The Emptiness of Faith

Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS 55

Life happens in the empty space that sustains the objects that compose the universe. It is emptiness that allows the growth of the heart and its palpitation to fill the empty mind with resonance. Faith is the result of the force applied by a human being to the empty mind of another with the objective of filling it with the sensation of "divine" fulfillment that infuses life with an empty meaning.

The faithful negate their empty nature and try to fill it with prayers to the empty objects of religious doctrine. They flagellate themselves for the empty word "sin" and pay tribute to the church for their "eternal salvation" to maintain their relationship with the empty word "god."

Through empty states of rapture— artificially stimulated by the guardians of their faith with empty words—they suffer and die in emptiness. Emptiness is the natural space of life that provides the human being with the opportunity to understand it and become a

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conscious part of it without the anxiety caused by the war of the guardians of faith to separate women and men from their natural world.

Faith cannot fill the emptiness of life because it is not a natural element of it or superior to its chemical force. The millenary attempt to fill it with divine prophecy continues to dissipate in emptiness.

One is an empty thought of the object of self that arises in the mind, empty of faith. A dream formed by the images illuminated by an empty light in an empty space.