The only right way
Vadim Platun
This book is for everyone, regardless of social status, age, or religious affiliation.The writing reveals the only right way that will allow you to never make a mistake, but to live the best life you can.What that way is, you will find out by reading the book in its entirety. This is exactly the kind of work that should be read from cover to cover.This book is about how to become truly happy by living the only right way.
Vadim Platun
The only right way
Introduction
It is inherent in every human being to evolve, to change, be it intellectually, physically, or spiritually. Everything in a person changes with time, with age. Everything takes years.
This work is written during a period of transformation in personal development that is in everyone's life. It is about one aspect of life, and at the same time, it is about all of life, because without exaggeration this aspect affects absolutely everything. Some people try to quickly close their eyes to this phase and go back to their old lives, turning around periodically. Some either come to terms with this time and live in this stage for the rest of their lives, or they cling to it and evolve in it. This is the main period of life that each person has in his own time. Some have it earlier, some later.
This book is for everyone, regardless of their position in society, age, or religious affiliation. And I'm sure it will prepare people for this most important stage of life, or help them when they are in it. This work will motivate those who have decided not to turn a blind eye to this time, but on the contrary, to improve in their development.
This publication should be perceived as a reflection through simple logic and analysis of the facts of life, based on my own experience and acquired knowledge, which allows one to prove the obvious existence of the only right way. What that path is, you will find out by reading the book in its entirety. Living your life on this path, you will never make a mistake, but you will live your best life.
This book is a philosophical and logical inference on how to become truly happy by living the only right way.
Alpha and Omega
One day the thought of death comes to everyone. The thought that one day everything will end.
This thought also visited me and did not let go for a long time. Eventually, I got tired of it and wanted to stop these negative thoughts. But how? I didn't want to put them out of my mind, and I couldn't. I realized that the end is inevitable, and why not think more deeply, maybe I would understand something and accept everything as it is, throwing away all the negativity. Since these thoughts, which only brought inner apathy, became so intrusive, I came to the conclusion that the only way to get rid of them was to try to understand them logically, without resorting to emotions and any spiritual theories, prejudices, and the like (although I have trusted in God since childhood – it's a family thing), using only the real mind and simple human logic.
What do we have in the real world we live in? First of all – myself, secondly – my family and all the people on Earth, finally – the whole Earth and everything on it and in it, the cosmos and everything in it, and beyond that. And beyond the Earth and the cosmos, I don't know what there is. I only know that everything I have listed, that is, everything that exists and that I can realize, is material. There may be immaterial, but there is no evidence for that as we understand it.
All of the above comes from some reaction at some point. We humans are from humans, plants are from plants, planets are from other major planets, and so on. This is obvious to everyone today. But how did the first humans arise from whom all others arose? From apes? Or from aliens? How did the first animals arise? From their dinosaur ancestors? Insects, continents, planets – all came from something before, much before, and that which was much before also came from something. And that also came from something. And this chain can be continued endlessly. And it doesn't matter whether we originated from an ape or aliens, or whether we were created by a big mighty man. And the monkey and the aliens and the mighty man all came from somewhere, didn't they?
After all, even a microbe, even a molecule, even an atom, the most elementary particles known to mankind, somehow came into being. From nothing?
Even if there was nothing in the beginning, and if everything is from nothing, then nothing is material, and it also came from somewhere, or someone created it, so the chain is not closed.
But nothing is not material; nothing can come from nothing. Even the only thing that is infinite and eternal in our perception – time – is an illusion, that is, created by someone. For what is time? Time is motion. Stop everything around us, freeze everything, and time disappears. So it is not eternal, and it appeared somehow. Accordingly, time is impossible without space, just as motion is impossible without space. This shows that space is primary, it is material, so it did not appear by itself.
And it means that there could not always have been an atom, there could not have been an alien, a monkey, or a big man. Or could there have been somebody? And this is where the impasse comes in. It's clear that there's always something or someone that everything came from! This is the only correct answer.
However, it does not fit with the real perception of the world of most people and it does not fit with reality and modern scientific data. We are limited, so why is it that our insignificance and our limitation do not occur to us? The example of the above definition of time, which is eternal to human beings, but in reality is an illusion, makes our limitation obvious. It is necessary to realize that the seemingly impossible is possible.
I come to the conclusion that there is a Primary Source from which everything has come. There are two options, two ways of developing thought. The Primary Source is either nothing or some being that is always there.
