HOW THE WAY YOU VIEW LIFE AFFECTS YOU

The way man views life is usually a function of his thoughts which leads to decisions. This decisions leads to convinctions and convictions leads to actions. Actions can either lead to man making mistakes or getting it right. In all these, reason makes it to be believed that the way man views life eventually affects him.

When man wants something, and sets his heart diligently to achieving that thing, man eventually achieves it because he thinks he can. Reason will also argue that man never gets everything he sets his heart to get. Life may not judge man based on what he wants or doesn't want, but why he may want that thing. The subconscious of man doesn't lie, but the consciousness of man can manipulate or be manipulated.

Life, and it's forces deals with man based on what he doesn't express or know, but which may be the reflection of what he truly is.

If man sees life as a bleak and unworthy venture, then the quality of life the forces of life will give him will be based on that view. Man does not see life as bleak and ends up living the best life by coincidence and accident. A bleak view doesn't stumble upon a better life. Whatever man wants is what life eventually gives. And if life does not give man what he wants, then we can assume that this is beyond reason.

If man sees life as a worthy venture, and believes success is achievable, then the forces of life will give man success. They that chase greatness eventually become great, either as tyrants or as nobles. Greatness and success are not accidental, and the decisions of man, based on his thoughts would eventually make life give them to him. And if man chases greatness and success, but life does not give them to him, then we can assume that this is also beyond reason.

Many times, man thinks that what will be will be. It all depends on what man wants to be. If man thinks that it will good, then it will be more likely to be good. But if man thinks situations will be worse, then they are more likely to go bad. The way man views life eventually determines what will become of him in life.

If all men begins to be positive in their views of themselves and the way they view life, maybe the general quality of life will be better than what we have now. If you have enjoyed this post, please share. Thanks.

THE VANITIES AND UNVANITIES OF LIFE

Scientists claim that the world is billions of years old, and man's existence on earth is millions of years old. With all these years of man's experience of living life, nobody seems to know how to live life yet. The Preacher became angry at what his immense wisdom was able to make him discover about life, that life is a cycle of vanities.

The cycle of the vanities of life seems to be a pulling momentum, drawing everyone into it without any power or choice to resist. Life is a vanity, but nobody wants to stop or know how to stop it. The knowledge or the ignorance of life's vanity does not matter as that vanity affects all men.

Life is all about trying to do the same things for almost everybody. The young wants to grow old and the poor wants to get rich. The rich wants to get richer and foolish wants to get wiser. The tenant wants to have a house and the cleaner wants to be a director. Everything about life only revolves around wanting to achieve something. Still, nobody has discovered how to live a better life.

If it has been agreed that life is a vanity, and the pursuit of it is not a way to live a better life, then how can man live a better life? If man knows life as a vanity and decides not to chase it, it still doesn't mean that man has chosen the right part. From the monk in the monastery to the CEO on Wall Street, nobody can determine who is living the better life.

If man is lucky to be able to pursue and acquire vanity, fellow men would point out that it is a worthless venture. Man will point out the ultimatum of death and ask what the point is in chasing vanity. The pursuit of vanity can only be a worthy venture if men don't die, but when men die, then the folly of the lives they had lived is revealed in the magnifying glass of helplessness.

If man decides not to chase vanity, fellow men would point out that it is a worthless venture. Nobody seems to want to align themselves with people who are assumed to lack ambition and purpose. If man does not pursue vanity, he lives like an enemy in the midst of many friends. Vanity is not worth chasing, but unvanity is a greater absurd to the system of the world.

Life has been made to run on the wheels of vanity, so everyone is just hopelessly entangled in it's web. Life preaches chasing vanity, even though the same life will condemn it at death. Life also preaches unvanity, even though the same life will condemn it at death as having made no impact.

If man happens to find himself in life, then he shouldn't bother trying to set out on a course of determination of living a better life. Life is so wise to present two bad choices to man. Whatever choice man chooses would still be wrong. When two wrong choices are presented to man by life, then nobody can claim to be live right. If you have enjoyed this post, please share. Thanks.

WHO IS SERVING THE TRUE GOD?

Since it started, religion has become a potent force that everybody, excluding atheists have come to agree with. The thousands of religions scattered over the face of the earth makes one wonder who is serving the true God.

Religion has become a phenomena that unites the world in the short run, but divides it in the long run. But the question remains of who is serving the true God. Answers can only be sought if it can be established that men are indeed serving God. If men are serving God, how then can it be determined whether it is the true God.

The entity of God is the simplest but most mysterious of any of all understandings. Nobody seems to know when or how everybody began to spread the rumour, or the truth of the existence of a God. Is there a God,? or man had just been manipulated to believe that there is God, and that everyone should acknowledge and serve him.

Since it can't be substantially proved that there is a God, since nobody have seen him, the following arguments would be based on the assumption that there is a God.

Religion developed as a system whereby men tried and are trying to reach God. Men don't see God, but still and will continue to believe he exists. Religion is used as the medium or as the way to reach the creator. Some people believe that God and gods exist. While the God is assumed to be the supreme being, the gods are assumed to be intermediaries between them and the God. Many others believe that there are different gods having the same status, and they can worship anyone of them.

