Deconstructing Evil
The existence of evil is taken for granted by many people of diverse faiths and cultures. Beliefs in the existence of evil have evolved into elaborate, well-established doctrines that inform many people's opinions regarding evil so completely that they may fail to consider whether evil may really be real.
Deconstructing Evil
If we accept three Christian premises that are common to many faiths, that God exists, that God is the creator of all things, and that God is good, then we have to seriously doubt the existence of evil, because a good God would never create evil, unless evil served some good purpose.
But then evil would not be evil, evil would then be good.
We cannot, however, simply dismiss out of hand the faithful belief in evil of so many of the world's religious peoples.
While we challenge the real existence of evil, we acknowledge that a majority of people appear to profess a sincere belief in the existence of evil.
But what is evil really?
On one level, evil is a label; whatever we personally dislike in ourselves or other people may be considered to be evil either by ourselves or by others. Labeling someone or something evil may often serve valuable social functions, such as polarizing a community so that opposing factions may more easily recognize each others’ members.
Labeling someone evil may ostracize them from a mainstream community, another valuable social function because, on the one hand, it may help reduce their opportunity to harm community members, while, on the other hand, perhaps much more importantly, ostracization may help prevent people labeled evil from successfully publicly challenging the dominant doctrines of their alienated communities, churches or states.
On another level, evil might be considered to be anything or anyone that has caused harm. Given a wide enough scope, many people may conclude God must be evil, simply because so many things in life appear to cause harm, such as storms, poisonous creatures, or human beings, things that may be considered to be Acts of God.
Many socially condemned forms of human behavior may be considered to be evil, such as cheating, thieving, or violence.
It is important to remember that these things are not, in and of themselves, actually evil; they are really only labeled evil as a commonplace convention to define local limits of acceptable social behavior.
On still another level, the myth of the existence of evil is manifest in beliefs in evil spirits who either directly cause evil or who tempt people to do evil.
At this level, evil often becomes personified as God's adversary. The myth of the existence of evil then takes on a supernatural presence and an inimical stature mighty enough to rival God himself.
And yet, God can have no rivals; most monotheistic religious doctrines hold God to be peerless.
While we must continue to doubt the existence of evil, we cannot doubt the existence of the belief in evil, a belief that is a common part of the dialogues of every human society.
Perhaps we can approach the problems of the existence of a persistent belief in evil by asking, “Why do these beliefs exist?”
On the most mundane levels, all evil appears to have natural origins. Evil exists either by accident, such as with floods, hurricanes, or earthquakes, or evil exists by design, because a human being has chosen to hurt themselves or someone else.
Because both nature and human nature contribute to human suffering, nature has been commonly characterized as an evil adversary of God. By extension, those who worship nature have also been labeled evil.
A strong adversary, either real, or imagined is easily exploited to polarize communities and direct their productivity to a common purpose, their mutual self-defense.
In order to use a belief in the existence of evil to manipulate and exploit communities it is necessary to maintain conditions that contribute to human suffering. It is hard to believe in an impersonal evil with the strength of conviction required to surrender our freedom, taxes, tithes, or our lives, when we feel content and happy, so evil must be made a constant presence in our lives by those who exploit our beliefs in evil for their own political or religious power.
There is no dearth of misfortune to contribute to people's pain, suffering, or anger. However, there are deeper, more meaningful forms of harm, harms caused by human designs, which may become the real meat in a cognitive diet of belief in evil.
In order to successfully exploit a belief that evil exists, a constant state of fear is desired. The more fearful we are, the less rational we become as individuals, or collectively as communities. The less rational we are able to behave either individually, or collectively as a people, the more easily we are manipulated and exploited.
We sincerely doubt in the existence of an incarnation of evil that willfully promotes our fears and exploits our weaknesses, when the idiosyncrasies of human nature are adequate to explain the existence of human behaviors we might label evil out of personal or mutual convenience.
We ourselves, while preferring to disbelieve in the existence of evil, nonetheless can use the belief in the existence of evil to our own advantage. And, if we can manipulate others by their beliefs in evil, then so can anyone else, for we are not in any way a particularly special or privileged person.
