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CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS:
“Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?
It was noted earlier that, without a single exception, every one of the fundamental, ideological types who have heard the invitation to consider insanity (rather than “evil people” or “a god of evil”) as the possible motivator of all that they call “evil” have all rejected that invitation outright.
Some
time back, an Ultra-Christian woman became very upset when her Bible-based
belief in the duality of “good vs. evil” was questioned. She was quite sure
that “Satan is at work in the world.”
She became convinced that the intent here was to deceive her when it was
explained that in the original Hebrew, “satan” was a verb, not a noun to be
used to name “an evil entity.” The verb merely meant, “to oppose” or “to
obstruct.”
It was not until the mid-300's A.D. at Nicea that the men who rewrote what was
originally deemed to be the “infallible Holy Scriptures” changed the verb “satan”
to a noun, capitalized it, and used that noun as a personal identifier of “The
Adversary of God.”
(The
same crowd took the name of the pagan “Lord of the Flies” or “The God of
Insects” - specifically, “Beelzebub” - and made that synonymous with “Satan” as
well.)
Maharaj explained that the concept of “God” was dreamed up by men, and it
should be clear from the above that the concept of Satan was also dreamed up by
men, yet billions upon billions have believed from that time to this that there
is “evil in the world” and it is inspired by Satan;
therefore,
when persons are looking for “the cause” of this or that “evil” event or “the
cause” of this or that “evil” behavior, if those persons are supernatural,
magical thinkers, they will turn to Satan-generated “evil” as the cause.
(First, it should be understood that Maharaj made clear that the cause of all
is . . . all. There is no single cause for anything, and there is no Prime
Causer either because, again, men just made up that concept, too.)
Relatively speaking, though, as one goes back to the more recent roots of any
given person or event that is taken to be “wicked,” the question can be asked:
Is this
event, or is a certain behavior, rooted in “evil,” or is it possible that it is
rooted in insanity? Consider this recent event that happened a short drive from
the office where this book is being written:
“HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The Lone Star College Cy-Fair campus is back open while
investigators are working to figure out why a student slashed 14 people there
on Tuesday [9 April 2013]. Investigators are piecing together a motive behind
the attack at the school on Barker Cypress, and there are new clues that the
suspect may be mentally unstable.
“Investigators say stabbing suspect Dylan Quick fantasized for years about this
attack. They say he first started thinking about it when he was just eight
years old.
“The attacks happened just after 11am Tuesday inside both the first and second
floor of the school's Health Sciences building. Deputies confirm witness
accounts that Quick used a razor utility knife of some kind and that he was in
possession of spare blades.
“The defendant gave a videotaped confession, admitting he stabbed complainants
multiple times with an exacto knife because of his fantasy to kill people,”
read a judge in probable cause court overnight.
“Students were held inside classrooms as the campus went into lockdown. One
student told KTRK that students held a prayer circle in the classroom. One
parent said his son called from inside after the event and said that there was
no need to worry because 'the Lord was protecting him'.”
How
special, yes? Protected one, but not the other fourteen? Indeed, that Power
does seem, as they say, to “work in mysterious ways,” if that Power were to
truly exist.
So, again . . . “evil”? Or insane?
Time to revisit a point offered earlier in this series: the message being
spread by those who believe in “The Good News” or in some “program's” message
is that a god or gods and goddesses are the only answer to humanity's problems
and that people all just need to be religious and / or spiritual. If that
happens, so their story goes, then people will be healed both physically and
mentally.
A by-product of such healing is that evil will be eliminated and peace and
harmony will come to the planet. They claim that anyone who becomes religious
or spiritual will be happy and joyous and free. White magic, yes?
But if that were going to happen, if turning to a god (or gods) or if being
spiritual is the plan, then all is fruitless. Why?
Because humans have spent 25,000 years or more being spiritual and godly, yet
neither ignorance nor insanity nor “evil” has been eliminated or even
curtailed. Far Easterners for 5000 years have gathered to worship their gods
and goddesses - with the risk of being killed during one of the human stampedes
that occur regularly at their religious festivals - yet neither ignorance nor
insanity nor “evil” has been eliminated or even curtailed.
The ancient Romans and Greeks had a host of gods and goddesses that they turned
to for thousands of years, yet neither ignorance nor insanity nor “evil” has
been eliminated or even curtailed.
