There are a number of human beliefs that are either naturally-occurring human beliefs, that have been unnaturally fostered and encouraged, to our detriment, ...or that are unnatural beliefs that have been pushed upon us, to pacify us, to cause us to place a totally unjustified level of trust in an illegitimate political and economic system of authority (hierarchical and patriarchal) that will ultimately destroy us. If we wish to have a future, we have to strip ourselves of those beliefs (in lies). Religious belief, god belief, and supernatural belief of all kinds, are NOT sacred or holy or reverential. They are tools that have been used for manipulation, ever since the first Shaman wanted to trick his tribe into believing he was a healer, and, to accomplish that, claimed that he had a special way of communicating with the dead ancestors of the tribe. All of these beliefs are anti-human. They create a false view of our place in the world, and steal from us our true, natural relationship with other living things, and indeed our relationship with the whole universe, in which we, and our home solar system, evolved, by purely physical processes. Belief in free will is almost totally unquestioned. But, it is the keystone that holds up the whole edifice of power and authority that subjugates us. From the assumption of free will (based on the supernatural belief in a soul), flows, naturally, the assumption that there is such a thing as good and evil, and that people should not only be held accountable for their decisions to act in evil ways, but that their greatest suffering should be blamed on THEM, for having made bad choices. ...when, in fact, all of a persons actions result from inherited behavioral tendencies and the sum total of that persons life experiences. As the wondrous biological machines that we are, our actions are just the programmed responses of the incredibly complex organic computer (brain) that each of us mistakes for a self, a perceived entity of identity, which is just an illusion. None of this, in any way, diminishes the significance of our lives, to each other, or the depth of our feelings for each other, on an interpersonal level. The main effect of realizing our true nature is that it allows us to correctly interpret the motivations of our fellow humans, particularly those who are less familiar to us. We can accept the lies, and continue blaming and hating those who we are told are destroying our society, by their laziness and general lack of moral responsibility, or we can strip ourselves of those lies, and see all humans, indeed, all living things, as part of the same, extended family of amazing, evolved, physical organic machines, intimately connected to (and dependent upon) each other, by complex ecological relationships, and all just as intimately connected to (and dependent upon) the physical systems of minerals, water, and energy on the surface of the only planet, upon which we have ever found such a naturally-evolved web of living and non-living materials, existing in such a delicate balance, for only a short time, until the next external or internal (possibly self-inflicted, at this point in human development) extinction-level-event, which will set life back, but certainly not prevent it from re-flowering into a new, wondrously-unpredictable set of complex organisms and interrelationships.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:57:37 +0000
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