When you don’t believe in anything

I don’t believe in spirituality, religion, God, that human beings aren’t the same as animals, in dieting, that all obesity is wrong, or that lanky figures are. I don’t consider people to have souls, transmittable through years and generations, and as such do not believe in reincarnation, ghosts, the undead, spirits, that people can talk with the dead, or even that you can be more than just dead. The grim reaper doesn’t exist, the devil, Jesus Christ, angels, Jupiter, Neptune, Diana and Ceres, also not.

There is only universe beyond the universe, we are all part of science, not spirituality, we are here on earth to be born, life and die, nothing more, no higher power has ever stood above all existence, not in the past, not now, not in the future, not ever. Karma doesn’t exist, yin and yang are nothing more than irrational overgeneralisations of a scientific balance, there is no original sin, or any sin at all. There is only the definition people have bound up “good” and “wrong” in, no such thing as “good” and “wrong” truly exists.

Heaven, Zion, the Elysium, Valhalla, the empyrean, the next world, none of them exist. There is no life after this life, it all ends with the inevitable death at the end of each thing’s lifetime. These concepts have all been created by man to fade the insecurity, the unwillingness to give in to it all, the sheer fear of total blackness.

Cutting down on my enormous sugar intake will not make me more healthy, I don’t believe eating three meals a day is necessary, or that breakfast is a much needed basis for the day to come. I’m not a signatory of the Dietary Reference Intake plan many people shape their food intakes according to. Don’t think following a strict dietary plan is necessary to survive, especially not if it makes you feel like you’re being sent to a Stalinist Siberian gulag circa 1950.

Diplomas, accreditations, Bachelors, Masters, PhDs, are not the necessary backbone to civilisation. I don’t believe having received an accreditation makes you any more skillful in the branch than someone who hasn’t received a Bachelor degree but who has shown self knowledge. Mastery isn’t the result of education, but the diminished capacity of inspiration, the lack of own initiative, the dearth of stepping outside the borders, non-innovation and restrainment, are.

When you don’t believe in anything, in none of the above, how do you keep yourself content with life?

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