Sintopia

There is a concept that has been rolling around my brain for a couple days now giving birth to new thoughts and ideas that I now feel the need to express.

Firstly, the concept is that Sin is "anything against God's intent" that degrades the soul from reaching it's True Self. Because of this "sin", we as humans and as a planet must die and live with pain and suffering.

This seems to be a new Truth. When people describe Utopia, although some may refer to chocolate ponds and marshmallow clouds, most describe it as a place without pain and full of serenity and beauty. This Eden on Earth seems to be bountiful and free. I think the reason we all have similar images of what Utopia would be like and we all seem to subconsciously and consciously strive for it on some level is because we know it is where we are meant to be.

If you ask someone whether they would rather be in Heaven, Hell, or on this Earth, most would ultimately choose Heaven -a place of peace and calm without pain and darkness. In fact it seems that many people spend their whole lives striving to attain this in their next one. I believe this is because deep down we all want to return to this place. We just don't think we can have it on Earth.

And "sin" is what keeps us from this eternal state of the Divine. I believe sin to be things like hate, fear, doubt, The 7, self-loathing, denial... There's the Top Immoral Acts that people can do to F-up their lives like murder and adultery, but for the most part it is the accumulation of these little, more impulse acts that will get you.

From a Buddhist stand-point, "sin" is the stuff that covers, buries, and distracts you fro your True Self and reaching Enlightenment. From Freudian stand-point, it is the Ego preventing you from achieving the good that the Super Ego intends. Any way you look at it, these faults hold us back from Being that which we were ultimately intended for. It is an interesting notion that we would achieve all that which we desire if we give up our desires and natural impulses.

When you look at people who try to do this, you think, "Wow I can't believe that person became a monk or a nun or a priest..." because they seem to give up so much. But maybe they're the ones who think that we are giving up the most by holding onto our Egos and our False Selves and our Sins.

Don't worry I'm not going Nun or anything... at least not at this point in my life... Maybe when I'm 60 and I've enjoyed enough in this to say I can let go of it and move on to a higher place... but not now.

It seems like the solution to this pain/suffering/death problem is the same none the less. Instead of pointing out other people's flaws and holding them against them, we should be mindful of our own and supportive of others who choose to overcome them. People who try to erase those they consider to be sinful end up engaging in sin themselves -either hate, or in the case of the Inquisition, murder.

Love and Acceptance. That's it. Plain and simple. Love and Accept yourself to the extent that you decide you are of greater worth and value than the impulses and flaws that degrade you, and let them go. Love and Accept others for who they are so they can feel inspired to love themselves as you do to let their flaws go as well. Then maybe we'll see the day when no one has to suffer or die.

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.” – Chuck Palahniuk