Both must be either material or immaterial. And at this stage of thinking, this conclusion is obvious! Even though science has not generally arrived at it – it is obvious to any sane mind by the simple logic described above. But, if you think about it, both the first and second options actually lead to the same conclusion! And here I had a certain epiphany and even joy. Namely: Nothing is nothing, it is even impossible to explain it, and it is not worth it. After all, nothing is nothing in any sense (both material and non-material), it does not exist and has never existed, and there is nothing in it. And if someone comes out of nothing, it means that he created himself. He always exists, and everything that exists, everything that is, comes from him. He is the Original Source, so he is always there!
There is a Primary Source that created itself out of nothing! And here again, doubt arises! Could such a Great One, who is the Original Source of everything, come out of nowhere, out of nothing? After all, nothing is nothing. It does not exist and never has existed. And in that moment I realized that the truth is that the Primary Source is and always has been, He did not come out of nowhere – He is eternal. In essence, He is everything, everything that can exist, live, and be if you will. Time does not exist for Him, time exists only for us; and time and space and pain and pleasure – absolutely everything. For Him, there is only Him, everything else is His creation as if a man were to make something fictitious out of clay, and the reality, the truth, is completely different. It became obvious, but how it is possible, we cannot see with our human understanding, it is only possible to believe in it, realizing that it is so and no other way. There are no other options, all logical reflections lead to one end. There is the Primary Source of everything – He is eternal. How this is possible is beyond our comprehension, given by the Original Source Himself. We can only realize that it is so, even with our real earthly minds. All we are given is to believe what we have realized through logical reflection.
I have come to realize that there is a Primary Source that is always there, from which everything has come into being, including human beings; beyond the Primary Source there is nothing and there never has been anything. Because He is everything that has always been and will be, the Original, the Creator of everything. This is a logical inference, a realization that can be called faith, because there is no real proof in our understanding of all this, and there never will be unless the Original Source Himself wills it. This is the foundation of everything. Further, everything will be based on this conclusion.
The Universe
Let us think not only about our origins but also about the organization of the world around us. Everything around us is incredibly ordered and has its causes. For example, a building does not build itself. It requires someone alive to want to build it, to have the knowledge of how to do it, and finally to begin construction. And only by this logic can a building be built. And thus, everything in the Universe has such a cause-and-effect chain of occurrence. Both the human mind and science talk about it.
Everybody knows the Big Bang Theory. This theory says that the Universe is not eternal and had its beginning from a small point that exploded, creating space, matter, time, energy – everything.
The Universe is not eternal – that's been proven for a long time. But like any structure, it didn't just appear for no reason. If there was this explosion of a point, it had ideal parameters and characteristics, otherwise everything that exists would not have appeared. This shows first of all that someone wanted to make that explosion, and then it was carefully designed and thought out, otherwise the explosion would be ugly and disorderly. We've all seen what happens when something explodes. But it takes incredible strength and power to organize such an explosion.
It turns out that someone has boundless power, knowledge, and authority, and the presence of a desire to do something tells us that he is alive. Again I conclude that everything has a Creator, a Primary Source.
Some more reasoning about everything being externally created. The argument for this is the orderliness in everything.
It is obvious to everyone that in reality any order is established by someone: in the apartment, in the closet, in the refrigerator, and so on. It does not happen by chance; only disorder can be created in this way.
To organize order, first of all, it is necessary to know how to do it, to calculate everything and think it over, using certain knowledge. Second, it is necessary to make an effort to move things to the right places. Third, it is necessary to have the desire to do all of this.
I come to the fact that order is always created by a living, reasonable, strong being, and cannot be made suddenly, especially on the scale of the Universe. And finally, in nature, everything around us has cyclicity and order. Day is replaced by night and night by day. A day is accompanied by the sun and a night by the moon. When the weather is good, the sky is clear, and when there is a storm, the sky is strewn with countless clouds. The motion of each celestial body is so ordered that man can determine its trajectory and travel time. Humans are born, grow up, grow old, and die, just like all life on Earth. Seasons come one after another: winter, spring, summer, fall. Everything in the world has an order, so everything is created by the Creator.
Everyone has a subconscious knowledge of the existence of the Creator, without any proof. Even an atheist utters the words, "Prove that there is a Creator of everything," and "Prove God to me". He is actually referring to the same Creator, Original Source, God, Who is known by all those who have come to the conclusion that there is a Creator of all things, and who is known to all believing, religious people. Why is this so? At all times, in every society, in every faith and religion, there has been, is, and will be the worship of God. This is the way human nature is set up by the Creator Himself. Everyone knows from childhood that love and kindness are good and death and evil are bad. The knowledge of the existence of the Creator is an innate ability, just like the knowledge of good and evil. In addition to this knowledge, a person can come to the same conclusion through the simple logic described above.
But it is impossible to prove the opposite, that there is no God, the Creator.
