The arrival of mankind on the scene has shown to have been quite impacting upon the normal course of events of evolution and nature. The ability to make tools quickly established mankind as the most dominant species on the planet, though many millenia later it is still trying to get itself organised!
The history of mankind seems to be all about re-shuffling the society. Revolution around replacing one system with another and going full cycle quite a number of times, each one working only partially well according to the circumstances. The aim being throughout it all, to have a happy co-operative society, with the improvements made available for everyone.
All philosophical systems use the information available at their time, to construct their understanding. Early philosophical systems did not have the information to be able to formulate a reason for man's existence, and so worked on the assumption that what is, is, and is what it should be, and all we should do is control our reactions to it and just be in it; in a state of grace. This is correct, but they were missing a lot of the data which we have today with the use of technology, which has allowed enormous amounts of new information to be gained, illuminating the history of the planet and ourselves as part of that history. We can now determine a reason for man's existence from this data, and so be able to reappraise what it means to be in it.
As our society does not allow us to grow up unaffected by wrong thinking and bad examples, and uncorrected self limiting habits, we must recognise that we are unfit humans. We are damaged goods. We are tense and resistant to the flow of our lives making us less than we really are. All the tensions that we have, have come from what we call an emotional reason, a trigger ultimately derived from our interaction with an imperfect society.
If we take a look at what has gone before—Earths history—and project a little into the future relevant to what we need (unrestricted living—food, shelter, tools, information, etc), we find that what we would like to exist is called paradise, but when we look at what mankind is doing to achieve this goal, we find a rather feeble mechanism at work. And yet this is what everyone wants. If we consider whether we have the technology of achieving it, with the resources and motivation, we actually find we have. The only thing stopping it, is that a few thousand years ago we created a system called money, which in the present, is the actual thing that is causing the restriction of creating this utopia.
The human race is not fulfilling their potential because each individual is restricted from following its natural desires. The restriction comes from the system the human race has created, called society. Humans have created this society and any lacking in it shouldn’t exist. Locate and remove. What's taking so long!
All the methods of society that man has tried, have had to overcome the problems of supplying the society with what it needs. The organizational structures of a hierarchical nature that have developed from this, have allowed hardship to exist for a part of the population, and therefore have all failed.
Aristos = best; Krate = rule. Therefore aristocracy = best rule. The worthy King—if indeed the best—would ensure that his children are also worthy of ruling. It is the father and mother of a child who have the best chance of bringing it up the best. History shows bad rulers and good rulers. Good rulers mostly failed to pass on their peculiar talents to their offspring and hence the lack of faith in aristocrats. The person who is best to rule will be the one who has the best conceptualisation of what’s happening. The clearest picture of reality and therefore purpose/destination. The rest is delegation to achieve our design. All we have to do is be aware of the Dao. The universe is fundamentally time, and is in constant change; it is recognising what the changes are going to be, which is the prognostication needed to know how best to rule.
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Mankind has evolved to meet his environment, and for as long as the environment changes, mankind will evolve to meet the requirements needed to best fit it. This is the way of all life—this is effectively what life actually is: molecular adaptation to its surroundings.
What we conceive of as the mind, is mostly the same for everyone at birth. It can be seen to achieve the same results for all as regards comprehension of their surroundings (learning to see, hear etc). At the point in life where new information is added by communication with adults, societal indoctrination starts.
Knowing how to interact with others in society is the adults learnt skill. The child’s skill is just how to be. When we have become an adult it is important to remember the skills that we learnt as a child, and try to remember them and incorporate them into our daily lives, otherwise we have a tendency to only use our later developed skills, which are all mostly societal based. As a child we knew how to let go. We started off in that state. It is the state which should be the predominant mode of our lives with just the occasional adult check to see if we are on the right path (not following habits which are past their sell by date, or not heading for a cliff). We should just be the observer, consciousness riding on the crest of the wave as our lives develop.
