Re: Mark Gabriel's Testimony
Greetings defender.
Thank you for your reply. The only reason why I went into preacher mode before was because people didn't want to follow whatever moral codes and principals they subscribe to and use said codes and principals to become the best they could be. No you don't need a religion to be a good individual and neither does nature care about morality. Nature will do all in its power to ensure survival of the fittest, strongest, cleverest, bravest and so on. Having said that, we also see evidence to the contrary because humanity most often goes against nature to the extent that nature allows. Let me clear up a few misconceptions about me and my prior behaviour. I cannot honestly see the difference between what I did before compared to what I'm doing now because I see these differences as extensions or continuations. Before this thread, I was explaining what I believed and why I believe in it; now I'm showing you the result of my believing what I believe. I'm no longer trying to explain what I believe and why I recommend others to believe in it; I'm now showing that because I believe in absolute pacifism so strongly, I am free to live and let live. In other words, even though my prior words before this thread might prove otherwise, I was still okay with people believing in any given religion or not; same applies to science, atheism, anything at all. My primary goal was as it is now to advise people that no matter what you believe or how you get to the following conclusion, it is most important to follow it, live it and be it in action. It's better for everyone to be loving, kind, good, compassionate, merciful and forgiving at all times and in all situations. It is also better never to harm anyone under any circumstance and for any reason what so ever. It doesn't matter whether or not you believe in something outside of this reality, it only matters that we never cause anyone to suffer in any way if we can help it. For the sake of argument, I won't bring in the testament of truth or karma into this answer.
Remember I said earlier about me keeping my mouth shut whenever I felt like I wanted to bite someone's head off? I know what it feels like to give in to my baser emotions and yes, evidence shows that we're instinctually inclined to do wrong. As Vazbol and Mads were saying, we see children naturally being bratty and they have to be taught to not be that way. So, every time I did something to deliberately cause someone to suffer, I felt very powerful, especially when I did it to someone who was in authority over me. It felt like a drug and the more I did it, the more I wanted to do it. Forgive me if I go into preacher mode; I think I'm already doing so. Anyway, unfortunately, my being a bully eventually spread to include those who I didn't want to hurt and I couldn't stop my behaviour. I felt at times like I was a passenger within my own body while my mouth did the talking for me. It got to the point that not even heart felt apologies could fix it and worse yet, I became a bully because others bullied me first and they kept on doing so even when I lost hope. It took people far more evil than me to crush me into submission and it also took me looking into that mirror to see myself for who and what I truly was in order for me to find someone to tell me in a loving way that in order to improve, I had to be peaceful no matter what and to never give into my baser emotions. My mentor explained to me that the reason I was out of control was because I kept giving into my rage, hatred and thirst for vengeance. Not only that but I could feel all my negative emotions growing stronger day by day and the only way I could be stopped was to be smacked down and face the terrible consequences of my actions. However, not even the most evil of people could have stopped me permanently; I had to see myself first and only a supernatural being could have presented a mirror that reflected my personality traits so very well. Without said supernatural being, not even Melissa and Brad's altercation would have changed me and I wouldn't have come to that conclusion on my own; my mind wouldn't have made such an intuitive leap on its own because my thought processes didn't factor me wanting to improve myself, I wanted power to crush any who made me suffer in the first place and that's what I cared about. Now I'm not saying that people cannot improve without believing in something; I'm saying that something happened to me that I have no rational scientific explanation for. Not even psychology/psychiatry can explain how or why some people get wake up calls and some of the situations we find ourselves in may have nothing to do with us suddenly realising that we no longer want to live and be the way we are living and being and we must do something about it.
I know, I've gone way off topic here but I wanted to explain how and why I don't see what I did then and what I'm doing now to be any different. However, going back on topic, no matter what you believe, isn't it better not only for any individual and for humanity as a whole to be loving? As for Christianity being better than Islam, I believe that if you don't embrace one, you cannot embrace the other because both Lord Jesus Christ and Lord Muhammad preached and taught the same things, just in different parts of the world. I believe this to be true even though the books say otherwise and evidence shows otherwise. As for simba, I cannot honestly blame him for saying that; I can understand his anger and frustration with the Christians because the bible does in fact show that Jehovah does favour warfare. I believe it to be untrue that Jehovah wants us to go to war for any reason because I'm an absolute pacifist. I would like to show him that not all believers are out for blood and I'd welcome anyone into my home regardless of what you believe, where you're from, how you look, what you did or indeed who and what you were, are and will be.
Kind regards, Amin Abdullah.
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