Daniel Lewis

So, I have just sat through 2.4 hours of Led Zep… enjoying of course. Started looking through all religion/belief things on various websites (mainly wikipedia). I thought that I would bullet point what I do believe and don’t believe, hopefully it might clear up what I actually do believe.

• There is more than this materialistic world that we can see, hear, smell, taste and feel. There is some kind of spiritual side of life.
• It is hard to understand this spiritual side to life, it is quite possible that it or something in it created the materialistic part of life. In which case there could be one or more Gods… or this spiritual part of life is actually God(dess).
• I do not believe that one book holds the answer, all religious texts have their believable and unbelievable parts. Also we should not reject a religious text because of disagreeing with one part of it… or any way that the believers of that religion may/may-not act.
• This one is interesting. I do believe in magic, some may call it Magick, some call it Akasha and some may call it the Holy Spirit… but there is some kind of essence/energies flowing through our materialistic world and it is possible for us (humans) and other animals can feel this essence.
• Humans are animals, and animals should be treated just as well as all humans should be -> well!
• I am vegetarian, however I do not disagree with any human eating meat at their own will. I do believe that animals should be kept in good conditions if they are raised to be eaten (e.g. free range) and (if neccessary) be killed using a good/nice/least-painful means.
• I believe that everybody should be on a spiritual search, look inside yourself and try to discover what you believe and don’t be afraid to disagree with what anybody/anytext tells you in regards to personal belief.
• Don’t feel scared of anybodies religions/belief. I have been to a few peoples christian churches (1 Pentacostal and 1 Anglican) before, just to see what it was like and see if i could feel anything. I have also been to a few pagan meets. I would do the same for any other religion.
• There should be no hatred of any person/people… no racism, sexism, ageism or any other discrimination.
• I do think that males are intended to be with females, however I do understand that a male/female can want to be with another male/female due to scientific reasons. Animals we do foster male and female and androgynous and hermaphrodite qualities… just as the Earth does. Same sex marriage should be allowed and shouldn’t be frowned on. People should be allowed to feel how they feel. No discrimination.
• Wearing mixed fabric is fine.
• Marriage is an to show love, and should not be seen as a legal/law thing. Sex before marriage is fine, banning it before marriage was probably an old legal way of contraception.
• Sex should be a spiritual thing and shouldn’t really be treated badly.
• Logic is an important thing, and should be taught well to people of a young age. This could be in the form of Aristotlean Logic, Boolean Logic, Propositional/Predicate Logic or whatever. Fuzzy Logic or Shades-Of-Grey logic are also important.
• Music, colour and art can be spiritual… they try to (or just do) capture spiritual essence.
• There are areas/paths on the Earth which can carry a strong spiritual essence (this may be different from person to person, some examples include Ley Lines, Stonehenge, Pyramids and Graveyards).
• I think that preminitions and ESP is possible, it might be some kind of communication or bend in spiritual essence.
• I don’t think fate exists, at least not too far in the future. If it does, then it can be modified easily. Alternatively I see it as a set of paths that anyone can take at any one moment.
• I do think that there is one person out there for anyone, at any one point (in regards to love/partnership).
• I do believe that medicine is not the only way of healing someone. It is quite possible that techniques such as: Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Reiki, TaiChi, Kundalini Techniques, Meditation, Christian Science Techniques are all quite viable options for healing.

So what do I believe? Is there a label for me, or do I make up one for me? - I believe what I believe.

(sorry if the spelling/grammar is bad, it is half 3 in the morning!!!!)

Anyways, night night.

Daniel

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