Eternalism as an Alternative Religion, Part Two.

     Here in the West, Christendom has served as a good sustainer of social order, as well as an effective receptacle of inspirational art, however poorly focused. But always, the educated percentage of the populace that was sufficiently educated saught something better, something more expansive, something they would know to be true meaning something BETTER than belief. That 'something' would be against the hypocrisies and supernatural belief requirements of Christendom.

     Eternalism is a way of looking at life that makes you more positive and productive. depression can never be fully eradicated, but Eternalist thinking can lessen and soften its effect on your life. It is a mindset that YOU and ONLY YOU create and maintain. In that sense, it is freedom.

     We learn that wisdom is real, and that it comes from experience and age. That maturity is not about losing our sense of humor, yet it IS about knowing when a joke is no longer a joke. And that all jokes come from fears, about connecting with our ability to smile in the face of adversity.

Why ETERNALISM works as a alternative religion.

     Whatever your previous religious affiliation, OR if you have NO previous organized religious practice, Eternalism can be better for you, if you give it half a chance.

    Here's why; when you ask yourself why your mindset has been dominated by an illogical life and world view, what do you come up with? That it was convenient to your life at the time? That's practical. But still, more than that was at play. If your parents held you to believe what they believe as they raised you, you've been at a disadvantage much of your life. Their views, especially if they taught them to you before you were the age of five, you undoubtedly took them as your own unquestioningly, parents, teachers, mentors inside and outside of your family. They all formed in your impressionable, eager-to-learn-and-please mind. They made you. But one inner spark, one lonely ember of your true deep self remained.

     I call that ember Eternalism.

     The part of you, the very essence of you, is alive and strong even as you have been obedient to forces you may have felt were beyond your control. This is the YOU that emerges when you are truly unbiased and inquisitive in your life, the part that emerges when you have a thirst for REAL knowledge, unafraid and innocent, the YOU that is beyond the systematic, dogmatic, problematic, spastic, bombastic blather of this world. Beyond the moments of fear and doubt. Beyond all assumptions. Beyond all assumptions of the past and future.

     BEYOND THIS LIFE.

90/10 continued.

I take Taoism at its most basic - the symbol.

The philosophies of Lao-tzu are excellent, but they're not necessarily Eternalist, but the symbol is.

 In Taoism, an absolute entity which is the source of the universe; the way in which this absolute entity functions.

It is in Eternalism as well, but can I say we even take it further?

Looking at the tao at its most basic, in black and white, what do we see? Two exact opposite designs that in our imaginations are twirling, their curves into each other a symbolic suggestion of motion.

And here, as you SEE, the EYES of Eternal Motion.

With such a perfect symbol, WHY have a symbol for Etenalism, the one I sometimes call the TEMPUS (Greek for 'time')?

The Faulty Premise Of Gender And Love

   The entire premise that women are more likely to fall in love than men is faulty, and needs to be examined before dismissed.

Tempus = Eternity