Inner peace is a load of crap.

I truly hope that the many spiritual gurus and “walkers” of paths find a reason to debate my philosophy, to not only allow the disproving of the peace that supposedly exists in their teachings, but to also prove themselves ignorant enough to try and disprove a personal perception written up on a net blog.

In life, we often find ourselves needing to feel that we found something “right” in our lives, or an “answer”. The interesting fact is that I personally never wanted or needed this until I was told I needed it at a young age. We can’t simply let people live in contentment of life alone… No no no… That would be wrong to let someone simply enjoy their life on planet earth. We should instead create a story or belief that makes their lives feel small and inconsequential in comparison to something else.. But what? Let’s just call them “Gods”, and let’s say that you aren’t good enough just being you, but that you need to be “enlightened” or something. As if just being yourself would ever be enough…. Well hmm… I guess spirituality is run by people who don’t want me to be just me? Suddenly your carefree attitude and endless childhood days are shadowed a dark thought pattern.

Now there are these new things in your life that you can’t see, hear, or talk to, but they apparently have divine judgment, and everything you do is a tally mark on what they decide happens to you in the after life. Sad to say, this belief structure provides nothing but 1. the ability to shift blame onto something imaginary (a deity) 2. A scapegoat and excuse and/or cover for being “unique”/special 3. A reason to argue or disagree with others based not on principles, but “faith”. While contentment and mind relaxation/inner realizations can help us grow as individuals, ever since I have heard the term “inner peace” it’s been like a frickin foot race to see who the most fakey “spiritualist” is. It’s like a world full of actors who actually ACT spiritual.

The darker aspect of this spiritual cloud of crap are the people who are convinced that they need to “seek inner peace”. Well that’s funny…. I never received inner peace in the mail, but have been having a decent time without it. In fact, now that I think about it, I only felt bad when some piece of crap told me I didn’t have it. This is unfortunately the equivalent of pretending to have something special or different that elevates one’s self above others. In a supposed world where true spirituality is that we are all unified, living beings, you’d think that reverence would have gone away with the feudal ages and the inquisition, and we’d probably be cracking jokes with the pope more often.

To elevate one’s self above others in any way, shape or form is to simply (and subtly) be a part of the new breed of hate that exists in the world. It’s essentially a form of being upper class for people who can’t truly afford to be. Anything for any of us to be able to snub our noses at each other in some subtle way. God forbid if we all agreed on one common bond and mystery – life itself. Apparently it’s not enough anymore, and we need things like a dude on a cross, some prophet who can see the future, dragons, 8 armed elephant headed gods, and angels flying around with trumpets out their asses.

The true beauty is that we get *so* offended when someone insults these conceptual ideologies, that we have war, death, and argument, yet everyone fails to see that throughout it all, the “deities” haven’t showed up…. once.