Imaginary Friends

Every religion every belief is saying to everyone else, "My imaginary friend(friends) are more real and more powerful than your imaginary friend(friends).

To take it to a much less offensive place let's look at the volleyball that Tom Hanks accidentally put his bloody hand on in the movie "Cast Away". Wilson the volleyball is in some senses more "real" at least in a physical sense that what many people believe in on earth right now!

However, what may be much more important would be to understand humans NEED to believe is something in order to sleep at night. Without SOMETHING to believe in people I see all the time becoming alcholics, drug addicts and worse, just becoming psychotic in paranoid fear of everyone and everything.

So believing in SOMETHING is necessary for society and civilization itself to exist at all. The alternative is back to the law of the jungle where everyone mates with everyone and everyone kills anyone else at the slightest provocation.

So, obviously believing in something is necessary for the common good. However, when ANY belief system is forced upon anyone from cradle to grave psychological problems and psychotic behavior and the future collapse of that civilization is in the works.

Since I have watched many atheists give up their religious beliefs and turn to alcohol or drugs, especially in college, I can see that everyone needs to believe in something. Therefore, through some are egoistic enough to worship themselves or someone else in the cult of personality as a substitute for religious beliefs, most people don't do well thinking this way.

So recognizing that people need to believe in something to just stay alive, especially if they are alone, like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, one begins to understand the full scope of the problem internationally.

As long as one group says "My way or the highway, people will be tortured and killed on opposing sides whether people are on earth or if they migrate to other planets, dimensions or places and things we can't conceive of as yet.

In the meantime without imaginary friends of some kind, just like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, we all go crazy and die, even if that imaginary friend is our own ego!