Who are we?

When we look in the mirror what do we see?
Do we know who we are? Do we even know what we are? I don’t think we do.
We, meaning human beings, all human beings are what we are told we are by our parents. They too were told who they are by theirs and so on and so on. What if they don’t know?

We think of ourselves in terms of what we have been taught by all those around us, our parents, the politicians, the physicians and most importantly the clergy. Throughout history religion has defined human beings on this planet. Why, how?

We know there were cavemen; we have their bones in our museums. We have determined how old they are through the use of carbon dating and other methods that the brainiacs have figured out so we know that the history taught to us in the various religious doctrines is wrong.

So having said that, all the rules that have defined humans on this Earth were not Devine but rather quite human in origin. That means everything we think we are was determined by some old jackass thousands of years ago based merely on that persons or groups values at the time.

In other words lying, murder, rape, theft, cursing even homosexuality is not necessarily wrong it just didn’t set well with that ancient jackass and so he declared all the things he did not like to be wrong and therefore a sin against the GOD that he invented to take the heat so people wouldn’t gang up on him and beat his ass.

This may sound a little bizarre until you really consider that we do not know who we are. Without all those rules and laws and religious morals what are we?

This is important why? Because in order to progress as a species we first must be enlightened and as long as we believe in lies about what guides us we cannot evolve. Think about it, almost all the trouble in the world is caused by religion and has been since time out of mind.

If we woke up tomorrow and there were no religions and no religious morals to impede free will and no Gods to fight over and no churches to collect and horde the worlds treasures and force their will on the people and make them feel guilty for merely being humans, I believe this planet would be a much different place.

I think human beings would ultimately do the right things by each other but there wouldn’t be groups forcing their will on all the others. People would no longer do things in the name of someone or something else; they would just do it because they feel it is right.

It is religion and its Gods that teach intolerance not the human condition.