Is There A Higher Power?

I've figured out what hurts more than almost any other pain that I've ever experienced. That would be love, and the loss thereof. Everyone loves there true friends, you know, the ones that have your back when things get sticky. I mean, and then losing them. Death comes in so swiftly and unexpectedly. You can die in the blink of an eye. I've also learned that you can't do anything about it, when it's your time to go; it's your time to go. Embrace death. I know that sounds dark and kind of evil, but death isn't always the worst thing that can happen. Suppose you were in an accident that leaves you in a vegetative state, would you rather stay that way for years, and be emotionless and motionless. Sitting still for years, eating through a tube, not being able to do anything with your life. Now, would you rather be that way, or find out what's in the afterlife? Me, personally, I would love to know what's beyond life. Is there another life? Is there heaven? Hell? Or is it an eternal rest? When I was younger, I used to silently think to myself, "What is death?". I rarely question that now, for I know now that I won't know that answer until the sand in my hourglass runs out. Does it flip back upside down and begin again? I know I just said I rarely question death, but this is one of those rare times where I bring it up publicly. It's not necessarily to make me ponder such a question, but to get you to brain-storm the question. As of now, there is no wrong answer. An answer cannot be wrong, when the answer is unknown.

My curiosity has gotten the best of me before, and because of this, I'm curious as to what the afterlife is, what it holds. Will I meet Satan, God, Jesus, or some other almighty creator? Or maybe I won't be any higher being. I guess, all you can really do is hope for a higher power. I've also heard that Jesus or someone similar will come to Earth and take all the saved to Heaven. "The rivers will run with red". Will it? "The world needs to be ready for the ten plagues". "Storms of fire, and swarms of locusts" I've heard all these sayings before. The Bible says to worship, and read the scriptures. But the scriptures were written by man though. Therein lies the problem; man. Man destroys everything in its path, and lies about anything and everything. So how do we know what to believe? Everybody seems to believe in a supreme being, what if it's an illusion; if people are just seeing things? People wondering if we get wings, believing in an extreme king. We are in a never ending war with ourselves. Look at Iraq, Afghanistan, and even the third-world countries such as Somalia, where violence is so prevalent, you have young kids carrying around AK-47's. People keep there right hand on the Bible, I keep mine on my rival. Like the old saying goes "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." Devils, and demons, and humans. Is there really a difference? If there is something up there, I hope that higher power is watching over me.

The young people don't see faith the older see. If the laws in the Bible are bogus, then prepare for anarchy. Worst case scenario is that there never was a higher power, so in the midst of chaos, the world will use fire power. Religions are questionable, they all differ, yet are so similar. "God created Earth in seven days, he finished in six, but rested on the seventh". In the Islamic religion, the Qur'an does not discount the possibilty of the Big Bang theory. "The heavens and Earth were joined together as one unit, before we clove them asunder."After this large explosion Allah "turned to the sky, and it had been (as) smoke. He said to it and to the Earth 'come together, willingly or unwillingly'". Just like the Bible, the Qur'an says that Allah created the heavens and Earth and all in between them, in six days. The Muslims interpret these six days as six distinct periods, or eons. In Hinduism the universe has yet to be finished, it is still under construction. They also say that all of nature and God's creations are manifestations of Him. Hindus say that the supreme consciousness (God) divides itself into Shiva (consciousness) and shakti (energy), half male and half female. They state that the universe is about 14 billion years old. With all of these religions, all written by man, and like I said before, man is the most destructive and dishonest creature that is on this Earth, I just think that there is no religion that is correct. They are all interpretations of what man thinks, either they "heard" God tell them what to write, or they just felt like they knew exactly what to write. Our minds trick us pretty much all the time, so why would you believe anything that man says? What if it's all a lie? Maybe, just maybe, there is a supreme being, but until I know for sure, I'm sticking with my mindset. Man may think that they are telling, or writing, the truth. The "word of God" but we lie to ourselves. Have you ever told yourself something that wasn't true so many times, that eventually you believed it? What if that's what happened when all of these scriptures were written? I've made a promise to my life, just like marriage, but it's till death do us part.

Until I die, I will always look to the sky and look for a sign, any sign of a higher power. So far, nothing. I do this everyday. Look to the sky, maybe not wanting to die, but wanting to know if there's anybody, or anything, up there. If not, man will have one thing to look forward to, and that is total chaos; all out war. You've seen it in the movies, an apocalypse, the so called "end of the world". The world passes away, leaving us to fend for ourselves. When man is sent to fend for themselves, we don't think straight, we end up with nothing but death and war. War...war never changes. We have progressed so much, technology wise, but in comes the 'paradox of progress'. We have time-saving devices, but still complain about not having enough time. We have war time weapons and defenses, which are harmful to the world, and all of its' occupants. I can see it now, we advance so much we blow ourselves to smithereens. This is like pressing the reset button. The human race will be required to start from a new beginning, but we will still have war. Starting with zero technology. We will be back to sticks and stones instead of nuclear warheads. Like I said earlier, war never changes. When the world dies, it doesn't disappear, it sits there, dormant, dead. Man will have to revive the Earth. Rebuild from the ground up. This is how, in my opinion, the world began. We started with nothing, built up, and now we will end with nothing. It's a never-ending vicious circle, what that has been repeated for billions of years. Maybe man wasn't here billions of years ago, maybe it was a different being. It's also possible that man has been here since the beginning, building up Earth, tearing it down, building it back up, and then tearing it back down.

What if Earth WAS created in an explosion, what if the universe has an a limited age, as it is still growing, but there is an infinite amount of dimensions. We have black holes, no human has been into one, what if these are portals into another dimension? What if the universe that we live in, was spit out through a black hole and has since been growing rapidly. The dimensions have been here for an infinite amount of time, and maybe when we die, we go to another dimension. A younger, newer one, without the memory of our past life? What if this has been going on since, well, forever? It's like holding up two mirrors, one facing the other one. You peer into it, and see an infinite distance into each mirror. These are like the black holes, infinite. Going on forever. Each panel you see in the mirror being another dimension. Just think about it. It's possible that there is no limit on these dimensions and when we die, we just move on to the next one. And so on, and so forth. So again I ask, is there a higher power?