Mom was influenced by Osho and other New Age trash. Among the lessons she learned from her friends (out of desperation due to stress from her career include):
- you must always say positive things, and tell the “universe” to thank it and have what you want now
- Every day, I must love myself, so that the “universe” will bring me positive things with some mystical energy trash. I don’t love myself nowadays because of all of my failures and whatever garbage I had been through.
- everything has “emotions”, even money, my clothes, and my objects. If I spout out in anger, my things and my future gains will avoid me.
Do these teaching work at all? Because I don’t see any results, sometimes I don’t have faith, preferring the material over the spiritual (and fickle).
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I also have another issue to resolve: although many atheists have “hope”, “hope” itself seems to be against atheism, because it is reaching out for something that is not material and not in the “now”. It is like “faith”, because it asks for something that may not happen in a very cruel world.
I thought that if I really become atheist, I should stop having any sort of “hope”, because I might have little power to change my current situation as I cannot change people’s stubborn minds. Then religion is expecting the impossible.
If the world is so negative and so unfair, then pessimism and fighting the current situation, changing whatever I can, is more realistic than dreaming of a better world.