What An Age We Live In.

       I had wanted to make a post that wasn't so serious. A post that people could laugh at. But I've decided to post on something much more important.
       Through every venue of my life I have seen one common thread; deceit. It saddens me to see a majority of my generation so...conditioned. Never before in current history has the truth been so watered down, so convoluted. It's branches are forced to cross into areas that it has no business being in. Truly this is the age of lies, the age of dissolution, the age of deceit.
      Whether we like it or not, accept it or not, deny it or not there is an ultimate truth to everything. Without truth there is no purpose. Without purpose there is no point. Philosophers and scientists have been arguing over this concept for millenias. There is no mystery to it...at all. It has been staring us in the face since the beginning of time. God is truth. God is life. God is salvation. At this point I really don't care if you agree with that or not. But when faced with their own mortality I believe every person questions what they believe in. The concept of God or what happens after we die can't help but make it's way into their minds.
       Now here is a little point that I realized a few moments ago. People like to believe that we ARE important (we are but this in a different sense). We ARE the gods of our realm. We are the ultimate in creation. But yet they believe in a system that completely overrides this notion. Anything we do ultimately has no lasting purpose or point. We live, we die and we vanish from all memory. Nothing we do has eternal consequence. This does not sound like truth to me. This sounds like despair. This sounds like weakness, not strength.
      Many people like to assume that today is the age of...realization. That people have finally come to the truth after countless centuries of confusion. The idea that we ARE god. We must do things to praise our existence and not His. That religion is a tool of control and "deceit." I laugh at this, honestly. There is nothing new about this belief. It has come and gone like the setting of the sun.
     We are so busy making Facebook status posts, tweeting what we had for breakfast this morning, listening to joe schmoe spout his opinions on everything, that we fail to think for ourselves. One does not come to truth through the opinions of one man. Truth comes through wisdom. 
     Wisdom is all but lost in this generation. We have substituted it with common opinion and intelligence. A wise man does not need to be a smart man. Not to sound paradoxical, but any idiot can be smart. Now this isn't to say that we shouldn't learn everything we can. God calls for us to be as knowledgeable as we can be (totally contradicting the believe by many that religion ignores facts) to further bastion our beliefs.  But the more you know, the more responsibility there is for you to use your intelligence wisely. Wisdom is the application of knowledge.
    It's time for people to double guess what they believe in. Times are getting harder, and will continue to get harder. And instead of believing in a system that offers hope, we choose the application of a system that quite literally "throws us under the bus". Now is the time to restore morality, ethical thinking, and the belief in something greater than ourselves, not deny it! Don't let your hate, your supposed intellect, your emotions block you from finding the truth. And even if you do find the "truth". That doesn't mean stop. That means to keep growing in it. To keep researching and learning and comparing until there is no doubt. And that means researching all sides...not just the ones you agree with. I promise you, that if you open your heart and mind, you WILL find the ultimate truth. The same truth that has been there all along but forgotten.