The big problem I see with political divisions and the contempt for others it creates is that it's all about ego identification. Why do we need to be right? Why do we need to feel we are on morality's side. Why do we, in essence identify with what we feel is superior? Are we subject to such needs?
That last question seems undeniable to me. So where did we get such needs. Why do we identify with what is superior and once hooked never question it?
Have you ever really seriously tried to generate a scientific proof that what you believe is Truth with that capital T. I did and I discovered that all I had were unprovable assumptions I realized were simply opinions. There is no such thing as provable truth, goodness, or meaning but hiding behind them was a need to believe I had known what they were. I realized that everything I believed was utterly absurd and that the longing to believe them was a longing for something else, a desire to return to a long lost innocence where there was a joy in just being me. I suddenly saw that the need for meaning is as meaningless as everything else. That I am who I always was. It wasn't lost, it was just hidden by a loss of self respect. I was made to feel I was the cause of other's misery.
Think of how angry a person can be who is robbed of the only thing of value in life, the joy of being.
And we were not just robbed by others, we gave it away to worship other gods. That is what makes all of us worshipers deplorable. We hate deplorables because all us deplorables hate ourselves.
But the facts are it could not have been otherwise. We had to die to joy to physically survive. Guilt is just another belief that does not exist.
That last question seems undeniable to me. So where did we get such needs. Why do we identify with what is superior and once hooked never question it?
Have you ever really seriously tried to generate a scientific proof that what you believe is Truth with that capital T. I did and I discovered that all I had were unprovable assumptions I realized were simply opinions. There is no such thing as provable truth, goodness, or meaning but hiding behind them was a need to believe I had known what they were. I realized that everything I believed was utterly absurd and that the longing to believe them was a longing for something else, a desire to return to a long lost innocence where there was a joy in just being me. I suddenly saw that the need for meaning is as meaningless as everything else. That I am who I always was. It wasn't lost, it was just hidden by a loss of self respect. I was made to feel I was the cause of other's misery.
Think of how angry a person can be who is robbed of the only thing of value in life, the joy of being.
And we were not just robbed by others, we gave it away to worship other gods. That is what makes all of us worshipers deplorable. We hate deplorables because all us deplorables hate ourselves.
But the facts are it could not have been otherwise. We had to die to joy to physically survive. Guilt is just another belief that does not exist.
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