Religion and stuff to believe in...
i DO believe that everything can go JUST as bad as we always think or believe it might <3~!
it's these little "but"s that would couscider life worth living.
s**t might happen; it usually does, i'm unfit for any kind of work within a 3-mile radius of where i live, if not more :3!
therer's all of these little things that makes life worth living, but my most important memento to "leave" after me when i am dead; is to make sure people remember me. so if there's no life-after this one, then at least other lives will continue to know about me, and my life, for a long time after i'm gone anyway; i'll leave an impression :3!
/that is currently my lifelong dream _XD -to go down into the history books O^o!
the life after this one, or the continued existence and so on;
as long as i don't need to think about it or bother with it in my current life, it could go however any religion or sciense wants <3~!
i have an open mind, so instead of dedicating myself to something as a religion, i just go with; i believe in everything until it's been proven otherwise :3!
/and people might just use the wrong methods to achieve the wished-for result, so science won't help me there either :3!
personally i would favor to create my own universe, and live as a "god" until i'm bored of it and just reincarnate into one of my own-created worlds.
-if i'm not as fortunate as that? well... then reincarnation is an option, as long as i'm reborn as something that'll be content with it's life, then i'm okay with that~
if i'm "doomed" to wander the world for all eternity, together with everyone else that's died; at least i can watch new movies and see society develope. i'd prolly be pretty bored with being unable to do anything though, so i'd rather avoid that one.
heaven, hell... i don't really "believe" in those; just look at what's conscidered Sinning (or however it's spelled) -now,.... look at humanity, look at those seven specifications.... and then we should know that heaven is basically empty while hell is overcrowded. -it isn't really logical, since even if you DO do good deeds and all of that, if you're an obese person- then you're supposed to be dumped into the burns anyway
so on, so forth.
quite frankly; i can talk about the life after this one, or the death after this life, or the end of this current existence which might just as well be a thought in someone's head, for hours and hours 'till no end...
but i don't see a meaning with talking about "what happens at the end" when there's still such a long time there. and no matter what everyone says; no one knows for sure what will happen there.
if people are going to "believe" in something, then they should believe in being a good person. -not a saint or those dilly-dallying people who thinks everything's all sweet and pleasant, but just a good person: not kill people unles they try to kill you, not hit kids unless they've done something exceptionally horriffic, treat your pets well and so on, so forth.
-i mean, i'm ignoring my cat most of the time she wants something, i even broke her leg by accident on one occation -but i don't conscider myself a bad person because of that. i don't ever mean to hurt people physically, and if i hurt people mentally i feel bad about it and try to make up for it some other time when i've calmed down so on, so forth.
as far as religion and things go though, i think i've heard a good thing or two about shintoism. not that i know anything much about it, but every item might have a soul; now THAT is interesting _XD!
-this might not have helped you... at all <3~
personally i'm not a "believer" of gods and that we have all of these moralic laws that either grant us better or worse luck in the end.
the few times i've needed someone to talk to, it's been myself /or since i'm such a free spirit, i go and write my angst out in forums ninja
i don't see why you can't continue to pray, talk to someone, as for help and guidance and whatever though. -it might not be to the god-specific all of the christians and catholics and those might have, it might not be a god that is even acknowleged by any religion of belief at all.
gods usually exists only because we believe in them, and even if they DO exist; they usually never do much to help us or make things harder for us.
-i don't see why you can't make up your own deity, or perhaps you might think you make one up- give it a name and an appearance, powers or whatever, while in fact it might already exist, and hundreds of thousands other people already believe in it. just not acknowleging it like the religions and beliefs of the world.
-what makes a god, a god- if not it's believers?
/congratulations, i might have been rambling, and could go on about it- but i hope this might have helped you any at all _xD?