The Eight Benefits of Acceptance!

• (1) We the faithful accept that Everything Will Be Destroyed and in so doing we become grateful for the uncertainty that this fact implies. We recognize that uncertainty is not the enemy, but rather that uncertainty, and only uncertainty, gives birth to hope and possibility. The prison of certainty, whose voluntary inmates trade hope and possibility for an ignorant confidence and a fragile and false sense of security, is our true nemesis.
• (2) We the faithful accept that Everything Will Be Destroyed and in so doing we rejoice in this destruction because to be destroyed is to have existed. We rejoice because all joy is born of this temporary nature of existence. Because existence belongs only to those people places and things which can be destroyed, destruction is at last the only durable evidence of existence. Life comes from death. Decay is creation. And everything will be destroyed.
• (3) We the faithful accept that Everything Will Be Destroyed and in so doing hold sacred that if it is not a “Fuck yes!” then it is a “Fuck no!”. The impermanence of everything leaves no room for fucking about with things that do not move the soul and/or interact meaningfully with the shared reality of all that exists (for now).
• (4) We the faithful accept that Everything Will Be Destroyed and in so doing realize that all suffering arises from forgetting, even momentarily, this fact. Those who forget that everything will be destroyed give sanctuary to a fear that something or other might be destroyed. When so allowed to arise, this fear will quickly drain our temporary existence of all substance and purpose, but it disintegrates completely as soon as we acknowledge in our hearts that everything will be destroyed. Never Forget EWBD.
• (5) We the faithful accept that Everything Will Be Destroyed and in so doing understand that if everything will be destroyed (it will), then the world is not a solid foundation upon which to build rigid structures that will protect us from the future, but rather a chaotic and complex support system for the temporary expression of life. Further, we understand that protection from the future is a foreclosure of all that we cannot imagine, and what we need for the future is not protection, but rather the ability to continually look forward fearlessly with new eyes and open minds in order to see it clearly.
• (6) We the faithful accept that Everything Will Be Destroyed and in so doing are protected from religious dogma, politics of inevitability, or any other ideology dependent on false eternity, as well as the moral paralysis, cognitive imprisonment, and needless anguish they bring. Only destruction is inevitable. Everything else is negotiable.
• (7) We the faithful accept that Everything Will Be Destroyed and in so doing know in our hearts that life is at its core a flirtation with ruin, and for however long it may last, only two things are certain:

  i. It will end in destruction.

  ii. It will be filled with either joy or fear.

• (8) We the faithful accept without fear that Everything Will Be Destroyed and in so doing choose joy over fear, allowing life (the glorious but temporary state of pre-destruction) to be lived.

That's it! Now go forth and create, maintain, support, and be a part of all the things you love with the full knowledge that everything you hate is already in the process of being destroyed!