I've noticed that Christians use the words faith, hope, and love as essential aspects or virtues of their religion. For me, however, I see no use in any of them. They are all mind activities and artificial truths.
Faith:
The use of the word faith implies that one puts trust in God or in Christ. Those who have faith do so in order to make sure that they are protected by the Holy Trinity. "I have faith that God will guide me in the right direction." This seems necessary; people believe that we will not be able to function properly without the guidance of God. If there is no one to guide us, what will we do, right? If this is what you believe, you have lost your own center of power. You will give it all over to God and make assumptions about what God is doing. You will be God's slave, but you won't realize that you are actually doing this to yourself. That power that you think is God was actually created by you so that you could have faith in Him. You created God to make him do whatever you want him to do! Your presence is hidden or seemingly removed from yourself in order to simulate your idea of God! This means your faith is faith in your own system! Let go of all your concepts of faith in a higher power! You are the power! And your power is not is the higher power, but it is not above you, below you, nor separate from you! That power is no other than yourself and no other than anyone else!
Hope:
Hope is a very delusional concept. It brings in the idea of being positive, which is central in New Age teachings. Instead of being negative, you can be positive! Great! It's the other side of the coin! Anyway, hope obviously involves the future. It is the belief that something great is going to happen in the future... a positive change of some sort. This is quite a sad thing, because it is an attempt to be positive while overlooking the present. And when the present is ignored, that suggests that the present is undesirable or displeasing. Christians and other related religious groups are hoping that something great will happen later in their lives. By doing so, you are again overlooking your own presence! You are defining yourself as someone who is lacking something or is incomplete. And if you always have hope, you will always define yourself as incomplete! Everyone knows that even if our hopes come true, we still feel incomplete! Then we hope for something else. And it never ends, until we make the choice to be aware of our own existence, our own presence, our own wholeness.
Love:
This is the most controversial one. This is a virtue because everyone knows how it feels to be loved. No one wants to be hated. So we attempt to extend perfect love to others, in hope that we will be loved back. We want to be recognized. But again, this "need" to be recognized implies that we are incomplete! And so this love is not unconditional, because we expect love in return. The aim of the virtue itself blocks the follower from ever reaching unconditional love. Why? Because we need to get rid of the mind defining who we are as needing or afraid or weak. We have to let all ideas of ourself go so that we can let "love" appear as who we are. And then there is no need to love anyone else... we will all be revealed to be united, so there is no way that we could not love, since we are everyone, as one.
The problem with these virtues is that they are all mind created, and suppress the awareness of ourselves. All we need to "do" is to stop doing and allow ourselves to exist instead of trying to go somewhere else with who we are.
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I googled "hope is useless" to find this as the first result.
You're pretty much spot on the money with the issue of hope.
I suspect the idea that hope isn't useless comes in part from its association with fatalism in third world countries.
I am trying to make an irrefutable argument for the idea of living without hope, because it feels right to me. However, there is one issue that inevitably arrises. If there is no need for hope, why do anything at all?
Hope is nothing more than positive expectation. Without hope, you have no expectation (except maybe negative expectation, but that's not really a motivator). So how could we possibly explain any attempts to better ourselves or to pursue advancements in the world?
Someone who searches for a cure for disease is doing so with positive expectation - with the hope that a cure exists. If that hope was not present, the search would not occur.
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