Damn, that means I can't make petty jokes in order to avoid saying something like I usually do. Idol will likely join me in this frustration.
At this point in my life, I believe life to be about experience. Pain, joy, and everything in between, I think what ultimately makes us what we are is the experience of living. We can either become good or bad people because of that, or we can become combinations of good and bad things. Ultimately, I believe there is more to our existence than we see with our eyes, and I believe there are multifaceted mechanics of spiritual existence that work like machinery to dictate many of the forces around us. I think of it as science, in that it can be followed like a mathematical process, but something far beyond what we've managed to dissect about our lives in the thousands of years we've been around and learning on the planet Earth.
Eventually, I think we'll be rewarded for the good and just causes we champion, and I think we'll be punished for being hateful. That doesn't mean I believe every man can find his own way and come out on top, for I most certainly do not believe that all paths lead to God, but it means that there are precepts by which we can live life and be better people who do more to help than harm those around them, including the Earth itself and the many other lifeforms we share it with.
I believe that all political systems have been and shall forever be flawed because they require people in charge who are not corrupt, and with time, societies and cultures *all* corrupt and eventually fall prey to the baser problems that humanity blinds itself to. Societies will always eventually strive to collectively pull blinders over their eyes in regards to the things they do which may stray from the path of what is good and right, generally because people find strength in numbers and feel safe when they collectively subscribe to the same corruptions.
There will never be world peace because it's an impossibility in terms of everyone joining up under the same banner. Small groups of people will always develop beliefs and practices which will clash with other small groups of people, and having only one single huge group will simply lead to the eventual corruption of its leadership, hence its eventual destruction. The best we can do is focus on the things we can that are good and beautiful -- the life experiences I spoke of at the beginning. Pain, joy, love, hate -- they're all universal. If we focus on art, on expressions of these things, and if we foster a love for the simple differences in human viewpoints (*essential* differences that should be kept culturally separate, not to congeal into a single entity), then we can at least hope to coexist and remember that each of us, in his own way, is trying his best to be human.
I believe that I am a hateful person with little tolerance for others, especially because I consider my own self-developed culture to be vastly superior to that of most others I meet. While ideologically I feel very differently on the whole, on a personal, day-to-day basis, I see people as little more than disease. I strive to avoid them. I have many friends and people whom I respect that I interact with regularly, but I see the world as a hive of filth that can go nowhere but down because people refuse to acknowledge things that are worth acknowledging, instead choosing to spend all of their time in admiration of things without conscience, without craft, and without consequence. Ironically, this has lead me to spend 80% of my time engaging in fantasies of various natures, and Fiction in its various forms has more or less become the driving force in my life. It's the only place I feel like I can escape my criticisms of others, of myself, and the feeling that I am completely unable to change any of it. Thus in my love of experience, the act of emotional learning, I often shut myself out to that which can actually teach me.
I believe that love is the best thing you can share with another person, but it's also the most difficult thing to achieve. Real love is not an impossibility, but it requires a foundation of great respect and great sacrifice, and it isn't something to be entered into lightly. There, the most carnal and base rewards of human desire can be fulfilled while being tempered with a patient understanding that transform them from their basic states into complex emotional experiences that enrich both people involved. Sex should be frequent. Sex is love's church. Sex is holy and should not be bastardized or cheapened for the fulfillment of self, and it is heightened when enjoyed as something to fulfill someone else, like most things in life. Love, either the emotional attachment of a marriage, that of one's children, or that of one's fellow man, is a most difficult thing to attain, but those that strive for it are rewarded.