In search of the beyond
The need to plunge into reflection on the immaterial world is self-evident. If we assume that there is another world, a world of the intangible, the spiritual, or something else about which we have no idea, an infinite number of questions can be deduced from this assumption. How did that world come into being, who is the Primary Source there? We will never get an answer to all the questions about the immaterial world by reasoning based on some assumptions. But I am not going to do that, because there is no logic in that way of thinking. I cannot deny the existence of the spiritual world, but to find the answer to all questions about it, we need the help of something very authoritative, and worthy of our faith. It must be just as worthy of our faith as our realization of the existence of the eternal Original Source of all things. It is faith because we, humans, cannot understand the spiritual world visually, with physical evidence, any more than we can understand that the Original Source is eternal. I come to these conclusions through logical reasoning. We need the help of the most authoritative source of information about the spiritual, the best that mankind has in this matter, but in this source, the basis should be the axiom already proven above of the undoubted existence of the eternal Creator who created everything. All these criteria are undoubtedly met only by the so-called Holy Scriptures, and they alone are the books on which the monotheistic Abrahamic religions, or simply Abrahamic religions, are based. Monotheistic means based on the belief in one Original Source of all things, God. Abrahamic means originating with the prophet Abraham. By definition, these books are written according to the Word of the Supreme Intelligence, our Creator, the same eternal Original Source. That is why they are as worthy of people's faith as faith in the Original Source itself. It was with the descendants of the prophet Abraham that the transmission of information from the Creator to human beings began. This is the Holy Bible, which in its modern context consists of 66 books and the Holy Qur'an. I am not going to emphasize the different Abrahamic religions now, we will dwell on this issue a little later. The important thing is that we have something to start with when discussing the subject of spiritual, non-material things.
The question arises as to why these books are the best and most authoritative. And you try to find something more comprehensive, more orderly, more logical, more true in every matter, more famous all over the world than the Holy Scriptures. Believe me, they do not exist today. More authoritative, more intimate, more great works, in which everything is based on the axiom that there is one eternal Primary Source, I do not know.
Just as I came to the main logical inference at the beginning of this book about the existence of one eternal Primary Source, so the Scriptures say this. God is the one eternal Creator. And He is the Source not only of all material things, but also of what we humans call spiritual, and in general of everything that exists. Mankind always uses the best that is created, and it is right. Try to give up computers, television, the Internet, cars, and everything modern, and accessible, that simplifies our lives. That is why, I will take the best in the field of this information is the Scriptures. There are answers to all questions. Who is the Creator? What is the spiritual world? Why did He create us and everything around us, and for what purpose? And so on. It should be noted, as described above, that there is incredible orderliness in the Universe, such as the planets moving in their orbits in an orderly manner, entire cosmic systems being orderly to each other, everything on Earth being incredibly orderly, and also everything in the Scriptures being incredibly orderly, comprehensive, and majestic in every line.
Our earthly minds cannot answer all the questions that arise about the spiritual and the intangible. It is given to each of us to logically prove the most important thing – there is an eternal Creator of all material things, and indeed of everything our brains can imagine. After all, our brain is also created by the same Source. The logic described above is justified and clear, and besides, there is no more accurate, factual alternative to it. It is sufficient. Faith and contemplation (the process of knowledge) begin deeper than this inference.
And no matter how incredibly intelligent a person may be, no matter what heights humanity as a whole has reached in its development, no one will ever find answers to the infinite number of questions that arise deeper than this conclusion. Speaking of which, there is a phrase in the Holy Books that says, "A man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun." That is why we are given faith, which is exactly what begins after this point of cognition. Man cannot know all things, prove all things, see all things. He can come to a certain point with his mind, and from there he can only continue his journey with faith.
Obviously, there is no other information in the world today that is better known and more trustworthy, that has the answers to all questions, except the Holy Scriptures. Everyone has a choice, starting from the understanding of the existence of the one eternal Creator: either to search forever for answers to endless questions or to believe in the most organized and authoritative information – the Holy Scriptures, where there are answers to all questions. For me, there were no more reasons not to believe. In these Books, by the way, faith is the foundation of the basics, a kind of test, like a spouse's test of fidelity. And you have the choice to cheat or not, to believe or not. The only difference is that you can hide adultery from your wife or husband, but you cannot hide the fact of unbelief in the Original Source, God, from Him.
Outcomes
Let's go back to where I started the book – to the death we all keep going to as we live our fleeting, hectic lives. And so, if you are realistic, we can distinguish two possible variations of existence, two outcomes of this life, as harsh as it may sound. The first is to live, just to live in this world, on earth, to live in the way that everyone will choose for themselves, based on the surrounding circumstances. At the end of this life, or existence, to be more precise, there will be an ordinary death of matter, the disappearance of biomaterial, in the understanding that is supported by modern science. That is, man will simply disappear as if he never existed. And it does not matter what path he chose or how he lived, everyone will just disappear.
