Why Choose Eternal Life?

One of the "great" reasons to be a Christian is the gift of Eternal Life. But, why would anyone choose to have Eternal Life? In my questioning, I have realized that I don't want Eternal Life.

Reason 1: What's the point?
If I'm to be around forever and ever, then why would I bother to do anything at all? Everything could just wait till the next day, or the next week, year, century, etc.

Reason 2: Everything would lose all meaning.
As stated above, everything could just wait, and therefore everything would lose meaning. Without time constraints, you won't have goals or objectives. You won't take the time to "smell the roses" because you know they, and you, will be around next year.

Reason 3: No point.
If everything is meaningless there is no point to being there. Hence, why I would not ever want the "gift" of Eternal Life.

So what then?
As for any afterlife, I'm still thinking on that. I kind of like the idea of reincarnation, but it's just a matter of defining it. I will definately be discussing this topic in later posts.

Heaven and Hell pt 1

My opinion on Heaven and Hell is always evolving, so I will write more on this subject whenever I have new "epiphanies." But now I will write my current thoughts -

First off, I do not believe there is a Heaven or a Hell. (Afterlife will be another post) My main concern is, who would want to be in a place that is always good or always bad? Then what is the point of doing anything at all, if the outcome will always be good or always be bad? There is no point. You CANNOT have good without bad, happiness without sadness, pain without pleasure, hot without cold, etc. There MUST be opposites. How can one truly enjoy one without knowing the other?

For example; you cannot have constant happiness without ever having sadness. The happiness will lose all meaning and will eventually cease to exist without it's opposite; sadness.

Why would I want to be anywhere were all emotions and feelings are one-sided? Everything will lose all meaning. Who wants that?

That's my current believe on Heaven and Hell - why would I ever want to be in either of those places? I cannot find a reason.

What I don't want.

It just so happens that KassemG of YouTube uploaded a video of him interviewing people on their religious beliefs.  They'll tell you their title, but then not be able to tell you anything about it.

This is what I don't want.  I don't want to be a person who doesn't know what they believe and just calls them self a title.

This is the reason for this blog, for me to figure out what I believe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVEf4EZUco

Why?

I am creating this blog because I think about religion daily. Not necessarily reading anything, but thinking about what I believe. Millions of people have died in the name of religion, and I want to make sure that I know exactly what I believe so if I am to some day die for religion, I'm dying for that, not dying for a title. I don't want to claim to be a Christian/Muslim/Jew/Hindu/etc and not truely understand what that title means.

This blog will contain my thoughts on certain aspects of religion/my beliefs. At times I may rant about news articles/publications/etc. And other times I might write some "off-the-wall" stuff.

I'm not at all a professional writer and tend to write how I speak. So at times, stuff may be confusing, but I will do my best to explain what I'm trying to say.

I do hope for other people with similar, or completely different thoughts post on this blog. The more communication and questions, the more thought I will put into it, and the better the blog will be.

A little about me -
I do read about all religions, but do not practice any. My parents claim [I will probably use this word (claim) a lot. As I previously stated, people just grab a title without a true understanding] to be Christians (Methodists) so I grew up with a "Christian" background. Sometime in highschool, around sophomore year, I began to think differently about religion. I never told my parents, and still haven't, but that's another story that I will write about later. Anyway, around that time I realized I wasn't a Christian and that is when I began thinking about what I actually believe. And now, about 12 years later, I've decided to start writing down what I believe in this blog format with the hope that other people will post their questions that will inspire me to think more. If all else fails, I'll at least have written down what I believe to be true.

So, that's my opening post. As I have thoughts/ideas/rants, I will share them with the world.