Does religion not give people a firm grip at life?
Does it not lie out all which life has to offer, and
deprive individuals of wondering?
Religion keeps structure in our still-insane world.
People do not wonder, they do not question truth
because for them, they “know” what to live for;
they believe they know the truth, written in their holy scripture.
They are conditioned to believe certain reasoning, say, from their caregivers, teachers, friends. But they are not to blame.
Mankind cannot stand not knowing.
For if they did never know the truth, it would drive them insane wondering. “To explain the unexplainable, they come up with myths” (Bradley). They need to be confident that they are stable in life - that they do not live in a mere illusion - that they are experiencing ‘reality’.
What they do not know, they make up, they lie, they deceive themselves, by filling in the unknown with anything to satisfy their fear.
Religion explains everything to them, so they need not panic.
They fear what they do not know. It is much easier to believe in the lie, than to find out the ‘real’ ‘truth’. Whether a statement is true is an entirely different question from whether you or anybody believes it. Likewise, there can be truths that no one believes.
As a matter of fact – there are. And so, this society is so entwined with stories that it has become a fabric of it’s own being.
Are you really interested in unreal reality, catch up with the coming blogs.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Sick Society
The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education. The West has become too educate- that means it has gone to the very extreme, to one side. Now, there seems to be no possibility... Unless you introduce some means that can help the right hemisphere to be revived again in the universities and colleges and the schools, drugs are not going to go.
There is no possibility of prohibiting drugs by the law alone. There is no way to enforce it unless the inner balance is put right again.
The appeal of the drug is that it immediately shifts gear - from the left hemisphere your energy moves to the right hemisphere. That's all the drug can do. Alcohol has been doing it for centuries, but now far better drugs are available - LSD, marijuana, psilocybin, and even better drugs will be available in the future.
And the criminal is not the drug taker, the criminal is the politician and the educationist. It is they who are guilty. They have forced the human mind into one extreme- into such an extreme that now there is a need to revolt. And the need is so great! Poetry has completely disappeared from people's lives, beauty has disappeared, love also- money, power, influence, they have become the only gods.
How can humanity go on living without love and without poetry and without joy and without the most importantly, celebration of life? Not for long. And the new generation all over the world is doing a great service by showing the stupidity of your so-called education. It is not a coincidece that drugs takers almost always become dropouts. They disappear from the universities, colleges. It is not a coincidence, thi is part of the same revolt.
There is no possibility of prohibiting drugs by the law alone. There is no way to enforce it unless the inner balance is put right again.
The appeal of the drug is that it immediately shifts gear - from the left hemisphere your energy moves to the right hemisphere. That's all the drug can do. Alcohol has been doing it for centuries, but now far better drugs are available - LSD, marijuana, psilocybin, and even better drugs will be available in the future.
And the criminal is not the drug taker, the criminal is the politician and the educationist. It is they who are guilty. They have forced the human mind into one extreme- into such an extreme that now there is a need to revolt. And the need is so great! Poetry has completely disappeared from people's lives, beauty has disappeared, love also- money, power, influence, they have become the only gods.
How can humanity go on living without love and without poetry and without joy and without the most importantly, celebration of life? Not for long. And the new generation all over the world is doing a great service by showing the stupidity of your so-called education. It is not a coincidece that drugs takers almost always become dropouts. They disappear from the universities, colleges. It is not a coincidence, thi is part of the same revolt.
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