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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.
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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.
