clearernow
ex-l wrote:To be honest, I cannot argue against what you say because I know where you are coming from as well ... just please don't destroy the rest of the world and nuke 6,000,000,000 as you leave the room!
If the world truly bad enough, or hopeless enough, to want to annihilate?
Dear Ex-I,
And neither will I argue about your point of view and hard stance on the Destruction and organizational flaws. Yes I, infact, agree Destruction should not be used as encouragement for anyone to take on that path or make intense effort! I, personally, do not want Destruction to happen as life is so beautiful! And be assured - I am not invoking Destruction in any ways in the meditation hour as its out of picture in my journey :-).
For any spiritual path demanding surrender, it must be taken out of love and deep relationship with God (again I would prefer to call it the "source"). In fact, you are spot on. I know of many loyal and completely dedicated (in your terms addicted?) BKs (not from leadership - here I refer to the guys I know who are working, well educated and not living in centres) who will stay on even if BapDada comes and says one day Destruction is 50 years away. As nobody knows really what the real truth is till the time its revealed, we obviously can only debate and share views based on experiences.
I was contemplating another perspective today that in a way this path has an in-built filter through repeatedly making Destruction appear closer (like 1976) wherein people who had based their faith based on Destruction get out of it (on failed predictions as you say ...). Yagya has examples of hundreds of BKs leaving on each of these times when Destruction did not happen.
In today's internet world, I am sure many many of BKs are looking at this site and are now aware of these things and yet they continue with the path. There will certainly be some who will leave as well but I think it depends where has one based his faith and their individual experiences with the overall system.
But one thing I will certainly argue, and may be we open another thread, is on what is real spirituality? I do not think that the experiences are of lower order- a lot of the experiences are very positive and divine. A lot of meditation experience is about experiencing your inner self like a mirror, removing your flaws through a structured process, being loveful, having a positive attitude, being light, feeling empowered, feeling secure, changing yourself, looking at positive virtues in others, not hating anyone, having good wishes for others in your heart ... and so on ...
For me, these aspects are true spirituality and are experienced in the meditation and BK lifestyle. This is what gives the addiction not the failures of the system in certain aspects. These experiences can come from other paths as well, as they are universally what real spirituality is - aint it! None of these experiences correlate in anyway to Destruction or flaws in leaders/organization - when I am having any of the above experiences, they are not coming because of a certain Destruction date or that the SS in the centre is failing to practice what she is preaching.
And, lastly, on the hopelessness in the world - you and I are privilged and must thank God for where we are in lives but dear friend this is a very small fraction of the world. There are enough statistics to show the state of the world in general and for the majority of the world's population, especially in developing countries, the situation is very bad. One person dies every 3-4 seconds in the world due to hunger. Almost half the world, over three billion people, live on less than $3 a day. And what is the state of the mind of people in developed nations?
Funny part is that in lot of surveys done recently, US and UK have ranked very low compared to countries like Iceland and Costa Rica on "Happiness index", so we cannot say people are getting happier with economic growth either. A lot of this you can analyze yourself and judge the state of the world.
To me, If there is a God, then for him the state of his children in the world is pathetic..