Wednesday, June 17, 2015

You are not a Body... but you have one.

Are we alive? If your brain is destroyed, does your existence come to an end, with all memories and experiences along with it? Our memories, make us who we are. We are shaped by our experiences, and if we ever loose our memories, we would loose who we are.

The big question then becomes: Do we only exist as long as our brain functions? What is the point of a soul, if everything we are, is imprinted into a brain? What is the purpose of a soul, if we loose who we were with the death of our human bodies.... The conclusion drawn from this, is that we do not have souls. Thus:

If the above statements are all true and a body is all that we are, then everything we are experiencing now is meaningless. It's also possible that the reality we experience, isn't real at all. Just like a movie with fictional characters set in a world your brain weaves together.

How can we exist without a purpose, and why is our brief existence followed by a return to nothingness? Yet, here we are... looking out of a body; experiencing a reality that your brain puts together second by second.

I keep asking myself - "Why am I, looking out of this body... why me? What need is there for me to experience this body, if there is only death in my reality after this. Why couldn't this body just move around without me 'being inside of it',  like all the other people I see around me". I ask the same question on behalf of everyone else. What is the point in having anyone 'see out of a body' to experience the sweetness and sorrows of life, only to fade back into nothingness?

The answer: there is no point. There is no reason for us to be here.  If you follow a logical thought pattern, no matter how you interpret reality, it's impossible for us to exist. If Earth did not exist, we would not be able to evolve and be here. We can argue, that if the universe didn't exist, there could not have been a big bang for the Earth to exist within. This only proves that something had to exist before something else could exist. By example: for the Universe to exist you need another 'Universe', and on top of that, perhaps a higher being or power, to set that universe in place. After which, an even higher power or being is needed, to create the power before it. For anything to exist, something had to be there before it; thus, how can God exist, how can the universe exist, and how can we exist.

Simply put, we cannot exist.... Yet, here we are, looking out of these bodies, experiencing life. We are not bodies, but we have one. We use our bodies to live in this world and this universe, the same way we use our computers to live on the internet.

So much in our universe cannot be explained. A soul could function in ways far beyond our imagination, in a reality much more amazing than the one we are experiencing now. Our bodies are amazing pieces of technology, which we control, just like a computer.

When we loose brain function, we loose our memories and we cannot recall them. Does that mean we have lost who we are? If all the wires inside of your computer, are burned down, does that mean that your data is lost? Or does it only mean that your data is unreachable? We've built computers, we are able to extract the data from a broken hard drive, in some cases even after amazing damage. Perhaps, our souls are imprinted with our data. When our bodies break, and brain function fails, it can no longer access who we are.

Perhaps our brain exists only as a set of instructions, to guide us through reality. This works the same way a desktop of a computer would guide us through a system, by using a desktop interface and by not showing us the complex machine code hiding behind the scenes.

When our computers crash and break... do we loose who we are? We don't, because we were not part of it, we were only using it.

We are souls, but we have a body. We undeniably need a purpose to exist - or we simply wouldn't be here. Yet, here we are.







Thursday, March 5, 2015

Building a Brave Heart: How we do it

Did you know: Courage is not bravery? Although similar, they are distinctly different if you take a closer look.

We’re not at war, or at least most of us aren’t. Day to day, we live our lives without someone trying to destroy what we’ve built or worse. For those who are in those positions, it takes courage to fight back, especially in fearful odds and real danger. Fighting a winning battle doesn’t require a lot courage; Fighting a losing battle, does.

Bravery however, is the ability to step out of your comfort zone to do something that might not succeed, or be risky without grave danger being involved. Compared to the real wars and problems of the world, these risks should really be irrelevant – yet we still fear them. Why? Fear of failure? Not exactly.

We’ve all met and some of us are, people who are scared of trying new or challenging things… things that we in our hearts know we want to do or could be fun and yet we don’t try when the time comes. Swimming in the sea? Jumping into the pool from the wall? Making a move on your crush? Going to a party alone? Pathetic? Well, that depends how you look at the following statement:

Bravery is not something you are born with, it’s something we have to build and grow. Furthermore, we don’t stay brave forever, just because we were brave once. You might notice not only in yourself, but also other people who used to brave in a way that they would just try anything and have fun doing so, but just aren’t like that anymore? This is where I can hear an echo of people replying with an “It’s because we’re getting old”… well then I guess Banana George was not human, because we was doing barefoot water-skiing up until he was 80 years old… not exactly a gentile sport - barefoot water-skiing packs a punch when you make a mistake due to the speeds (google it). So unless you are 60-70 years old, or suffer from something restricting you of trying new things, OR you are in fact dead(which by the way, you aren’t if you are reading this), you have nothing close to an excuse for not doing things you know in your heart you want to.

Building bravery: How do we do it? Where does it start? Simply put – you need to break your comfort zone, frequently. Start small: things that you know deep in your heart you want to do, but feel too lazy or tired to do… SHOULD BE DONE. Talking to the girl or guy you have a crush on, should be done. Going for a run or doing pushups you wanted to do after work, but feel too tired to do when you get home, should be done. It’s not always comfortable, but takes bravery (even if just a little). There is no real danger involved. Getting your feelings hurt is nothing compared to fighting off an attack on your life. Failing at anything will only make you better at it… but most importantly, just stepping out of your comfort zone in any situation, will build bravery. You always win.

Even more amazing: as soon as you start stepping out of your comfort zone frequently, you’ll be able to more easily do so in the future for things that require more bravery. And so the snowball goes… never thought bravery would work downhill – easy.


Life is today, not tomorrow. Brave? Your heart could be. 


Friday, January 23, 2015

Selfdestruction

Out drifting in the water, waiting to catch some waves, an man probably in his 50s, started freaking out on another surfer in the water. He told him to piss off, and that this water wasn’t meant for him to learn in.

Laughing at the situation, I find it ridiculous, because he’s doing more harm to his own wellbeing, than to person who’s day he probably ruined….The older "Gentleman" keeps expecting the world to move just for him, expecting everything to go perfectly – when the world doesn't, anger is used to re-enforces his expectations - talk about setting yourself up to fail.

As for learning, the best way to learn is to make mistakes. If you can’t at some point move up to ‘the bigger waves’, to learn, grow and understand, how will you ever get to ride them? He’s trying to reach his own goals or chase down a dream. Maybe, he’s terminally ill and had one more day to spend, which he decided to spend trying to surf. Your Mamma always told you not to judge a book by its cover, so why judge people by the first thing you see? Scratch a little deeper and you might find out the “why” of people actions. You should listen to your Mamma, she is wise!

Why is this Old man on such a mission to destroy his livelihood? Frustration gets the best of humanity on some days, especially to those who don’t realize what is going on in their hearts/minds. We’re so busy chasing the future, that we forget to live and enjoy today. We compare our lives to others and wonder why we can’t have more. Frustrated by ridiculous expectations we’ve set to the world around us, which keep disappointing us obviously, we take out our problems on others.

Whatever we do in live, will echo in eternity with no way of changing what happened yesterday. Forever and ever, our actions remain… I don’t want to be remembered like this, I don’t want to look back and even remember myself like this. I am sure no one truly does.