I know humans are miraculous, complex, outstanding beings in which we are the most advanced of any species on earth. I know we are love, kindness, joy in the flesh, but also sadness, cruelty too :( Do you think we REALLY mean anything in this world? I'm saying if there was no religion, no other story of what 'might' be after we pass, but in this moment as a human, what do we 'Mean'? And wouldn't it be almost lighter in life if we didn't mean so much... if we just 'were' ? I have put SO much pressure on all I do, think or feel, and it becomes overwhelming over the years. I was recently contemplating what if we all really don't have much actual meaning, but are just 'Here'? In a way it is refreshing, b/c I feel I don't have to prove myself to others and feel this constant comparison or competition EVERYone has with each other. What do you think .. ?
If nothing has any meaning then it doesn't matter what any of us do in this life because the end result is the same, it all means NOTHING.
Hence, you can murder people, rape them, be a child abuser, a charity worker, a person who cares a bout the planet, a great nurse, NONE of it matters, nothing you do here matters. You can put your own spin on it, but in the bigger scheme of things your life and what you do means nothing, because it will all end with no reason or meaning. Your life is meaningless and holds no purpose.
Well, religion points to the idea that this is an individuals journey, that everything you do here matters because it predicts what will happen to your soul after you die when our spirit returns to God. Hence, life has a meaning it is about learning by our mistakes, and cultivating character.
In the bible it states that WE ARE THE TEMPLE of God, and he dwells IN US. Hence, you can actually experience God and his will if you align yourself with his principles people cannot get there head around this but it is true. Believe me God is saddened by a violent, grasping, selfish natures, we weren't meant to be like this, once we was ONE with God, but we had free will, our pride choose to know good and evil, hence dividing us from God, and creating a SELF an EGO.
Jesus teaches:- love God first and love thy neighbour as thyself, if a man strikes you on the face offer him the other cheek, if a man asks you to walk two miles go with him three, it is not what you put in your mouth that matters but what comes out of it (because this comes from your heart and it is important to keep it pure). Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, (which I take to mean that if your attachments are to worldly things, money, cars, etc then you cannot experience God, because where you heart is, is where your attachment lies. It doesn't mean you cannot have these things, it means that not to attach yourself to these things because when you do, they own you, your life will become about these things, greed, envy, wrath, gluttony, pride, sloth, lust, the seven demons of hell.
Lucifer represented the sin of pride, because pride always comes before a FALL, it's opposite virtue is Humility. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Arrogance blocks God from the heart, as well as others.
Mammon was greed, often associated with Money, the greedy are never satisfied and they neglect spiritual wealth, the opposite being sufficiency. Luke 12:15 And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Asmodus represented lust, often represented by the goat, the sins of the flesh it's opposite being chastity. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
The leviathan represented envy, the opposite being Charity. Proverbs 14:30 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
Beezlebub "the lord of the flies" represents gluttony often associated with Satan in Christianity, this one forgets gratitude. Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat; For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
Belphegor represents sloth, it's opposite is diligence. Proverbs 13:4 "The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied."
Satan is associated with anger and it's fiery power, this turned to rage obliterates all good from the mind, soul and the heart, it produces war and murder. The opposite virtue is patience. Eph 4: 26 In your anger do not sin, do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.
Colossians 3:5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
See most people are now convinced in things like Science, and so have no need for God. But throughout the bible it tells us something happened to us. When you walk around this modern day world you see people taking selfies, updating profiles, making themselves a star, however this was not of God, this is pride.
You see people being bombarded with consumerism, this was not God this was greed.
You put the music channels on and you see near naked girls writhing around or grinding themselves on men, this is not God.
You see men encouraged to take drugs, be rich, have hoes, this is not God.
Now people say this is a secular society, however the leaders of our countries would disagree because they believe in the occult.
Take for example the Tower of Babel being used to represent the EU's goal.
This goes back to Nimrod who wanted to build a tower to put himself above God, God then confounded the languages and people were spread throughout the earth. Over the years you have had many attempts by dictators to take over the world, Egypt, Rome, Hitler, Stalin, and now the new world order, the global government. Notice all the people in the poster have block heads except the baby who hasn't been brainwashed yet.
This didn't stop there the building is the same too.
And the room in this building has a large picture on the wall, with Adam and Eve depicted in the middle with a phoenix and the dead at the bottom, a bit odd for a secular building?
Then of course you have Europa riding the bull Zeus.
Europa was the King of Tyre's daughter.
Then staying with the phoenix theme which is a symbol for resurrection. You have the 2012 Olympics where a phoenix flys down for it's sactifial victim (not the only weird and disturbing theme in the cere mony.
Pharrel Williams brought out a song called Legend Of The Phoenix.
And of course the man dressed as a women in the Euro vision song contest sung Rise Like a Phoenix.
Then of course most films are based on a good v evil theme often rehashing the bible story, because it's hard to have an actual ORIGINAL thought, most thoughts come from another thought.
You have the mysterious eye of providence
You have the one eyed symbolism
There is a new film coming out called The Redemption Of Cain.
Cain was the first Master Mason, he built the city of Nod.
His offspring was Tubal Cain also a Mason.
So what do Masons believe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBFuEo0Jzd8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcpVrtv2t-M
And celebrities have spoken about this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_an0SXV2gKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZxOlcWG8K0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvC7QAUhqF8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferianism
Of course this all means nothing right?