Worldviews

You are holding on to your worldview, 
like a two year old to a security blanket. 

Don’t be ashamed of your attachment. 
Have a tolerant approach.

Abrupt removal of the blanket is likely to backfire
and make the transition process take much longer. 

Identities

It's difficult for Jews and Palestinians to get along.

The same goes for sunni muslims and shia muslims,

right-wingers and left-wingers, born again christians and atheists,

religious fundamentalists and pluralists, bigots and liberals,

spiritualists and materialists, rich and poor, extroverts and introverts, 
educated and uneducated...

Our identities divide us.

But, what is an identity, really? What is it made of?

Ideas? Thoughts? Vivid imagination?

Identities seem so extremely solid and unshakable even though they're not.

Left-wingers can change and become right-wingers,

religious people can become atheists and an atheists can become religious. 

Nothing is written in stone.

Illusions

If you are sitting on a beach, watching the sunset,

you can clearly see how the sun is sinking down under the horizon, 
how it is moving.

But it's not the sun that is sinking, it's the earth that is turning.

The movement of the sun is an illusion.

You can be fully convinced about something that is completely wrong.  
You can't always trust your senses. You can't always trust your self.

However, sunsets are wonderful even if it's not the sun that is sinking. 

What difference does it make to you, in your life,
if the earth revolves around the sun, or if the sun revolves around the earth?

What difference does it make if there are tons of universes out there,
or if this universe is the only one?

It's all in the mind

What you can see, with your own eyes, is not the reality

but an mental 3D-film created in your brain.

The world doesn't work the way you think it works.
You are not the one you think you are.
You are someone else.

You are holding on to your erroneous worldview, 

like the WW2 japanese soldier in the jungle who refused to surrender, 

unaware of the fact that it was decades since the war was over. 

Your assumptions, convictions and ideas about yourself and the world 
are made of mind stuff, electrochemical activity in your neurons,
which is affected by preconceptions, misconceptions and social conditioning. 

God is a mental construct.

Angels and spirits are fantasy figures.

Electrons quarks and strings are concepts, theoretical models.
They have no substance outside modern physics laboratories.

The reality is an illusion. You are living in a dream world.

We are lost, as if we were lost in a big forest, out in the backwoods.

No one knows where we are so we just keep on trudging,

quarreling about which direction we should choose. 

After hours of wandering we end up in the same glade.

We have been walking in circles for thousands of years.

All political systems, religions and philosophies have proved to be useless.

What shall we do?

Good advice

Be positive
Be happy

Be strong

Be healthy
Be fit
Be good looking
Be fortunate

Be competitive
Be smart
Be capable

Be outgoing

Be goal oriented

Be focused

Be successful

Be creative
Be mindful

Don't be fat

Don't be sad
Don't be sick
Don't be old
Don't be frail

Don't be stupid
Don't be clumsy
Don't be awkward
Don't be poor
Don't be ugly

Don't be jealous
Don't be resentful
Don't be miserable
Don't be forlorn
Don't be demoralized
Don't be depressed
Don't be broken-hearted
Don't be lonesome

Dream

Someone is trying to open a door but gets frustrated. He is locked out, banging and shaking the handle. Has he lost the key, or has he never had any?

I want to tell him to try a loving approach, but I realize that that wouldn't work either. The door is locked, and rational thinking, love, or brute force make no difference.

Fake

Fake news

Fake religion

Fake humanism

Fake art

Fake love

Fake orgasm

Fake sincerity

Fake friendship

Fake care

Fake designer clothing

Fake money
Fake tan

Fake fur