Model of Religion

I think Christianity lasts for a long time has its own reason. We wound not discuss whether the reality of religion here, but the model of the church and religion. There are some forces which supports the religion even if the religion cannot be explained clearly.

First, Christians are more "positive" and so they are happier. They think that God has chosen the best path for them. Even if they face failure, they would think that God gives them chance to learn and improve. For failure, they may not care as much as others as they may be more concern about the life after death and religious life. The concept of the life after death also make Christians more "peaceful".

Second, Christians are well-organized. They have clear plan to donate money to church and promote their religion. They have regular gathering and sharing to strengthen their religion. They gain happiness from religion, so they want others to follow their religion. The more important thing is that, according to the Bible, all people go to hell if they don't believe in Jesus. Some Christians try their best to spread the religion.

Last, Christianity is about uncertainty. As human have limit in proving "super-natural" matter, Christians could defense their religion by ignoring any philosophical thinking. As the possibility of life after death exists, Christians could ignore any criticism. Therefore, Christians claims that the religion is "logical correct" as the religion lasts for long time.

The model is of religion is successful. Therefore, many business model adopt similar running method.

For example, insurance company teaches their agents that insurance is helping others with well-organized plan for promotion. People could not deny the use of insurance as uncertainty exist.

Another example is multi-level marketing. The people joining multi-level marketing are told that they could make big money so they are happy about that. The organization is well-organized for sharing "successful story" and recruiting new members. Other people could not deny the possibility of earning big money from multi-level marketing as the probability does exist.

Exercise and health

Nowadays, the public emphasis exercise, especially aerobic exercise, can make us healthier. Exercise should be good to health, but I think exercise should be treated carefully or exercise is not good for health.

First, it is common to be injured due to exercise. It is very common to hear that some famous football player or basketball player are injured and cannot play in that season. Some injury cannot be totally recovered. The Athlete may feel painful when they get old and on a rainy day. Injury certainly violate the standard of being healthy. Moreover, there is even a research claims that chlorine in swimming pool may cause cancer.

Second, the performance of exercise are based on physical and biological rules, but not way to make us healthy. For those who play sports, they usually not only want to be healthy, but also want to win in a competition. For example, the pose of fencing seems not natural as they need to turn their head and walk like a crap. For track and field, athlete need to follow exactly what the performance required and train for a specific muscle.

I am not saying that we should not exercise, but we need to exercise in the safe way and choose the exercise that do not harm our health.

What do you really need?

Just looking at the people living in country side, their lives are simple but not meaningless. They do not need high-tech products nor beautiful clothes. However, they are happy and even happier than citizens. In well-developed society, people are not afraid to be starved to dead. So, what do we need?

I think building relationships with others, eat enough food, having some interest in live are enough as those desire are built in our DNA to push us survival. Earning money is also a basic desire, but the cost is high in modern society. In a large company, employee needs to play drama and take care of other's drama to fight for better income or just keep the existing job. And people may not be so competitive in the society, they may not have any achievement and have disappointment instead. I think building happiness on achievement often brought sadness and is not reliable source of happiness.

So, what do you really need?

Values

Many philosophy, religion and life coaching course emphasis that feeling is based on values, and values are created by myself. Therefore, we need not feel sad nor other negative feeling. However, as what I have observed, our feeling is not totally "artificial".

Human are born to live in wild. Feelings are used to push human beings to cooperate, reproduction, avoid dangerous and fight for food. Therefore, human beings like to be recognized by others, having sex, help each other, earning money and take care of baby. On the other hand, human being dislike to lose money, be lonely, hate by other, etc.

Buddhists have tried to eliminate all their desire but they failed. Christians try to follow all the rules and teaching in the Bible but it seems that very few of them could follow all the rules. Many people joining life coaching courses but they change back to their original personality. Therefore, I don't think that feeling are artificial.

I think the way to feel happy is to think that the feeling comes from natural which originally used for live and reproduction. After that, try to live naturally. Helping others, finding lovers, earning money and finding something fun could help.

Modern Marriage

Marriage is not only the result of love, but also the result of social income and reproduction.

I think human beings are designed to live in the wild and try their best for food and reproduction, just like other animals. Having marriage to limit the natural desire on other woman is not natural. However, human beings concern about marriage in order to gain benefit.

In the past, woman had less income than man. Therefore, the livelihood of woman could be more secure by marrying to a man. And the society had less support to the poor. The children grew better with both a father and mother. Therefore, marriage did have its function.

Nowadays, woman can have more income than man. Couples may not give birth to baby. Children could be brought up with single mother or single father. Therefore, marriage seems not so suitable to modern society. No doubt about the devoice rate is increasing.