Ok, I'll Tell You
 
 

We are here. Is that a fact we can prove? Of course, no one who has NOT been here can tell us the difference, so just what do we base this judgment on?

You now have the subject matter at hand. As you can see, we MUST rely on an assumption.

GUTS AND ASSUMPTIONS

I am going to say some things you may never have heard before, you may find had to believe, or even understand.

We are here together. We just showed up, like showing up on a new job without ever being
interviewed, or even having our job description explained to us. This is for all of nature, not only
us humans. There is no book to read, no verbal instructions, no life for dummies book you are
given. Every thing we are told is based on a gut feeling, or an assumption.

You can gather every bit of information available on any subject, study and ready and study and read, for years on end, BUT, in the end, you will base your belief on a gut feeling. You do ALL of our decision-making based on this gut feeling. You must also realize, when a child is born and trained in the ways of life, in ALL aspects, the child NEVER gets a chance to USE that gut feeling, because during its childhood it will be bombarded with the parents and teachers assumptions about life. This is a key point, for the child has parents and teachers as its center of influence.

Assumptions - we ASSUME that the person telling and/or teaching us life DIDN'T ASSUME!! This goes back to person ONE. As you put logic to use, and think back, what else COULD it have been. So, life is a chain of assumptions.

The initial assumption, as pointed above, is that we exist. But, in order for us to KNOW that, we would also have to know the feeling of NOT TO EXIST, which no one does. So, when you get to the bottom line, NOTHING IS KNOWN. Not one iota of word or sign has ever been given, we live on assumptions, and those began stemming from fear and superstitions.

NATURE IS NOT THOUGHT

The thing I would like to point out to you is that all we have ever been told or taught was ALL based on a point of view. That is what I have, and it is as valid as any other, using your own logic.

Nothing in nature is a product of thought, as the universe does NOT think. We all know that love and sex are natural elements, and you can't THINK them or make them happen with thought. As you also know, the opposite will happen, when you attempt to MAKE SOMEONE LOVE YOU.

So you suppose, each morning, upstairs, there is a staff meeting, angels with clip-boards and the big boss, making decisions such as, today, rain in Trenton at 5:43 AM or today, at 7:02 PM, China will shake or YOU will get your $4.23 an hour raise, IF you prayed enough?  Isn't this a foolish thought?

The world we live in could NOT have been planned, as a thought, because nature does not think, and for anyone to base his lifetime decision-making process on the master plan is indeed fooling himself.

ON LOVING OURSELVES

People think that loving themselves is difficult to do. Check this out, OF all you ever think, and say, the ones who hears most is you. We may talk, as I may write, but very few listen to what you say or to what I write, meaning you spend MOST of your time talking to yourself, as I do by writing. When you add praying and therapy both to the talking yourself list, you SEE the power of loving yourself. As you can think and say anything you want, and in doing so, you are following YOUR wishes, which means you DO love yourself. It is true that many do it in strange ways,
perhaps connected to many beliefs that are not valid.

The purpose of all this in ONE. You MUST realize there are MANY ways to view life, and your existence, apart from what you learned and were told. NOTHING is valid in YOUR LIFE, unless your gut feeling can validate it. You will never go forth with a passion for living or for live, until YOU can validate your own worth from your gut level belief that you ARE and you
DESERVE.

Life is out there, to live and to enjoy for us all, it is NOT a job, it is a game. With any game, you do it
with GUSTO, when it is a game that you enjoy. FIND A GAME that you enjoy and LIVE, use the same passion for LIVING and for LOVING as you would if you were playing blackjack, bingo, or having sex!! WHATEVER YOU ENJOY HAS TO BE what your game is about, otherwise, you need
only wait for your funeral. THAT IS THE CHOICE THAT ONLY YOU CAN MAKE!!

I love life, I love people, I love me and I want YOU to enjoy YOU as much as I enjoy ME!!
 

©Written by: Ed Kassirer
August 9, 2001