I do not believe that what I am about to say requires any particular religious belief.
I hold these truths to be pretty well
self-evident:
1. That the world is a place of evil and suffering and enslavement.
2. That this evil and suffering is intentional. In other words
it was planned and implemented by some intelligence, however
difficult such an intelligence may be to imagine.
Now, you can call these statements religion or you can call them plain reason or whatever you like, but I believe both these truths are fully accessible to any sufficiently aware mind. And once you fully accept the first truth, you will more readily understand the second: that it isn't accidental. That it is too complete to occur by happenstance. To me, any religious truth is subject to re-evaluation except these two, and I believe they are fully understandable by people who aren't religious.
Now, the big stumbling block for most people is the first proposition, because given the selfish nature of human beings, people believe that if things are tolerable for them or they are finding life enjoyable, then life is pretty okay generally speaking. The vast inconceivable ocean of human suffering and enslavement and degradation is not on their radar screens, so for them it does not exist until they get cancer or some other horrible disease and understand that this torture is what life is for numberless millions of people. For first-worlders, their relative wealth insulates them from such things as seeing people dying on the sidewalks from curable diseases and old men and women breathing out their last in a wet ditch covered in their own waste, as is a not uncommon sight in some corners of the world. It insulates them from the special horror of child labor, little children pressed into service in the name of industry and commerce. It insulates them from the prisoner living out his time in a special man-made hell on Earth.
However, even aside from all this, cruelty and pain is an integral part of the operating system of life on Earth. Even plants thrive on death though they don't always cause it (sometimes they do) and all animal life depends on the destruction of other organisms. Animals do feel pain and humans cause imprisonment and torment to billions of sensate beings in the name of food or industry.
In my mind's eye I can see you turning a blind eye to these truths, turning away from them, rationalizing them. I can hear you thinking "there is pleasure in life, there is joy in life, it is not as dark as you say." And thus pleasure performs its prime function in this world for human beings: keeping you participating in the process. The perfect hell is not all torment, there is enough reward to keep you chasing after it and keeping the wheels of this world moving. This world would not serve its purpose if all beings simply said "fuck it" and stopped eating and died. No, you have to be involved, you have to love it, which is part of the intentionality I mentioned. The perfect prison has no walls, except in the prisoner's mind. The pleasure in life is part of the trap. And most forms of pleasure involve perpetuating the suffering of other beings.
Enjoy a fine meal? I bet whatever you are eating didn't like the process of getting it to you.
Sex? Pair-bonding is necessary to keep the species going and emotional love and the drama of romance is useful as a distraction from what the world really is.
Like to go for a car trip? Enjoy a nice roller coaster ride? Want to visit foreign lands? The energy needed to power these things is usually ripped from the Earth, with the attendant habitat disruption and suffering of living creatures.
Virtually every sort of pleasure involves suffering for something else. Even if you enjoyed relatively ethically "clean" pleasures that don't directly involve the suffering of some creature, these pleasures serve to distract you from what is really going on. They serve the master of this world, whatever inconceivable existant that might be. Satan, call him what you want, doesn't matter.
The previous comments should make clear that I believe the possibility of a good and benevolent God creating the world as it now is, is unthinkable. Whether it was created by an intelligent malevolent being (lets call him Satan) or co-opted by such a being, is not in my province. It is not mine to know. I am restricting myself to those truths which are most clear, most irrefutable to me and can be readily understood by anyone who actually wants to see the truth. What is clear to me is that a God of peace, of truth and of goodness would hate such a world and desire to see it ended and the poor creatures in it freed. This would also mean that the action of God if He exists is either limited or self-limited, that He would do away with this torment but for some unknown reason cannot. Or that his mode of action is humanly inconceivable.
Now, assuming that you agree with the first proposition, what about the second? What makes me think that such a carefully crafted system of torment and enslavement is intended to exist? Well, first our existence as sensate beings. A naturally formed accidental world would have no use for interior experience or the experience of pain as we know it. This is a fundamental aspect of our existence, that we have an interior world that is markedly different from the nature of the exterior world, that we can feel. You can't have torture without someone to be tortured, a creature for whom torture is real. You can't torture a machine, nor would there be any point in trying. It is our humanity, our consciousness, which is indispensable to torture. It is in fact that which is most "godlike" in us that makes us susceptible to torment. Evolution doesn't need that, but a torturer does.
