Though Not Impossible, Highly Improbable
You would think that as you get older, you would get wiser, but it seems to me that I'm walking in the opposite direction. My logical mind is deteriorating as I move through life, and the passionate being inside of me has given me a new set of beliefs that, though they're not entirely impossible, are highly improbable:
1. People are inherently good. I know. Most people are quivering sacks of anxious water that do irrational things, but I believe that the majority of people have a strong moral reason for doing things that point to the good side of their internal compass. There are terrible people too, but they didn't start out that way.
2. Everything happens for a reason. Scientifically speaking, I'm always a little torn about this one. I know that the world is just a translation of mathematics and matter, and those two things together create the energy that holds our existence. While I don't believe that some big being in the sky makes it so, I believe that mathematics and probability can be applied to any situation. I think that every breath and every beam and every beat are a calculation of divine mathematics. There is an equation in there somewhere that follows the rules and sequence. Every action has an equal yet opposite reaction and all that.
3. There is a collective consciousness. Because of the extent to which our existence is intertwined and dependent upon each other, I believe that there is a collective consciousness that links our health and our Earth's health to each other. Much like any person can have invasive thoughts, mental illness, memory lapses, prejudices, etc. our collective consciousness has the same. We are all parts of this network, this breathing, thriving macro-organism living on a rock out in space, and our symbiotic separate moving parts are what sustain us, and even though we would deny it and claim our independence, we are dependent upon the overall sustainability of mankind to live our fullest life.
4. You can influence energy with will. I know what it sounds like. No, I haven't read The Secret. I meditated long and hard about some of my problems a few years back, and the answer came to me. Our actions, when done with intention of will, can influence the outcomes of the probability formulas in divine mathematics. Therefore, if I am a good person, do good deeds, and live my best life, I affect the world in close proximity to myself, and the reverberations of that positive energy carry past my immediate self, giving energy flux to other people, places, things, and ideas simply by being present.
5. There are more answers at the bottom of the ocean than up in the cosmos. One of my shortcomings is that I am an isolationist when it comes to space. I believe that for us to have a future outside of our own world, we must have a mastery of knowledge and command of the possibilities inside of our own world first. What do we have to offer the cosmos besides a half finished exploration of our home? It's like never going into the basement of a house that you bought that was lived in since before you were born. You're telling me we don't need to go look in the basement before building a treehouse?
6. It is every person's responsibility to live their best life. If you fail, it's on you. I've failed. I've gotten back up. I don't have kids or a partner or anyone else to live for, but I am energy and matter and light that is expressing itself in this form for now, and with that I have been given this organic gift of chemical consciousness. What a singular experience to take as a permanence to wherever the remnant elements of my corpse decide to drift to long after our planet ceases to exist! The vibration of memories, it's all energy, and whatever isn't utilized remains potential. Why not expound all possible while you are conscious to do so? The vibrations will be felt for eternity. This is our immortality, to be continuously re-translated throughout the eons. Why not choose a loving vibration in which to perpetually exist?
Anyway, that's the long and short of my belief system. It's constantly evolving, as am I, and I realize there really is no proof for any of it. It's just me.