Some people can find complete purpose and meaning in the materialistic aspects of this Earth.
I think the majority of people in history, and even today, wanted to find a higher transcendent meaning beyond the ephemeral activities of physical life.
I think that's why religion or spirituality will always endure.
Lists of do's and dont's don't really give any explanation of why that is the right way to live. They don't explain why a certain set of a activities are categorical imperatives, rather that just voluntary lists of good social etiquette.
The Daodejing, the Analects, the Dhammapada, the Gospel of Luke do tend to give deeply profound explanations of the reasons for a certain kind of life.
My parents gave me a list of rules to live by. But a set of rules is not a method of understanding.
I learned a lot from my parents rules and example, I learned a lot from my physics and biology textbooks. But I never felt it neccesarily was a complete understanding of my existence and experience in life. That's why I started reading philosophical and religious literature about 20 years ago.
Life has no meaning
You imbue it with meaning
You create the meaning
You examine the world around you and analyze what would make this a better endeavor
Then you champion that and find ways to create that meaning in this life
I don’t think there is someone who built the ship
I don’t believe there is a captain at the wheel
I believe this is just the nature of what exists
What we have is what we have
Let’s make the best of it
I have always cared about others
From my tiniest memories
For me caring about others was just part of what exists
I’m proud as hell that is just a part of my being
If you pay attention most humans truly care about others
It’s so easy to spot
It’s so easy to tell its genuine
That is far more important than whatever an individual is indoctrinated into as a child
We are designed to care for others
That is what should guide us
Not the person who managed to wriggle their way into some power structure created by a “church” which has become more of a self perpetuating free ride for a few instead of a force of good
It’s just soooo corruptible compared to ANY other power structure
Just trust us
Faith
Believe and follow
You dont have understand
Just have faith
Asking people to just do what we say because you are to lowly to understand it all
We know
So do what we say
No thanks