Others believe that God is the only one that exists and there are no gods who serve as intermediaries. They believe God can be worshipped directly. In all these, there seem not to be a general agreement that all the religions are serving the same God or god. Even though there will never come a time when the about 7 billion people on earth will come together under the umbrella of one religion, religion has still succeeded in unifying the world in her diversity.

If the God or god is an entity that can only be served in one way, then woe would be to mankind who don't know that only way. Man can only be safe, if the God or god can be reached by many means or ways. If God or god can be reached by only one way, it then means that only one or no religion is serving the true God or god.

This is because if the religions are serving the same God or god, then they will serve him in the same way. If God or god cannot be served the same way, it then means every religion is serving a different God or god. On the other hand, if God or god can be served in different ways, then all the religions are serving the same God or god, but in different ways. If you have enjoyed this post, please share. Thanks.

THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF LIFE

Jean Paul Satre and his existentialist theory, which was world famous in the 1940's believed, that life is meaningless and each person is alone and responsible for their own actions which make their character. Based on part of this theory, I present to you the causes and effects of life.

If life is believed to be totally meaningless, and there are no external forces that controls the affairs of men, can we then assume that man is a victim or a victor of his actions? Causes and effects are like inputs and output. The output is always a function of the input.

If man will determine the kind of life he will live, and there is no God, Satan or the spirits to influence the affairs of man, then it can be assumed that God is non-existent, and the world came to be on it's own. If there is a God that created the universe, we can assume that it's entity would want to influence, or would influence the world he created, and the affairs of man. No creator wouldn't want to do that.

Now, if the world just began by itself, and men are living and dying, will there be an end to the cycles and vanities of life? Or will the world continue into endless infinity, making true of it being without any meaning? Can we also assume that the world indeed has a creator who has decided to leave the affairs of man to man?

The causes and effects of life is that, if a man is rich, it is because of his decisions, which ultimately leads to his actions. And if a man is poor, it is still based on his decisions which leads to actions. The causes and effects of life means that if a man suddenly has stroke, it will be a result of the lifestyle he had lived. If someone has malaria, it will be because he allowed mosquito to bit him.

Causes and effects would be realistic all the times if we assume that the supernatural and spiritual are not real, making religion a useless venture. If we assume that there are external spiritual forces controlling or overseeing the affairs of man, then the causes and effects of life would be true more of the times, making religion a necessity.

Man may not find a way of explaining away what the supernatural really is, but many men will not deny the supernatural. If man then is assumed to be alone in a lonely world, where then does the supernatural come from? If we assume that the supernatural is unreal, then we should be able to explain what is making it unreal. And if we assume that the supernatural is real, then we should also be able to explain what is making it real.

We can then assume that the causes may not determine all the effects, and the effects may not determine all the causes. If you have enjoyed this post, please share. Thanks.

KARL MARX : the man who spoiled tomorrow

Karl Marx was a contemporary german philosopher and economist who is best known for his socialist theory. His theory not only shook the foundations of world economy, it also laid the foundation of socialism and communism in the world economic systems.

Karl Marx not only denounced democracy and capitalism, he also saw it as an evil that needed to be overcome. Today, he is known in socialist and communist circles as a god, even above people like Vladimir Lenin of Russia and Mao Tse Tong of China.

Today, a lot of people see Karl Marx as an individual who spoiled the tomorrow of the world. Whether Karl Marx was evil or good will always continue to be debated without end. Another approach would be whether Karl Marx was just unlucky at the kind of disciples he made during his lifetime and after his death.

Every world leader over the last century that everybody have come to agree as tyrants had always attributed their philosophy to the teachings of Karl Marx. Lenin, who was a disciple of Karl Marx led the russian revolution in 1917, where the Tsar and his generation were wiped off the face of the earth. This same Lenin began communism in Russia which Josef Stalin and his predecessors spread all over eastern europe, south america, africa, and asia.

Mao Tse tong of China rose on the waves of communism, sacrificing numerous lives to establish himself as a leader. Fidel Castro of Cuba, with Che Ernesto Guevarra killed thousands of cubans, all in the name of communism. The Vietnam war was as a result of the west trying to prevent communism from spreading into Asia.

Adolf Hitler of Germany and his Nazism, Benito Mussolini of Italy and his Facism are all offshoots of the theories of Karl Marx. Worst of all, the cold war which dominated the world political and economic scene for about forty-five years was technically between the communist east and the capitalist west. If Karl Marx were to be alive today, we wonder what he would had thought of the world and his disciples.

Objectively, Karl Marx saw capitalism and democracy as a system that leads to selfishness, manipulations and greed. He saw capitalism as a system whereby a few rich people can control and manipulate the economy and the lives of the masses. He saw all forms of religion as a mirage of hope for the masses. Quoting him, he said that, "religion is the opium of the masses." He didn't want that system to continue, so he developed his socialist theories.

Karl Marx's socialist theories cannot be said to be bad, but he seems to be unfortunate that only tyrants hid behind them to further their own negative political and economic ideas. We would wonder if the U.S and the UK would still be the same under a socialist and communist environment.

No economic and political system is good or bad. It only depends on the person or people wielding the reins of that system. The same system that never worked for the tyrants has propelled China to the top ; and the same system that has worked for the U.S has sent a country like Nigeria to the bottom.

Still, if history is to be judged, many would still hold Karl Marx responsible as the man who spoiled tomorrow. If you have enjoyed this, please share it. Thanks.