Karl Marx once derided religion, especially organized religion as being " the opiate of the masses". He disnissed it as a way of hiding from life and making yourself free of living in the real and prictical world by taking your attention away from issue and soaking your brain, emotions and coping skills in fairy tales meant to explain what people dod not have the scientific knowlwdge to decipher in long ago times.
Yet, I find , in 2012, many people steadfastly maintaining that they are not religion but rather spiritually focused and oriented. They see that life is not all about them! they see, perhaps even more astutely that all of creation is not defined solely by the sum of the lives, hopes, dreams and lonings of all of those who ever have lived, live now or ever will live on The Planet we call The Earth.
Many of those who are spiritually focused differ on the Nature of this beyondness even as to whether that beyondness has a defined iondividual identity or is just undefinable- forever so!
Yet, Many believe that tthis " higher Power or Indluence" is present and is meaningful. It gives life preciousness, stability definition, nobility and a sense, somehow of everlastingmess. This few point seems anything but shallow, a chimera or a type of dedening hallucinagen or narcotic.
Perhaps when you define yourself and your fellows as all there is- and that what you decide masters and control all that matters and exists , perhaps, then ,you are creating your own designer opiate!
- Johnny -
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