Burdens of Life

There is no happiness in life

October 18th, 2005

Today is my 27th birthday, and believe it or not, people around me seem to be making a much bigger deal out of it than I do. As you might have guessed while reading this website, I’m a little different. You can also use the word “strange” if you want to. I don’t like celebrating my birthdays. In fact, I don’t understand why people do. Why would you want to celebrate getting older? It’s like people don’t realize the disadvantages that come with becoming older. If you ask me, you can only justify celebrating birthdays when you’re not 21 yet and you can look forward to becoming an adult. After that there’s no advantage in getting older. Celebrating the fact that you got one year closer to your natural death and the period of being able to enjoy life with various disabilities doesn’t make sense to me.

But let’s leave the advantages or disadvantages of getting older for a moment. What also amazes me is that people can just temporarily forget all the bad things happening in their lives, with their family, around them, in their country and on this planet, to celebrate and pretend to be happy for a few hours. I honestly can’t do that. Life is just full of problems. And at any given moment you can unexpectedly get confronted with even more problems. How can you ever be happy when you have to live with the fact that at any given moment you can lose someone in your family? How can you live with the certainty that one day you’ll be burying your parents? You can never be truly happy in life when you sit down and realize these things. Not unless you’re willing to turn a blind eye to a lot of things happening with and around you.

It’s like playing an ostrich. The ostrich likes to pretend that by just sticking his head into a hole in the ground while the rest of his body is visible he is hiding and that nobody can see him, because he can’t see anything either. You can see how naive that is. I can’t be an ostrich. I can’t pretend that certain issues don’t exist, not even for a while. I can’t do that because I don’t like to fool myself. I can’t selectively forget about things for a few hours or a day and pretend all is nice and well. To me, it doesn’t make sense to do that. Once you’re done pretending to be happy and done partying, you’ll get confronted with the same problems again, and are going to have to deal with them one way or the other. Pretending to be happy for a while doesn’t solve anything.

Knowing the tons of problems that you will get confronted with in life in the future, in my opinion, you can’t possibly ever be happy. If you just look around you, you can’t be happy. If you look at the news, you can’t be happy. There’s too much pain and suffering in life. Pain and suffering almost seem to be the purpose of life. You get born with the knowledge that you’ll die. You get born with the knowledge that you’ll certainly lose the people and the things you love. You basically get born with the knowledge that you’ll suffer one way or the other. There will always be something. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

So does happiness really exist?

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Richard October 19th, 2005 at 5:58 pm

“If you ask me, you can only justify celebrating birthdays when you’re not 21 yet and you can look forward to becoming an adult. After that there’s no advantage in getting older.”

Yes there is an advantage. It is death. 🙂

I can hardly wait to die, as when I do I’ll be in paradise with God (Karel, you might want to make Pascal’s wager, as either way you can’t lose), and just imagine all of the interesting people I’ll meet. It will be fun talking with Albert Einstein about science. 😀

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Karel Donk October 19th, 2005 at 6:08 pm

That would be really nice Richard, except for the problem that you don’t know if that is really true. How can you be so sure god exists?

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Richard October 20th, 2005 at 6:51 pm

I can summarize that in one word, Faith.

Karel, be sure not to forget Pascal’s wager, as either way, you can’t lose.

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FerIUz October 21st, 2005 at 3:05 am

Happiness is a illusion created by the saddness/problems around us.
And secondly, I don’t expect and neither believe that if we die we will meet a man with a beard that says ‘Hi i am GOD, welcome to my kingdom’, or whatever. It has to be better then this, I hope. If not then life is the most beautifull experience that we have ever wittnessed.

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yotsuya October 21st, 2005 at 12:31 pm

Happy Birthday, Mati.

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Karel Donk October 21st, 2005 at 5:44 pm

Richard:
I’m sure you know there are several issues with Pascal’s wager. The issue I personally have with it is that he’s making the assumption that if I believe god exists, and it turns out he doesn’t, I don’t lose anything. The way I see it, it would be a serious disappointment. Perhaps much more than when I didn’t believe he exists, and find out he does. I see people making decisions daily based on blind faith that god exists. Some decisions clearly to their disadvantage. When it turns out he doesn’t exist, all of that will be for nothing.
As for me, I don’t like believing in something just out of blind faith. I just can’t. I need to be able to verify that god exists somehow for me to believe. And right now, I have no reason to believe he does.

