Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Friday, August 10, 2018

Mounting A Map Of The Exodus From Egypt

By Harold Watson


Religion is a set of spiritual beliefs. It involves organized worship. It also involves a set of beliefs that people are generally expected to follow in their daily lives. The thing about human beings is that they are capable of abstract thought. As such, they are to look up that night sky and see a sliver of the universe. They can wonder about their place in it. Which leads to them wondering if there was someone or something out there that created all of it, that put the pieces of the puzzle called creation together, or if someone created the pieces at all. Now, many will go over their sacred texts, and some will even get a map of the Exodus from Egypt.

Now, according to the Bible and popular culture, there was a slave class in Egypt. They were supposedly the ones who built the pyramids. Then they were set free by the chief deity of their faith, using an intermediary who was supposedly raised by Egyptian royalty.

They were set free because their deity rained down hell on Egypt, sometimes literally. The water turned to blood. There were pests everywhere. Then the final nail in that particular coffin was killing off every firstborn child.

Once they were free, to former slaves wandered around the desert. No, while it is rather difficult to tell how long that wandering went on for, it supposedly went on for about forty years. In that time, they were sustained by bread from Heaven.

Tracing the path that was taken can present itself with a level of difficulty. This mostly because there really is no detailed account of where they went. What is known is that they were in the Middle East. But the specifics might have been lost in the fog of the ages.

Now, the internet exists. So maps can be found on it. They should be mostly accurate, at least according to available sources.

Another option is to buy one. But not just any map. If it is being bought then it should look old, like it was graphed at some point during the Middle Ages. Not for any real practicality, but most for aesthetic purposes.

There really is no reason to have one. But maps can be put on walls. Not for any real purpose other than to be decorations. It just looks good. It looks classy, plus having one of the exodus just adds a spiritual dimension to the aesthetic.

Now, people are different from each other. While they are not all entirely unique, there is enough distinction that no two individuals are totally the same. Which is why even faith has many interpretations.




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