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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?

A REVIEW OF THE KEY POINTERS REGARDING THE DUALISTIC BELIEF IN “GOOD” VS. “EVIL”

Two of the highest-selling books of the last seventy-five years have been the “Holy Bible” and “The Big Book of AA.” Both contain major contradictions within their content: 

2. One need only read the first chapter of the “Bible” and see that there are two, very different “Creation stories” . . . that there are two conflicting explanations of how “creation” happened. Why?

Because the author was compiling stories from the ancient pagan religions that had been circulating for centuries but writing as if the narratives were coming to him afresh, “inspired by God” who was supposedly talking to him directly.

Because there were two versions of the pagans' creation stories in circulation, he included both. Probably 99.9% of those who have assumed the false identity of “A Christian” have no clue that there are two conflicting versions of “how the world was created,” revealing that 99.9% have never even read the first chapter of a book they say is the never-to-be-questioned guide for how they live their lives. 

3. In “The Big Book,” the author was intent upon explaining that, with alcoholics, “the main problem centers in the mind”; thus, he intended to establish a global network of hospitals to treat alcoholism by treating the problems that are centered in the minds of persons.

A group in Akron, Ohio, whose contributions were going to be required for him to complete the book, believed that “moral shortcomings” rather than mental and emotional issues were at the root of the illness. What followed was a form of blackmail when the Ohio group said, basically: 

“You can only include the line about 'the problem centering in the mind' if you add another line that says if alcoholics become religious (which they agreed to call “spiritual” to make the process more palatable to rebellious drunks) then those alcoholics would heal both mentally and physically.” 

4. The author tried to stand fast, arguing that “being spiritual” had nothing to do with addressing the mental and emotional issues which the doctors had identified as what needed to be treated in order for persons to be freed from the effects of alcoholism. 

Their reply was something along these lines: “Refuse to make the point that spirituality is the end cure for alcoholism and we will refuse to submit our stories, which are going to be about 75% of the book you plan to write. No spiritual cure, no stories; no stories, no book.” He caved. 

5. The result in the case of “The Big Book”: 

a. Millions upon millions of people over the last 75+ years have studied the most widely-read book ever on the subject of alcoholism's cause and treatment, and millions upon millions have been convinced that they do not need professional treatment for the trauma and mental and emotional issues that drive their illness but that they instead only need to be religious (a.k.a., “super spiritual”). 

b. A $20,000,000 worldwide study of the current effectiveness of their plan reveals a 1.5% - 3.5% average “success rate,” and “success rate” was defined in the study as maintaining only five years of sobriety. The results show that to try to use religion or spirituality to treat mental and emotional issues will result in near-total failure. 

6. The results in the case of “The Bible”: 

a. Billions read that book while being assured that every word in it is the inspired work of God (specifically, the Judaeo-Christian God of Abraham, the same God that Muslims would take to be the version of God that they would worship as well). 

b. Billions are reading ancient tales that were dreamed up by the leaders of sky cults - including the leaders of the ancient pagan religions - and are nothing more than myths and superstitions and fiction that is taken to be the truth. 

7. Maharaj: “Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud.” 

8. In both books, readers are being given a bastardized version of the facts; are being convinced to believe that the causes of “the problems in the world” are based in immorality and “evil sources”; and that the solution to all problems lies in believing in a God that they dream up, a God that is “their own conception of God” (resulting in a huge variety of conflicting and inconsistent conceptions). 

9. In that regard, Maharaj said: “First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and ... you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.” 

10. If there were an all-powerful, loving God, that God would not evidence such powerlessness and such a lack of love that He would allow humans to do what they do to each other. 

11. The message for non-dualists is the same message that was intended originally by the author of “The Big Book”: 

12. The main problem on this planet nowadays centers in the mind and is rooted in what Maharaj called “stupidity verging on insanity.” 

13. While insanity can most assuredly have a physiological component (chemical imbalances, nutritional deficiencies, etc.) insanity is primarily a mental issue, so the problem of the “mind” must be addressed. 

14. No “inspired” book is required for Realization. 

15. Maharaj: “I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.” 

He also said: 

16. “Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.” 

17. “When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world - everything - is disproved.” 

18. “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.” 

19. “There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a question of understanding.” 

20. “There is no progress.” 

21. “Go to zero concepts.” 

22. If you are suffering from cancer and go to a doctor who tells you to take two aspirin for what ails you, his advice is only going to guarantee more suffering and pain . . . and possibly a hastened demise. 

22. If you are (a) suffering from cancer and go to a doctor who tells you that you are suffering from an operable cancer but that (b) his or her recommendation is that (c) instead of undergoing surgery to remove the cancer within that you should (d) try to pray away the tumor as an alternative, then only one of you is suffering from - to use Maharaj's terminology - “stupidity verging on insanity.”

Only if you agree with her or his recommendation to pray away the tumor, then only are you both suffering from “stupidity verging on insanity.” Yet it is quite typical among those suffering to take the word of the one presenting himself or herself as the expert, is it not? Ah, now there's the rub. 

23. Earlier, it was shown via the result of a $20,000,000.00 study that neither religion nor spirituality addresses “problems that center in the mind,” that is, problems that are rooted in mental and emotional and personality issues. That approach was shown by scientific research to be totally futile, totally useless, totally doomed to failure. 

24. It was also shown that religious and spiritual amateurs who are offering treatment for alcoholism (without any training or licensing or regulation) have claimed for nearly eight decades that alcoholism is a problem based in morals (specifically, “bad” morals) rather than looking at the science that makes clear that it is a holistic problem that requires a holistic solution, offered by people trained in dealing with holistic problems and offering holistic solutions. 

25. That example was offered because it is the model for all faulty analysis of the links in every chain of causation and, therefore, explains why very little of anything that could be labeled “a relative problem” is ever addressed effectively anywhere on the planet. 

26. To reduce a highly-complex, multi-dimensional illness and to oversimplify it as a one-dimensional issue (namely, a “moral” issue or a “lack of morals” issue) is an act of fact-flouting, science-ignoring ignorance and stupidity and insanity, to use Maharaj's words. The same applies to all relative issues that are begging to be addressed. 

To be continued

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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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The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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