The second possible variant of the actual reality is the transition to another world after death (spiritual or material, or spiritual-material) through resurrection. Such a statement is presented in all books of the Holy Scriptures.
Based on the only logical conclusion drawn in the first chapters about the existence of the Creator of all things, and the fact that the second option of our outcome is prescribed to us in the Holy Books worthy of our faith, my sound mind inclines to the truth of the second option. This leads me to believe in it and the Scriptures.
I will analyze a situation in which a person still cannot determine the most correct option for himself. The logical conclusions described above are not enough for him. For example, an unbeliever assumes that everything is primitive according to the Darwinian view. Humans live, then die, decay, and disappear. Let's try to find all the pros and cons for a person who has chosen this way of believing to analyze how true it is.
If this is true, then everything is meaningless. This approach contradicts the order and organization of the universe described above. Such people don't care how they live this life, they have no boundaries of morality and ethics. And with such a truth, according to Darwin, it would be appropriate. Appropriate, but that doesn't mean that such an approach would have any real advantages. For in such a mindset, everything is meaningless, and life is so short that even a hundred years would pass like a single day. Elderly people now will understand me. Even though a life of wealth and abundance is actually just a grain of sand of wealth. It is as if you do not exist. You exist for a brief moment in the Universe, being a millionaire or a pauper, happy or suffering, predator or prey. It is just a moment – and you are gone. In such a situation, there is no sense in anything – neither in life nor in people themselves. In such a case, it's better not to live at all.
And so you die, that's your end. And why do you need your billions, why do you need fame, why did you fight, why did you kill, steal, disrespect, achieve, or just do nothing, or tolerate, suffer, maybe love, enjoy? Why do you need all your emotions and feelings and actions – all this vanity, all this meaningless, all that energy? You will just disappear and you will never exist again, as if you never existed. Just think about it for a moment, realize it – it is a very important moment. And this disappearance, the end, can happen in a minute, it can happen tomorrow, it can happen in a hundred years, any second. Realize that in this case, no matter how you have lived, it is as if you have not lived, as if you have always been dead, so there is no difference in how you have lived and what you have done.
Also, imagine for a moment that the second version of existence is true. The option that is described in the books of the Abrahamic religions and that I have come to logically. The transition to the next true reality, the eternal reality, is the resurrection. In this case, our earthly life is immediately filled with meaning. First, because there is no death, and second, because in the resurrection, according to the Holy Books, everyone will answer for the way he has lived this earthly life. And then it becomes clear how, if you do not believe in this statement, you run the risk of living like an animal, like a plant that exists only biologically and then dies. It is we humans who think that we are very intelligent and evolved compared to animals, for example. In fact, on the scale of the entire Universe, we are insignificant, and our intelligence and development are insignificant. The risk is that if everything that is written in the Scriptures is true and you don't believe it and you live as a biomaterial, as an animal, without believing it, you will lose everything. You will be among those who are not favorable to your Creator, you will really die, disappear, and be separated from your relatives and close people forever. In fact, after death, you and all your loved ones (if they are also unbelievers) may go to hell (I think everyone knows what this place is). You will lose eternal true life and receive eternal torment. This is the risk of unbelief.
If there is no way to eternal true life if what is written in the Scriptures is not true, but you believe in it, do you risk anything? No – absolutely nothing. There is only one end for everyone in such a case – you will disappear. And your life, even a hundred years, is a grain of sand in this Universe.
So if you don't believe, there are only risks. If you believe, you either risk nothing, or you get eternal life, where you come prepared, knowing that you will have to answer for your earthly way. And maybe you go to Paradise (I think everyone knows what that place is).
It is logical to hedge the risk that there is with the possible truth of the Holy Scriptures, for the people who do not believe in them. After all, this risk is infinitely dangerous; it is worth the fear of even the most desperate and fearless people. So why would one take such an infinitely great risk, realizing the possible torment? No one would dare expose themselves to it, the only question is the realization that it is real. Again, dry calculation and logic lead even a non-believer to believe.
The logic of the apparent existence of the Original Source and the infinitely unattainable order on Earth and in the Universe, as well as in the Scriptures, inclines me to believe in the truth of the Bible and the Qur'an, not to be reassured, but because of the obviousness that I have realized by applying simple logic.
