lowkey
think i might believe in reincarnation and karma. dont know about buddhism as a whole because i have Not Looked Into It but i could get behind reincarnation as a former catholic current mostly atheist/sometimes agnostic.
yes this is a diary esque rant
like i guess i couldnt really understand the concept of heaven when i was a catholic. what do you do up there? do whatever you want? stare at god all day? watch people from above while they jerk off or whatever? all that once? when i was younger (around 7) my mom said you could play all the video games you wanted and see whoever you wanted in heaven. later in high school, my teacher told me that heaven is more "surrounding god and eternally witnessing him" or something of the sort; stand around and stare at god for all eternity sort of thing. that fucking terrified me. ALL eternity. FOREVER with no end? it must be the selfish human will thing in me but i refuse to believe that a possible god would design us with such desires for freedoms before creating a promise land of just staring at him doing nothing else. i think even the possibility of this, even if i misunderstood, was like the last straw for religion. eternity finally became a concept i realized, its truly Forever.
but like ive always had this slight belief that karma was real, even in a passive sense or perhaps even in a catholic sense. like if i did good, god was reward me or whatever. if i did bad, i would get some sort of punishment. a sacrifice could be a reward, a path of pain could be a gift. that sort of thing. but like i guess i just feel like my life has a sense of karma. i feel like equally, life sorta balances itself out. it is a privilege for me to say that compared to those who have suffered, but i don't know. it is the path that has presented itself in making sense.
reincarnation? feels likely in a weird sense. seems like the only afterlife concept i could believe in a sense. heaven just doesnt make sense to me because i refuse to believe a just god would create a plane much better than ours and force people that he designed to go through challenges to get there. for what goal? we are his creation and he is all powerful, why do we gotta suffer through the limits of life in order to live in peace for all eternity? why must we spend our time here to worship? if hell exists, why? why allow this. to this end, reincarnation feels like a balanced, efficient use of a soul or being. a way to continue life without a life in a realm too far beyond ours. of course, breaking free of the cycle is part of the idea of reincarnation in like buddhism if i understand correctly, so maybe the idea of a higher plane beyond ours is just simply an inescapable part of existence. that we must be rewarded in some way. i don't know. i will never know.
isn't that beautiful?













