life and some more than others but is this word used out of context or has an unjustified stigma? now no matter who you are you are a selfish person. you cant escape it, you would die if you weren't. to want to eat or to breath is a form of selfishness only thinking about your self, no matter if you think its what every person is entitled to, its selfish and when it comes down to food it can be quite complex and different layers to your selfishness. we need to eat to survive and if your favourite meal is a steak, rare with peppercorn sauce then a life has been sacrificed to go into that meal (no argument of vegetarian/vegan intended) but you now this right? unless your living in a weird fantasy world where steak has come from a steak tree. so you have put your own want not need over somethings life to get what you want because you don't need that steak to survive you just simple like meat and your going to get what you want. unless you are a vegetarian/vegan but it doesn't make you exempt from selfishness, as when your eat your tofu and couscous that's food your getting that some one else isn't. now this is the very basic level of it all and no one is a bad person for eating meat or food in general, we need to survive. all life is sacred and that includes your own and being a vegetarian/vegan is harder to get what your body needs. not if your eating more than you should that's greed, which is the next level of selfishness and is when it comes to food its bad for you, but is greed really all bad? i would say greed is to want something you don't need like a big engine sports car when a little 3 door hatch back would do, you could even go as far as catching the train or the bus, even riding a bike. and we all want a better and easier life and i think a lot of us do in western society at least. so when it comes to being not greedy, not wanting better, easier, more stuff, etc and to give, the most unselfish thing you can do and is a unrealistic dream, how can you give when you have nothing to give? you have to be in a certain position to be able to give, you have to have stuff to give and you could give all your stuff away and be left with nothing left to give but why would you do that? not if you want to carry on being in this nice position where you can actually carry on helping people or things substantially. so in my conclusion selfless acts are byproducts of selfishness, you have to be selfish before you can become unselfish.
Now this one might cause some upset but the idea that there is a man or women in the sky we like to call God is one of the biggest absurdities in the history of theology. now I'm no atheist either i believe in God but my God or view of God is very different view of Monotheism faiths ie Christianity, Islam, Judaism. existence it self is my God, you can feel it (not him) all the time. i would question any living persons who denies this feeling of existence. now knowing that, you know existence is not good or evil it just is or in another sense both, so God is not good or evil it just is. so when i hear people say “i know there’s no God in the world because of all the war and pain” or something along them lines, i would question why they think God is good? so God is you, me, that clock on the wall that stone in the garden, that star billions of light years away, and even some dog poo, all is God, existence is all. so whats the point in being good then? well knowing we are all one and that one being God, being bad is counter productive. so in a way God can self harm we see this in war for example but God can also practices self preservation we see the in peace for another example. so thats about it for my rambling on that subject just remember to hurt someone is to hurt ones self and God is an it not a he or a she.
It’s funny how you think you have overcome your naivety at what ever stage of your life you are at, you look back a year or so i think god my head was in my ass but the truth is you thought the same as you do now back then. It seems to be a endless cycle of I'm a better person now, only to find out your was still naive. in my personal experience i have this drive to be perfect, not in looks or physique but as a person, my personality, my morals or ethics and i know this quest of perfection is impossible because who is perfect? depending on your beliefs you could or might say Jesus for example but even the bible states Jesus lost his temper. Buddha left his wife and young child to go find “spiritual enlightenment” and by today's standard he would have been called a bastard for doing that. but this quest for perfection, the want to be a better person is as beautiful as the unattainable goal. so with all this in mind i think its a good thing if we as people can look past some of the mistakes we and other people do and look at the person or ourselves and see if we can see if they or we are trying to become a better person. to cap this off, i might look back at this in a year or so and think god what a load of crap but we will have to wait and see.
Now this one might cause some upset but the idea that there is a man or women in the sky we like to call God is one of the biggest absurdities in the history of theology. now I'm no atheist either i believe in God but my God or view of God is very different view of Monotheism faiths ie Christianity, Islam, Judaism. existence it self is my God, you can feel it (not him) all the time. i would question any living persons who denies this feeling of existence. now knowing that, you know existence is not good or evil it just is or in another sense both, so God is not good or evil it just is. so when i hear people say “i know there’s no God in the world because of all the war and pain” or something along them lines, i would question why they think God is good? so God is you, me, that clock on the wall that stone in the garden, that star billions of light years away, and even some dog poo, all is God, existence is all. so whats the point in being good then? well knowing we are all one and that one being God, being bad is counter productive. so in a way God can self harm we see this in war for example but God can also practices self preservation we see the in peace for another example. so thats about it for my rambling on that subject just remember to hurt someone is to hurt ones self and God is an it not a he or a she.
