RE: Genesis

"If you die, you just die, everything disappears"

"but what would you see? What would you experience?"

"It doesn't matter. The reason that people believe in God is that
they refuse to believe that when they die, everything just ends"

"but..."
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First and foremost, I would like to ask myself, and ask YOU to ask YOURSELF:

Who am I?

Why am I here? Why am I controlling this body?

You see, if one dies and is gone from this world, there is no reason to believe in morals. There is in fact no reason to live at all. The world is just a dream; it would not affect you in anyway. You just die, die, die, and there is nothing else.

Isn't the above assumption incomplete? It is absent of the reasons behind life. Why live in the first place when you can die? Why work when you can choose not to work? Why do this when you can choose not to? No, there needs to be some reasoning behind life.

Let's start with the most basic mental requirement - happiness. People want to be happy. There are almost infinite ways of stimulating happiness, which can be split into categories - from inside, from outside, and interaction.

There are tons of outside stimulation - watching TV, play games, listen to music, or the borderline ones - drug, smoke, prostitution, gambling, etc. These are usually short and not the happiness you want to base on.

There are also complete inside - by thinking and deciding to be happy - this is difficult, but the most crucial part of a human being to be generally well-being. By assuming an optimistic view of the world and of oneself, one can have the courage and the strength to stand tall and be fairly happy even when bad events happen.

Last and also very important - the happiness gained from interaction. Humans long to interact with others. Friends and family are especially important for this reason. Work is also important for this reason. By interacting socially, one can free oneself of emotional burden, and can also be more happy as to be "part of" something. By working, one can occupy time and also feel good when completing difficult tasks and hard work.

Generally if carefully analyzed, to be happy and free of worry/depression, one should maintain physical, mental, and social well-being as well as having a purpose for life. When you are physically well, you can do things. When you are mentally well, you have made yourself happy by training your mind. When you are socially well, it means that you can achieve happiness through interactions. All this brings it to my next point.

How can you have a good purpose in life if you believe that nothing you do matters? How can you see the world optimistically if you believe you are just waiting to die? How can you have the incentive to work, to play, to live, if you think there is no purpose to them? There MUST be a purpose and a reason behind life for one to NOT believe in the depressed view.

Thus, one should believe in God. One should act according to moral values. By believing in a God, one should also act according to the common ground of all religions - love thy neighbor. By believing in a religion, there is something good to work for; there is something to go for to make yourself satisfied and happy and smile when you die.

Do something to the world today.
Contribute to the world,
because you are here, living, at this moment, being yourself.
There is a reason behind everything.
Everything is a chance for you to reach further out and push yourself.