| To The Sceptics |
| Contributed by Nathan Colella | |
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Believe it or not, I was once a sceptic, but it was a light scepticism towards mysteries and unexplained things due to my lack of knowledge of it. I was mostly sceptical of religion because as bad as I wanted the answers to life and the afterlife, I had the biggest feeling deep inside that religion was all wrong and science was too limited to explain the simplest of mysteries. Some people would call me a nutcase due to the content of my current work, but when I was younger I didn’t know what I know today. I never really believed in God as religion saw it because it was a waste of time seeking answers if they couldn’t be proven. Brainwashed as I was (By mainstream beliefs) I still had the hunger to know if there was a God (A creator) and some kind of afterlife. I kept pushing all these questions aside because I couldn’t get answers to all my questions, at night I would have trouble getting to sleep with these questions in my head which at the time blew me away. Even though I was very young and still learning about life, I was asking questions the majority of people wouldn’t dare to ask because of their fear of being ridiculed. One of my earliest discoveries was there really is no Santa Claus or tooth fairy. I still laugh at this because I still see this concept being used in a much bigger form, used by the government on the people. By this I mean simple scare tactics to keep everyone in line or to get them to submit to their laws. I was probably the first one in my year (in nursery school) to figure out there really is no Santa Claus, only because of my curious nature and hunger to know the truth. No kid would dare question him or their parents because the lie is so big and good to be a lie. I stayed up one Christmas Eve and questioned everything about Christmas, I came to the conclusion that he was made up due to the fact no one had ever seen him, adults acting different towards him and why parents use him as a scare tactic if you don’t do what you’re told. Anyway I stayed up one night to see if I could catch him, but instead found my parents bringing the presents downstairs and filling my stockings. The point of this story is to not only question what we cannot perceive but question the things you have been bought up to believe. I find that you usually find insights by questioning what’s around you, why people do certain things and actions. When I found out the shocking truth about Santa, I was told to keep my mouth shut about it and not tell any of the other kids, but I did regardless. I tried telling everyone in my class but all I got was ridicule from the other kids, calling me crazy or asking me to prove it. To this day people still haven’t changed; I still get treated the same way no matter what answers I find. No one can give up the mainstream beliefs they have been bought up to believe. Even though I have found the answers I was looking for, the only way to get proof is to do it yourself, no one proved it to me. If you seek the answer, you shall find it. Questions Most of my earliest questions were about ghosts and aliens because at the time that’s all I knew about unexplained phenomena. I remember my cousin asking me if I believed in God and I said no because at the time my mind couldn’t grasp the concept of God. I couldn’t see passed what she meant, if that makes sense, I couldn’t imagine how it worked. The only reason I didn’t want to believe in a God was because what I had been spoon fed by religion, not to mention all the horrible things in the world which could not possibly be created by a loving God. In the past I have had these questions constantly on my mind:
If you have never thought about these things nor have a passion to know the answers, then you’re still under brainwashing or conditioning. It’s human nature to want to know, for example in schools, teachers teach something they know nothing about, they just read from a text book to you. Nothing should be taken as 100% correct from schools because the information comes from the government themselves, the teacher is a repeater, passing the information along. A news reporter does the same thing, repeats to the public what they have been told by the prime minister or president. When I was in school, the teacher who used to teach us didn’t actually know much about religion so she used to teach us from the books. In every class I would go really deep and question everything about religion and God, but she didn’t offer any explanations. In these cases why is a teacher reading information then passing it on? That’s not teaching, anyone can read from a book and give their opinions. It’s the same with my science teachers; they would explain how things work but they couldn’t explain to me how they got there and why they are there. Some of the questions in the list above were asked and I was disappointed in the reaction I got, a look from them that made me feel like I was the only one questioning it. The problem is we have six billion on the planet who all think their opinions are the right ones, ignorance is blind, and anyone who questions the “official” story is crazy apparently. I hope my quest for answers is taken into account and thought about other wise it would be a great waste of time writing it. |