Anyone having doubts?

[Euphoric Sunrise]

You have a lot of questions, and much of the world shares them with you. The great thing is, these questions are fundamental for our survival. Yes, great! Great because it is fun and intensely stimulating (for me at least) to learn from these sorts of questions.
Without them, we wouldn't have anything to question, there would be nothing to help us grow, we wouldn't have the great minds like Socrates, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstien. Without them we wouldn't have a diverse range of cultures, religions, and myths.
It is the probing of these questions (and often premature conclusions, which can also be beneficial in learning) that drive the human race to commit these acts of war, acts of faith, acts of spirituality.

I have just recently, perhaps yesterday, realized something. Something i previously thought would be a horrible idea to settle with. However, the more i think about it, the more at home and comforted i feel about existence.
We are here becuase we are here. That's it. That is all we know for sure. You can dress your life with what ever belief system you wish, and i'm not saying it's wrong to do so. All i am saying is that all the human race really knows for sure is that we exist. Whatever existence means to you, we exist.
These questions you ask, are, at very least, extremely difficult for the human mind to even begin to grasp. Most of us only know of what we have experienced within the physical constraints of this lifetime. Given this circumstance, it is incredibly difficult for any of us to understand questions which call on us to defy physicality in order to gain even an understanding, let alone an answer.

Yet we continue to try anyway. That is life. The search for knowledge. Theoria. It is what is so great about life. We are forever expanding our knowledge in the search for these seemingly unattainable answers. Even, after thousands of years of recorded existence with no answers, we continue to probe, and we continue to advance.
The vital questions seem like a rainbow - ever escaping, taking the gold with them. However, although we haven't reached the end of the rainbow, we have come across incredible knowledge anyway.

With all of this in mind, i say that we are here beause we are. Our minds are perhaps nearly incapable of reaching answers in their present states. However, whilst we search for answers in the unanswerable, we answer other questions which serve to push us forward anyway. It is the purpose of the questions you pose to us in this thread to drive us in our existence.

Now, i hope that had some relevance to your topic []. I may have stemmed off somewhere there, but it should be alright.

Just a small sidenote. I don't mean to be picky, but it might be worth breaking your post up into paragraphs rather than one huge block of writing. Essentially it isn't important, but it does make for easier reading.

[The AlphaOmega]

Thanks for your response Euphoric.  I wasn't sure if I would get any due to the incredibly long text.  That's usually not my style.  I fully agree with what you have said.  It's a profound thought and very insightful, thank you!

[The AlphaOmega]

Sorry if this isn't well put together, but it's something that I have been pondering today and just thought I'd try to get some insight from others.  It's also quite long, so if you don't feel like reading I understand and also appologize.  
  I've noticed a regular occurance in my life, and that is that when I've stumbled onto a possibly profound idea or thought about "the meaning of it all" there often follows a period of doubt.  That is, there will be times in which I am absolutely convinced at the existence of God for years, and then one day I'll wake up full of doubts that have foundation to them.  In the beginning I often felt guilt or remourse for the sudden loss of my faith and understanding.  And yet, regardless of anything that I try to willingly impose, there always lingers the desire to question.  So I wonder, is it within our grasp to attain the answers that we seek, or are we perhaps here specifically to question?  
  Some things I've studied sort of point to this... in my own mind at least.  Take war for example.  Humanity speaks of peace as an idea, or even an ideal, and yet it's an impossible feat to attain.  Where does this notion of peace come from?  Nowhere in the history of humanity has there been world peace, it goes against our very nature.  Even just causes are fought through war.  People often wage war for genuinly good purposes.  After all, someone has to fight against tyrants.  But many still hold to the belief that war is purely bad and peace is purely good.  Even now war is being fought to provide freedom for humanity itself, but it's viewed by many as wholly evil.  Are there any answers to be found in this?  Is this even avoidable?  Do we desire to avoid it?  
  In the past few hundred years our race has taken giant leaps and bounds towards both creation and destruction.  Our understanding of our universe has grown to the point that we are now aware of microscopic worlds, astounding enhancements in medicine, and a knowledge in warfare that could undoubtledly destroy our entire planet.  But what have we come to understand in regards to our own existence from all this?  If there is a God, why has He led us to such lengths, and in such a short period of time?  What occured within our minds that propelled us to understand so much in such a relatively short period of time?  Do we even care?  If there is no God, why has our species above all others evolved to profoundly?  These questions absolutely exist, but they provide no real answers.    
  In all actuality we are the only species on this planet that is even capable to pondering such things.  Personal belief and experiences that "can't" be understood unless you have felt them yourself are the reasons that the faithful give us.  But what benefit does that have on the rest of us?  How does that give the faithless a sense of hope?  Can any of us say we know God is real because we have witnessed Him?  If so, can that person convince others that what has been witnessed was real without them having to witness it themselves?  Have prophets or oracles merely convinced themselves of something that didn't really occur because of their underlying deep beliefs?  How many of you out there truly believe in God and have never witnessed a miracle nor His divine presence?  I can think of a few in my life that would qualify.  Faith is just a word.  A word that describes a belief in something that has no foundation for belief.  A "feeling".  A hope.  Classify it as you wish.  How does it benefit the whole?  
  What if there is an afterlife, but no God?  How much would that belief change the world?  What if there is a God, and once you see Him in the next life He laughs and destroys you?  How would that change the world?  What if all aethists really do burn in hell while believers in God are glorified?  What if we all really do stop existing apon death.  These are the questions that have plagued us since the beginning.  Whether you believe in another life after this world or believe in nothing at all, at some point in our lives we all ponder the question.  The question is always the same, it's the answer that varies from person to person.  
  What if we are not meant to learn the answers here or now?  If there is a spirit world, why have we forgotten it?  What if we're not suppose to remember?  What if part of this "growth" process is knowing what it's like to be faithless and godless?  Isn't it possible that the next stage in our spiritual evolution is to forsake our spirituality?  How else would you know what that is like?  How would God know what it's like to lose faith in Him, unless He's lost faith in something before?  How could He understand the heartache humanity can feel, unless He too has somehow felt it?  This doubt and questioning that indeed drives us all to seek... what if it's absolutely necissary?  If there is an eternity, then why would it be hard to believe that a part of maturing in eternity is to lose all understanding of it?  
  I guess I could go on like this forever.  After all people have written entire novels on this very subject.  But that just supports my thoughts even more.  That humanity is not meant to grasp an idea and hold to it untill their dying day.  We are profound because we always push the boundaries.  We are never satisfied with where we are, always wanting more.  We do not accept our limits and our beliefs but push them and test them as far as we can concieve of to see if they hold up or break.  Our very existence and evolution has been based on our fundamental desire to question, to know more than we know.  To understand what we thought we couldn't understand.  Spirituality, God, mortality, peace and war, should all be questioned.  No one can say if we will ever find the answers we seek.  But when we question what we know, who knows what answers we will find that we weren't even looking for?  And what could you fear from this?  Would you fear that God will punish you for doubting?  If it's the Christian God you believe in, then there is nothing at all to fear from Him, for He is pure love and forgiveness.  If it is another God that would in fact punish you for your doubts, would you not rather rebell against such a diety anyways?  There is no harm nor evil nor fear that should be felt in this way of thinking.  It's simply starting a path to release ourselves from ignorance.  Whatever you believe... whatever you have complete faith in... whatever you feel or touch or see as real... question it!