Building my own foundation

What did Jesus, Buddha and Nietszche have in common? They each tried to build their own foundation of thought. They questioned their perceived notions about the world, their cultural religion, and themselves.

They took the time to think through things instead of just believing and listening to everyone else around them. They made it a priority to work through the eternal questions instead of just believing what their forefathers said were the answers to those questions.

If there is any one major failure of all major religions of the world it is this one simple thing. Corporate religion has destroyed the need in people to seek out the answers with passion, conviction and humility. Corporate religion has taught that all answers can be found and have been found within our foundational thought processes and writings. Our forefathers figured it out and now we simply develop other ideas from their base presuppositions and conclusions on theology, philosophy, etc.

I don't want to be Martin Luther. I don't want to be Jesus Christ. I want to be Zane. Not because I want my name in history but for the soul purpose of having my own journey. I don't want the journey of my forefathers. I want my own journey. The only thing I want to glean from guys like Jesus and Buddha is their desire to be real and their desire to deconstruct the world idealogies in order to formulate better perspectives.

I don't believe there is anything wrong with having teachers, mentors, and spiritual guides in life. In fact I believe these are imperative to assisting in the development of that which may be necessary to start the holistic journey of discovery. But those guides need to teach us how to add, how to spell, how to use logic, how to speak etc. They do not need to teach us absolutes about theology or philosphy. The human mind is, through experience and thought, in my opinion, and for the most part, when taught the appropriate basic functions, capable of figuring out that which Jesus and Buddha figured out.

I also believe that community is a great way to assist in the development of views. As we dialogue people can assist in pointing out what seems to make sense and what doesn't.

Will write more later......