The Book of Ashes

Running on 2 hours sleep, the reason for many differing belief systems... 9:16AM

The days are passing me by and I know not what I did with them. Thomas, my brother is now squatting in my lounge. Its good to catch up with him. He is also currently unemployed and looking for a job. I have finished repasting up wallpaper in the next door flats. The girls have finished painting their lounge and it is looking really good. They just need to refurnish it and its all go. Mum is down in Wellington for a course and going back on the weekend. Wellington is showing off its rocking weather. Thats about it I guess except that its now 9 in the morning and I got two hours sleep last night. Lots of sneaking around and staying out of trouble or maybe getting myself in more trouble, who knows?

I have come to the conclusion that many different belief systems (religions) are required. Even if most of them are wrong, it doesn't matter, they serve a purpose. Take for example any two opposing belief systems. One at least must be wrong by definition of the word opposing and maybe both are but both serve at minimum to console the believer that there is meaning and purpose behind the way the world works. Could you take this away from a person just to tell them the truth and maybe make them more unhappy. And then why? Life is about happiness most of the time and if it works why break it? I also consider many different beliefs to be required kind of like sadness is required for happiness to exist. Without ever having any form of sadness you could never say you were happy because by definition it is not being sad. Like so if everybody was the same religion then there would be little point in having that religion and it would no longer be special. Beliefs are continued on on the basis that they are different from other beliefs. People hold them sacred by their differences. Without these differences the beliefs would subside down to nothing. The universe works by a strange rule called balance. Good balances with evil, right with wrong, hot with cold, happiness with sad, etc, etc. Without these other (bad) things the good things don't exist. Pleasure is meaningless without pain. We must experience all these bad things first to truely appreciate the good things. In summary many differing belief systems, or religions, are required for balance. Even though most of them are wrong, they are required to make the right one more appreciated, more special. You cannot reform the world to one belief system, it just does not and cannot work. There must always be someone who is wrong otherwise there is no right. You can, though, cull off some of the more stupid ones like that cult that believed aliens were following in the tail of the commet to come save all those who committed suicide on a certain date. Pack of dum arses if you ask me..

Forgotten promises... 9:21AM

If you asked me for a reason, I'd give you a rhyme...

""Broken promises lie dead in a field of roses, forgotten names arise from their ashes. Little is known about the word smith, little respect is given for his day. New growth finds life in the soil, new colours for a colourless day. Circles revolve around cycles and the planet spins in half drawn revolutions. The way out is never clear to see. The day is always too cold. New life grows old together, new life dies as old together. The fields remain grey but on closer inspection they consist of tiny lost coloured promises.""