If you don't believe, then you just haven't tried to realize, you are just lazy or afraid to realize the infinite danger of the future. It's everyone's choice to believe or not to believe. I choose to realize that death is a transition to another life, as the Scriptures say. This gives meaning, great hope, and joy, removes the fear of death, and motivates one to learn about the Original Source through the Holy Books. And the conscious reading of these Books makes the faith even stronger and gives not hope but a real, clear realization that everything it says is true.
The path of unbelief leads only to death. To constant mental disorders, to depression, to nightmares. To thoughts that your end and the end of all your loved ones is the same – death, cessation of existence. This way leads to the formation of a personality with a worldview of death, not of life. I emphasize – leads to the formation, which does not mean that it is good. Paradoxically, this worldview is formed precisely because people do not think about death and ignore the fact of its existence as if it were somewhere infinitely far away.
Think of any significant, important, exciting, and memorable day in your life. For example, the day you graduated from elementary school, the day you graduated from college, the day you got married, the day a child was born, or, unfortunately, the day that someone close and dear to you died. So it happened once, and it can never happen again. And once you either looked forward to the event, worried about it the day before, or suffered agonizingly the day you heard about it. Once, before all these events, we didn't even think about them, then they suddenly came, and now it's all behind us as if nothing had happened. In childhood, we don't think about death, and in adolescence, many people don't think about it at all, but it will come to you, just like all the events mentioned above, and this is a fact that most people ignore throughout their lives. But think about it for a moment, maybe it will happen tomorrow or a hundred years from now, but it will inevitably happen, just like all your important, exciting events that have already happened. I'm 37 years old now, I used to think that was an unattainable age, but lo and behold, school, university and so much more are behind me. And that Day will come incredibly quickly. This is a fact, this is our reality, and this is what awaits us very soon. Earthly life is very fast. And when that day comes, the day of death, everything material, everything living, ceases to exist for you, and you think about what comes next, but it is too late to think.
All this is just to say that our life is very short and the end is very near. There is little time to doubt faith, much less to live the right way.
The difference is that for the unbeliever, death is death, but for the believer, death is resurrection, the passage in eternal life.
The right questions and meanings
Many people do not know what they are living for. This statement is true even for mature people who have lived quite a long life and who work in serious companies in high positions. I am talking about businessmen with considerable life experience. Can you imagine them not knowing what is worth living for? I can sort of understand why that is. It's probably because there are too many imperfections in the world, and they're disappointed in everything and everyone. Today wives cheat, friends cheat, and even family members betray. It is clear to any reasonable person that neither friends, nor work, nor even family can be the only meaning of life as such. All of these are goals that we want to achieve. We want to make our family happy and not in need of anything, we want to not betray our friends, and we want to not cheat on our wives. These are just our goals, which we do not always achieve, and often many people change their priorities in such goals. But neither wealth, nor the opposite sex, nor fame – nothing can be meaningful by definition. A person is satiated by everything if he has it. Either the most terrible question is the question of death. Many people think that either there is nothing in it or there is something, but they do not want to find out what it is. Also, the most difficult question is the question of God, and they do not think about it. It is as if they are ashamed to acknowledge Him or afraid to prove His existence or non-existence. They are afraid that if He is discovered, it will change everything, or if it becomes clear that He does not exist, everything will become even more confusing. The strange thing is that many people have a hard time accepting simple truths. We're ready to believe anything. Any kind of fairy tale, any kind of hypothesis. Even the monkey we all came from. We're willing to believe anything but the simple truth. It's like we have trouble living with common sense. It seems clear to everyone that "GOD" is the most common and natural concept. There isn't a person on earth who doesn't know about Him. Or death? Well, no man will avoid it. And whether we like it or not, it's everyone's immediate future. Or maybe you don't care about these questions? But indifference is a very scary thing. Indifferent people are more dead than alive. They have no interest in living. That's a terrible thing. If you want to have healthy views and not live in blindness and indifference, you have to understand the most important things. For example, what you live for. You have to know what the soul is, who is that being inside us that we are always talking about, arguing about, judging. Why do some people get everything and others get nothing? Where is justice in life? If there is a God. Why do billions of people believe in religions? If there is life after death. If there are rules for a happy life. What true success in life is. How to achieve basic mental harmony. What is the sense of life in general? A sane person should at least be concerned about these questions.
If a person does not fill himself with such meanings, he should force himself to do so, think again about the risks mentioned in the previous chapter, and realize that he will soon disappear, and not only he but also his dearest and closest people will one day disappear forever, as if they did not exist at all. Then try to accept these events as if they were happening today because it is inevitable anyway. Maybe then you'll start asking the right questions and looking for the right meanings. Maybe then you will wonder if the path of faith you have chosen is true. For most non-believers, truly, realistically accepting this will be much more difficult than believing in the Original Source and His Word – the Scriptures. For me, the truthfulness of the Holy Books is obvious. We do not leave "as if we never existed". And according to the holy texts, we are inscribed in the eternal book of life, where it is recorded how we have passed our earthly journey. And we will enter the true and eternal world of God, where we will be held accountable for how we have lived our lives. This is the truth, whether you choose the way of unbelief or the way of faith that is logically justified!