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‘sup yot?

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Paul Montgomery October 22nd, 2005 at 12:19 pm

Happy birthday Karel, me old mucky-muck. All work and no play makes Joker something something.

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Karel Donk October 22nd, 2005 at 12:44 pm

‘sup montae, how’s the beard?

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Richard October 23rd, 2005 at 4:55 pm

“Happiness is a illusion created by the saddness/problems around us.
And secondly, I don’t expect and neither believe that if we die we will meet a man with a beard that says “Hi i am GOD, welcome to my kingdom?, or whatever. It has to be better then this, I hope. If not then life is the most beautifull experience that we have ever wittnessed.”

FerIUz, please speak for yourself. You might never meet God, as atheists are directed elsewhere at Saint Peter’s gate, but I certainly will, as I had the faith to say, yes there is a God.

“I don’t like believing in something just out of blind faith. I just can’t.”

Karel, you could live a happy, Christian life, truly believing in God and die, and either way, you will have already won. However so long as you cannot take a leap of faith with no material certainty or evidence, you can never enter the Kingdom of God, and you will have all of eternity to think of what you could have had if you had thought otherwise.

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Karel Donk October 27th, 2005 at 1:21 pm

Richard, I want to believe in god. But he isn’t doing his best to convince me of his existence. There’s a lot of different religions, lots of different theories, and basically lots of confusion. Why doesn’t god make an end to that and show himself so I can 100% know he exists and what to believe? I’m assuming he wants me to believe in him. Doesn’t he want to make some effort to get me to believe? Do I have to rely on loads of different and confusing theories and information on earth, and hopelessly seek the right answers to be able to believe in him? Do you think I’m asking too much of him? I don’t think so. If he exists, and values me worshipping him, he should make some effort to convince me and give me the answers I need.

So like I said, I can’t have faith in something I can’t even begin to understand or validate. I see many people doing it, and mainly they are because they look for some kind of comfort and hope in life. When you realize all of the things I mentioned in my post, it’s quite easy to imagine someone losing his mind over it. There has to be some comfort. And this is why religion seems to exist. People need to believe in something, in a cause, in a happy ending, in a purpose. And like I said, I understand that, but I don’t like to fool myself.
When someone does something bad to someone who believes in god, they’re often like “well i’ll just leave him to god, he’ll get his punishment one day, one way or the other”. That’s just to find some comfort. When there are hard times, people are like “don’t worry, just believe in god and he’ll make sure there’s food on the table”. That’s also for comfort. Don’t work every day, and you’ll find out if god puts food on the table!

There’s loads I can say on this subject, I’ve barely scratched the surface. I’ll save it for a future post.

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- Terry Witt July 26th, 2018 at 10:27 pm
  
  God has already shown himself when Jesus lived on earth. Jesus said when you have seen me you have seen God. By your logic Jesus would had to have lived and never died to continually prove Gods existance. Many people saw the miracles that Jesus did and yet they still did not believe. The very basis of christianity is to not to depend totally on logic to believe in God. The only time you will get proof is when that proof is to late to help you.
  
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  - Karel Donk July 27th, 2018 at 8:43 am
    
    Regarding “Jesus”, the stories in the bible are mostly allegories, based on astrology, numerology and other esoteric knowledge. It’s mostly lots of disinformation and misinformation — bad knowledge — for consumption for the masses who are being enslaved by a small elite who know the truth. If you want an example, check my post “The Cycle of Life”.
    
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Richard November 6th, 2005 at 4:02 pm

“Richard, I want to believe in god. But he isn’t doing his best to convince me of his existence. There’s a lot of different religions, lots of different theories, and basically lots of confusion. Why doesn’t god make an end to that and show himself so I can 100% know he exists and what to believe?”

He did so 2000 years ago, and only 14 people believed him (Mary, her cousin, and the 12 apostles).

“I’m assuming he wants me to believe in him. Doesn’t he want to make some effort to get me to believe?”

He does, you just don’t listen.

“Do I have to rely on loads of different and confusing theories and information on earth, and hopelessly seek the right answers to be able to believe in him?”

