Just me
The only right way
Introduction
It is inherent in every human being to evolve, to change, be it intellectually, physically, or spiritually. Everything in a person changes with time, with age. Everything takes years.
This work is written during a period of transformation in personal development that is in everyone's life. It is about one aspect of life, and at the same time, it is about all of life, because without exaggeration this aspect affects absolutely everything. Some people try to quickly close their eyes to this phase and go back to their old lives, turning around periodically. Some either come to terms with this time and live in this stage for the rest of their lives, or they cling to it and evolve in it. This is the main period of life that each person has in his own time. Some have it earlier, some later.
This book is for everyone, regardless of their position in society, age, or religious affiliation. And I'm sure it will prepare people for this most important stage of life, or help them when they are in it. This work will motivate those who have decided not to turn a blind eye to this time, but on the contrary, to improve in their development.
This publication should be perceived as a reflection through simple logic and analysis of the facts of life, based on my own experience and acquired knowledge, which allows one to prove the obvious existence of the only right way. What that path is, you will find out by reading the book in its entirety. Living your life on this path, you will never make a mistake, but you will live your best life.
This book is a philosophical and logical inference on how to become truly happy by living the only right way.
Alpha and Omega
One day the thought of death comes to everyone. The thought that one day everything will end.
This thought also visited me and did not let go for a long time. Eventually, I got tired of it and wanted to stop these negative thoughts. But how? I didn't want to put them out of my mind, and I couldn't. I realized that the end is inevitable, and why not think more deeply, maybe I would understand something and accept everything as it is, throwing away all the negativity. Since these thoughts, which only brought inner apathy, became so intrusive, I came to the conclusion that the only way to get rid of them was to try to understand them logically, without resorting to emotions and any spiritual theories, prejudices, and the like (although I have trusted in God since childhood – it's a family thing), using only the real mind and simple human logic.
What do we have in the real world we live in? First of all – myself, secondly – my family and all the people on Earth, finally – the whole Earth and everything on it and in it, the cosmos and everything in it, and beyond that. And beyond the Earth and the cosmos, I don't know what there is. I only know that everything I have listed, that is, everything that exists and that I can realize, is material. There may be immaterial, but there is no evidence for that as we understand it.
All of the above comes from some reaction at some point. We humans are from humans, plants are from plants, planets are from other major planets, and so on. This is obvious to everyone today. But how did the first humans arise from whom all others arose? From apes? Or from aliens? How did the first animals arise? From their dinosaur ancestors? Insects, continents, planets – all came from something before, much before, and that which was much before also came from something. And that also came from something. And this chain can be continued endlessly. And it doesn't matter whether we originated from an ape or aliens, or whether we were created by a big mighty man. And the monkey and the aliens and the mighty man all came from somewhere, didn't they?
After all, even a microbe, even a molecule, even an atom, the most elementary particles known to mankind, somehow came into being. From nothing?
Even if there was nothing in the beginning, and if everything is from nothing, then nothing is material, and it also came from somewhere, or someone created it, so the chain is not closed.
But nothing is not material; nothing can come from nothing. Even the only thing that is infinite and eternal in our perception – time – is an illusion, that is, created by someone. For what is time? Time is motion. Stop everything around us, freeze everything, and time disappears. So it is not eternal, and it appeared somehow. Accordingly, time is impossible without space, just as motion is impossible without space. This shows that space is primary, it is material, so it did not appear by itself.
And it means that there could not always have been an atom, there could not have been an alien, a monkey, or a big man. Or could there have been somebody? And this is where the impasse comes in. It's clear that there's always something or someone that everything came from! This is the only correct answer.
However, it does not fit with the real perception of the world of most people and it does not fit with reality and modern scientific data. We are limited, so why is it that our insignificance and our limitation do not occur to us? The example of the above definition of time, which is eternal to human beings, but in reality is an illusion, makes our limitation obvious. It is necessary to realize that the seemingly impossible is possible.
I come to the conclusion that there is a Primary Source from which everything has come. There are two options, two ways of developing thought. The Primary Source is either nothing or some being that is always there.
