here i'll share a story:
Once upon a time there was a religion. This wasn't any old religion, but a good religion.
One that people liked.
This religion had three principles.
The first principle was that you are the only one. Consciousness has always been a difficult concept to grasp. The good religion did away with having to grasp it, as it explained to everyone, you are the only one to ever have consciousness!
As it turns out, there are actually a lot of difficult concepts to grasp. Another big one is death. Like, what happens to your consciousness when you die, does it just, like, go away? With the good religion people didn't have to question this. What a silly idea, they'd think, my being simply ceasing to be?
Sure, they'd see people dying around them, but remember, they don't have consciousness. Only you do. This means that you're destined to never die, as it's simply ridiculous for consciousness to somehow die.
Then, on their deathbed, the followers of the good religion suddenly realize that they're going to die, and that their consciousness is going to cease to be. They feel pain, realizing they've followed a lie their entire lives, and they cry out and warn others that the good religion is a lie in the moments before their death. But no one ever listens, because to them, they're the only ones with consciousness and the guy dying is just some random figment of assembled particles.
But the important thing is, the good religion granted happiness. The happiness that you're better than everyone else, the happiness that lasts your entire life until you realize your mistake in the moments before your death.
And that happiness is what we all really strive to find, isn't it?
The second principle is that evolution has led everyone else to act like they have consciousness, but they really don't. The fact that other people die is proof that they don't have being. Being cannot be simply destroyed, it is impossible to fathom such a thing. This supplies everyone with the feeling of superiority that we need to have.
The third and final principle is that you should share your consciousness with no one.
You are the only one alive, no one else can feel or enjoy.
You do not need to prove your consciousness or superiority with anyone, because they are not.
The only person with consciousness is you.
You know this to be true because you are currently experiencing it.
In the good religion, there is no worship. You are god. You will live forever.
The world is yours to experience.