No, you only have to rely on faith.

“Do you think I’m asking too much of him? I don’t think so.”

He has already done what you’re asking of him.

“If he exists, and values me worshipping him, he should make some effort to convince me and give me the answers I need.”

Many people have said that, but they haven’t specified anything that he hasn’t already done at some point.

“So like I said, I can’t have faith in something I can’t even begin to understand or validate.”

As I said before:

“However so long as you cannot take a leap of faith with no material certainty or evidence, you can never enter the Kingdom of God, and you will have all of eternity to think of what you could have had if you had thought otherwise.”

“I see many people doing it, and mainly they are because they look for some kind of comfort and hope in life. When you realize all of the things I mentioned in my post, it’s quite easy to imagine someone losing his mind over it. There has to be some comfort.”

People always needed comfort. Without comfort, you have nihilism.

“And this is why religion seems to exist. People need to believe in something, in a cause, in a happy ending, in a purpose. And like I said, I understand that, but I don’t like to fool myself.”

A rhetorical question – where is your happy ending?

“When someone does something bad to someone who believes in god, they’re often like ‘well i’ll just leave him to god, he’ll get his punishment one day, one way or the other’.”

During the dark ages, a muslim said something bad about the Virgin Mary to a christian solider at a fork in a road. The solider decided that if the muslim went one direction, he’d kill him, and if the muslim went the other direction, he’d let him live. Fortunately for the muslim, he went in the right direction. Believing in God doesn’t mean you wait for God to punish evil people. It means you know that God will punish them, one way or another.

“That’s just to find some comfort. When there are hard times, people are like ‘don’t worry, just believe in god and he’ll make sure there’s food on the table’. That’s also for comfort. Don’t work every day, and you’ll find out if god puts food on the table!”

God helps people who help themselves. Anyone who expects him to do everything for them knows nothing of him and is quite an imbecile.

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FeriUz November 8th, 2005 at 5:22 am

One question which inevitably comes up in a discussion of this nature is what is the origin of God? If God created matter/energy, and designed the systems that have propelled matter into its present arrangement, who or what accomplished that for God? Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been? As Carl Sagan has said, ‘If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been’? (Cosmos, p. 257).

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Andrew November 8th, 2005 at 9:13 pm

I totally agree with everything you said. People try to dwell in this fake reality ither cuz they refuse to except everything arround them, or they dont deal with complex problems. I can relate alot due to my own circumstances. Keep doin ya thing and droppin the wisdom. 1

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John November 10th, 2005 at 10:48 am

Sometimes people doesn’t forget the bad things in their lifes just because they want to do so, it’s something they can’t avoid. I do believe happiness exists even for while, when you do things you enjoy doing.

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JustAVistor November 11th, 2005 at 12:46 pm

Karel, I highly recommend this book

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0849939437/103-1803012-4139813?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance

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Richard November 12th, 2005 at 10:59 pm

“One question which inevitably comes up in a discussion of this nature is what is the origin of God? If God created matter/energy, and designed the systems that have propelled matter into its present arrangement, who or what accomplished that for God? Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been? As Carl Sagan has said, ‘If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?’ (Cosmos, p. 257).”

God created himself.

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Gabriel November 13th, 2005 at 4:34 pm

My english is too poor, so i’ll leave this post in spanish, hope u’ know.
Viendo lo que dec?s en cierto modo, hay mucha verdad, pero si ya ten?s aceptado que el mundo es una mierda (lo es), porque en vez de vivir penando no trat?s de pensar en lo contrario y poder llegar a superarte a vos misma?
Hay muchas cosas que son feas en la vida, pero asi como hay malas hay buenas, y para mi, creo que eso es lo que hay que ver y tratar de solucionar los problemas que siempre van a estar.
I ask to you, what is life if it is so easy? which things would fight for?
Si la vida es muy dificil, tambien habr?a complicaciones, pero hay que bajar la cabeza y darle para adelante, no nos queda otra. Si hay algo que es cierto es que en este mundo estamos para pagar el karma, pero pasa todo por un cuesti?n de ACTITUD propia el como sobrellevar ese peso.
Saludos, Gabriel….from C?rdoba, Argentina

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Michael Kavit Shenton January 5th, 2006 at 9:59 am

Where did the word: ‘happiness’, come from. Perhaps, it can only come, after sadness, to be appreciated. I can be at least a bit happy, for a while, to tell: Karen: ‘Positive Thinking!!’ Scientifiacally, (if you trust science): ‘Positive Thinking’, has been proven to work, at least a little, if not, a lot/90%, to; make people happy!!