Some of the best people on Earth (in their own estimations) rely on the persistent belief in the existence of evil and would have to invent evil to perpetuate their purloined privileges, if belief in evil did not already exist.
A simple examination of the popularity of modern satanic cults of dubious provenance reveals that they are nearly entirely reliant on the existence of Christianity.
The so-called 'Satanic Bible" is little more than an uninspired revision of Christian Bibles. The Satanic Bible crudely serves several Christian purposes.
Perhaps chief among the Christian purposes served by the Satanic Bible is that it is an instrument that subverts true religious experience just as effectively as the more favorably sanctified bibles of people who falsely considered themselves to be true Christians do.
As nearly as we can tell, there is absolutely no power to be derived from a belief in evil that is not mundane in origin.
By redirecting disaffected Christian youth to Satanism the church successfully builds a base of adversaries with which to frighten and cow its populace. By making Satanism a strong attractor of disaffected Christian youth they divert their youth from the far more threatening doctrines of Pagans, Wiccans, and other Nature worshippers.
True Satanism is an enlightenment movement. The Enlightenment Movement proved such a dangerous adversary of both the churches and the states that creating a deliberate perversion of Satanism was one of the most reliable ways to undermine the movement.
The enlightenment movement as embodied in its earlier Luciferian forms was discredited by association with people labeled evil Satanists who acted out the worst fears of Christians while having no honest affiliation with any true form of Satanism.
Satanic cultists supported by Christian doctrines in turn support Christian faiths and cultures in the same way that militant revolutionaries all too often support the tyranny of the governments they allegedly oppose. Both churches and states require their members to believe in the existence of dangerous foes that they alone can protect their people from.
Churches and states both use fear to rule their subjects. Both collaborate with each other at their convenience, while each competes with the other to hold the masses as thralls to their false authorities.
If we were to agree to the existence of evil we would have to conclude that both many churches and many states are evil based on their extraordinary histories of waht might be described as evil acts perpetuated to empower themselves and to maintain their powers.
Fortunately, we condemn no church or state as evil, for we cannot believe in the existence of any form of evil that is not a product of human misperception.
Hypocrisy, on the other hand, is evident everywhere we examine the strongest expressed beliefs of states and matters of faith.
We do not need an incarnate evil being to explain the basest acts of human nature, but it is remarkably convenient to create and maintain myths that perpetuate a belief in a being that embodies the ultimate evil incarnate.
As we see it, however, all of human imagination has the power to become real, so an ultimate, incarnate evil being must therefore exist only because we must inevitably create such out of our own misguided beliefs.
An ultimate incarnate evil being may therefore come to exist simply because we have collectively chosen to believe in it.
We must wonder what poor tortured soul we have then forever condemned to eternity in Hell, to be Hell's Master, as a consequence of our own poor, misguided faiths.
Who would choose such a fate for themselves?
Would they abdicate their role if they were free to do so?
Much as we seem to have created a hierarchy of incarnate evil beings as a byproduct of our misguided beliefs, we have also created God and all His Heavenly Hosts as well.
Or we will.
The creation of divine beings is a thorny issue. The creation of an Ultimate Divinity may be the thorniest issue of all.
We humans seem to be perpetually trapped in a mire of our own misbegotten beliefs and illusory perceptions. The true nature of reality is argued endlessly.
Advocates on nearly all sides may agree on one thing only, that we simply cannot know what is real and what is not. We may all be only characters in some phantasmal dream, a dream that may not even be our own dream.
In the midst of so much human misery, uncertainty, and suffering we must naturally strive to find something worthy of our faith to believe in, something that is both noble and ennobling. Thus have we dreamt of a good, fair, just, compassionate God.
It is possible our human natures can never be content without an ultimate father or mother figure in whom we may reliably trust our all of our lives and fortunes.
Our own parents cannot help but hurt us, the authority of school masters and church ministries cannot protect us from the harm our parents do; nor can they protect us from the harms they themselves too often do. Parental and societal authorities are both administered with unjust punishments and undeserved rewards.
