Cold Day
The temperature around here dropped. Its not freezing but I had to put on a jacket today. Last night we went to dinner at a place offering ribs cooked in a variety of BBQ sauces. It was good. I had a whiskey sour and although it was great it wasn't all that bad either. I have changed to an earlier version of DC++ because the most current version doesn't support file list compression which is a problem for my favorite groups that I am a part of. I am fascinated by this global drive to trust the fallable man as great protector of all that is good. I see it everywhere around me and once anything divine is removed from the moral and social fabric of society then nothing sacred will be of value to mankind. Why celebrate monogomy? Why prevent teen pregnancy? Why fight drug addiction? Why penalize murder? Why ensure equality? Why respect another? Why honor freedoms? These are all only valued with consequence and since mankind, through its selfish drive to remove all authority over it, has denounced any consequence, no values are held above another. I suppose fear of another man will guide those that desire peace in their minds. Fear that 1 out of an increasing amount of billions may ill will towards that 1. But the fear is so shallow! What is honourable and beautiful in the open may be dark and incidious in the closed. Would it not be freeing to have 1 be the judge and consequator of 1? Its amazing how science is this huge crutch that mankind seems to place all its faith into. Its amazing that the very fathers, no, the eldars of this religon of science themselves denounce it as a basis of belief in all that is real. The proof of divinity is all around us, they say, but mankinds enslavement to the world over shadows all truth. And now that I have this off my chest, I move on.
posted by FM Hradek @ 1/27/2005 09:46:00 AM
1 Comments:
AWESOME post! Mmmmeaty. ;-) I agree, people too blindly place trust in mankind's role as protector. And not just in a political respect, e.g. "axis of evil" and the politics of fear. I sensed that the core of your post was the absence from people's lives of divinity, and while my perspective may be slightly different, I think I agree with you (although you may not, hehe).
I think it's safe to assume, at least for this discussion, that fear rules the lives of the vast majority of people. Fear provides the real basis of morality, even for those who convince themselves their moral code is willful adherence to the tenets of a philosophy (Kant's Categorical Imperative), or a religion (Moses's "Thou shalt not murder"). Fear is deep-seated and instinctual, behind any rational thought. Perhaps that is why Jehovah in the Old Testament commands his followers to "Fear Me," because it was understood that fear is the Most Primal Motivating Force; it was a command to replace random fear with the understanding that He was behind every action and intention.
I like your point that it would be better for each human to be responsible for themselves. However, for some reason humans tend to give up their responsibility for security; for example if every citizen in the world was suddenly declared completely autonomous, certain weak people seeking power would trade their autonomy for security, band together, and use the threat of force to get what they want, one weak human at a time. I completely agree that total autonomy would be better; but something has to change for it to be possible, and I'm worried that that something is simple fundamental human nature.
As for the crutch of science, again I agree - people tend to dismiss right away what religious teachers say simply because there is not material "proof." Although, I would actually call this materialism instead of science; science allows for theories, which don't have to be proven to be accepted, or even worked with. Materialism on the other hand is the darkest kind of atheism, the idea that matter is the ultimate reality. That, I think, is the removal of divinity from social fabric that you were talking about. Eh? You might have to clarify.
And as for mankind's slavery, I most definitely agree that man is in chains, and mental ones at that - except insofar as we are bound to our bodies, which require food, and thereby our economy which requires us to labor for food. We must sell our time to get more time, it's the ultimate paradox. And we get so mired in the pursuit of better food (like cars and boats, which feed us on a different level) that we soon forget our search for truth, or even the apparent truths we already were taught.
Okay! I'm tired now. Hope this wasn't boring or pretentious. Hope all is well, and I look forward to tomorrow's post, whether it be a response or just an update. Say "hi" to Crystal, and see ya around!
~JP
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