Wow human-kind really did get screwed over by those holy men, what have they done!? It’s weird because a modern person could read my above posts and conclude that they “don’t believe in any of that religious/spiritual stuff” (and therefore it does not affect them) and yet they are not aware of just how deeply and stubbornly this worldview is buried within them. And just what it takes to unearth it, it requires an actualism.
I was initially intrigued when I read the below quote from Richard :
I was therefore commenting that (in this specific instance) India’s paramount contribution to the retardation of evolution over the last 3,000 to 5,000 years (in that after maybe the millions of years of evolution necessary to evolve thought, thoughts and thinking (intelligence) in one animal species alone, the Masters and the Gurus and the Avatars and all the God-Men would have us value being thoughtless and mindless as if that is the highest virtue one can aspire to) is part of the mosaic of the evolutionary process and would soon become superseded when a mutation more fitted for survival takes precedence over such fantasy.
I have often wondered in the past about this, what would have happened if the spiritual/religious belief systems did not come to dominate, because those feeling beings would still exist to begin with, it is the instinctual ‘self’ that is the original cause of the problems.
But it is those god men that peddled their snake-oil, they offered a promise of eternity for the ‘self’. Those feeling beings could have long ago gladly allowed their self-immolation, but instead the god men locked ‘humanity’ into endless cycles of suffering for a promise of an afterlife.
And what a perverse worldview spawned from this, where life is merely a testing ground for all those identities to distinguish themselves in front of a god. Where there is an intrinsic distaste for oneself, the other and the world around. Where the various ‘group members’ sell out their originality and gladly enter the rat race, all in a desperate bid to avoid damnation.
This has me viewing self-immolation in a completely different light, it is nothing weird, in fact it is something way overdue. Something that if not for the “retardation of evolution over the last 3,000 to 5,000 years” would have likely been the all-round state of affairs.