I was talking to my girlfriend last night about how everything in the world revolves around a gender role. Men have wars, women have babies. Women set out to be the solution in society, they teach children, become nurses, show efforts to positively effect their society around them. Women just talk and socialize and are happy. Militant realists as we coined it. The whole world is fucked up by men and their wars and silly arguments; and women just ignore it, they continue silently agreeing to all of men’s bullshit so they can accomplish their true goals.
The true philosophical point of view comes in with Jesus and Mary. I don’t want to lose my credibility by using such an outdated form of information, but it applies here. Mary had a kid and raised him to be the nicest person in the universe. He spoke out against poverty and monetary greed. The only real evil is a system that takes advantage of its citizens. Jesus knew what that was, and sought to settle it. That same kind of peace loving rationale that I have today, as an empathetic atheist.
Empathetic Atheism is everything that religion supports without the “God” part. You’re nice to people because you have empathy for your fellow man, and you do so because your own will dictates it as humane; you don’t do it because you’re afraid of the reckoning that the bible promises if you’re bad.(Which has also captured itself in the form of Santa in our society).
God itself is an outdated creation by the people in the past who sought to spread this true empathy in the most effective way possible. Smoke a burning bush, learn the commandments. In that moment, he just decided it would be easier to teach people these morals if he told them they came from a higher power, when in reality, the higher power is the true absence of the ego when it comes to society.
People are generally kind-hearted if you just let them be. You don’t need to brainwash someone into kindness if they understand the true value of universal empathy and universal kindness. That in itself is what religion is trying to capture, and it was overdone with the stories and punishments; those actually harmed the cause of peace because it indoctrinated people into kindness. It corrupted the innocence that would have developed into empathy.
People have been shouting this same cause throughout history, and they are always assassinated. I’m not informed enough to know more names than this, but it started with Gandhi and then MLK, and John Lennon. This is such an adverse topic because it demands that the ego of the self be put to the side and ultimately disregarded on a massive scale. People wouldn’t be mutated by consumerism if they realized they could be happier without all of their materialistic needs. This is why the opposition to peace is so real. There are people who let their ego grow to a point to where they think they have the right to control what people believe, learn, and put into their bodies. There are people who profit from this, these people are mutated by the consumerism that America now stands for.
Marijuana in itself causes such a separation from the self from its chemical properties. It causes one to experience the true empathy that resides in the nature of humanity. These same people keep marijuana illegal because it keeps their profit margins high.
This shows why Buddhism is such a tiny branch of religion, because it’s not a religion at all. It’s more of an empathetic code that being a human predisposes you to. It also shows how truly a powerful story Star Wars is. Skywalker was consumed by his human attachment and couldn’t accept the fate of Padma. He couldn’t bare the though of losing her so he sought to accomplish anything that would allow that attachment to remain constant. It led to his emotional castration in the third movie, and his ultimate revival in the original series.
It's important to remember here that we are all apart of the same world, made up the same DNA, and live damn near close to the same exactly life. We need to be compassionate to one another.
The true philosophical point of view comes in with Jesus and Mary. I don’t want to lose my credibility by using such an outdated form of information, but it applies here. Mary had a kid and raised him to be the nicest person in the universe. He spoke out against poverty and monetary greed. The only real evil is a system that takes advantage of its citizens. Jesus knew what that was, and sought to settle it. That same kind of peace loving rationale that I have today, as an empathetic atheist.
Empathetic Atheism is everything that religion supports without the “God” part. You’re nice to people because you have empathy for your fellow man, and you do so because your own will dictates it as humane; you don’t do it because you’re afraid of the reckoning that the bible promises if you’re bad.(Which has also captured itself in the form of Santa in our society).
God itself is an outdated creation by the people in the past who sought to spread this true empathy in the most effective way possible. Smoke a burning bush, learn the commandments. In that moment, he just decided it would be easier to teach people these morals if he told them they came from a higher power, when in reality, the higher power is the true absence of the ego when it comes to society.
People are generally kind-hearted if you just let them be. You don’t need to brainwash someone into kindness if they understand the true value of universal empathy and universal kindness. That in itself is what religion is trying to capture, and it was overdone with the stories and punishments; those actually harmed the cause of peace because it indoctrinated people into kindness. It corrupted the innocence that would have developed into empathy.
People have been shouting this same cause throughout history, and they are always assassinated. I’m not informed enough to know more names than this, but it started with Gandhi and then MLK, and John Lennon. This is such an adverse topic because it demands that the ego of the self be put to the side and ultimately disregarded on a massive scale. People wouldn’t be mutated by consumerism if they realized they could be happier without all of their materialistic needs. This is why the opposition to peace is so real. There are people who let their ego grow to a point to where they think they have the right to control what people believe, learn, and put into their bodies. There are people who profit from this, these people are mutated by the consumerism that America now stands for.
Marijuana in itself causes such a separation from the self from its chemical properties. It causes one to experience the true empathy that resides in the nature of humanity. These same people keep marijuana illegal because it keeps their profit margins high.
This shows why Buddhism is such a tiny branch of religion, because it’s not a religion at all. It’s more of an empathetic code that being a human predisposes you to. It also shows how truly a powerful story Star Wars is. Skywalker was consumed by his human attachment and couldn’t accept the fate of Padma. He couldn’t bare the though of losing her so he sought to accomplish anything that would allow that attachment to remain constant. It led to his emotional castration in the third movie, and his ultimate revival in the original series.
It's important to remember here that we are all apart of the same world, made up the same DNA, and live damn near close to the same exactly life. We need to be compassionate to one another.
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ReplyDeleteNice post, mate. A lot of this rings true to me, as I (coincidentaly) was having a chat with my other half last night about Buddhism, and the complete acceptance that everything changes. Accepting this, the Buddhists believe, is the only path to true happiness, as upon making this epiphany, loss and grief cannot occur. Seems like a good way of thinking, but unfortunately I don't believe the world can be viewed in such a simple manner.
True, also, is what you mention about gender roles (by and large). The unfortunate point of this is that it would appear that no matter what changes take place to close the gap between the genders, there will always be a group of people who enjoy playing off the roles and thus, further their existence.
The only way that I have managed to get happy, and stay happy, is to realised that everything; every dichotomy, every role, every one, is connected underneath it all. People see themselves as standing on opposite islands, shouting across to one another and not really hearing a word, when really, all the islands are connected under the water, and everyone is part of something much, much bigger.
Thanks for the read :)
Thanks Faye, I must admit that sharing my life with someone really taught me that I am not here alone, funny how we both had these conversations with our other halfs. :P
ReplyDeleteI believe exactly as you believe, we are all connected under the water. :D