"Who we are and why we're here."
AW, or life on earth - not exactly sure but it's to do with self-expression which clarifies stuff most of the time.
I've tried and investigated all sorts of religions, even pagans and formed opinions about what was offered by their 'representatives' if you will. I like the social aspects - interactions, contacts, discussions but ultimately none agree with my lifestyle. Similarly politics. Most of the very rich are nice - communication is easy but then as a clique they are surprisingly boring and predictable. I like the very poor who have little politics or religion. When they talk it's generally from the heart, if they haven't ulterior motives such as making a quick buck from me.
Personal expression, the individual matters to me. Tho probably I like the Jewish Rabbi approach to religion best - at least a US Rabbi with whom I communicated concerning his opinions on several Biblical questions: non-conclusive and diverse possibilities to my questions. Other than that, my dentist is a Muslim and a sweeter man I've seldom met. Purposely I didn't juxtapose the two, Rabbi and dentist, but politics, religions, even colours are to me a noise.
My enemies are extremists, not because I made it that way. Their choice. By enemies I mean those who would destroy me, physically and/or mentally because I don't say their words or look the way they want. Religious ones, even feminists. Racists too and I've met those who hate white Europeans, and yeah I guess like feminists I can't really blame them, but I can blame them because I am no signatory to their sufferings. How dare they presume of me? I didn't presume of them.
"Why are we here" AW or earth? To be human, there is nothing else except to die. Human to me is like animal, a slot in a position, an actor with a role. The nippy bit is most humans don't know what human means, unlike animals who apparently do and are at their best when left alone to do what their particular species does.
So I am a member of a species most of whom in quiet moments realise they're clueless and ultimately doomed, even the sciences mumbling quietly about an impending 'cull.' Many solutions, even ultimate solutions have failed. In my opinion every religion has failed. Not that the initiators didn't speak truth, I think they spoke truth, but the results failed - their messages were misunderstood and consequently the results I hear are 'noise.'
Instead, I meet individuals. Saintly people and wise, rich, poor, good and evil but without tags - striking women like Bodicea, dangerous men like Caesars, even saints and lesser beings. I've met their likes, probably most of us have or will.
The mediocrity of many malls is tedious but perhaps beyond history's shadows it's best this ongoing killing of the human character.
Gives writers lots of work inventing heros, eh