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CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS:
“Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?
Yesterday’s post ended with this:
97% are introduced to organized religion which will, throughout one's childhood and continuing throughout adulthood, teach and reinforce the most dualistic body of beliefs ever, including, “we are the only way” and “we are the right religion and those other people are all in the wrong religions” and “we are to go to the four corners of the earth and baptize everyone in the name of Jesus” and “no way - everyone is to be made into a Muslim or must be eliminated” and “we are the virtuous ones and they are the sinful ones.”
[That percentage has fallen because that long-standing 97%, during the last-20-years, has been reduced by 7% - 11% in persons blind attachment to the religion of their parents and ancestors.]
Via the
messaging of programming, conditioning, etc., the weed-filled garden of the mind has typically been made ready for the
planting of the greatest sense of arrogance and sense of separation known to
humankind, namely, the arrogance and sense of separation that allows
sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies to grow and flourish, all fertilized by
humanity's addictions to (a) control and to (b) the power required to be able
to control.
What follows is the development of multiple personality disorders that lay the
groundwork for fighting and killing and bombing - be that the bombing of a
group of people on a street or the bombing of an entire nation that a leader is
determined to “shock and awe” - including the following disorders and
more:
the Narcissistic Personality Disorder / the God Complex Personality Disorder
(P.D.); the Antisocial / Sociopathic P. D.; the Pathological P.D.; and the
Sadistic P.D. (Note that there is no “Evil Personality Disorder.”)
When those disorders are driving thoughts and words and actions, as all assumed
personalities do, that will get some elementary-school-age children
slaughtered; that will get some people bombed on a Boston street; and that will
get civilians bombed in Middle Eastern or Far Eastern countries that are
thought to be nations of “others,” of “them,” of “our enemies.”
All of those disorders, and especially the Sociopathic and Psychopathic
Disorders, will result in a lack of empathy, callousness and complete disregard
for anyone else or for anything else other than one's own selfish desires and
motives.
Yet such types are not obvious, especially in the most warlike cultures around
the globe, cultures that evolved from a long line of marauders and pillagers
and rapists and criminals, cultures that now behave in ways that are not very
different at all from their forebearers.
Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D. said, “People don't realize that
there are hundreds of sociopaths walking around [who] aren't criminals.” He
continued, but “they end up manipulating people to get into relationships;
they're the kind of people at work that you ultimately learn are sleazy; and
they're right on the edge, but [are] not criminal.”
He said, “Some refrain from violence because they can get what they need
without it, but many, of course, do cross the line into crime. Almost always
their manipulation skills are exceptional. A study published in the journal ‘Legal
and Criminal Psychology’ found that even though they are more likely than other
criminals to re-offend, psychopathic criminals are two and a half times more
likely than others to charm parole boards into releasing them.”
You may, therefore, have heard some saying of the Boston bombers, “I don't get
it. They were both such nice guys. I still don't think they can be the ones who
did this” and “They were really a couple of charming boys.” Charming
indeed.
On the playground, children who are angry because they have been indulged by
their parents for years, but are now frustrated because other children are not
indulging them, might hit a classmate and then might feel terrible afterwards.
If the
child feels no remorse at all, that child may be on the road to becoming a
psychopath who can shoot children in an elementary school, or - as was the case
with one U.S. President when he was a child - can blow up frogs with
high-powered fireworks and then laugh about it.
And THAT is the one who will eventually be able to blow up hundreds and
thousands of people by using high-powered weapons and then feel no remorse, and
THAT is the one who can claim even today that he is “comfortable” with his
decision to start an unnecessary war.
And THAT is the same type that can set bombs on a street in Boston and blow up “others”
as well. Yet, there is no difference in those bombing civilians on the streets
of Boston and a national leader bombing civilians on the streets of Baghdad
(the belief that “'we' are good when 'we' do whatever 'we' do but 'they' are
bad when 'they' do the same thing” notwithstanding).
Some researchers suggest that callousness and a lack of empathy can have a
genetic component and / or nationalistic component. For examples, look at those
in nations nowadays that mimic Aryans or their Aryan ancestors’ with their invade-and-pillage-and-rape-and-destroy
behaviors.
[In parts of the Far East and Asia, the Mongols best mimicked the Aryans when it came to ruthless, psychopathic behavior, continuing now as evidenced by Putin’s current invade-and-pillage-and-rape-and-destroy behaviors.]
There is little that will assure that truly bizarre personality traits and behaviors will manifest as the continuing use of programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination techniques, beginning early on with children.
It is programming
and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and
indoctrination which, in turn, result in body-mind-personality identification
and which result in being driven by dualistic concepts, notions, and ideas,
(a.k.a., “beliefs”).
The other option: heed the teachings of the sages - those rare vestiges of
wisdom throughout the ages - that have long advised persons to be rid of
body-mind-personality identification, to be rid of self-absorption, to be rid
of the influence of the nonsense in the “mind,” and to stop being driven by the
subconscious agendas of personality and personality disorders and
personas.
Neither the non-dual understanding nor the Ultimate Medicine is a guaranteed cure-all, but both can certainly address much of
the ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-driven behavior that is being
witnessed nowadays.
Tomorrow: A pause to explain how it is that personality preempts the ability to make choices (that is, how personality identifications are one present cause of people thinking that they are making conscious choices when they are not; instead, their every thought and word and action is being driven subconsciously and unconsciously by the agendas of personality identifications).
To be continued.
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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.
