Who the heck am I and perhaps more importantly–why should you care? My name is Josh Neumann.

I’m a 24 year old male… part time caddy… soon to be “full time” internet marketer… and adventure sport and travel enthusiast.

So what does my story have to do with you?

For the last couple years I’ve spent serious time exploring some of the more compelling questions about life. Questions like… what’s the right religion? Does God exist? Is Christianity right?

I’ve come to some VERY interesting conclusions

I’m no rocket scientist… I didn’t get exceptional grades in school… and if you expect me to wow you with amazing philosophical reasoning then you might as well just leave right now. What I will present are hard-and-fast facts and let you draw your own conclusions.

So how did all this start?

For the first 21 years of my life I was a born again Christian who never really examined  his beliefs. It wasn’t until reading “Conversations With God” by Neale Donald Walsh… a handful of other “new age success” books… and watching “The Secret”… that I seriously started questioning things.

I had always heard that God was in control of our destiny and that we needed to live out His plan for our lives. What I was hearing now was far different.

Most of the successful business people I admired and wanted to be like said things like “we need to take full responsibility for our lives”… “we are in control”… and “we can achieve any outcome we want”. All we have to do is visualize” the outcome we want.

They said our “purpose” was to be happy… the only “meaning” anything had was the meaning we gave it… and if I screwed up who cares—I had many more lives to get it right!

I was blown away

The more I heard the more I liked it. No longer did I feel restricted by needing to follow some “Divine Plan” for my life. I was the boss now. I was liberated.

No more rules…regulations…or consequences for anything I did!

I jumped into it with a full head of steam. I began meditating to “become enlightened”… I read every book I could get my hands on new age thought… and I started visualizing my success every night. I was now in control of my destiny and I was going to take full advantage of it.

Sure I still went to church–for no other reason that I didn’t want to disappoint my parents. However I stopped praying and reading the Bible because now there was no point.

I should have been happy

I was now free to pursue any dream or vision I wanted… whether it was right or not. I had no restrictions on me anymore.

Then why was I so freaking miserable?

Quite simply… life now had no meaning. I shouldn’t have been surprised–after all, that’s one of the main points of new age teaching.

I think everybody who adopts any philosophy that excludes God runs into this question at some point. Let’s face it–we all want life to have a “deeper meaning” than just getting what we want.

At some point acquiring more things… having more experiences… and “living the good life”… will get old.

What happens after that?

The more I thought about it the more depressed I became. Sure self indulgence might fine for this life—and maybe even the next one… but what about the next one… and the next one… and the next one? Earthly things might satisfy for a while but what about after that?

Before I could look forward to going to Heaven when I died. Now all I could hope for was to attain nirvana… live a life of bliss… and then dissolve into nothingness.

Not very encouraging

The only way life can mean anything is if there is an all powerful God reigning over us—otherwise everything is just based on chance. Heck without God the very reason we are here is by pure luck… so how could anything have meaning?

So the obvious question is—does God exist or not?

To make a long story short… after thoroughly investing the topic… I have come to some very definitive conclusions. Conclusions I think you will be interested in.

If you are searching for meaning in life… wondering why you are here… or simply killing time at work until 5… I guarantee these answers will change your life.

Feel free to look around and comment on anything you agree with. Comments that disagree with me will not be posted. Just kidding. I leave you with one final question…

If you died today… do you know what would happen to you?