Both must be either material or immaterial. And at this stage of thinking, this conclusion is obvious! Even though science has not generally arrived at it – it is obvious to any sane mind by the simple logic described above. But, if you think about it, both the first and second options actually lead to the same conclusion! And here I had a certain epiphany and even joy. Namely: Nothing is nothing, it is even impossible to explain it, and it is not worth it. After all, nothing is nothing in any sense (both material and non-material), it does not exist and has never existed, and there is nothing in it. And if someone comes out of nothing, it means that he created himself. He always exists, and everything that exists, everything that is, comes from him. He is the Original Source, so he is always there!
There is a Primary Source that created itself out of nothing! And here again, doubt arises! Could such a Great One, who is the Original Source of everything, come out of nowhere, out of nothing? After all, nothing is nothing. It does not exist and never has existed. And in that moment I realized that the truth is that the Primary Source is and always has been, He did not come out of nowhere – He is eternal. In essence, He is everything, everything that can exist, live, and be if you will. Time does not exist for Him, time exists only for us; and time and space and pain and pleasure – absolutely everything. For Him, there is only Him, everything else is His creation as if a man were to make something fictitious out of clay, and the reality, the truth, is completely different. It became obvious, but how it is possible, we cannot see with our human understanding, it is only possible to believe in it, realizing that it is so and no other way. There are no other options, all logical reflections lead to one end. There is the Primary Source of everything – He is eternal. How this is possible is beyond our comprehension, given by the Original Source Himself. We can only realize that it is so, even with our real earthly minds. All we are given is to believe what we have realized through logical reflection.
I have come to realize that there is a Primary Source that is always there, from which everything has come into being, including human beings; beyond the Primary Source there is nothing and there never has been anything. Because He is everything that has always been and will be, the Original, the Creator of everything. This is a logical inference, a realization that can be called faith, because there is no real proof in our understanding of all this, and there never will be unless the Original Source Himself wills it. This is the foundation of everything. Further, everything will be based on this conclusion.
The Universe
Let us think not only about our origins but also about the organization of the world around us. Everything around us is incredibly ordered and has its causes. For example, a building does not build itself. It requires someone alive to want to build it, to have the knowledge of how to do it, and finally to begin construction. And only by this logic can a building be built. And thus, everything in the Universe has such a cause-and-effect chain of occurrence. Both the human mind and science talk about it.
Everybody knows the Big Bang Theory. This theory says that the Universe is not eternal and had its beginning from a small point that exploded, creating space, matter, time, energy – everything.
The Universe is not eternal – that's been proven for a long time. But like any structure, it didn't just appear for no reason. If there was this explosion of a point, it had ideal parameters and characteristics, otherwise everything that exists would not have appeared. This shows first of all that someone wanted to make that explosion, and then it was carefully designed and thought out, otherwise the explosion would be ugly and disorderly. We've all seen what happens when something explodes. But it takes incredible strength and power to organize such an explosion.
It turns out that someone has boundless power, knowledge, and authority, and the presence of a desire to do something tells us that he is alive. Again I conclude that everything has a Creator, a Primary Source.
Some more reasoning about everything being externally created. The argument for this is the orderliness in everything.
It is obvious to everyone that in reality any order is established by someone: in the apartment, in the closet, in the refrigerator, and so on. It does not happen by chance; only disorder can be created in this way.
To organize order, first of all, it is necessary to know how to do it, to calculate everything and think it over, using certain knowledge. Second, it is necessary to make an effort to move things to the right places. Third, it is necessary to have the desire to do all of this.
I come to the fact that order is always created by a living, reasonable, strong being, and cannot be made suddenly, especially on the scale of the Universe. And finally, in nature, everything around us has cyclicity and order. Day is replaced by night and night by day. A day is accompanied by the sun and a night by the moon. When the weather is good, the sky is clear, and when there is a storm, the sky is strewn with countless clouds. The motion of each celestial body is so ordered that man can determine its trajectory and travel time. Humans are born, grow up, grow old, and die, just like all life on Earth. Seasons come one after another: winter, spring, summer, fall. Everything in the world has an order, so everything is created by the Creator.
