Interesting thoughts

So an interesting thing just happened.
I was perusing through friends blogs and what not when I get a friend request from myspace.
Instead of the usual "I'm a sexy slut that you should adore" I get a religous guy messaging me.
So I start reading through his stuff, cause I'm a sucker for belief.

However other than hearing voices I kinda agree with the guy's message.

"It is love for truth, not fear of punishment that should guide us."

It's a kinda nice sentament. However there were things in there that I didn't agree with as well, but that's me with any religion.

But it's the stories that I like in religion. The mythos that makes up the belief. I can usually find something I like in the stories.

Anyway I find this interesting cause I like to think of myself as a "breakfast philosopher" as I've said before.

I find that I don't adhere to any religion cause they focus more on what happens after we die and how we should conduct ourselves now to prep for that.

I say that it's how we live our lives now that really matters.
If we don't live the life we have then there's no point in having it. Why prepare for something later on that no one is sure of?

Instead of believing in a third party I believe in people.
People have the power to change the world, whether for good or ill, it's still people shaping the world.

And the only thing I can do to influence the world is to be the best person that I know how to be.
I might not always do the right thing, but I'm following what I believe to be the right path.

I don't live my life for others. I live it for myself.
That doesn't mean that I'm totally self involved. Far from it. To be a good person, I find, is to help others.
I usually don't really know how to do that (as I've been so told before) however I think that everyone has the ability to think things through on their own. And if I can get someone to do just that, then I feel I've done them the best service I can.

It's not that I know everything, hell I know very little especially about myself, but life is a learning process. New experience and new ideas help shape who we are. Some are good. Most, for me, I find bad. However I'm a pessimest =P. But it's the experiences and ideas that help me find the path I should take.

That's just kinda my personal philosophy. It's kinda disjointed here I know. Somday maybe I'll sit down and make it all coherent. However it's probably easier (and less likely to turn into a religion) if I just practice what I believe instead of telling others about it.

Meh. Just a thought.

-The Pondering Dragon