The immediate perceived harm of a spanking may well serve a greater future good if we learn to harm ourselves or others less often as a result. Yet too often, the perceived injustices of our punishments alienate us from the greater social body, hence the chronic disaffection of many youths who tire of the hypocrisies of their parents, teachers, or spiritual advisors while learning, at the same time, to become much better hypocrites themselves.
Hypocrisy is clearly rewarded; otherwise, it would not be so prevalent in our human societies and cultures.
Yet we would hold forth that even hypocrisy is not evil, albeit it may often exhibit consequences measured in human pain and suffering.
If we do not wish evil to exist in our lives we are powerless to prevent it, except by our own choices to do our best, as best we can.
We cannot successfully rule or legislate the behavior of anyone, not even ourselves.
We are an ungovernable lot, we humans.
For all of our best desires to be noble, honest, loving, nurturing, compassionate, human beings, we may all too often still fail to live up to our own highest ideals.
Our human failings may be the inherent results of our all too human natures. However much we may strive to overcome our own perceived faults, we are still likely to fail in our own eyes, to become the harshest critics of our own behavior.
One aspect of human nature and cognitive development seems to compel us to project our failings outside of ourselves; we may often prefer to deny the existence of our own worst faults. We may tend to see our own worst faults more clearly in anyone other than ourselves, and to then label them evil while maintaining a false sense of our own virtue.
This is the root of our hypocrisies both as individuals and as societies.
We have a culturally acquired model of good which we may learn to strive to uphold.
Unfortunately, our own models of our best behaviors often come into conflict with our basest human needs and desires creating tensions within us that can erupt in mayhem or mischief at the vagaries of our emotional dispositions of any peculiar or particular moment.
What seems clearly right or reasonable in a state of anguish, anger, or despair is all too often a cause for our regrets or remorse when we experience moments of greater wisdom, love, compassion, or nurture.
When we are stressed we fall back upon our basest human characteristics more easily.
When we are stressed we tend to forget our noblest ideals, ideals that depend upon more highly evolved states of mind than we remain capable of when we become too anxious.
Consequently, many people often find themselves doing things they may later regret, simply because, under stress, their best skills and ideals are less accessible, less functional, than ideals and skills acquired and habituated during earlier, more primitive, more selfish phases of their cognitive or spiritual development.
As human beings we must each recapitulate the growth of our native cultures, we must learn to acquire our highest human ideals and ambitions at the expenses of our more primitive self-serving natures. We begin our lives in states of semi-barbarism; we do not yet know the social conventions we will be expected to maintain.
Our individual and collective growth toward our ideals may be hampered by the pressures of our circumstances. We may learn to hate more easily than we learn to love, we may learn to harm more easily than we may learn to nurture.
It takes a trained human will and strong determination to consistently choose the greater good over our own personal self interests, to learn to choose to sacrifice our fortunes or our very lives for the sakes of our families, friends, communities, or nations.
When we fail our own loftiest human ideals, we often prefer to see our failures as the consequences of the influence of some malignant, incarnate evil being, rather than accept that our failings are simply the results of our own human natures, natures often weakened to their breaking points by our culturally conditioned states of ignorance, stress, and fear.
We nearly always have the capacity to learn to choose to do better. As our behaviors evolve, old behaviors which once rewarded us may become behaviors for which we now punish ourselves or for which we may expect to be punished by others around us who have learned to expect us to do better.
Rewarding behavior on one level may often be punishing behavior on another level, such as eating too many sweets.
When we are hale and hearty, happy and content, the harder choices for our own good or for the welfare of our families, friends, and societies become easier for us to make and to maintain.
Our natural failures to make the best choices consistently when we are under too much stress might be regarded as evil, but we would say that any failure to do our best at any time is more a product of our primitive reflexes or social conditioning than any inherent will to do ill.
If evil exists at all, beyond our acculturated belief in its existence, perhaps it is in our occasional or persistent will to choose to do harm, when we know we can choose to do better.
