The Last Day of Your Life - 20 Religious and Philosophical questions to ponder

How would YOU spend the last day of your life? Could you depart this world tomorrow knowing you did all you could do to make this world a better place to be in? Are you smug in your self justifications of self righteousness?

What would you do if you woke up tomorrow knowing it would be your last day on this earth?

Ask a thousand people and get a thousand different answers.

1. Would you spend 24 hours in silent prayer; and wonder if your end would cause anyone a care?

2. Would you try to forgive yourself and atone; or find yourself in misery and all alone?

3. Would your family be your first priority; or will you spend this day in strict solitary?

4. Would you plan your last super to be; your favorite meal and enjoying your gluttony?

5. Would you drink yourself into oblivion; or soberly spend that day with your next of kin?

6. Would you pray for forgiveness for a lifetime of misery; or reflect on all the good you have done in silent reverie?

7. Would you rejoice for spending a lifetime in prayer; or wonder if anyone even heard them and gave a care?

8. Would you know your lifetime really mattered; to anyone but yourself, or to those you battered?

9. Would you forgive those who did you any wrong; or would your wish for vengeance still be strong?

10. Would you finally let go your judgemental hate; or keep it with pride to face your final fate?

11. Would you have intimate relations one last time; or have regret for denying yourself pleasures in your prime?

12. Would you cling to your belief that your hate was true; or finally realize it also damaged you?

13. Would you realize how much time you have wasted; judging others without the sweetness of victory tasted?

14. Would you know your life was spend as best it could be; by hateful words and actions ruining the lives of your "enemy"?

15. Would you take that "pride" to your very grave; of knowing the hurt, to so many others, you gave?

16. Would you ask their forgiveness in your saviour's name; or believe you were right and without any blame?

17. Would you do anything different if you could extend your life; or continue to inflict pain, sorrow and greater strife?

18. Would you feel content that you did "god's" work; or know a doubt deep in your soul did lurk?

19. Would you know that inflicting pain and sorrow; was wrong and still expect God's forgiveness tomorrow?

20. Would you be ready to face your own judgement day; when you insist all the harm you've done was truly God's way?

We are all guilty of judging others by our own standards, as most people see themselves as the perfect human specimen.

But judging others is not the problem.

It is the action we take after making those judgments that is the problem.

{I wrote this poem after reading a hub that said, their bible says, that God said to go out and judge others}

That statement is one of the worst, and best examples of sheer ignorance i have ever heard.

No Man has ever "heard" those words from God.

Written words of man (male, female or otherwise) are simply the manifestations of the mind of the author of those words.

Feeling pious is never justification for judging others on "moral" grounds or acting upon those judgements to torment and destroy another person's life.

This is the dire consequence of brain washing an innocent child's mind.

Replacing rationality and logic with unfounded fear and justifying hatred, bigotry and intolerance in order to reconcile what they know, as an adult, to be just that - illogical, irrational, unfounded, unjustified, and just plain ignorant.

If these words hurt anyone's feelings, then good - just think of how much more pain that is inflict on others by spewing hatred on them.

by d.william 01/11/2012