Broken is where you found me. Broken is where I needed to be. It took being broken to loosen the bonds to the material reality.
Everything in the realm of the material is acceptable to decay. We do our best to ignore, prolong, or fight it, but it always wins eventually. Why do we care to prolong the inevitable?
The question falls into the philosophical and theological concept of mind-body dualism. It is in the internal clash between the mind and the physical. We fight the inevitable because, inherently, there must be more than birth to worm food.
Many try to suppress this hope as a fairytale or false hope and accept their perceived reality that returning to the Earth is all they have to look forward to. Nevertheless, inwardly the thought is always at the back of the mind. The mind asks, "There has to be more than this."
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." ― C.S. Lewis
All humans, from tribes to nations, must satisfy the inner desire to worship some higher being or higher force. The inner desire for what belongs in the other world is hard to escape. We may try all we want to suppress it, but it will forever haunt the mind.
The evidence of this is found in every human while leaving the materialist to try and justify it by giving it an evolutionary strength or giving humans hope and faith for survival. Of course, they cannot explain how we slowly progressed in the inner desire for religion. Some try to say men invented it to control people and obtain power. However, to be invented, one must explain how humans throughout history who had no interaction with other tribes still desired to worship.
Then some say that religion was an opioid or a crutch that gave our ancestors what they needed to survive, but humans have progressed past the age of survival. So, they claim that religion is no longer needed. This idea started in the mid-1800s to early 1900s by philosophers like Karl Marx and of Friedrich Nietzsche, who warned us that the Industrial man had killed the concept of God. However, even if scientists and philosophers could kill God through imaginative theories, then Nietzsche said it would still be crucial to invent God.
Thus, modern humans have made idols of self, pagan objects, or other men/women into the god of their worship. Something to appeal to the desire for worship and the nagging thought, "There has to be more than this." There has to be a higher purpose than the promise of death and taxes.
That promise has found itself in the many utopian theories giving people a false hope to live, sacrifice and die for a higher purpose than merely becoming worm food.
The inner desire is like a man away from home and those he loves. He is not yet home but desires to go home and feel the loving embrace of whom he loves.
Everything in the realm of the material is acceptable to decay. We do our best to ignore, prolong, or fight it, but it always wins eventually. Why do we care to prolong the inevitable?
The question falls into the philosophical and theological concept of mind-body dualism. It is in the internal clash between the mind and the physical. We fight the inevitable because, inherently, there must be more than birth to worm food.
Many try to suppress this hope as a fairytale or false hope and accept their perceived reality that returning to the Earth is all they have to look forward to. Nevertheless, inwardly the thought is always at the back of the mind. The mind asks, "There has to be more than this."
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." ― C.S. Lewis
All humans, from tribes to nations, must satisfy the inner desire to worship some higher being or higher force. The inner desire for what belongs in the other world is hard to escape. We may try all we want to suppress it, but it will forever haunt the mind.
The evidence of this is found in every human while leaving the materialist to try and justify it by giving it an evolutionary strength or giving humans hope and faith for survival. Of course, they cannot explain how we slowly progressed in the inner desire for religion. Some try to say men invented it to control people and obtain power. However, to be invented, one must explain how humans throughout history who had no interaction with other tribes still desired to worship.
Then some say that religion was an opioid or a crutch that gave our ancestors what they needed to survive, but humans have progressed past the age of survival. So, they claim that religion is no longer needed. This idea started in the mid-1800s to early 1900s by philosophers like Karl Marx and of Friedrich Nietzsche, who warned us that the Industrial man had killed the concept of God. However, even if scientists and philosophers could kill God through imaginative theories, then Nietzsche said it would still be crucial to invent God.
Thus, modern humans have made idols of self, pagan objects, or other men/women into the god of their worship. Something to appeal to the desire for worship and the nagging thought, "There has to be more than this." There has to be a higher purpose than the promise of death and taxes.
That promise has found itself in the many utopian theories giving people a false hope to live, sacrifice and die for a higher purpose than merely becoming worm food.
The inner desire is like a man away from home and those he loves. He is not yet home but desires to go home and feel the loving embrace of whom he loves.
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