If that day come
If today was the last day of your life.
Would you do what you're doing? For in the face of death, everything loses its meaning. That is, when you realize that you have 2-3 days to live, no more, the value of time in your mind increases so much that you start to focus exclusively on the important things. You don't care what kind of car you have, what kind of clothes you wear, what your co-workers are gossiping about, and in general, you don't care about anything at all. You don't even care about your loved ones, because you know that your family and friends will stay here without you. And they will go on living, breeding, and having fun, and you will not be here anymore. You're going away, and no one from this world is going to go to the grave with you. No one will lie in the grave with you, no one will want to hug your body and be buried with you. This is not a judgment on anyone; it is the truth, our nature. But when you realize things like that, whether you like it or not, the priorities in your mind change dramatically. In general, you know, death can be compared to an awakening. Because a person, just before death, looks back on his life and realizes that it passed like in a mist. So fast, so instantaneous, not clear, like in a dream. And now it is time to wake up. But in the case of death, awakening is a complete disconnection from the outside world and a transition to the world beyond, to another reality, to another dimension, where absolutely everything is different. So you no longer care about what happens here on earth. You only care about what will happen to you after death. And this is a very important question in human life. You can find many pre-death interviews of celebrities or bloody criminals. What's interesting is that when death came to any of them, it was like magic. They started to say things that were contrary to their life path as if they'd been replaced. They put aside all their philosophy, all their false theories about life, about nothingness, about God. It was as if they forgot, did not notice or remember everything they had done all their lives, how they had lived, and what they had done. Just look at the latest interviews of famous godless people, atheists, and criminals. What silly excuses they come up with to justify their godless existence. Their minds are clear and sharp, their pupils dilated. Now they see everything perfectly, hear everything, feel everything, understand everything, and are not as bold as they used to be. Why is that? Because they know what awaits them now and who they will be facing. Every soul knows – that's why. In modern society, it is not common to talk about death. It's a difficult subject for everyone. As one poet said, "Do not spoil our celebration of life." I'm not comfortable with that option at all, and I don't want to hide my head in the sand from our reality. I know everyone doesn't like death, but I don't want to push those thoughts away. I think it's silly to do that. Besides, I think that everyone should be reminded of their end periodically in life to realize the truth. This will help you go through life in the right way, the only right way. Death is inevitable, no one can avoid it, and therefore I will think and reason about it. I want to be clear about where I am going, what awaits me, and what I need to prepare for. That makes sense, doesn't it? Well, for example, before you move to another city, you pack your suitcases with everything you need in advance, find out the routes, and book hotels, and you consider that a reasonable approach to the question of moving. In this case, it's the same, so what's the difference? Even in the case of death, it would make more sense to have the most serious preparation and knowledge than in any other case. You're not going for a weekend, you're going for eternity. Where am I wrong? Doesn't logic just evaporate for most people when it comes to death reasoning? In fact, a lot of people are very contradictory on this subject for some reason. Everyone seems to be trying to advocate logic, rationalism, and sanity. But as soon as it comes to their immediate future, all these people behave like little unreasonable children. They just cling to some dreams of billions, companies, and mansions, or they just drown in alcoholism, drug addiction, idleness, debauchery, indulge in false dreams, and think that everything will be fine. And what about your impending danger, your future "bankruptcy"? Do you not care at all? How can you call such people reasonable? No one wants to think about death: neither young nor old. You can call this attitude short-sightedness, stupidity, cowardice, or whatever you want, but it is not at all reasonable, rational, or sane.
So death is a kind of obstacle, a barrier that everyone has to overcome because it stands in front of every soul and the object of its aspirations. Death is what separates every living soul from its Creator. The Creator is the one who made you, He is infinitely more dear to you than even your parents. And if I am true to myself, if I sincerely love my Creator – I cannot understand how I can hate death. If you sincerely love someone, you rush to meet him, despite obstacles and distances. And who can be loved more than the Creator of you and everything – God? No one. So maybe I should love death instead of hating it? The only thing that should be frightening is to come to Him empty-handed and with a huge baggage of sins that I have managed to commit in such a short time. Without the stockpile of works that He has commanded us to do in the Scriptures. This is the only thing everyone should be afraid of. The logical conclusion of this reasoning is that every person should direct all his forces, all his thoughts and actions to be pleasing to our Creator, to please Him, and to collect the best stock of good deeds before death comes. After all, you will have to answer for your life's path afterward. I believe that the goal of every rational person should be to prepare for the most important meeting of his life – the meeting with the Lord, the Creator. And everything else is just a speck of dust.