The Jews
have had a god for about 4000 years that they turn to, yet neither ignorance
nor insanity nor “evil” has been eliminated or even curtailed.
Christians have has a god for about 2000 years that they turn to, yet neither
ignorance nor insanity nor “evil” has been eliminated or even curtailed. And
Muslims have had a god for over 1300 years that they turn to, yet neither
ignorance nor insanity nor “evil” has been eliminated or even curtailed.
In fact, quite to the contrary, all of their beliefs and efforts and their
assumed religious and spiritual identities have actually expanded ignorance and
insanity.
The question for all of them is, “So, how's that working?” After they offer
whatever answer they have been programmed and conditioned to offer to that
question, then the next question is, “No, really, how's that working?”
Then, it
might be asked, “Looking at the results throughout the history of the planet
since persons began assuming religious and spiritual roles and then playing
those out with gusto, overall, how's that been working? Are you really
impressed?”
Yet their programming and conditioning kick in and persons behave as two
persons did this week. One male said, “My dad used a belt to beat me, and thank
goodness he was willing to do that. I needed it.” A young woman, now in her
20's as well, said that her dad “spanked me regularly with a wooden paddle so
severely that sometimes I had water blisters form on my butt.”
Then, like the male, she minimized her parent's actions and dismissed the
possibility of any resulting traumatic effects and said, “I've never been
bothered by what he did because I knew I deserved it.” Yet both that male and
that female are in counseling, the male trying to understand why he is so
abusive to the women he dates and the female trying to figure out why she keeps
“choosing” abusive males and staying with them even as their abusive behaviors
escalate.
They are in total denial concerning the actual results of their fathers'
actions so they both heap praise on their abusive parents whose methods were a
total fiasco.
In the case of persons playing their spiritual or religious
roles, they too deny the facts. A god or gods or goddesses have supposedly had
forever to get things right but have not done so.
Yet those “followers” are in total denial concerning the actual results of
their “Heavenly Father's” actions and, therefore, heap praise on their Higher
Power or God whose methods have also been nothing less than a total fiasco
(were that Power to actually exist and were that Power to actually have any
methods that are being used).
Any so-called “believer” that could develop even the slightest shred of
objectivity would have to finally admit, “Wait a minute. The method I've been
supporting and endorsing has been tried for thousands of years and nothing has
changed as far as eradicating what I call 'the evil in the world.' And the god
I've been worshipping and counting on to eradicate 'evil' has had thousands (or
millions?) of years to eradicate 'the evil in the world' but has not done so.
We're screwed!” Maybe, or maybe not ... at least not totally. How come?
Well, what if all dualities are false, making the “good vs. evil” duality
false? And what if all of “The Judges” are in error as they decide what is “good”
and what is “evil” and what “the source of evil” is? What if all that they call
“evil” is not about “evil” at all, and what if all that they call “evil” is not
caused by “Satan” or “Beelzebub”?
That might help clarify such questions as, “Who is really more powerful . . . your God, or the God of Evil?” and “If your God is all-powerful, why doesn't He
/ She / They just use that power to destroy 'The Adversary of God' or 'The Lord
of the Flies' (a.k.a., 'The God of Insects' or 'Beelzebub') and be done with
evil once and for all?”
Consider the two options:
a. either there is (1) a god who is obviously unwilling to end evil and (2)
there is indisputable historical evidence to show that after trillions of
persons have been religious and spiritual, all of their efforts failed to end “evil”
or the human problems that have repeated themselves over and over; or
b. what is deemed “evil” has nothing to do with an inefficient god or Satan but
has everything to do with “ignorance and stupidity and insanity.”
Relatively speaking, if those are the options, then one should hope that there
is no “god or gods and goddesses of good” and that that there is no “god of
evil” and that “b” is the actual case. Why?
If the cause of all events and persons who are deemed to be “wicked” is merely “evil”
and you're believing that a god or gods or goddesses are “the answer,” that
single solution based in a belief in a single cause has already been shown to
be a total failure. You really are screwed. All is hopeless, relatively
speaking.
But consider: if there is a cause (or a chain of causation) rooted in something
other than “evil,” then there are some actual, concrete, tangible, specific
steps that can be taken - relatively speaking - that can sometimes address the
issues resulting from some of the contributing factors involved with causation
of things deemed “evil,” namely, (as Maharaj noted) “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
