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The Slow Death Of All Things Godly
Originally posted by redoubt
reply to post by Oxygenation
The Slow Death Of All Things Godly
Much of what you say finds agreement with me but... I think this has less to do with godliness than humanity. While or society is nursing itself to become a godless culture of those robotic, unfeeling, unsympathetic and one-dimensional creatures, it is first and foremostly destroying its own humanity.
The result is today, and will continue to increasingly be, a species that builds barbed-wire fences around itself on an individual level, while immediately dismissing that individuality when it comes to responsibility and the consequences from the lack of it.
Faith in God... any God of any religion, is our acceptance of our own limited and often self-destructive nature and that alone, we really don't have all the tools required to succeed. And it really takes no more than a rudimentary glance at both the past and the present to see where forsaking the divine will ultimately lead us.
We are spiritual creatures on a physical journey... but for a great many, the spiritual is now denied and the physical embellished... as if its mortality was not an inescapable fact.
Originally posted by justwokeup
People aren't any different than they have always been. All thats happened is communication has improved greatly and the mechanisms by which the strong exploit the weak have become more subtle as a result.
There is no idyll in the past where gentle humans smiled beatifically at each other as they helped each other out.
If look to the government as your father, or for guidance, you are doomed.
Life after death is the carrot dangled to the masses to keep them happy toiling for the profit of the few. If you know your 80ish years here is all you get you are more inclined to want a fair deal in the here and now.
The world will improve when people understand whats going on. Its only distortion of perception that allows corrupt power structures to flourish. The failure of religion and the rise of the internet are positive developments for the species.
Originally posted by Oxygenation
Originally posted by justwokeup
People aren't any different than they have always been. All thats happened is communication has improved greatly and the mechanisms by which the strong exploit the weak have become more subtle as a result.
There is no idyll in the past where gentle humans smiled beatifically at each other as they helped each other out.
If look to the government as your father, or for guidance, you are doomed.
Life after death is the carrot dangled to the masses to keep them happy toiling for the profit of the few. If you know your 80ish years here is all you get you are more inclined to want a fair deal in the here and now.
The world will improve when people understand whats going on. Its only distortion of perception that allows corrupt power structures to flourish. The failure of religion and the rise of the internet are positive developments for the species.
I agree in most part with your post however i wouldn't necessarily say that the failure of religion and the rise of the internet are positive developments for us.
Religion in the context of a political world is used as a destructive tool and in the respect i would agree but as a whole religion isn't always a bad thing. We only need to look at those who congregate in churches and temples and mosques and see that most of these people find comfort and hope in their god and are generally very warm and humble people. To rid them of a place of worship simply because of those who wish to use religion to fight and justify wars shouldn't be a reason to hope for its failure.. in my opinion.
As for the internet, yes it has been a useful way of connecting but unfortunately probably about 95% of those connections have not only taken us away from the human connection but that it is itself filled with pornography, social networking sites which do little toward breeding healthy social networks.. and generally not very healthy things.
But i suppose the latter could be used as a tool for good.. only we should perhaps look at utilizing it more responsibly.