GOD Bless and Be Happy – Michael Kavit Shenton.

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FeriUz March 6th, 2006 at 7:01 am

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
– Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

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nyd. September 2nd, 2006 at 7:12 am

Happiness or misery aren’t factual. The world isn’t anything in itself, or one can’t correctly describe it with adjectives, but nouns and maybe verbs. Your reaction to things, like a feeling of worry or despair, is just a reaction and not information about what the world is like.

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Uma June 6th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

I feel the same way as you. I lost my younger brother six months ago and now I dont find happiness in anything. Im not feeling happy or amused about anything and I lost belief in god.
Life is not the same now.

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komel June 16th, 2009 at 2:34 am

Hmm..there is only one God..Allah! =)

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Susanna July 30th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

Religion, in whatever form it may take, and the God(s)/god(s)/Goddess(es)/goddess(es)/idols, saints, etc., etc. associated with each belief system, is (and always has been) a way for people to NOT take responsibility for their own actions. This works two ways: 1) a person can justify their actions (whether it be killing, prejudice, theft, slavery, etc.) based on the tenets of their religion; the actions don’t need to be overwhelming in degree, it can be as simple as thinking that a person is stupid or wrong or demented because they do not hold the same belief as oneself; and 2) most belief systems (especially the major ones) make allowances for absolution of all actions, criminal or otherwise, through performances like confession, contrition, penance, or simply doing something “in the name of” some god or religion (think about how many criminals become Christian once they’ve been caught – not because of some enlightenment, rather a way of passing on the responsibility to someone else, in this case a historical figure named Jesus.

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Consciousness December 3rd, 2009 at 10:01 am

While browsing the net I got to this page. I’ve been looking for meaning of life, life after life and God for past 4 years and I’ve found the answer. There is no meaning in life neither there is God. This is confirmed by persons who have found out this for a fact. All this is a play of consciousness which you may call ‘God’.
Read books by Nisargadatta who had realized this. In his books he writes his own experience. No scriptures are quoted.
His first book is ‘I AM THAT’ and his subsequent books just before he left his mortal being – ‘Consciousness and the Absolute, ‘Seeds of Consciousness’ and ‘Prior to consciousness’. All available on amazon or do a google and you can find pdf book ‘I AM THAT’.
These books will clarify the mystery and meaning of life, if you are seriously looking for answers.

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Lamy Aldophe January 5th, 2010 at 7:25 pm

To be honest I agree with karel Donk that there’s no happiness in life. But, it is so for those who are seeking it. I usually answer the question what’s the meaning of life this way: The meaning of life is to live and die. The only difference between me and karel is that I believe in God and that one day there’ll be a new world. In this new world there’ll be no death. One of the reasons if not the reason why there’s no happiness in life is because of death.
Karel Donk, everything I say here is not to disagree with your first post. Believe me, I strongly agree with you. There’s no happiness in life, nice people die, bad people die. The only thing I disagree is that you don’t believe God exists.
Karel, don’t be faked out by your reasoning about the existence of God. Your clever little mind can’t comprehend the glory of almighty God. God needs not to prove Himself to anyone. If you’re looking or waiting for that it might never happen and you may find yourself sinking down to hell after you die. If there’s a God and the bible is the word of God then you’re in deep trouble. Why? Because I know in Romans 1 God says that you can only know His existence by looking at nature.
I was born in haiti where they practice voodoo.
Most people in this country believe there’s a God. You know why? Because they see the power of demons, satan every single day. There, people use voodoo power to destroy one another without the use of gun or knife. When they send evil spirits to come after someone, they obey. Haitians say “If satan exists then God exists”.

God exists.

lamyaldoph@yahoo.com

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- Consciousness August 10th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
  
  There is no God as a separate entity as such. But there is an Eternal state which is never born and never dies. Our birth and death is merely an illusion. In reality no one is ever born and no one dies.
  
