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« on: August 28, 2010, 08:43:57 PM »
I have posted on here, in the now-distant past, my feelings (lol) and thoughts regarding Religion, and also Politics. What I have not done, I feel (lol) and think, is posted a clear-cut view what my personal philosophical views are, and how they may or may not align with others who are passionate about both topics as I myself clearly am.
That being said, here are the baseline points I would like to make, and I would appreciate any and all comers who wish to engage me in an intelligent, thought-out discuss. Disagreements are fine, welcome, encouraged, and will not be abused. I promise.
Now then....
"Midsophy" is the moniker that I subscribe to. The finer points are as follows:
Religion:
Religion is a social disease in my view of things. It keeps people focused on ritualized wasting of their time, until they either die for their beliefs, or they wake up at the age of 65 and have nothing but regrets (secretly, mind you, because being wrong is anathema to their perceptions). Religion leads to wars of attrition, genocide, and penis-envy, on a scale only matched by the size of the human imagination. One man's god is another man's Satan. It all boils down to a binary decision: Will you run with an established herd, make the leap and try to create your own competing herd, ambush an established or fledgling herd - kill it and eat it, or will you walk the path of they that are 'Not Connected'.
I believe (irony) that religion leads to most of societal problems. People will NEVER come to a consensus on basic norms that are force fed each successive generation of pathetics. People will NEVER admit to being "the odd man out" when such a massive movement such as Islam or Christianity is in place. I believe this is because people behave, en masse, from a place of FEAR.
Fear of the unknown. Fear of uncertain times. Fear of ridicule. Fear of loss of status or property. Fear of being shunned. The list goes on like a strand of DNA spitting out of a dot matrix printer 12 years ago. Fear. Fear. Fear.
Religion gives us a mask of piety. It creates a place where we can pretend to be noble, and count our blessings, when we really only want what we want, and all else be damned. Thrice. I find this silly, and beneath a creature of my distinction.
Politics:
Politics are the second symptom of social disease that I feel is plaguing humanity. You cannot escape it. You cannot ignore it forever. No matter who you are, and where you are, you are trapped by it, fed from it, strangled by it, and otherwise tossed aside by it. You can rail against any cause, and you will still be eaten. Alive.
What then, is the point to politicking? Why bother? If there is no permanent escape from it, for most people, what then is a mortal man or woman to do?
Simple: Leave society behind. It really is that simple. And yet, FEAR stops most from doing so. When I post on here, I am not posting on here from anywhere most of you want to be, or could be if you tried. I find that entertaining, but also sad, because I believe (lol) that many of you could unshackle yourselves, if you had the balls to do it.
Medicine:
My grandfather had a saying: "Get up early, go to bed early. Exercise everyday. Eat right. Die anyway".
The current mind-fail of my American compatriots offers me no end of entertainment. Diets. Machines. It all is a real circus. None of it matters. You are GOING to die. Nothing you do will save you. Nothing you say will save you. Nothing you inject, swallow, apply or wear will save you, in the end. It, all of it, this life we have to each of us, is finite. Deal with it. Medicine is a weapon of mass distraction.
Doctors proffer something Howard Bloom called "The Illusion of Control". They give you the false sense that someone is watching out for you, and has all the bumps ready to smooth over. In reality, where I live and pay rent, these persons do NOT, and will NOT. They are the most audacious form of Organized Crime that exists in modern man's pantry. Think about it.
Technology:
The ability to send your mother in law a photograph in seconds has diminished mankind's ability to actually experience many of the simpler things in life. Like the character of Morpheus in the The Matrix, telling Neo how people were so protective of the system of reality they believed was the only one, that they would fight to protect the delusional existence, I am telling you that you are losing your grip on humanity. This is not because I care if you live or die. It is because it is a cold, hard fact. I have spent several months living off the land. I have learned some things about people through watching them from the edges of forests and bogs, and I have learned that the average human being is physically incapable of living without the assistance of all the little gadgets and gizmos he or she attains. We cannot handle life anymore, without a GPS map of the area. We cannot listen to music, without it being carried in a pocket. We cannot LEARN latin, because it has no business applications. Technology, for all her merits, is a symptom of social disease.
I hope that some of what I have posited will help some of you to think, and I again welcome anyone and everyone to partake in the discussion. I borrowed heavily on some of this from what has been said the world over, but I feel it has been glossed over. I would like to hear from you guys.
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