I take things as they are. I believe that the only value life has is what an individual or various groups of individuals decide, so that humans determine what has value and what things mean, not some unseen, imagined intelligence or deity. I believe life and consciousness are the result of energy acting on material. When you die, you're gone. In the scheme of existence there is no certainty, no permanence and no significance. There is no objective right or wrong, good or bad. There is only the individual desire and drive. Ethics are all subjective whether personal or corporate. I do not believe that there is a higher power, or supreme being or gods or a heavenly father. Life is not here for any purpose and people must live out their lot however they see fit. A person may be a psychopath or a caring philanthropist but neither holds any significance except to the individual and whatever values they may project onto their personal reality. What people do in life is solely a matter of what they like, what they personally enjoy, the subject of their passion. Universal, objective, ruling morality is a fantasy created by humans out of the fear of oblivion. I believe that ascribing meaning and significance to life is natural yet is absolutely arbitrary and vain. For regardless of the reality I alone, or I and my group have constructed to lose ourselves in, ultimately it is all utterly meaningless and insignificant. It will all, like smoke in wind or shadow at twilight, dissemble, dissolve and forever disappear. I am the Creator and Lord of my cosmos. I am a slave of Mindless Chaos.
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In an instant, the veneer dissolved and my existential reality and accompanying despair was exposed to my conscious waking mind. While I managed to keep my outward appearance normal, inside I was paralyzed in terror
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The DoorpostThe Doorpost is written for the family and friends of Fred / Papa / Dad Paddock in response to this admonition found in Deuteronomy 6:6-9: These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door posts of your houses and on your gates and emails.
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