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What can be said!!
In the name of god and religion, throughout history, mankind has already committed a battery of heinous and stupid acts and it's still continuing!! Seriously speaking, all a priori convictions about god and religion have failed, will eventually fail. That's why sometimes a thought comes over in my mentation, as I am on the verge of completion of this "Why Buddhism is true" by Robert Wright (I am not trying to promote Buddhism here though): The issue of God is at all not important for mankind and what the Buddha preached (---> peace, love, kindness, compassion and etceteras) might possibly work for centuries and millennia ahead.
Also, in one of his videos, Jordan Peterson has said something like this, "I think Jesus was also stupid in a way. He preached that he only was the son of God". Had he said that everyone around him also equally was the son/daughter of God, the case would have been entirely different and not much of bloodshed would have happened! Kind of resonates!
The problem exactly lies in the minds of these so-called saviors themselves. Looking at things from the "psychodynamics" vantage point; first, they create some sense of guilt in people's minds and second, they preach indirectly and subtly, "you have to rise to be as good as I am".
In the web of life, why should a "rose" coerce, no matter how subtle the coercion is, a "marigold" to be a "rose?" It never happens though, in the garden of flowers!! Diversity is the rule of law in nature, we cannot disagree that!
On a rather personal note, I think, the hunger for Moksha or for an after death paradise (if there is such a thing in actuality) is what's causing all the misery and fanning the flames!! 21 births in the Golden Age?! Frivolous!! The so called saviors of mankind are the ones creating all the trouble, it occurs.
When I go for a morning walk, I find a blithely singing bird or a stray dog more content and satisfied than a human being is or has ever been. Poor us, miserable us!!
In the name of god and religion, throughout history, mankind has already committed a battery of heinous and stupid acts and it's still continuing!! Seriously speaking, all a priori convictions about god and religion have failed, will eventually fail. That's why sometimes a thought comes over in my mentation, as I am on the verge of completion of this "Why Buddhism is true" by Robert Wright (I am not trying to promote Buddhism here though): The issue of God is at all not important for mankind and what the Buddha preached (---> peace, love, kindness, compassion and etceteras) might possibly work for centuries and millennia ahead.
Also, in one of his videos, Jordan Peterson has said something like this, "I think Jesus was also stupid in a way. He preached that he only was the son of God". Had he said that everyone around him also equally was the son/daughter of God, the case would have been entirely different and not much of bloodshed would have happened! Kind of resonates!
The problem exactly lies in the minds of these so-called saviors themselves. Looking at things from the "psychodynamics" vantage point; first, they create some sense of guilt in people's minds and second, they preach indirectly and subtly, "you have to rise to be as good as I am".
In the web of life, why should a "rose" coerce, no matter how subtle the coercion is, a "marigold" to be a "rose?" It never happens though, in the garden of flowers!! Diversity is the rule of law in nature, we cannot disagree that!
On a rather personal note, I think, the hunger for Moksha or for an after death paradise (if there is such a thing in actuality) is what's causing all the misery and fanning the flames!! 21 births in the Golden Age?! Frivolous!! The so called saviors of mankind are the ones creating all the trouble, it occurs.
When I go for a morning walk, I find a blithely singing bird or a stray dog more content and satisfied than a human being is or has ever been. Poor us, miserable us!!