Secondly, the system of torment and enslavement is comprehensive. It is a complete system from which few if any can ever escape. It is self-perpetuating via pleasure and instinct. Think about it, what instincts do virtually all animals have? Breathe, drink, eat, excrete, reproduce, fight or flight. While we are the subjects of this captivity we are also the engine to keep the captivity operating as intended. Kill, consume, breed, repeat. It is brilliant and insidious. Whatever name you wish to call the master of this world, he's a genius. And there is enough pleasure to be found in the system to keep the slaves walking the treadmill as intended. Like I said, the perfect prison has no walls.
The world is a system designed to keep what might be called "sparks of God" (our sensate and conscious selves) imprisoned, tortured, and deluded as to their actual condition. It doesn't want them to escape from the reach of its torment. Logically, this would mean that this evil master doesn't want death to be the end of their captivity and torment, so you couldn't simply die to escape it. So he would grab that spark and shove it back into a body and repeat the torture all over again. Satan torturing the offspring of God, forever. It's a bleak picture, but I believe it is a truthful one. You, dear reader, may find this exceedingly difficult to accept. You were intended not to accept it. He or It doesn't want you to. One person out of perhaps hundreds will accept it. I believe however that every person who does accept it becomes a thorn in Satan's side. He torments the torturer. Every free man or woman is a torment to him.
Now, if you accept that the aforementioned is the case, that the world is a place of suffering and enslavement and is meant to be, what can we do about it? Can we free ourselves with religion? You must surely know if you have gotten this far and understood it, that the evil one would never allow a true religion to exist on this Earth, not one with any sizable number of adherents. ALL religions with any sizable number of practitioners has been corrupted to do his bidding, to keep you here. You must surely know this, if you have agreed with what I said so far. With great difficulty can the true signal be read from all the noise, but it exists. Snippets have gotten past the censors because the evil one understands that people will say they believe in a religion and not even think closely about its texts. Like all the people who say they are Christians but clearly don't understand the simplest thing about what Jesus actually said. They are living a religion of human invention.
The only thing I know to do right now is to renounce the world and everything in it (except the sensate beings themselves.) In both word and deed to hate the world and its master with every single fiber of my being. To become a fire that burns the World, a fire of purity and goodness like my Father is, so that Satan will spit me out. To become enlightened, unconquerable by him. To resist the flesh at every turn.
That's a tall order, and I am not there yet. I do believe I am entering a phase in my life where that becomes not only possible but compulsory. Whoever joins me in this quest would be closer to me than the pupil of my eye, and we are one.
Now, the big stumbling block for most people is the first proposition, because given the selfish nature of human beings, people believe that if things are tolerable for them or they are finding life enjoyable, then life is pretty okay generally speaking. The vast inconceivable ocean of human suffering and enslavement and degradation is not on their radar screens, so for them it does not exist until they get cancer or some other horrible disease and understand that this torture is what life is for numberless millions of people. For first-worlders, their relative wealth insulates them from such things as seeing people dying on the sidewalks from curable diseases and old men and women breathing out their last in a wet ditch covered in their own waste, as is a not uncommon sight in some corners of the world. It insulates them from the special horror of child labor, little children pressed into service in the name of industry and commerce. It insulates them from the prisoner living out his time in a special man-made hell on Earth.
However, even aside from all this, cruelty and pain is an integral part of the operating system of life on Earth. Even plants thrive on death though they don't always cause it (sometimes they do) and all animal life depends on the destruction of other organisms. Animals do feel pain and humans cause imprisonment and torment to billions of sensate beings in the name of food or industry.
In my mind's eye I can see you turning a blind eye to these truths, turning away from them, rationalizing them. I can hear you thinking "there is pleasure in life, there is joy in life, it is not as dark as you say." And thus pleasure performs its prime function in this world for human beings: keeping you participating in the process. The perfect hell is not all torment, there is enough reward to keep you chasing after it and keeping the wheels of this world moving. This world would not serve its purpose if all beings simply said "fuck it" and stopped eating and died. No, you have to be involved, you have to love it, which is part of the intentionality I mentioned. The perfect prison has no walls, except in the prisoner's mind. The pleasure in life is part of the trap. And most forms of pleasure involve perpetuating the suffering of other beings.
Enjoy a fine meal? I bet whatever you are eating didn't like the process of getting it to you.
Sex? Pair-bonding is necessary to keep the species going and emotional love and the drama of romance is useful as a distraction from what the world really is.
