Sunday, September 10, 2017

Think Things Through

If people would think things through it would be a different world. 

If those who claimed to believe in Hashem and His Torah would think through the ramifications of their belief, their lives would change drastically in many ways that I don't want to detail here [for a certain reason]. But most of us are on automatic pilot most of the time so we stay the same for most of our lives.    

If those who claimed not to believe would think things through they would have to come to the conclusion that there is no right and wrong, we probably don't have free choice and therefore they never have a right to speak the language of morality. They don't expect morality from monkeys and we are all moneys, so why should we be any different. Yet, everybody has some sense of morality [whether they live by it or not]. Why? Who says? How can anybody tell me what is right and wrong? If there is no G-d then it is only I who decides what is right or wrong. NO!! There IS NO RIGHT AND WRONG. Why shouldn't I do what I feel like doing at any given moment? 

That of course is a dangerous attitude but is the logical outgrowth of their belief in this world as being a cosmic error. 

It would also lead many to suicide because who needs all of the pain and suffering of this meaningless world?? As Camus put it "There is only one really serious philosophical problem and that is suicide". For a non-believer that is so true. Why live? Your life is meaningless and will end anybody in a relatively short period of time with nothing after but eternity in the grave. To stay alive just to enjoy coke and a Knicks game?? Many people would say it is not worth it given the amount of suffering we all endure.

We ALL endure.

To say that one believes that the world is an accident [which is axiomatic in many circles] one must also believe in the possiblity that the house he lives in was built with no human intervention by complete accident. Since nobody would believe such a story, then why would one believe that an impossibly intricate and complex world is an accident?! So silly.  

To believe is not only a moral and philosophical necessity - but an an emotional one as well. Otherwise, one has to create a contrived belief system that he knows in his heart is but a figment of his imagination. 

The only honest way to go is to fully embrace our belief system rooted in 5,000 years of tradition. G-d can't exist and not exist at the same time but that is how most every believer lives his life. Part of this equation is spending time and effort to constantly expand our Emunah, on the intellectual, emotional and experiential levels. 

BIG AVODAH!! MAKE HASHEM REAL ALWAYS!

Then you live the pasuk ישמח לב מבקשי השם!!! True simcha. The simcha of meaning and purpose.