Nothing is Real

July 12, 2011
7:04 pm

It has been such a long time since I've last written anything. To be honest, I almost forgot that I had a blog, until earlier today in school when a stranger asked me if I was the author of this blog. She complimented my writing and tried to persuade me to join the school paper, well, at least that how I understood her words. I never got to thank her, though. If ever she's reading this, I would just like her to know that I appreciate her words, and the revival of this blog is all thanks to her.

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Tonight, I'm going to be talking about a certain topic I was debating with my mom about just a little earlier in the car going home -- opinions and religion.
You see, I have a belief in life. I believe that nothing in the world can be proven with 100% certainty. I believe that there are no facts, but only opinions. Why do I believe this? To be honest, I actually don't really know. It's probably from my fear of being wrong about something you think you already know for sure. I guess that belief of mine developed from being wrong about so many things in the past, that I eventually got myself to start believing that nothing I know is real.
Like the time when I learned about the cold war and the theory that the Apollo 11 mission was possibly a hoax. I flipped out and had to think quietly for like, a whole half hour. My mind was turned upside-down.

Back to the point, though. I'm going to be talking about opinions and religion. (You probably noticed that I've talked about religion quite a lot of times already. I think it's a very interesting topic, especially since I'm really interested in human psychology.)
So first, let's talk about opinions.

What is an opinion? Simply put, it's a personal belief, but I can't prove that for sure. Some people might have different definitions of what an opinion is, and that's already an opinion right there. See how that works? Anyways, I think that everything is an opinion, but that's just a general statement. I'm not saying that the mathematical sentence, 1+1=2 is just an opinion... although I'm not saying it's not. I don't know. I can't know for sure. And I think that life is beautiful that way.
If we knew everything in the world for sure, wouldn't it be boring? If nobody had opinions, and every single person believed in just one list of universal facts, then wouldn't life be shit that way? I think it would.
I mean, how do most people find friends or fall in love? Isn't it when they find people who share their opinions? Well, I don't really know for sure, but I think it's usually that. So if we all had every single thought in common with every single person in the world, then nobody would be unique. Nobody would be interesting because you would only see your own opinions in the minds of others. I think it would be like loving yourself, which is pretty narcissistic.
But again, I'm getting off topic. God, why does this keep happening? I'm starting to feel as if though I'm actually talking about everyone being entitled to their own opinions, rather than everything being an opinion.
Okay, so I'll pretty much just sum up the whole opinion talk to just one short paragraph:
There will always be at least one person who would disagree. We can never know for sure who's right and who's wrong, because just as how we may have proof that back up our beliefs, so may the people with opposing opinions. But then again, this is just my own opinion.

Now, on to the religion talk. Sigh. Finally. I've got an ocean of thoughts running through my mind for the topic. All I need now is to arrange these thoughts and pour them on to this post.

So, religion. There are so many religions on this world. We got Baha'i Faith, Buddhism, Christianity (which already spreads into so many sub-religions), Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, Scientology, Satanism, and probably even voodoo and witchcraft, pagan religions, and a whole lot more I can't even name. And I bet you didn't even know quite a number of religions out of the list I have just given. I wouldn't blame you, though, for even I didn't know about them until now. I just got these religions from internet sites and such.
So we have all these different religions breeding religious people believing in different things that are taught by their religions. It's pretty much like having different races and nations. We are divided and labeled according to our religions, except for atheists since they have no religions, but we won't be talking about them because I'm on the topic of religion.
Now, the problem I see in religion is the division and the hate and the prejudice that it breeds among its followers. Everybody thinks they're right, and I'm pretty sure that nobody likes being wrong. They all have their own ideas of redemption and righteousness, which often conflict with the others' beliefs, and who are we to say who's right?
I mean, a Christian would normally believe that God, who created everyone and everything and has a son, Jesus Christ, who is also conveniently the same person as Him, is the master of everything and saves righteous people when they die. But then, a Muslim would disagree and say that Allah is the god, while Jesus Christ was a mere prophet. A Christian would obviously side with the Christian belief, while a Muslim would side with his own belief, so who are we to say who's really right? We're all biased, really. A Christian would believe he's right because they have the bible and the Church, while a Muslim would have their Qur'an and their own masses and preachings as their proof. What we feel about our own belief is surely also what they feel about their own. This goes for every religion. I'm not trying to start a war against Christianity and Islam.
But then, as an atheist would probably believe, it would all be better without religion. A theist would maybe instead believe that it would be better if their own religion was the only religion, but that's just awfully biased. These two are both impossible, for like I said earlier, there will always be one person who would disagree, and that one person's beliefs would infect other minds until they start another new religion. So there's nothing we can do, but live with the acceptance that everyone has their own opinion, while I live with the acceptance that everything is an opinion.

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Ugh, this whole post just feels so messy and meaningless.
I'm sorry, reader, for having such a shitty post.
It's just that I haven't written anything for such a long time
that my thoughts are probably rusty.
Don't worry though. Now that this blog is back from the dead,
it'll be active... and not dead.

So that was my bad post.
And remember, all of my posts are just my opinions.
So suck it.