Like to go for a car trip? Enjoy a nice roller coaster ride? Want to visit foreign lands? The energy needed to power these things is usually ripped from the Earth, with the attendant habitat disruption and suffering of living creatures.
Virtually every sort of pleasure involves suffering for something else. Even if you enjoyed relatively ethically "clean" pleasures that don't directly involve the suffering of some creature, these pleasures serve to distract you from what is really going on. They serve the master of this world, whatever inconceivable existant that might be. Satan, call him what you want, doesn't matter.
The previous comments should make clear that I believe the possibility of a good and benevolent God creating the world as it now is, is unthinkable. Whether it was created by an intelligent malevolent being (lets call him Satan) or co-opted by such a being, is not in my province. It is not mine to know. I am restricting myself to those truths which are most clear, most irrefutable to me and can be readily understood by anyone who actually wants to see the truth. What is clear to me is that a God of peace, of truth and of goodness would hate such a world and desire to see it ended and the poor creatures in it freed. This would also mean that the action of God if He exists is either limited or self-limited, that He would do away with this torment but for some unknown reason cannot. Or that his mode of action is humanly inconceivable.
Now, assuming that you agree with the first proposition, what about the second? What makes me think that such a carefully crafted system of torment and enslavement is intended to exist? Well, first our existence as sensate beings. A naturally formed accidental world would have no use for interior experience or the experience of pain as we know it. This is a fundamental aspect of our existence, that we have an interior world that is markedly different from the nature of the exterior world, that we can feel. You can't have torture without someone to be tortured, a creature for whom torture is real. You can't torture a machine, nor would there be any point in trying. It is our humanity, our consciousness, which is indispensable to torture. It is in fact that which is most "godlike" in us that makes us susceptible to torment. Evolution doesn't need that, but a torturer does.
Secondly, the system of torment and enslavement is comprehensive. It is a complete system from which few if any can ever escape. It is self-perpetuating via pleasure and instinct. Think about it, what instincts do virtually all animals have? Breathe, drink, eat, excrete, reproduce, fight or flight. While we are the subjects of this captivity we are also the engine to keep the captivity operating as intended. Kill, consume, breed, repeat. It is brilliant and insidious. Whatever name you wish to call the master of this world, he's a genius. And there is enough pleasure to be found in the system to keep the slaves walking the treadmill as intended. Like I said, the perfect prison has no walls.
The world is a system designed to keep what might be called "sparks of God" (our sensate and conscious selves) imprisoned, tortured, and deluded as to their actual condition. It doesn't want them to escape from the reach of its torment. Logically, this would mean that this evil master doesn't want death to be the end of their captivity and torment, so you couldn't simply die to escape it. So he would grab that spark and shove it back into a body and repeat the torture all over again. Satan torturing the offspring of God, forever. It's a bleak picture, but I believe it is a truthful one. You, dear reader, may find this exceedingly difficult to accept. You were intended not to accept it. He or It doesn't want you to. One person out of perhaps hundreds will accept it. I believe however that every person who does accept it becomes a thorn in Satan's side. He torments the torturer. Every free man or woman is a torment to him.
Now, if you accept that the aforementioned is the case, that the world is a place of suffering and enslavement and is meant to be, what can we do about it? Can we free ourselves with religion? You must surely know if you have gotten this far and understood it, that the evil one would never allow a true religion to exist on this Earth, not one with any sizable number of adherents. ALL religions with any sizable number of practitioners has been corrupted to do his bidding, to keep you here. You must surely know this, if you have agreed with what I said so far. With great difficulty can the true signal be read from all the noise, but it exists. Snippets have gotten past the censors because the evil one understands that people will say they believe in a religion and not even think closely about its texts. Like all the people who say they are Christians but clearly don't understand the simplest thing about what Jesus actually said. They are living a religion of human invention.
The only thing I know to do right now is to renounce the world and everything in it (except the sensate beings themselves.) In both word and deed to hate the world and its master with every single fiber of my being. To become a fire that burns the World, a fire of purity and goodness like my Father is, so that Satan will spit me out. To become enlightened, unconquerable by him. To resist the flesh at every turn.
That's a tall order, and I am not there yet. I do believe I am entering a phase in my life where that becomes not only possible but compulsory. Whoever joins me in this quest would be closer to me than the pupil of my eye, and we are one.
Do not love the world or anything in the world.
If anyone loves the world, love for the Father
is not in them.
~1 John 2:15
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