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CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS: “Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?

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CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS: 

“Evil?” or Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity?

Examples of Recent Ignorant and Insane Assignments of Causation

[Continued from yesterday]

In the wake of the recent shootings of children in U.S. schools, most of the responses have been forthcoming from three camps: (A) the godly camp, (B) the gun fanatics and firearm manufacturers and their lackeys in government, and (C) the few who understand the various elements in the chain of causation.

In camp “A,” the consensus is that the acts have been rooted in evil:

“This is what happens in a sinful nation. People better get back to church and get close to God. This shows a need greater than ever before for prayers.”

In Camp “B” are the politicians who have taken hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars from gun lobbyists, from The National Rifle Association, and from gun manufacturers so that the politicians will not support the passage of stricter gun safety laws that might slightly reduce the sale of guns (which totaled 20,000,000 guns sold last year alone).

“We need to redesign school buildings so our schools only have one door which could be guarded effectively.”

“Guns don’t kill people. Evil people kill people.”

“The only thing that can stop an evil person with a gun from killing children is a good person with a gun.”

“We should arm every teacher with a gun.”

“We should arm the good children with guns so they can protect themselves if a shooter comes in.”

“It’s a demon possession problem, not a gun possession problem.” (Evidently, his plan would be for every school to be provided with teams of Catholic priests who have been trained to do bishop-approved exorcisms. I suppose that plan would have school and church authorities catch all students as they enter the one door available for entering and exiting and exorcise the hell out of 'em.)

In Camp “C” are those (especially “non-dualists”) who do not buy into the good vs. bad beliefs so popular among the masses that there is a heaven-monitored battle taking place on earth in which all “bad things” are caused by “evil people.”

Again, the self-labeled “good, religious, spiritual people” have had 5000 years to try to eliminate “evil” with no success at all. By contrast, in the last 25 or so years, huge advances have been made in some nations regarding the ability to treat personality disorders, neuroses, psychoses and the other mind-centered symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness (symptoms which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”).

So which is it to be? Yes, treating mental illness can be time-consuming and cost-consuming, but the 5000-year old plan has been time-consuming and has pulled more money from  the masses than any other single source, all with no results.

Another contributor to chaos is the concept of xenophobia.

Xenophobia by definition might deal with excessive (and unfounded) nationalistic pride that results in a distrust or hatred of people from other countries, but its results differ not at all from the results of self pride, group pride, tribal pride, racial pride, ethnic pride, economic-status pride, cultural pride, religious pride, and spiritual pride. 

The insanity of xenophobia's duality-based “us vs. them” mentality is this: “There is nothing worse than when they kill us, requiring that we kill them. As for 'us killing us,' no problem.” In the U.S., with the most heavily-armed population on the planet, 30,000 Americans kill 30,000 other Americans annually; 300,000 Americans kill themselves annually via the use of tobacco products that are made by Americans. 

When 30,000 or 300,000 are killed annually, not only is there no uproar comparable to that which has been seen over 3 killed or 3000 killed; the fact is, there is no uproar at all over those far higher numbers. 

Maharaj: “This is [their] stupidity, verging on insanity.” 

So, it is not “evil” that downgrades “others” to the point that they are irrelevant, relatively speaking; it is ego and ego-state assumption and egotism that does that. When the agendas of one's personalities / personas are believed to be overwhelmingly significant while the agendas of “others” are simultaneously seen to be totally irrelevant, then “others” can as readily be squashed as might happen with a tiny insect that crosses one's path. 

Will that perspective get scores of children shot? You bet. Will that perspective get some killed and hundreds more injured at a public event in Boston? You bet. But can it get millions killed? Also, you bet. 

In the U.S., the call by many is to “kick out the foreigners and then build a fence to keep them out.” There are some who are rather amazed at that attitude, especially among the few remaining survivors of the invasion of what is called “the Americas” by Europeans who used the concept of “Manifest Destiny” to justify the killing of 150,000,000 of the indigenous peoples on the continent in order to establish “a godly, Christian nation” that could be “a shining city on a hill, a country that can serve as a beacon of light for the rest of the world.” 

What caused the battle lines to be drawn and led to the beginning of that invasion? As always, the assumption of ego-states, the upgrading of those ego-states, and the downgrading of any “others” that might be perceived to be interfering with the agendas of those upgraded ego-states. 

So there were in Europe “The Good Christians”; there were in the Americans those whom “The Good People” considered to be “The Evil Heathens.”

(Once the “good” lay out such ground rules as an example of what is “okay” vs. what is “not okay,” wherefore any surprise that “The Attackers” feel justified to attack those they perceive as “The Ones Who Have Always Been Attackers in the First Place”?) 

And there is the insanity: those assuming any roles that they believe define who they are will upgrade those roles, will upgrade their self-concept, and will participate in self-aggrandizement. Then, those will believe that they are justified to do whatever is called for as they claim that “we are fighting for our country and its freedom” and we feel quite justified in downgrading “others” - in downgrading “them” - and then attacking them. The rub? Sometimes, the “them” becomes “us.” 

Every ego-state, like that assumed by the Facebook writer mentioned earlier, places itself in the “good” category and all “others” that might be perceived as threatening that ego-state will be relegated to the status of “The Superfluous Others” or downgraded to the status of “The Evil Ones” or “The Evildoers.”

And nothing precipitates the downgrading of “others” more than the number one source of dualistic beliefs. On a planet where 97% claim to be affiliated with one organized religion or another, 97% are automatically trapped in the duality and dualistic beliefs that mark all dogma, and Maharaj made clear that what he called “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” always manifest in partnership with a belief in duality. 

The result is that until recently 97% on the planet are set up to believe any and all words spoken by the uninformed and ignorant when they speak of “evil and evil persons.” They readily believe in conceptualized, dreamed up dualistic pairings such as “good vs. evil” and “God vs. Satan.” And how do they spot “evil”? 

It is whatever they think is unlike them, because the non-realized masses always believe that “they and theirs are good” while the “others” - who are not like “them and theirs” - are “evil.” 

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION


If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 


"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 


"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

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