Someone online reminded someone else that life is a game. I added that one should keep in mind that although life is a game, the players are real. To that someone asked are they? To which I explained the way I see it:
For me there's no point in living if they are not. But if they are not, I have no way of knowing it for certain, so in my opinion it's best to be open to that possibility that they are real.
Let's put it this way, I have no knowledge if there is heaven or hell, I do not know for certain will I be reincarnated as a human, an animal or rain, I have no knowledge if I'm destined to live this very life over and over again, I do not know if this is all there is and that there is no afterlife, I do not know if this is all a dream or "real".. Is it better to take everything seriously or treat everything as a joke?
If I choose not to believe in people, treat them like shit or indifferently and after my death it is revealed to me that people were real, and that I "have sinned, and going straight to hell." I have only myself to blame.
On the other hand if I took life too seriously, and after that it is revealed that it was just a dream, or a playground for gods, made purely for fun and for trying out stuff. Then I would've missed a great opportunity, just because I was afraid of the consequences of my actions and sin and hell and ... all that stuff..
So I make my decisions so that they are ok with me if any of those things were true or none of them. In other words, I do what I feel is right considering all I know (or rather all I do not know.) And to me this boils down to that stuff isn't real per se, but people are. So in a way you could say that I believe in the concept of souls. Like in online games, the player characters are not "real" but the players who are controlling the characters are, this is also the case if life is a game. Sure an argument about NPCs can be made, but how can I differentiate them from the others?
The alternative: That life is not a game? People also in that case are real. So in my opinion it's safe to assume that everyone is real, in that way I don't think the outcome would be something I'd regret. To me it's not too much of a burden to live like that. If this is all a dream, then the result is that I had a dream where I was fair and reasonably honest person, so I wouldn't regret that either.
I am responsible only to myself, what I mean by that is if I do something "bad" that guarantees me a punishment from some.. thing... stuff... force.. it's because I brought it to myself. e.g. let's say that I end up in hell, it's because I chose not to listen, and chose to be an atheist or do whatever when I have clearly been warned and I'm the one going to spend the eternity burning, so I bear the responsibility alone. It's on me. I live my life so that I don't end up blaming myself, I am what I'd define as a good person.
But on the flipside, if there are sacred laws like "thou shall not eat ice cream" then f#ck you, if I can't enjoy/experience life, I won't be joining you guys in your ice creamless paradise. If I honestly feel that it is right to eat ice cream and that's the reason I'm going to hell.. then so be it, I guess... I see no wrong in ice cream..
If someone/-thing made me to experience this life and demands that it should only be pain, suffering and no ice cream, then why don't you come down to try that yourself and see how fun that is? Maybe then you'll see why people don't obey any of those petty rules and respect only the big ones..
But yeah if there are any higher powers or something like that, they should make me understand why something is forbidden (they'd know how to do it without forcing it or affecting my free will) and I'd respect it, if it made sense. And not just forbid something and expect it to be followed, that seems arbitary to me. If I'm "commanded" to make a change that I don't want to make, then maybe I'm not the one this higher power wants, it's someone else and to hell I apparently go.
Umm.. yeah.... what was the original subject again? Oh yeah TL;DR: only thing that I consciously choose to believe is that people are real. I tried the other option and I saw myself going Patrick Bateman so fast that I made a choice to draw the line there.
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