Death and Faith

Death is the ultimate mystery. To understand any mystery you need to find answers. But there are no answers about what happens to one's soul after death. This is where faith steps in. Faith is believing in something without seeing. Feeling it in your soul, your heart and your mind. To question is natural, but when there are no answers, faith steps in to give you the answers that you will never find until the question does not matter anymore. The question does not matter when you see it yourself, because you have the truth. When faith is shaken, it may be hard to rebuild. When faith is shattered by an event, you may not know how to put the pieces back together. You may doubt how it held together at all. What joined the pieces before it was broken? Until you have that question answered, there will not be rebuilding. You may take pieces of it and use them, but they will not be whole. Death is the unknown. For some it is the merciful ending of a life of pain. Some the untimely end of a life cut short. Yet others believe that it is the step to the next. The next can be literally the next life. Next can be a paridise or heaven. Next can be a black hole to spend entirity. Next can be any form of hell you think of to try to teach youngsters the difference between good and evil. Death is the end of this life. The end of the existance that we have lived in this life. We count up the chips in front of us and turn in the chips. Some think it doesn't matter what you walk away from the table with. Others say it is all about the money. Where money can be literal dollars, or metaphorical dollars signifing karma or some such. The metaphorical dollar can be specific to a religion and you build up for the particular religion and if you don't make the minimum, you are left out the cold. Faith usually gives some hope of a next. Because without the carrot, the horse will not move foward. So why do horses move in the wild. Horses move because they are hungry and have a mind of their own. Some individuals need some exterior manisfitation of their inner voice. But it boils down to we are listening to ourselves. What is funny is that in pretty much all religions they have to acknowledge this. People have choice have independence, they have free will. If the inner voice decides not to believe then it must see the light to change that viewpoint. Everyone is entitled to their faith or individual viewpoint. All people regardless of faith or viewpoint should strive to be good. Some individuals have warped views of what is good or evil, but trust in your universe that those individuals will get their justice if they invade on your universe. You may not see it, but like all faith you won't see the truth until the question doesn't matter anymore.