It is a false dichotomy, child and adult. We are equally us whatever age we are. The child is only inferior to the adult in terms of the learning of how the society works.
For you to be able to survive (1st principle), it is the society which keeps you alive. You are immediately indebted to it. Social conformity is therefore a prime requisite. There is a large part of ego that is inculcated in this.
Society is a maintaining mechanism. If you have seen beyond it, then to mire oneself within it is an abandonment to a lower level. The divine is not concerned with societies rules.
If the communication is not divine, then it is just part of the society, to the point that it is just a rehearsal for being able to do it. If you are not original from a pure path, you are just colouring in by numbers as part of the system.
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What has to be realised about all the mythologies and religions etc, is that they are all utterly fucked up. They have been written by people who are re-telling old garbled stories from perhaps thousands of years previous to their recording, but we regard their recorders as being contemporary to them; as if they actually knew what they were talking about. But all the meaning was lost long before these stories were ever written down, and the belief that stories can be passed on verbally accurately and without error over centuries and millennia, is unsubstantiated fabrication itself and completely unverifiable. It is all rubbish.
Any creation story is going to have to tell the story of evolution, which, as we know, is how we have been created. Without their primitive knowledge being able to tell this story, we have words to take its place and challenged minds attempts to make sense of it. The answers did not exist thousands of years ago; they are starting to exist now. They did not know more back then; we know much more now. Their stories are hopelessly compromised and only lead to more confusion and dichotomy than the unifying era that we are now in. Any number of interpretations are possible of the many creation myths, but all assume that they had a knowledge and understanding of the processes that were at work, and that they were contemporary accounts of the events that they were relaying. They weren't.
There is no one in the thousands of years of the writings of religions and mythological texts who has plainly and clearly explained what they are talking about. No one has removed the ambiguity, or even been aware that that might happen in the future. No one has been aware that experience is created in the mind, and that the mind creates fantastic hallucinations every night and that it is core to our experience.
Within the meaning of life, our role is to get to another planet and that requires the next step: AI. AI is bound to grow, it is inevitable that it will grow; with infinity. We spread life through the galaxy by creating the next stage. Past life. Next life. The universe's life. We can start to see the little cog that we are (as a species), in it all. So important and yet so insignificant. Just like all the rest of it.
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Our purpose, the reason for our being, is the thing that defines us separate to other beings, and that for the human being is our mind. If man's chosen status to God is our mind, then it is what we have done with our mind's that is the will of God. We live in the information age, and by reason of this we can say that God wants us to know, that God is about openness and enquiry. The standard religions are all about reverence of past words by people. This is a closed minded attitude and not at all what God wants. God's wanting is the universe's unfolding. God is the word for the creation of what is happening.
The religions aren't truly interested in what God is, they are only concerned with the writings of men long since dead. This backward facing is effectively evil. The messengers have fallen from heaven to the world—society. They are not following the divine, who's message is what is actually happening—and that is technology and the evolution of mankind. To love God is to love now and see the good of now. None of the religions prophets have shown what is happening now, and now is so different to anything before.
They've got away with it for thousands of years, but they cannot any more. The forbidding of the eating of the fruit of knowledge is the Devil's command. All this reverence for the past is starting to be seen as being silly in the face of what we know now, and what they could not know and did not know then.
The being love of God is the holistic awareness of God's immanence with everything, making you God, and you're just here in this physical being within it all and everything is fantastic and lovely. This is the love of God. This is being God in this form. This is being holy. Drugs get you here; this is why we take them. They are sacred drugs and only the abuse of them—which is not being in this state of love after taking them—is a crime. It is so important to exit the mundane into the divine; it should be a law—but there can be no society law that encourages you to leave the society.
