F.: Yesterday, the following definition of “nonsense” was offered: "Nonsense" has been defined as “language, conduct, or an idea that is absurd or contrary to good sense” or as that which “leads to instances of absurd action” or as that which “gives supposed value to things of no importance.” (The irony is that, once the consciousness has been so thoroughly bastardized via enculturation, persons must actually engage in the nonsense. Religious roles and spiritual roles must be played for a time in order to shift the focus of persons away from their identification with the body and away from their obsession with the materialistic “mind.” To reach Full Realization, however, both religious and/or spiritual roles must be transitioned since they are sources of levels of nonsense that reach the highest heights.)
Today’s posting will focus on two elements of the definitions of nonsense above to show how nonsense is perpetuated via “ideas” and how it also results in the taking of "absurd actions":
IDEAS
To perpetuate nonsense via ideas, believe in an entity (or entities) living in other worlds that manipulate everything in this world. Believe that holocausts, religious wars, cancer, genocide, AIDS, poverty, child abuse, murder, misery, and suffering are all happening within the framework of a divine, supernatural plan. Believe that storms are sent by a god for punishment. Believe that a god orchestrated the killing of 3000 people in an office building because He was angry about non-Christians, liberated women, and gays. Tell your children during worship services that they are drinking the blood and eating the body of a man, but criticize vampirism and cannibalism. Accept fictional and/or allegorical writings in “holy texts” as literal truth and allow those fabrications to control every aspect of your life. Believe that the body will reform after decaying or cremation. Believe that a virgin can have a baby and still remain a virgin. Believe that you can control weather via prayers. Believe people who tell you that there is a god in another world that wants you to give away part of your money and that he’ll bless you if you do. All of that will perpetuate the nonsense that persons believe in and will thereby allow nonsense to control their behavior.
ABSURD ACTION
To perpetuate the nonsense of "absurd actions," stand by a wall and wail as you bob your head and body back and forth. Strap on a bomb vest and blow yourself up while killing infidels. Destroy a family because a spouse is “not religious enough.” Give away your money. Have ten children even though you can only afford to care adequately for two. Wear special hats or clothes in order to be more religious or more spiritual. Hear voices and have conversations with fictional entities. Go to a "holy building" and roll on the floor and speak gibberish in order to worship a diety. Let holy cows roam your streets. Be willing to die if ordered to do so by persons with distorted beliefs. Believe that you heard a god tell you to bomb another country, even if it would result in the killing of thousands of civilians there...and then do it. Wear your hair in a specified fashion as defined by religious leaders. Practice corporal mortification, wear a spiked chain around your thigh for two hours each day, and use a knotted rope to practice self-flagellation. Eat only what religious leaders tell you to eat. Do spiritual disciplines all day long, every day, rather than living a normal, natural life. Think magically. Give up sex to better serve an invisible "lord." Wear robes. Believe that magical words can transform bread into the human body of a man who has been dead for two thousand years. Let your conduct be controlled by words dreamed up and written thousands of years ago by ignorant men. After learning that your religious leaders are molesting small boys, continue to go to their "holy buildings" and continue to give them portions of your income to use to cover up their crimes. All of that will perpetuate the nonsensical actions undertaken by persons.
Today’s posting will focus on two elements of the definitions of nonsense above to show how nonsense is perpetuated via “ideas” and how it also results in the taking of "absurd actions":
IDEAS
To perpetuate nonsense via ideas, believe in an entity (or entities) living in other worlds that manipulate everything in this world. Believe that holocausts, religious wars, cancer, genocide, AIDS, poverty, child abuse, murder, misery, and suffering are all happening within the framework of a divine, supernatural plan. Believe that storms are sent by a god for punishment. Believe that a god orchestrated the killing of 3000 people in an office building because He was angry about non-Christians, liberated women, and gays. Tell your children during worship services that they are drinking the blood and eating the body of a man, but criticize vampirism and cannibalism. Accept fictional and/or allegorical writings in “holy texts” as literal truth and allow those fabrications to control every aspect of your life. Believe that the body will reform after decaying or cremation. Believe that a virgin can have a baby and still remain a virgin. Believe that you can control weather via prayers. Believe people who tell you that there is a god in another world that wants you to give away part of your money and that he’ll bless you if you do. All of that will perpetuate the nonsense that persons believe in and will thereby allow nonsense to control their behavior.
ABSURD ACTION
To perpetuate the nonsense of "absurd actions," stand by a wall and wail as you bob your head and body back and forth. Strap on a bomb vest and blow yourself up while killing infidels. Destroy a family because a spouse is “not religious enough.” Give away your money. Have ten children even though you can only afford to care adequately for two. Wear special hats or clothes in order to be more religious or more spiritual. Hear voices and have conversations with fictional entities. Go to a "holy building" and roll on the floor and speak gibberish in order to worship a diety. Let holy cows roam your streets. Be willing to die if ordered to do so by persons with distorted beliefs. Believe that you heard a god tell you to bomb another country, even if it would result in the killing of thousands of civilians there...and then do it. Wear your hair in a specified fashion as defined by religious leaders. Practice corporal mortification, wear a spiked chain around your thigh for two hours each day, and use a knotted rope to practice self-flagellation. Eat only what religious leaders tell you to eat. Do spiritual disciplines all day long, every day, rather than living a normal, natural life. Think magically. Give up sex to better serve an invisible "lord." Wear robes. Believe that magical words can transform bread into the human body of a man who has been dead for two thousand years. Let your conduct be controlled by words dreamed up and written thousands of years ago by ignorant men. After learning that your religious leaders are molesting small boys, continue to go to their "holy buildings" and continue to give them portions of your income to use to cover up their crimes. All of that will perpetuate the nonsensical actions undertaken by persons.
Realization is about being restored to sanity, about getting back in touch with reality. Belief in nonsense is about being insane, about being out of touch with reality, and about refusing to complete the "journey" that is required to be free of the programming and conditioning that generate distorted thinking and insane behavior. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
TOMORROW: The Nonsense of GIVING SUPPOSED VALUE TO THINGS OF NO IMPORTANCE (Why a religious man said he felt the need to kill his unwed, pregnant daughter)
TOMORROW: The Nonsense of GIVING SUPPOSED VALUE TO THINGS OF NO IMPORTANCE (Why a religious man said he felt the need to kill his unwed, pregnant daughter)
