Rudy’s Blog

First, here is a quick summary of my thoughts: This summary is followed by a web link to my full essay about the same material.

Please accept only what makes sense to you, and please don’t go along with any of this just to appease me.

All our concepts of god and the likes are human creations that have edited, embellished, and passed on. By the way, I use the word “magickind” instead of any concepts that resemble god or deity a little here and a lot in my full essay.

If there actual is something that actually exists that resemble any of these concepts, it is only coincidental. I feel that we are totally free to invent concepts of god, and religion, as we wish, change them, embellish them and pass them on for any purpose we wish to. I feel that this is what has happened.

I can’t possible know if there actually is anything real that resembles any concept of god because they all involve magic, but I doubt very strongly that anything magic actually exists.

Those people who say that they believe in god really don’t really know if god or anything like it exists. Some secretly doubt it very strongly. Some really question it. People say that they believe god exists for variety of reasons. I can’t know all their reasons, but at least here are some:

They feel that they can get along with specific other people if they make this claim.

They feel that the human race is basically cruel and disgusting, and needs a fear of some sort of deity and religion to coherse everyone into being better people.

They are bitter, angry, and confused and want to spread hostility through promoting religion and concepts of god in a frighting or threatening way including concepts of carrots and sticks.

They feel that if they invent, edit, embellish, and promote religion, and concepts of god, and get others to believe it, they think that others will be happier.

They want to play tricks on others by inventing myths, embellishing them and promoting them.

They feel that they can entertain others with concepts of god and religion, like story telling.

They have become very confused and accepted some parts of the religion that they have been exposed to as absolute laws for everyone, everywhere, and they have been promoting these “absolute laws” too. Lots of people have not developed the courage to questions their religious laws or to question them publicly.

I won’t promote any religion, or any concept of god, or any part any part of these unless I know factually what I am promoting because to do so would be lying. Also, I care and don’t want to cause any harm to anyone.

If there is something magic that really exists, then a side effect of my honesty is that I am giving it respect, because I am not lying about it in any way.

The Laws of Nature are not laws. They really are the ways that natures work, naturally, and better called natural phenomena or characteristics of nature. The characteristics of nature are ultimate forces through out all of existence, whether we understand them or not. There is so much to the characteristics of nature, that we will never understand it all. I just don’t know about anything magic - if it really exists - so all I can honestly say is that the characteristic of nature are ultimate forces through out all of existence, if not the only.

Now I will write about some of the world’s most significant problems.

So many people have so much anxiety over making a living, that there is not enough energy left for helping others solve the most serious problems we have now; those being overpopulation, pollution, and global warming.

Also, significant numbers of people insist on coercing everyone to participate in their religion, and that is a terribly huge problem because we have many religions in conflict in various ways. Bystanders are affected too.

We are at a critical point in history, when human overpopulation is so serious that we are using up natural resources faster than they can be replenished. Cheap petroleum is running out, and our indiscriminate use of petroleum products contributes to global warming.

Millions of people are trying to do something about this all over the world, both individually and through thousands of organizations. However, too many political leaders are in the way instead of being an asset to fixing the enormous problems with the earth’s environment.

Time is running out. If there really is some sort of magickind, obviously it has not prevented us from making our world a much worse place to live in. If we let global warming continue unchecked, then it could be many centuries before the world is as good as it was before the industrial revolution.

I wish I could end this on a high note saying that if we just do “X” (this being the unknown solution to all these problems), everything will work out and we can solve the global warming problem, the energy problems, the overpopulation problems– and that all wars would come to an end. I don’t have a pat answer for what “X” is.

I am sure that “X” is not begging some sort of magickind to fix it all for us.

I think part of “X” involves letting go of the supposed absolutes that we got from various religions, and using our own natural love, humanity, caring, and common sense instead.

I believe that “X” involves honesty and courage in the face of a huge fear, and I know that is really hard, too.

I think “X” involves accepting that we are all human and not expecting any of us to be super people, or inhuman.

I think that “X” involves not blaming anyone for something that someone else did, and making sure that our legal systems don’t perpetuate misguided blame, either.

Also, I think that “X” is realizing that millions of people today still grow up with very little scientific understanding, and that it is natural for them to think that there is magic in nature. Let’s avoid using any of these people as scapegoats.

I believe that part of “X” is for us to face the embarrassment by coming clean when we lie as opposed to being a liar who remains steadfast, resolute, and secretive about his/her lies and mistakes in the attempt to maintain a false credibility in the eyes of others.

For sure, “X” is not making up a new religion about a magickind and it is not perpetuating something like this that we don’t know as fact.

If you have more or better stated answers about what the components of “X”, I sure would like to read them.

The web link to the full essay is at:

http://www.files.thinksitout.com/Alt_Fuel_Testers/My thoughts about MagicKind 10-4-08.pdf

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Rudy Stefenel 10/4/08