Answer

Sometimes I write in small text files in a hurry in order to store a quick, seemingly-noteworthy thought before it is overridden or diluted. However, I barely remember writing this. I must have not been fully conscious, because 1) it has a lot of typos, and 2) I can barely remember. Here it is:

The tradeoff that religion has proposed, between worldly goods and the promise of The Kingdom of God, seems like so much deceit sometimes.

They are asking human beings, beings with physical needs, with instincts, desires, survival requirements, to ignore those. To ignore the wants inside of us, and yield to repressing them, to intentionally ignoring that which has guided them during the rest of their lives. ..... Why?? Does that make people who are able to cross tha tgap @better@ becaus ethey value faith and further purpose in the universe than mere Life? Is faith a virtue that is simply not included in our repertoire of instincts that keep us alive?

Or is it more like a mathematical symptom, like we are waves floating and dangling around a point of flatline origin, inside of which we can stabilize ourselves and understand the world and our universe from a clearer perspective?

I don't know. I j ust ask, because it just might possibly trigger someone's answer around here soon.

I'm not even sure who I was referring to when I mentioned someone's answer around here, as if there had been people listening to what I was writing at that time. Strange. Oh, and the file name was answer.txt. Hence the title. I'm sure it's also a recent writing, so it's even stranger that I don't remember.