  Close your eyes for a moment and dive into your consciousness. This has no color, no form, no attributes etc. This is a reflection of that Eternal state. Only a reflection. That is the reason why religions say ‘We are made in the image of God’, ‘Son of God’ – In hinduism it is called as ‘Reflected consciousness. Intense meditation on your own consciousness will reveal the eternal state. Then the whole mystery of this universe, birth and death etc will be revealed. Mind creates an illusion of duality – I am Mr so and so and he is so and so – but the fact is the consciousness in everyone is same. So this world is called as ‘illusory’ by the sages.
  Go to the source of your consciousness (which is the eternal state)and be done with all questions as no questions will arise then.
  
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  - Karel Donk August 10th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
    
    This is easier said than done. Why does it have to be so difficult?
    
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Karel Donk January 5th, 2010 at 9:12 pm

Hi Lamy,

Thank you for your interesting comment. I don’t think the bible is god’s word, and if you read here on my blog about what I have written about religion, you’ll find out why I think so.

I don’t know what is involved in voodoo, and I doubt anyone really knows for sure. What I do know is that there is a lot in this reality that we do not understand and we can’t see. David Icke writes about this in his book “Infinite love is the only truth, everything else is illusion.”

So you say those people see the power of demons and satan, but we don’t know for a fact what it is. And the last thing you should do in this case is believe in something which you cannot prove or verify because otherwise you open yourself up to manipulation. That’s what religion is being used for mainly around the world, to manipulate and fool people.

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deja vu-liu November 19th, 2010 at 8:55 am

Hi Karel，
I helped my little sister searching some comments about the movie The Pursuit of Happyness and came your blog.I have the similiar ideas with you.I think when saddness and problems are around us, who losed everything but got themselves to be stronger in the trouble ,maybe,can understand happiness better. There is just “I”here.
I was asked about the question what the meaning of life is and I cannot give my answer even in quiet time.Are the meaning and the happiness the same?

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- Karel Donk November 19th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
  
  I have no idea, but maybe if we knew what the meaning of life is it would be easier for us to understand what’s going on. Perhaps it could make life easier?
  
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n January 17th, 2013 at 6:52 pm

Few moments earlier, as my mind wondered my past years, I thought I could put enough pressure on my heart to end my life. It may not have been a real near death experience but the point is I thought it was the edge between life and death. I remembered all the moments of happiness and sadness from a child to my life now at 26 and I came to the same conclusion as you. I thought of what the point was if the pursuit of happiness is only a delusion. Could never be real. I almost wish I could go back to being oblivious of this realization. Marrying the person I wanted to. Living the life I dreamed of. Chasing after fleeting moments of happiness through materialism. This realization comes with the consequence of losing purpose. In that moment I chose not to fall off the edge and I arose. When I arose I typed into google the title of your post.

Reading your thoughts I came to understand sadness is exactly how you describe happiness. If you place your head into a hole and ignore the bright field next to you or the moon in the sky, you will find the delusion of sadness just the same. Both happiness and sadness are fleeting feelings and products of choice. We all stick our head into a hole. The question is will we ignore the boy begging for bread or the soft touch of a snowflake melting in our hands?

You are struggling with definition of happiness. Happiness, like sadness, is not an absolute. It has a beginning and an end. In fact they can occur simultaneously if you so wish.

Two ostriches. Around them is situation A and B. First ostrich chooses to see only A and the second chooses to see only B. Both are blind. Reality is, A and B both occur.

I found it interesting how quickly God surfaced in the comments. For myself, the very fact that God exists in the convosphere of happiness and life is the proof of His existence. Simultaneously it is the test of whether you will choose to see that or not.

Thanks for your post. Was interesting to read another come to similar realizations.