Everyone has a subconscious knowledge of the existence of the Creator, without any proof. Even an atheist utters the words, "Prove that there is a Creator of everything," and "Prove God to me". He is actually referring to the same Creator, Original Source, God, Who is known by all those who have come to the conclusion that there is a Creator of all things, and who is known to all believing, religious people. Why is this so? At all times, in every society, in every faith and religion, there has been, is, and will be the worship of God. This is the way human nature is set up by the Creator Himself. Everyone knows from childhood that love and kindness are good and death and evil are bad. The knowledge of the existence of the Creator is an innate ability, just like the knowledge of good and evil. In addition to this knowledge, a person can come to the same conclusion through the simple logic described above.
But it is impossible to prove the opposite, that there is no God, the Creator.
In search of the beyond
The need to plunge into reflection on the immaterial world is self-evident. If we assume that there is another world, a world of the intangible, the spiritual, or something else about which we have no idea, an infinite number of questions can be deduced from this assumption. How did that world come into being, who is the Primary Source there? We will never get an answer to all the questions about the immaterial world by reasoning based on some assumptions. But I am not going to do that, because there is no logic in that way of thinking. I cannot deny the existence of the spiritual world, but to find the answer to all questions about it, we need the help of something very authoritative, and worthy of our faith. It must be just as worthy of our faith as our realization of the existence of the eternal Original Source of all things. It is faith because we, humans, cannot understand the spiritual world visually, with physical evidence, any more than we can understand that the Original Source is eternal. I come to these conclusions through logical reasoning. We need the help of the most authoritative source of information about the spiritual, the best that mankind has in this matter, but in this source, the basis should be the axiom already proven above of the undoubted existence of the eternal Creator who created everything. All these criteria are undoubtedly met only by the so-called Holy Scriptures, and they alone are the books on which the monotheistic Abrahamic religions, or simply Abrahamic religions, are based. Monotheistic means based on the belief in one Original Source of all things, God. Abrahamic means originating with the prophet Abraham. By definition, these books are written according to the Word of the Supreme Intelligence, our Creator, the same eternal Original Source. That is why they are as worthy of people's faith as faith in the Original Source itself. It was with the descendants of the prophet Abraham that the transmission of information from the Creator to human beings began. This is the Holy Bible, which in its modern context consists of 66 books and the Holy Qur'an. I am not going to emphasize the different Abrahamic religions now, we will dwell on this issue a little later. The important thing is that we have something to start with when discussing the subject of spiritual, non-material things.
The question arises as to why these books are the best and most authoritative. And you try to find something more comprehensive, more orderly, more logical, more true in every matter, more famous all over the world than the Holy Scriptures. Believe me, they do not exist today. More authoritative, more intimate, more great works, in which everything is based on the axiom that there is one eternal Primary Source, I do not know.
Just as I came to the main logical inference at the beginning of this book about the existence of one eternal Primary Source, so the Scriptures say this. God is the one eternal Creator. And He is the Source not only of all material things, but also of what we humans call spiritual, and in general of everything that exists. Mankind always uses the best that is created, and it is right. Try to give up computers, television, the Internet, cars, and everything modern, and accessible, that simplifies our lives. That is why, I will take the best in the field of this information is the Scriptures. There are answers to all questions. Who is the Creator? What is the spiritual world? Why did He create us and everything around us, and for what purpose? And so on. It should be noted, as described above, that there is incredible orderliness in the Universe, such as the planets moving in their orbits in an orderly manner, entire cosmic systems being orderly to each other, everything on Earth being incredibly orderly, and also everything in the Scriptures being incredibly orderly, comprehensive, and majestic in every line.
Our earthly minds cannot answer all the questions that arise about the spiritual and the intangible. It is given to each of us to logically prove the most important thing – there is an eternal Creator of all material things, and indeed of everything our brains can imagine. After all, our brain is also created by the same Source. The logic described above is justified and clear, and besides, there is no more accurate, factual alternative to it. It is sufficient. Faith and contemplation (the process of knowledge) begin deeper than this inference.