Inexplicable logic
I often communicate with unbelievers, whether for work or just with old acquaintances. I study their lives and their psychology, and I talk to them about various subjects. As sad as it may sound, in the absolute majority of cases I see that they are, unfortunately, mostly very unhappy people. But at least in my whole life, I have never met a really happy unbeliever, not even one! I try to explain all kinds of things to them, but as soon as they hear the word "God," their faces change, they are disgusted. I can see that it is not because they do not believe in God. A person who does not believe in something does not resent it and does not feel disgusted by it, because he does not care about it. He just doesn't believe in it, that's all, and it doesn't affect him in any way. But in this case, they have some kind of hatred and disgust. It's like a riot. But such a behavior is not impartial, it is the opposite. Besides, I don't know where they get such beliefs from: whether they are indoctrinated on TV, or whether atheist friends have made them so inclined, I don't know. But most non-believers consider people of faith to be second-rate and ignorant. They have convinced themselves that religion was created for a poor and stupid society. And in the ranks of the intelligentsia, to which they for some reason count themselves, faith seems to them something unacceptable or a relic of the past. I say, "Okay if you are so intelligent, highly cultured, civilized, why are you so unhappy?" After all, the goal of any normal person is happiness. Read any intelligent person. I don't know anyone who consciously wants to be unhappy. So if you have understood everything, if you are so intelligent, knowledgeable, and successful, explain to us "fools" why you are so unhappy. Is this your thing, or am I misunderstanding again? They are silent, they have no answer.
You know what else I've noticed – extremes. When a person is in ignorance and disobedience to his Creator, or when he is not limited by any norms – he does not know the circle of his duties to the Original. "Live as you wish" is what they call it. In such cases, people begin to go to extremes and go crazy. I've watched their attempts to cheer up their existence. They always end up with them professing some kind of animalistic lifestyle. Lots of attempts to justify their godless existence and living without limits, that's all. Drinking, partying, lying, careerism. At home there are always scandals, all family members do absolutely whatever they want. The husband does not report to the wife, the wife does not report to the husband, and children with the latest iPhones slam the door in their faces – there are no common rules, no common laws at all. Everyone has their own personal value system and their truth. It is chaos, total lawlessness. They think that believers are ignorant. Isn't that ridiculous, do you really think that this lifestyle is a worthy alternative to the life of a believer? Well, let's compare, everything is a comparison. The unbeliever eats and the believer eats, both get married, work, travel, and have fun. It seems like all the same things, doesn't it? But in the case of believers, they try to do all these things according to the reasonable, helpful, wise laws of the Scriptures that protect them from anything that contains harm. And unbelievers accept absolutely everything indiscriminately and without analysis. Who is more reasonable? Believers abstain from things that it would be logical to abstain from for the good of the family and others. For example, adultery between spouses, gossip, slander, lying, alcoholism, drug addiction, disrespect for elders, breaking kinship ties, indifference to the poor and needy, exposure of body parts, lewdness, shamelessness, immorality, and the like. And for the unbelievers there is no refusal at all: neither good nor bad nor harmful nor destructive nor disgusting – everything is allowed to them. Everyone may do what he wants, how he wants, and, as they say, it is his right. What are these beliefs based on?
A man was asked, "How did you come to believe in the Lord God?" He replied that he did not see any prohibition of the Lord God that he thought, "It had better be allowed." And also that he saw no commandment in the Scriptures of which he thought to himself, "It had better not be commanded." Maybe you will find unreasonable laws in the Holy Books, then you will offer a reasonable alternative, and then I will agree with you on something. Don't you think it's better to be a believer and live under the protection of a perfect Creator? What is the catch with non-believers? They probably don't have the patience to wait. They ask for and want everything at once. But everything will only happen if it is for good. And people's pride rebels: "I believe and want this, so why is it taking me so long to get it?" And they rebel, they rebel because of their pride and impatience. They lack spiritual fear. The fear and the realization of the greatness of God. Any sane person would realize that there is no better system for man. And even if there were no next life, it would still be more logical and reasonable, more profitable and correct to live according to the laws of the Lord God, and not according to the laws of man. But, thank God, there is a next life for all that. Therefore, to be a believer is actually doubly profitable, it means to be in favor not only in this life but also in the next life.
