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Dopamine.

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Dopamine rush it its finest. The rush of a possible pleasure mixed with the release of the angst of getting caught. The thrill of potentially, "getting away with it," combined with the pleasure received from the act itself. We are not creatures of satiation, we are creatures of pleasure. Our body wants to survive and does this in the most manipulative ways, or at least we manipulate ourselves to justify behaviors otherwise would have never been. We see this when we defend our side in an argument, when we lash out due to hurt, when we fail to see another's point of view. The weaker the person, the more the argument, the more the person has to prove themselves and lack willingness or the ability to be vulnerable to admit self was wrong. What is it about the drive to do something that gets us in trouble? After all, isn't our motive pure at some point? Aren't we just creatures, living and trying to stay that way? Why would doing wrong to another be taken so pers...

Are You There?

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Just one question needs to be asked, “Is he there God?” For the answer to that question needs no more explanation. If he is there, in heaven, then all worries and concerns for him are no more. He is not “resting at peace” as we say here on Earth, he is higher than we can comprehend, more joyous than a human mind is capable of, more elated, relaxed, pleasured all at the same time, than our neurons could process. Though we might miss him here, with us, he does not, he is happier where he is, what he is doing, and time and sadness no longer make any sense to him. Any sentiments are our worldly bodies talking. Just like a room we have never been in, we cannot fathom what it is like. Yes, we could compare it to other rooms, similar rooms, make inferences, but we will not in fact know the actual room. Though, Heaven isn’t a room, nor a place like we imagine here on Earth, it is better and therefore unfathomable. God is not another person either, he is supernatural in all of us, in-between us...