And no matter how incredibly intelligent a person may be, no matter what heights humanity as a whole has reached in its development, no one will ever find answers to the infinite number of questions that arise deeper than this conclusion. Speaking of which, there is a phrase in the Holy Books that says, "A man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun." That is why we are given faith, which is exactly what begins after this point of cognition. Man cannot know all things, prove all things, see all things. He can come to a certain point with his mind, and from there he can only continue his journey with faith.
Obviously, there is no other information in the world today that is better known and more trustworthy, that has the answers to all questions, except the Holy Scriptures. Everyone has a choice, starting from the understanding of the existence of the one eternal Creator: either to search forever for answers to endless questions or to believe in the most organized and authoritative information – the Holy Scriptures, where there are answers to all questions. For me, there were no more reasons not to believe. In these Books, by the way, faith is the foundation of the basics, a kind of test, like a spouse's test of fidelity. And you have the choice to cheat or not, to believe or not. The only difference is that you can hide adultery from your wife or husband, but you cannot hide the fact of unbelief in the Original Source, God, from Him.
Outcomes
Let's go back to where I started the book – to the death we all keep going to as we live our fleeting, hectic lives. And so, if you are realistic, we can distinguish two possible variations of existence, two outcomes of this life, as harsh as it may sound. The first is to live, just to live in this world, on earth, to live in the way that everyone will choose for themselves, based on the surrounding circumstances. At the end of this life, or existence, to be more precise, there will be an ordinary death of matter, the disappearance of biomaterial, in the understanding that is supported by modern science. That is, man will simply disappear as if he never existed. And it does not matter what path he chose or how he lived, everyone will just disappear.
The second possible variant of the actual reality is the transition to another world after death (spiritual or material, or spiritual-material) through resurrection. Such a statement is presented in all books of the Holy Scriptures.
Based on the only logical conclusion drawn in the first chapters about the existence of the Creator of all things, and the fact that the second option of our outcome is prescribed to us in the Holy Books worthy of our faith, my sound mind inclines to the truth of the second option. This leads me to believe in it and the Scriptures.
I will analyze a situation in which a person still cannot determine the most correct option for himself. The logical conclusions described above are not enough for him. For example, an unbeliever assumes that everything is primitive according to the Darwinian view. Humans live, then die, decay, and disappear. Let's try to find all the pros and cons for a person who has chosen this way of believing to analyze how true it is.
If this is true, then everything is meaningless. This approach contradicts the order and organization of the universe described above. Such people don't care how they live this life, they have no boundaries of morality and ethics. And with such a truth, according to Darwin, it would be appropriate. Appropriate, but that doesn't mean that such an approach would have any real advantages. For in such a mindset, everything is meaningless, and life is so short that even a hundred years would pass like a single day. Elderly people now will understand me. Even though a life of wealth and abundance is actually just a grain of sand of wealth. It is as if you do not exist. You exist for a brief moment in the Universe, being a millionaire or a pauper, happy or suffering, predator or prey. It is just a moment – and you are gone. In such a situation, there is no sense in anything – neither in life nor in people themselves. In such a case, it's better not to live at all.
And so you die, that's your end. And why do you need your billions, why do you need fame, why did you fight, why did you kill, steal, disrespect, achieve, or just do nothing, or tolerate, suffer, maybe love, enjoy? Why do you need all your emotions and feelings and actions – all this vanity, all this meaningless, all that energy? You will just disappear and you will never exist again, as if you never existed. Just think about it for a moment, realize it – it is a very important moment. And this disappearance, the end, can happen in a minute, it can happen tomorrow, it can happen in a hundred years, any second. Realize that in this case, no matter how you have lived, it is as if you have not lived, as if you have always been dead, so there is no difference in how you have lived and what you have done.