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Alternative Thinker March 1st, 2013 at 10:51 am

Hi Karel Donk,
you are able to find out that “there is no happiness in life” so you got an advantage that now, you have rest of your life not to waste your time in finding happiness in this world instead you can utilize it to find why the word “GOD” is talked too much in this world.
you have to do some research work for it. Get to know everything that is related to GOD because getting away from the subject you are investigating is not a good idea.
Just ask people about god but you don’t have to believe them. People who know about god will try to explain as much they can but they will not be able to give you a clear logic because they are also a victim as you but it doesn’t mean that they are fully wrong.
Important tip : Don’t make them upset while having conversation with them because it’s your ‘s (mine too) question and by answering it they have nothing to gain. It may be true that God himself doesn’t need to prove himself and people who experience the god may not have anything to convince you at all.
At least you should be sure that there are a lot of evidence god may have left in this earth for you (us) to get to the point. Yes it is hard to find the truth in religious texts and scriptures. There may be a good reason that why the evidence doesn’t get advertised and everyone could have easily accessed the knowledge about god.
There is a great chance to do the business in the name of GOD and religion. Also the fake evidence of god may be advertised and make people believe in god but it doesn’t mean that every act related to god is commercialized and doesn’t lead to right path.
Situations may be like that everyone shouldn’t get the knowledge of truth so those who are eligible may only have access to it.
Conclusion: Use your logic and follow religious masters (some of them may be fake) and their opinions, better read every religious texts and scriptures cause they are said to be provided through GOD. Such scriptures should be analysed deeply but it is not necessary to have faith in god. Although it may be hard to find the real sources of these texts.
Who know’s you may succeed to find the real meanings kept in them.
Whether you believe in god or not but don’t lose respect for those scriptures cause it may be the start of your journey to the secrets of life.

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- Karel Donk March 2nd, 2013 at 10:12 pm
  
  I have done a lot of research into “god” and the scriptures and I can highly recommend the book “Slave species of god.”
  
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Shawn September 4th, 2013 at 9:17 pm

Karel I appreciate your thoughts on this but isn’t everything a kind of escape from our ultimate doom? It’s for that reason you should enjoy the moments you are alive and in good health. The purpose of a birthday party should be that you survived another year and (hopefully) are in good health. All the people in attendance are (hopefully) doing well too. If on the contrary you are ill or deteriorating at a rapid rate, it may not be worth celebrating, then again perhaps you can give the old eff you to doctor death and keep on despite falling to pieces. If you are yourself ill and attend a friends birthday party despite it, you are demonstrating their worth in your life, no? Maybe happiness is just having people that care you exist and will be sad when you don’t. Since happiness is the opposite of sadness, when you exist and things are well it makes sense to be happy with those people. Also, our physical bodies can be made to feel “happy” if only for a short time. Sex, food, even drugs. There is also the happiness you get from friendship/companionship, having children for those that do, contributing to something greater than yourself, etc.

Just some ideas to think over

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Cal December 13th, 2013 at 9:15 pm

I love this… If you want to talkabout philosophical sceptisism, message me.
Your’e not alone – we#re here for you… not for encouragement, or happiness, but for realism and discussion of reality.
Talk to me.
The universe is here, and it’s interested.

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- Cal December 13th, 2013 at 9:16 pm
  
  calwallace@hotmail.co.uk
  Sceptisism… I dunno if you want to be friends, but we can sure talk about it…
  
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Jarod November 16th, 2015 at 10:33 pm

Wow, this is a bit of a negative view on life. I agree that it is realistic and correct, however, the I believe one can experience happiness through diversion. It is true that the problems of the day and the unanswerable questions will always be there, but we do not have to keep our focus on them.

We can focus on those things that are going well at the moment, to take pleasure in the now, and to know that in time even the worst possible events no longer cause great pain as the original even loses it’s sting over time.

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- Karel Donk November 17th, 2015 at 10:35 am
  
  Regarding focusing on the positive things instead of negative, I’ve written about that in my post “Always focus on the negative things in life”.
  
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Viswanatha Reddy Thalakola July 3rd, 2018 at 9:41 am

This one is from Tao Te Ching:
“Many concepts in the world fit into a duality belief system. The idea of beauty is the opposite of idea of ugliness and vice versa. Tall is opposite of short, night is opposite of day, etc. One should use their wisdom to combine the perceived opposites and live a unified life. The perfection of Tao is allowing apparent duality while seeing unity that is reality.”
If you extend this to happiness, then it would something like this:
The idea of happiness is the opposite of unhappiness and vice versa. One should use their wisdom to combine the perceived opposites. One should allow apparent duality while seeing unity that is reality.

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