I know we got heaps of supporters of both systems for whatever reasons. But I want to analyze what is the best system. I know a-lot of people are going to start wondering oh the DR is a secularist and we know where this shit is heading. Just hang with me for a second and let me change your outlooks or conclusions on my views.
Yes I do support secular systems as a mode of living in this earthly space, I don't support secular systems that are western in nature though . Nor do I even believe we should put all our eggs into one basket. Let's be honest, secularism is purely about this world and yes it does have a place, if you neglect this world you can't possibly achieve any answers regarding this world or the next cause you will be dead. So it does have a role to play and intellect and reason should always be used in this respect.
But this is when I diverge from secularist, this idea to ignore that some sort of 'purpose' is burning inside most souls beyond our materialistic world can not be ignored or disregarded or viewed indifferently. This is when I say bye bye to secularist and enter the realm of the spirituality. Now the spiritual world doesn't have to be established religions, it can be anyone who is seeking a reason to continue living.
For example if I took the purely secularist point of view that you should live and reproduce and have family and enjoy what life has to offer, that's all fine but that is materialistic and there is a key problem with this. What about death? In death I won't need happiness, food, sex, water, or spirituality, or anything. A-lot of people hear death calling out to come and lie down, cuz all those needs and wants of the material world will be cured if you go to sleep. So how can the material world be an answer for an ultimate purpose burning inside someone when they can cure it all thru death? I mean honestly when your in a deep sleep do you really notice any needs or wants?
So if your living for needs/wants of this world and if that satisfies you, there is no problem there and we should allow them to continue as they have achieved their ultimate sense of purpose and secularism allows for that. But there is another section of people who may not be satisfied with that and I suspect that's why mental illnesses, stresses, suicides are on the rise globally becuz people are simply not happy with this, becuz I suspect they see all of it being cured thru death and hence it doesn't hold any meaning to them or gives them any sort of drive to push on any further, when all those desires can be cured with a simple injection to go to sleep.
These types of people really should have a separate avenue to answer that emptiness within them. That can be thru established religion and the god factor or it can be anything really as long as it's not 'materialistic, emotional, physical, etc'.
Now comes in the Islamist side, their using God and the after-life and the spiritual aspects to keep control of the masses in this world, we must accept that not all people have any burning purpose inside beyond what they see, hear, touch, smell, feel. This cannot be denied or disregarded and the Islamist won't allow these types of people to continue on with their materialistic outlook. You can't force someone to see something they don't see, let them be. The whole purpose of life is to fill your satisfied and content and have some reason to keep living.
If their reason is to keep living to play the Playstation or getting drunk or having sex with girls, getting married, good job, etc, let them be, that's their answers and they have reached their ultimate goal which is what we all should be aspiring to anyways is to reach that end-goal of hey I am 'happy' and I can continue on with life.
I also feel the Islamist form of government is not beneficial in anyway today, secularism definitely has it's hands all over that ten ways to sunday. There is no joke there either. Someone thinking about the now and present while reflecting on the past, compared to someone who is copying the past word for word are definitely not going to produce the same results in life. One is not adding anything useful(islamists) but copy n pasting and another is adding and progressing. They simply are not going to reach the same sort of productivity.
When it comes to productivity, we must use our brains nothing else. Yes we can look at the past for answers but if it isn't going to work, we must disregard it without any emotional attachments and secularism does achieve this. Where-as Islamist will copy all the islamic empires of the past regardless if it works or not due to emotional attachment of the prophet said this and god said that.
Yes I do support secular systems as a mode of living in this earthly space, I don't support secular systems that are western in nature though . Nor do I even believe we should put all our eggs into one basket. Let's be honest, secularism is purely about this world and yes it does have a place, if you neglect this world you can't possibly achieve any answers regarding this world or the next cause you will be dead. So it does have a role to play and intellect and reason should always be used in this respect.
But this is when I diverge from secularist, this idea to ignore that some sort of 'purpose' is burning inside most souls beyond our materialistic world can not be ignored or disregarded or viewed indifferently. This is when I say bye bye to secularist and enter the realm of the spirituality. Now the spiritual world doesn't have to be established religions, it can be anyone who is seeking a reason to continue living.
For example if I took the purely secularist point of view that you should live and reproduce and have family and enjoy what life has to offer, that's all fine but that is materialistic and there is a key problem with this. What about death? In death I won't need happiness, food, sex, water, or spirituality, or anything. A-lot of people hear death calling out to come and lie down, cuz all those needs and wants of the material world will be cured if you go to sleep. So how can the material world be an answer for an ultimate purpose burning inside someone when they can cure it all thru death? I mean honestly when your in a deep sleep do you really notice any needs or wants?
So if your living for needs/wants of this world and if that satisfies you, there is no problem there and we should allow them to continue as they have achieved their ultimate sense of purpose and secularism allows for that. But there is another section of people who may not be satisfied with that and I suspect that's why mental illnesses, stresses, suicides are on the rise globally becuz people are simply not happy with this, becuz I suspect they see all of it being cured thru death and hence it doesn't hold any meaning to them or gives them any sort of drive to push on any further, when all those desires can be cured with a simple injection to go to sleep.
These types of people really should have a separate avenue to answer that emptiness within them. That can be thru established religion and the god factor or it can be anything really as long as it's not 'materialistic, emotional, physical, etc'.
Now comes in the Islamist side, their using God and the after-life and the spiritual aspects to keep control of the masses in this world, we must accept that not all people have any burning purpose inside beyond what they see, hear, touch, smell, feel. This cannot be denied or disregarded and the Islamist won't allow these types of people to continue on with their materialistic outlook. You can't force someone to see something they don't see, let them be. The whole purpose of life is to fill your satisfied and content and have some reason to keep living.
If their reason is to keep living to play the Playstation or getting drunk or having sex with girls, getting married, good job, etc, let them be, that's their answers and they have reached their ultimate goal which is what we all should be aspiring to anyways is to reach that end-goal of hey I am 'happy' and I can continue on with life.
I also feel the Islamist form of government is not beneficial in anyway today, secularism definitely has it's hands all over that ten ways to sunday. There is no joke there either. Someone thinking about the now and present while reflecting on the past, compared to someone who is copying the past word for word are definitely not going to produce the same results in life. One is not adding anything useful(islamists) but copy n pasting and another is adding and progressing. They simply are not going to reach the same sort of productivity.
When it comes to productivity, we must use our brains nothing else. Yes we can look at the past for answers but if it isn't going to work, we must disregard it without any emotional attachments and secularism does achieve this. Where-as Islamist will copy all the islamic empires of the past regardless if it works or not due to emotional attachment of the prophet said this and god said that.
