TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING

08/12/2009


TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING


The idea of being in heaven is misunderstood, when you have no hunger, no need to want for anything and then , no memory of your relatives or care, no feeling whatever of your past, then you are not the human you once were, you are something else.

The idea that the man "by nature" knows the difference between good and evil is also an ancient construct, it was promoted by those who claimed that man was led astray be the devil or evil spirits even. When we started to believe in a God, then the devil had to be created also, by necessity, God could not have created an evil person, so there had to be a devil making him bad things.

The truth is that a person is born mostly as a blank slate. Most of what we learn is by observation and then upbringing. I have observed a child of four pull down his brefs and tell an attending nurse, " suck this bitch!" was this child evil? or was he born knowing the difference between good and evil? we can agree that neither is the case.We are a product of our surroundings, thus a child born in an "Islamic" family is neither a pious one by birth nor a future suicide bomber, not a doctor or a grocery store owner, motels are run by the Indians, I keep telling people. And this too again proves my point that we expect people to be a certain way. we stereotype and we are prejudiced.

Then is there is what happened in Cambridge, MA, in truth both sides were right, the black man thought the cop was prejudiced, he was, and the cop knew he was not going to let a "nigger" mouth off to him, and he showed him, everything else is a big lie!

You see this all has nothing at all to do with what I am about to say, but then it is also connected too.

Humans are dumb animals, we only know what we have been taught and behave in manners that are taught to us, even by force, as in the military or prisons.

Religions were created to keep us in line. For those who believe that the man has the knowledge of good and evil seem to forget that the humanity has been evolving for thousands of years and has establish the criterion for good and evil based upon the society and the circumstances of its existence, including geographical location, lack or existence of outside threats, and last but not least the belief in a deity or many. You will notice that in societies that had threats from outside required bravery and warring skills, and societies that were under threats from nature sometimes made human sacrifices, all of this had nothing to do with an inherent knowledge of good and evil.

Even as most of the humanity today believes in a common God, and the "Holy Books" most of the humanity also believes that we don't need any boundaries, that the sole purpose of mans' existence is to fulfill his or her own personal desires, at whatever cost. While we pay lip serice to global warming we do not want to cars or air-conditioning, We buy biggest house and waste things to make us feel "rich", we talk about corruption overseas and bribe our own leaders and re elect only the most corrupt.



LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE