RE: My Son, My Son
Thankyou for your response. I see it like this: Religion is a practical construct. The rules of most of the major religions are good. Keeps human society from sinking too far into animal life. (We're not too far from animal life at this time.) Faith allows people to follow the rules of religion. But spirit is something else. It is energy. consciousness. We all know there is something beyond our limited sense perception. (Except for the Buddhist, they say there is nothing.) Spiritual energy or consciousness is what allows us to tap into those mysteries. Yoga is what it is usually referred to. Yoga meaning ... to connect. Association with others who are eager to tap into the higher consciousness is helpful. Enlivening each other and sharing realizations and experiences. Take care my friend.
There's nothing wrong with animal life. They are way more social and can communicate unlike most humans. Does religion make life/people better? No way. Independence is punished, so are skills and using your instinct and enjoying life. The result? Broken souls, people who never learned how to draw a line (say: NO), invest in themselves, learn how to love themselves. If it comes to connecting the first step is: connecting to yourself meaning accepting oneself. Only if able to do that to the fullest a person can be happy and is able to give and connect with others, nature included.
Animals and plants get literally sick from having sick people, sucking all energy out of them around.
A great, creative day filled with love.
P.s that socket is different from ours. Does that fit or it with force?
That is one perspective. Another is how dangerous people can be. Without some social (traditionally based on religious principles) fabric it is truly survival of fittest. Dog eat dog. etc. The nice sentiments you expressed do not have a peaceful setting in which to manifest. It is true that animals are innocent. They are guided by instinct and not malice. But humans are different. There is higher capacity for knowledge and with it comes responsibility. But not every human takes advantage of the higher consciousness and when a human acts like an animal it is very very dangerous. It is not by instinct but by envy, greed, malice, lust, etc. Tricky stuff.
As long as humans copy animal behaviour, including inventions included, it's debatable if animals are then beasts. Like in the animal world, humans do live by "survival of the fittest" and what counts for them counts for animals: some are intelligent, others smart and the next too stupid to live.
Since animals can envy and be greedy, there are animals who rapists and go for lust the question is: if people behave like that aren't they acting by instinct or is it the church telling them that it's wrong because? The most successful people behave this way and use it as a drive to climb the ladder or achieve goals. Indeed, it is tricky, very tricky stuff.
As long as people aren't equal, intelligence, education, understanding, including the ability to notice they are manipulated, there's no way that religion or laws and rules (values and norms are not different) will have a positive impact. How religion/churches ruled and still rule is good example of how to keep people ignorant and intellect low.
Real religion is different. This is "cheating" religion. There are different grades of humans. Civilized and uncivilized. Civilized human culture has some sort of religion. The Alcoholics Anonymous group has this basic understanding. The addiction to alcohol once formed is very very difficult to break. There are psycholigical dependencies as well bodily transformations caused by the chemical. The AA group has found to break the addiction there must be acknowledgement of a "high power" than oneself. So the addicted are like the uncivilized and those free from the influence of alcohol can be compared to the civilized. Under the influence of the substance the addict has little or no control of themselves, their behavior, their mind, etc. Freed from the dependency they can reason and rationalize and make appropriate choices of behavior. Civilized behavior. This is just a crude example of how civilized and uncivilized plays out. Cheating religions do not get to the root of the problem. In fact they are the problem. But real religion can free a person from addiction by encouraging dependency on a "higher Power" that higher power is indeed within oneself. As well as outside. You can say God if you want. Then there is no need for external rules. The person is guided from within. Such a society of people who are taking guidance from within is a civilized society. But to get there requires intervention. Just sharing some thoughts on this interesting topic.
I don’t see the inner power—using it in what you call a ‘civilised’ way—as a religion. I also have strong doubts that it’s possible for everyone to achieve or live this way, since it requires a certain level of intelligence, courage, and other skills that most people lack.
The concepts as it I find interesting and I agree with it, just not with the word religion. Lifestyle would fit better.
How are you?
The word religion is a tough one. It seems no one actually knows what "real religion" actually is. So they toss this word around, have wars over it, argue and fight. Religion and politics seem to be almost synonymous. Real religion is spiritual. There are different levels. A spectrum. They want to make everything black or white, right or wrong, good or bad... A world of dualities. "Whose side are you on?" Us and them. When really we are all in this together. I do much better keeping a distance from this sort of black and white thinking. Just an old hippie.
I have had to take a bit of break from just about everything. Yesterday I didn't see anyone, talk to anyone, go anywhere. It was such a wonderful peaceful day. Hope you are well.
I am more busy offline and found tge peace and time I need to do what I like. The first thing I do if I wake up it painting whike I drink a cup (more like two) of tea. Once the weather is better I'll spend more time outside.
I rarely see any9ne which is a relieve and gives me more time to be with me and reflect/digest.
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