Truth, Beliefs and Fairytales - It’s all Nonsense.

Truth, Beliefs and Fairytales - It’s all Nonsense.

All beliefs are fairy tales. All beliefs are cultural.  The universe doesn’t care what we believe; we occupy an infinitely minute moment in eternity and seem designed to search for meaning where there is none.  We have just enough intelligence to contemplate our filtered reality but not enough to ever know anything.

On any scale of measurement fathomable by any human who’s ever lived our existence is impossible.  Go back two generations and our 2 parents and 4 grandparents had to conceive at the exact moment they did for us to exist. Travel back a mere 27 generations, or about 600 years, and the family tree exceeds 2500000.  Extending the nonsense of trying to grasp the odds of following this lineage back 4 billion years doesn’t scratch the surface.

Our planet is one of innumerable billions in a galaxy that is one of billions in a universe that may itself be one of innumerable billions.

100 people die per minute replaced by over 240 newborns.

The nonsense propagated by those who claim ownership of truth pits the believers against the rest. Concepts such as right and wrong are claimed and fought for in a Universe where such concepts are void beyond the confines of the human skull.

We exist, we procreate, we kill, we explore, we compete, we search for meaning, we love we hate and we delude ourselves that anger, disappointment, resentment, or any number of toxic emotions are anything other than an utter waste of a finite moment of existence.

Live large, live small, care more, care less, chase your dreams or wait for your moment of demise.  This is a choice.  An alternate reality shows up when you view the world through a different lens. Imagine how your world would look if you replaced every belief and firmly held truth with the contrarian view that EVERYTHING is nonsense. What a fun world that would beThere is no universal reality. There is your filtered worldview, unique to you alone.

We think we remember the past – we don’t. A trillion neurons firing create a pattern that seems familiar but it does not represent a past event, but rather a fleeting and highly biased approximation of a moment in time.

The reality you think you share with your dog, goldfish or bedbug (yuck!) require a massive perspective shift in order to align.

The future is a concept, an idea but there is only NOW.

We can become consumed in our anxieties and fears of an unknown future until we are literally paralysed in the moment, and yet on reflection virtually nothing that we imagine will occur.

When we worry we give power to an energy that is counter productive in all but immediate verifiably life and death situations. Fortunately, unless you are in a warzone this is a rare event.

It is wise to worry when the oncoming driver on the freeway veers into your lane! The worry has value only if it energises you to act instantly and with conviction, ultimately preserving your existence.

The other 99.9% of our worries do not inspire us to do anything except second guess our every move and become mired in that most destructive of states, namely indecisiveness. Worry is a first cousin of fear but a much more insidious emotion.

We exist and then we don’t.  Seasons come and go. We have good days and then bad days followed by better days. Nothing stays the same. In the minute it’s taken me to write this paragraph 250 newborns have arrived to join our journey and a little over 100 have departed their mortal coil.

You might lose your job, but on the positive side North Korea may not trigger World War 3, or vice versa. You may have less than you think you need to retire on, alternatively you may not wake up tomorrow. Horrible things happen and we deal with them remarkably well and phenomenally good things happen (250 births per minute…)

One day the most important person in your life turned up and unexpectedly your world/reality changed. One day perhaps they left. When we worry we negate the more likely eventuality that the remarkable will show up in our life or more poignantly we learn to filter our reality to notice daily sunsets, sunrises, the smiles of children, the songs of birds, the taste of clean water, and the barely conceivable reality that we share a moment in time with billions of creatures we have the opportunity to meet, share and connect with.

There is only NOW and when next the spectre of unknown potential terrors cause pangs in your gut remember that it’s only this moment that matters. You are at this moment safe. You are in this moment presented will a myriad of next step options, each leading you to a new NOW.

Be wary that you don't let a bad hair day morph into a loop of depression. Every day offers an infinite number of possibilities - our mind can play tricks that suggest the apparent bleakness of the moment represents our future. Job loss, romantic break ups, financial mishaps, failed business ventures, rebukes from relatives and a myriad of historical set backs often seem less significant when viewed through the lens of retrospect.

Tragedy and joy are equally transient and as is the way of al things "this too shall pass' live a life of optimism.