Whatever one dedicates the majority of their time to can be considered a religion of a sort for them. What is worship anyway? Worship is to focus deeply on something, to wholeheartedly dedicate ones self to a particular interest. Religious speakers bring up this idea all of the time to shake up a congregation whose members have been attracted to empty pursuits such as television or gossip. They say that if someone is a workaholic or spends all day watching television they are worshiping in these acts of intense dedication.
Death then, is one of the primary cults worldwide. Just as the television cult, or a shopping cult, it is not acknowledged as such. The idea that we do not live long is always on people's minds. It is as if DOOM is written upon each forehead, each morbid individual meditating on blackness and emptiness as they go about their day. In this mindset people find no necessity to build anything of worth. All things are seen as sandcastles, short-lived achievements. What is the point in applying special attention to something if it will only be washed away by the waves of time?
Nothing lasts long, especially us. What is the point in developing a strong self that will only meet the same end as kleptomaniacs, the morbidly obese, and serial murderers? The sentiment "Life is Fleeting" is expressed so often in so many ways. If one is married to someone they hate at least death is there to eventually take the pain away. It won't last forever. If you hate your role in life: your job, your class, the constant bills, your looks, all those backstabbing people... at least death is there to eventually relieve you. These pains of life will not last forever.
Death is the essence of the religions of both the east and the west. The idea of reincarnation in the various Hindu belief systems as well as the idea of heaven in the Zoroastrian/Judeo-Christian belief systems are rooted in the cult of death. People who have a distaste for the suffering in this life can look forward to death with hope according to these cults. Death is the savior.
There is a secondary ritual in the cult of death. It is rooted in the idea that each and every moment meets a death in a constant flow as time consumes all. This was an idea I realized early on as a child. It was apparent when I heard the empty talk of so many around me. There seemed no point in exerting emotion as a reaction to this nothing that was spoken. Time would swallow up this moment whether I smiled or not, whether I raised my eyebrows or not, etc. People take advantage of this fact all of the time. What is the difference if one is dull or interesting? What is the difference if one is honest or a blatant liar?
Death of memories are relished by most everyone. If people forgive and forget one gets away wronging another. Time has a way of causing people to forget the wrongs that have been acted. If someone is not forgiven they say, "Oh, you are still mad about that?" The passing of time does not change the moral quality of the wrong acted. People have the right to forgive or not forgive. It is logical to weigh the actions of another person and judge intelligently because people so often take advantage of the forgetfulness that occurs in the passing of time and will sneak in all kinds of devious acts: Stealing, lying, miserliness, speaking gossip about you and others... it goes on and on. Family members are notorious for this. They say, "Can you really hold a grudge forever?" The offending family member may feel little or no remorse for the wrong committed but expects the act to be forgiven regardless.
People do not only happen to benefit from others forgetting a wrong they committed or at least the severity of the wrong but they actually plan out the wrong ahead of time in knowing of this phenomena. They smirk defiantly, laughing to their self thinking the victim to be a fool. They feel great pleasure in the idea that they will commit a destructive act against another and be forgiven as time erodes the memory from the victims mind. It is asking for trouble to allow all to be forgiven for the selfish animal known as mankind will take full advantage of any freedom to act however they like under weak enforcement of personal law.
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