The insistence that ancient accounts are verbally handed down without error over hundreds or thousands of years before they are written down, is one of the greatest pieces of bullshit that underlies any number of belief systems. The only verifiable evidence of this being true is if two separate written accounts can be shown to be independently written after being passed down verbally, without contact with each other. All such texts, such as the Bible and the Babylonian creation myths and the various flood myths from around the world etc, which would have all had the same original source, show enormous differences between them and prove that the pre-written verbal hand down method was anything but incorruptible and perfect. There is no evidence to show that verbally transmitted myths are without error, and every example to show that they are riddled with errors.
It has all been inculcated, treaded down, to produce the necessary subservience to society for it to function. A return to childhood freedom is our transcendence, but being outside of this secure family brings ostracism and the label of mad, or at the very least, unwelcome. The brains workings are a result from the environment within which it functions, and its breaking down is to a more natural and base purpose. There is no state of being that isn't right; only the protestations that it could be different. Every state when embraced is the state of God's existence. Good and bad are dichotomized labels that come from the organising nature of society. They are part of the illusion which we have to transcend.
If the religious views are right, then we are living in a simulation. The very concept of being in a simulation comes from religious contact and its paradigms. The spiritual feelings and concepts which holds hands with God in the religions, is our earliest means of experiencing the world, and the later attachment of mental explanations of coincidence producing an over watcher, is interpreted as God.
The universe has no concept of failure or success, Gaia has no concern for our welfare and Nature does not care if we die, because all of it is all just part of the process. It is all inconsequent to any of these Gods, because all these concerns of ours are created by the minds of mankind. It is our fictions which produce the comforts which create our gratitude and our wanting to believe in a gracious and caring spirit—the origin of which is our experience of our nursery protection by our parents, and is the reason for the paternal anthropomorphising of God. All these paradigms are for our own mental insecurities and fostered and constructed by the very mechanism which is in need of the assurances.
God doesn't give a fig, so there is no point in any sycophancy to him. Any worship is an appeasement to your complacency, a trying to wake you from your mundane monotony. The only thing that is listening is your own subconsciousness and the creator of your experience, and this story teller may even be able to turn you into a believer from what it shows to you. The 'being love' that is within this believing, produces the state of being that justifies the validity of the whole process. It doesn't have to have archaic stories overlayed it and childlike imaginings of other dimensions and guiding anthropomorphic hands making it all happen, we can just as easily know that it is neural workings and biological reactions producing our state of holy acceptance and grace, and even use the same words of God and Heaven. The ancient stories are mangled beyond hope of recovery and so far from literal truth that they are only a distraction to our philosophy of living now.
"Give it to me you fucking cunt", is as much of a prayer as any nice and humble sycophantic asking. God does not care about polite society, but it might respond to an emotive insistence, as this will activate all sorts of biological means to acquire what is being sort, and we will tell the story after. Prayers may be said in any number of languages, and there are any number of words that might refer to God—including those that refer to his opposite—because it is all God. The universe is the one God and it is the whole universe, not the tiny human society on one tiny planet. Only using words that are acceptable in polite human society, is not seeing the reality at all. Any God that is capable of understanding the religious concepts that we use, would be insulted by them. This is not how it works.
Your religion should be coming from the present, not the past. You shouldn't be listening to anybody else if you want to know the divine. Focussing into the divine is achieved by concentrating upon relaxation and the breath which produces calmness and an unresisting awareness of reality, and with the mind stopped, you are there.
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You can only exchange one insanity for another. Try exchanging the insanities of misery and happiness. They are all illusions. Insanity is a societal definition according to that society. Change the society, and the borders of insanity change considerably, even reverse. It is all, and only ever will be, concepts of the mind. The Reality is how we can say it. Madness is just a doorway between different mental states. Each is incomprehensible to the other side, and is called madness. Each is legitimate from its own perspective and quite sane.
You have to be aware that you are in illusion, or you won't be questioning, seeking, to see the truth.
You are being a society automaton when you do not recognise that you are divine. When you do see from the divine perspective, all human interaction is then viewed to be a little like chimpanzees playing. The sanity of it is that it is all madness.