In this life, you will live with ease and peace in your heart, as a great human being, not as an animal. And by keeping the laws described in the Scriptures, you and your family will be protected from all that is harmful and destructive. That's in this life. And in the next life, on top of all that, you will also receive the eternal pleasures of Paradise. What could be better than that? You will get eternal youth, palaces, and bliss in the gardens of Eden, in Paradise, where there will be everything your soul desires. And you will not be cast out there. There will be no suffering, no pain, no imperfections of body and soul, but only eternal vacations, fun, health, and joy. What more do you need?
What do unbelievers gain? I honestly don't understand you. Don't you think there is a contradiction in your argument? On the one hand, you talk about the reasonableness of godlessness and the unreasonableness of faith. Okay. But on the other hand, your way of life, your misfortunes, and your depressions themselves testify to the unreasonableness of the godless, animal existence and the reasonableness of the happy life of the righteous. And the most interesting thing is that many people look at them and even envy them. Beautiful photos on social networks, gifts, resorts – it is like a kind of idyll, "a model of family happiness and well-being". But nobody sees what's behind the scenes. It's different in real life. In the photo they are smiling, but behind the photo they are fighting. So why are family psychologists so prevalent in their midst? Among non-believers, there is a huge percentage of suicide, divorce, adultery, drug addiction, depression, and unhappiness. Most people do not understand what they are living for and how to live it. If there is no God, if there is no next life, if there is no hell, if there is no Heaven, what are you living for, unbelievers? What is the point of enduring pain, suffering, and humiliation in this life? Okay, if you were all billionaires and bathed in pleasure from dawn to dusk, then at least it would be somehow possible to justify your choice for a life without faith. But even if you are a billionaire without faith, it makes no sense, everything will soon be over forever and more, your end will be even more painful, and you will have to answer for everything. You have been given all this for the glory of your Creator, not the other way around.
But most people are ordinary office workers or employees of some middle-class companies. What do you live for if you do not believe in God? To eat, to drink, to sleep, to satisfy your needs?
You should seriously think about the fact that despite your education, despite the many mentors you have had in your life, despite the many life skills you have learned, despite the many books you have read, despite the many motivators you have had – all of this has not helped you to be happy in your life, to make up your mind, to gain inner peace, to be yourself, to be clear about what you are living for. Maybe it's time to try something else. Why don't you recognize your own experience? Look at your bookshelves. A bunch of foreign authors, beautiful covers, fancy titles, and names, alluring slogans. But there's not much truth in them. Maybe it's time to think about it, or are you going back to sleep? Even if you become very rich and buy everything you want and solve all your everyday problems, it will not make you happy. A few pleasant feelings and that's it. Happiness is not achieved by covering a momentary desire. Happiness is a permanent human state. We will reflect on this a little later, in a separate chapter.
The upshot of all this is one – the unbeliever has logic without logic, and the way of faith he has chosen is not true.
Material prosperity
Let's talk about what helps you succeed in material life. I guess everybody thinks about that. Many people believe in it, in material success. Is it true that this belief will help you achieve it?
In reality, everything contradicts those fairy tales that you have already been told by these modern coaches, mentors, business gurus, and so on. About how they supposedly work 24/7, sleep little, eat little. How they were very poor, but they had the mindset of billionaires and they fought and they didn't give up and they succeeded in the end. And in reality, you know, every single one of these stories always ends up about how one's father was the mayor of the city, another's uncle, I don't know, gave them a 0% century loan. It's all nonsense, and the reality is completely different. Ask any honest rich man where he got his worldly wealth, his money. He will tell you that he just got lucky at some point in his life, that's all. And he didn't even know how or why. He just found the right people, chose the right contract, and everything just kind of fell into place, and things started going well. That is, circumstances beyond their control happened to them that led them to success and wealth. Think about it. If financial well-being depended on ability, hard work, knowledge, and so on. Then, first of all, smart, energetic, high-spirited people would be the richest people in the world. Second, we would see the obvious superiority of some people over others because of their peculiarities and characteristics. Third, there would be tangible, real, controllable tools to force external circumstances to work for us. Fourth, everyone who knew about these tools would use them and become the richest man. But as we can see, there is no such thing – everything is just the opposite. Some toothless, unpleasant, unkempt, dirty man, who has not finished two grades, buys a tomato, sells a tomato, and is richer than all of us put together. And the same genius with three higher education, training, sales funnel, studying Robert Kiyosaki, with cryptos and tons of empty information, he just sits on such a man's salary and he can't do anything about it. That's how it is, can you explain that? I know a lot of smart, active people who are considered losers by today's standards. I also know a lot of hardened, inert, lazy people who have weak brains, and yet they are all rich. Even though none of them know what a sales funnel is, none of them have read Kiyosaki, and none of them have taken any training, they all have money.
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