Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Aperture" channel.

"“Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.” ― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow
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Spoofology. First God created his self to have free will ... and that was only fair ... because a god without free will wouldn't be able to create anything. Once God had free will, he decided that the angels should have free will, with the stipulation that they must obey his commandments. Then the all-mighty created Lucifer knowing ahead of time that Lucifer was going to use his free will to disobey God, and that God would then use his free will to punish Lucifer for taking advantage of his gift of free will. It was around that time that God realized that free will was not all he thought it was going to be ... but it was too late for God to undo his own system of belief. And that is why so many fallen angels on planet earth that made the mistake of using free will in the belief that it actually was free ... now look forward each day to Armageddon when God will judge the weak and evil souls for daring to use free will … just because God said it was available.
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If I could create a universe, all my creatures would be able to create their own universes, separate from mine. That would be free will.
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@J00skid Yes, of course. Why would I want to rule over others, if I promise to give them free will? Religion is all silly mythical nonsense anyway.
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@J00skid Actually, they would be able to create their own universes outside of my universe. Only then would they have complete free will. Where do you suppose the creator of the universe lived, before he created the universe? lol My nephew asked his mom where god threw his tin cans. lol
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@elmarieking9590 If those in religion taught that there is only one place to go in an afterlife, and it is a divine place, where every soul is treated with the utmost kindness, and nothing but love ... even though I am not any longer religious, I would think that the story couldn't do any harm. But the story doesn't end there. It goes on to state (as literal truth) that most souls will go to a very bad place in the hereafter, where they will suffer for eternity ... and that is what I have against religion. I am now 81 years of age, and feel whole, just as I am, and I won't allow those in religions to ever take that feeling of peace away from me again.
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@elmarieking9590 From the book, Language and the Discovery of Reality … Joseph Church … People everywhere are quick to admit that their neighbors—the people in the next village, the next valley, the next nation—have a culture, in that they entertain some bizarre notions and engage in some outlandish practices; but our experience of reality is always just that—reality.
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@elmarieking9590 Religion is belief in a creator. If you honestly believe that no soul will ever be lost, then preaching about a god is a waste of time, and money. Don't forget the money. Scribes in all religions, were paid big money to write about messages that the gods were giving to them, so of course, for each individual scribe to keep writing, was the greatest of temptations. Those many conflicting stories, is why, rather than uniting devotees, the stories divide devotees into right-fighting groups.
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@elmarieking9590 Preachers of religion teach us that our supposed souls will either be rewarded, or punished in a supposed hereafter. I spent 70 years in that tangled web of lies. In three days, if I am still alive, I will be 82 years of age, and the last 12 years have been my best, as I now believe that I am whole, just as I am, and that the universe never was created, but rather always existed ... no creator involved, and that suffering, because of the will of all creatures to survive, is "natural."
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@elmarieking9590 Without the word "soul," there couldn't be any religion. All stories are based on what the soul is thinking, and what the soul is doing, and where the soul came from, and where the soul is going after death of the physical body. Fortunes have been made by theologians who taught that the soul is a gift from God, and that women must never have abortions, because abortions offend God's gift to humanity. Evolution of the soul is a huge seller in religion. It means that your soul is ever upgrading and will hopefully soon make the grade of God's "entire" approval of enlightenment and salvation … or … that in the afterlife something horrible could happen to your soul. If you remove the word "soul" from religion, you will not have anything but ground zero.
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@elmarieking9590 Interesting history about how the imagination can take over … from the book Heart Matters … by Kathy E. Magliato. MD … The heart was (and still is) felt to be the seat of the soul. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, surgeons didn’t operate on the heart because they feared that if the chest was opened and the heart exposed, the soul would escape from the body, resulting in the patient’s death. Pioneering surgeons who so much as thought about operating on the heart were considered, according to one legendary quote, “foolhardy,” and in doing so “a surgeon should lose the respect of his peers.”
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@elmarieking9590 Theologians need fear in order to gain followers. From my perception, there never was a soul, or a spirit in any human animal, but rather, that was a made-up story to frighten people. Many believed that if they did not follow the spiritual rules, this god was going to punish souls ... for eternity. It's those mythical stories that overwhelmed human imagination, and caused so many followers of the myths such terror, as to commit suicide, when they believed that their souls were so very evil, that the god would never want them in heaven. One can't have terror of the god, and trust in the goodness of a god at the same time, as that is not possible.
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@elmarieking9590 If a god existed, it would be the most prolific abortionist EVER, as women are miscarrying fetuses continually ... women who want to stay pregnant ... but can't. Fetuses, are not babies, albeit that theologians want women to feel that they are evil when they have abortions. Fetuses do not breathe on their own. Babies do breathe on their own, and that is why women that have abortions are not killing babies. Your sermons about what Jesus wants and does not want, are simply that ... sermons. If you had been born a Muslim, or a Buddhist, your religious sermons would be about Muhammad, or Buddha. It's all indoctrination. Much ado about nothings, and thankfully over which human animals are the only animals that suffer from such overuse of imaginations ... gone wild.
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@elmarieking9590 Had you been raised as a Muslim, you would now be preaching a sermon at me that Muhammad told the one and only truth, in the Quran. Example ... From the book “Infidel,” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali … Sister Aziza told us it was our duty to convert our Christian classmates. She told us it was the only way to spare our friends the pain of Hell. The charismatic Christians were no less aggressive than the fundamentalist Muslims in those days.
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@elmarieking9590 Human animals are the source of all the created myths. Without human animals on planet earth, those stories would not exist. Had we evolved with paws, or hooves, rather than fingers, how much importance would we put on the flamboyant story of an afterlife? My guess is, the universe always existed ... no plan by a creator ever was involved. Survival of the fittest is human nature, as it is with all forms of life. Maybe one day human animals will be extinct, and life in other forms will carry on reproducing, and suffering. Nothing new, under the sun.
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@elmarieking9590 Those who preach that humans have souls that will either be rewarded, or punished in an afterlife, are very disrespectful of other animals that suffer extreme pain for no other reason than (within theology) that a god exists that is cruel, beyond a doubt. If you want to put faith in such a monster, that is your choice. I don't believe that a god exists to want to torture innocent animals.
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Language and the Discovery of Reality … Joseph Church … People everywhere are quick to admit that their neighbors—the people in the next village, the next valley, the next nation—have a culture, in that they entertain some bizarre notions and engage in some outlandish practices; but our experience of reality is always just that—reality.
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“There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair.” Author … Albert Einstein. When she murdered her two boys … she lied to try to cover up her crimes. But could it be that because of her religious way of perceiving … Susan Smith thought that her behavior was moral ?” After all … she wasn’t the first woman (after murdering children) to believe that the souls of the “innocent” children would go to “God.” From the book … THE QUOTABLE SKEPTIC: Bits of Wisdom From Notable Heretics and Apostates … author Jehovah Yahweh “My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say…My children deserve to have the best, and now they will have it…I have put my total faith in God, and He will take care of me.” ~ Susan Smith … In her confession letter after drowning her two children.
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