Reading about cults again. I think we all believe in our little world, but why you would surrender yourself to the world that another person paints for you is a mystery to me. Sadly, you also see this in politics, where many people follow the one with the smile they like the most. I think this proves, more or less, that life is not easy to navigate without a guide, some rules you learned while growing up, or a pointing hand while you were searching your way.

I’ve learned somewhere, on my travels, not to trust myself or others but to trust that if you set one foot, the other will follow without you thinking about it and contemplating why. Thinking as a means to get somewhere in life is fruitless; it is, at most, a fun exercise. You can learn a lot from critical thinkers and hope their wisdom will turn into the right “automatic” choices.  It is like learning to play an instrument; after many years of training, you know how to play without knowing exactly how to play; your fingers do the things they have to do without you guiding them all the way.

So think about all the different choices you can make in life, but don’t make them or let them be made for you; just trust that you will react the right way when a choice has to be made. This might be written as advice, but it is not; it’s just my way.

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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don’t have any beliefs or allegiances. I don’t believe in this country, I don’t believe in religion, or a god, and I don’t believe in all these man-made institutional ideas. George Carlin

Take a chance on faith – not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it. Jim Carrey

There is this atheist, Sam Harris, I have quoted him before in some of my blogs regarding free will. He has some smart things to say about that. I knew little about him before that, mainly as an outspoken atheist, but I regard him as a smart man, and he is, at least, academically. This week, I came across an interview with him where he talked about Israel and Palestine, and he said some strange things. I did some more digging, and to me, he talks like a former colonizer in the way he disregards the Palestinians and how he thinks that everybody who is a Muslim is more or less a terrorist. 

I don’t like his views on that conflict but I also started to doubt myself. How is it possible that he is so smart about free will and well-thought-out but also, deep in his heart, a racist? I am not going to tell how I got to this conclusion, there is enough on the internet of and about him, and you can come to your own conclusions.