Also, imagine for a moment that the second version of existence is true. The option that is described in the books of the Abrahamic religions and that I have come to logically. The transition to the next true reality, the eternal reality, is the resurrection. In this case, our earthly life is immediately filled with meaning. First, because there is no death, and second, because in the resurrection, according to the Holy Books, everyone will answer for the way he has lived this earthly life. And then it becomes clear how, if you do not believe in this statement, you run the risk of living like an animal, like a plant that exists only biologically and then dies. It is we humans who think that we are very intelligent and evolved compared to animals, for example. In fact, on the scale of the entire Universe, we are insignificant, and our intelligence and development are insignificant. The risk is that if everything that is written in the Scriptures is true and you don't believe it and you live as a biomaterial, as an animal, without believing it, you will lose everything. You will be among those who are not favorable to your Creator, you will really die, disappear, and be separated from your relatives and close people forever. In fact, after death, you and all your loved ones (if they are also unbelievers) may go to hell (I think everyone knows what this place is). You will lose eternal true life and receive eternal torment. This is the risk of unbelief.
If there is no way to eternal true life if what is written in the Scriptures is not true, but you believe in it, do you risk anything? No – absolutely nothing. There is only one end for everyone in such a case – you will disappear. And your life, even a hundred years, is a grain of sand in this Universe.
So if you don't believe, there are only risks. If you believe, you either risk nothing, or you get eternal life, where you come prepared, knowing that you will have to answer for your earthly way. And maybe you go to Paradise (I think everyone knows what that place is).
It is logical to hedge the risk that there is with the possible truth of the Holy Scriptures, for the people who do not believe in them. After all, this risk is infinitely dangerous; it is worth the fear of even the most desperate and fearless people. So why would one take such an infinitely great risk, realizing the possible torment? No one would dare expose themselves to it, the only question is the realization that it is real. Again, dry calculation and logic lead even a non-believer to believe.
The logic of the apparent existence of the Original Source and the infinitely unattainable order on Earth and in the Universe, as well as in the Scriptures, inclines me to believe in the truth of the Bible and the Qur'an, not to be reassured, but because of the obviousness that I have realized by applying simple logic.
If you don't believe, then you just haven't tried to realize, you are just lazy or afraid to realize the infinite danger of the future. It's everyone's choice to believe or not to believe. I choose to realize that death is a transition to another life, as the Scriptures say. This gives meaning, great hope, and joy, removes the fear of death, and motivates one to learn about the Original Source through the Holy Books. And the conscious reading of these Books makes the faith even stronger and gives not hope but a real, clear realization that everything it says is true.
The path of unbelief leads only to death. To constant mental disorders, to depression, to nightmares. To thoughts that your end and the end of all your loved ones is the same – death, cessation of existence. This way leads to the formation of a personality with a worldview of death, not of life. I emphasize – leads to the formation, which does not mean that it is good. Paradoxically, this worldview is formed precisely because people do not think about death and ignore the fact of its existence as if it were somewhere infinitely far away.
Think of any significant, important, exciting, and memorable day in your life. For example, the day you graduated from elementary school, the day you graduated from college, the day you got married, the day a child was born, or, unfortunately, the day that someone close and dear to you died. So it happened once, and it can never happen again. And once you either looked forward to the event, worried about it the day before, or suffered agonizingly the day you heard about it. Once, before all these events, we didn't even think about them, then they suddenly came, and now it's all behind us as if nothing had happened. In childhood, we don't think about death, and in adolescence, many people don't think about it at all, but it will come to you, just like all the events mentioned above, and this is a fact that most people ignore throughout their lives. But think about it for a moment, maybe it will happen tomorrow or a hundred years from now, but it will inevitably happen, just like all your important, exciting events that have already happened. I'm 37 years old now, I used to think that was an unattainable age, but lo and behold, school, university and so much more are behind me. And that Day will come incredibly quickly. This is a fact, this is our reality, and this is what awaits us very soon. Earthly life is very fast. And when that day comes, the day of death, everything material, everything living, ceases to exist for you, and you think about what comes next, but it is too late to think.
All this is just to say that our life is very short and the end is very near. There is little time to doubt faith, much less to live the right way.
The difference is that for the unbeliever, death is death, but for the believer, death is resurrection, the passage in eternal life.