The existence of a persistent, acculturated belief in evil is conveniently used to explain those hypocritical, idiosyncratic aspects of our own human natures that sometimes cause us to harm ourselves or others.
Occam's razor simplifies this equation. Evil is not required to explain it; therefore it is not evil which inspires human failings, but only our momentarily inadequate love, wisdom, nurture, or compassion.
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Permalink Reply by 00f30ypq1uj6l on
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An interesting post. I have always felt that Christians had more in common with Satanists than I do since they believe in the existence of evil or some kind of adversary that I don't believe in or have any experience of in all my years working magickally! Perhaps choosing to believe in some evil that it at odds with the 'goodness' of their God is part of their path whether they acknowledge the role of evil or not.
It's funny that Christians so often will judge Judas to be controlled by the 'Devil' or 'Satan'...when without him, there would have been no crucifixion and they believe that, that was the event that saved us all. To someone who looks at various mythologies, it could be suggested that this adversary plays the role of 'initiator'?
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Permalink Reply by Grigori Rho Gharveyn on
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Sweet Valkyrie,
As you mention it, we feel inspired to share what we may know of the matter of Judas Ischariot, misspelling intentional.
Jesus and Christ conspired with Judas to lay their trap for the Romans.
The crucifixion would indeed bring a new age of enlightenment and awreness, and might pave the road for deeper enlightenment to follow.
Jesus could not fear; though he might suffer, the Spirit of Christ was strong within him and he had perfect faith.
Judas knew what he was asked to do would be seen as perhaps the greatest crime in eternity, but he was fatihful to His Lord Christ as personified in the man Jesus and he agreed to the deal reluctantly.
This is the story from Judas' lips to our own ears. We sincerely believe him, the spirits of Christ and Jesus within us give their assent to the truth of this...
Ok, sorry peeps, we got heavy again, but hey... this is pretty much precisely as we experienced this tale, perhaps retold in fewer words.
As always, believe what you like...
Peace, Love, and Lollipops...
Namaste...
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Thank you sister Anki,
Yes, nature appears to be seamless and beyond value judgments of any sort it simply is, even human nature perhaps, once we cease to divide ourselves against ourselves and discover peace in ourselves, within our hearts, where peace is always found once we learn how to look for it within ourselves.
We always try to hold the valid spiritual qualities of every religion in our highest esteems at all times while considering their mundane faults such as vice, corruption, mind-control, etc, as much less important properties in the everyday lives of most faithful people.
That these possibly less important qualities may often cause much human bloodshed, poverty, fear, pain, and despair we do not sometimes doubt, but if we are to change how these corruptions find their way into people's hearts, minds, and religions, we must do so with mercy, nurture, love, acceptance, justice, and compassion.
We think the transcendental spiritual values of the common people are the real power of all religions, and the corruption that may arise around them is to be expected with any conventional social institutions that grow very large or endure very long.
We can learn to expunge corruption in ourselves; when all of our hypocrisies and self-deceits are gone we will emerge from the flames of our own cleansings purified of all of our conceits about good or evil, we will be returned to our innocence and grace.
Or so we believe, anyways...
Mmm? We did not mean to sound very judgmental, we can embrace all belief in evil while we debate evil's reality; we point out some harms that believing in evil may lead to, regardless of whether evil is real or not, however, we try never to condemn anyone for their beliefs, even if we disagree with them, for we may often learn more in argument than in agreement, or so it seems....
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Dear sister Anki,
We are always saddened when people are abused by corruption in their social institutions, particularly in their religions.
We agree with your opinion that many relgions may make people feel small. This is evident in the architecture of cathedrals which are designed to make us feel very, very small indeed. The architecture of most cathedrals is designed specifically to dominate us.
Corruption thrives on power and deceit; of the two, deceit is far more effective.
Without deceit power can be easily defeated and must yield to new powers.
It is the corruption of our social insitutions, and alas this may include many or possibly even all of our religions, that is at fault.
Neither our individual experiences of our Divines (the true meaning of the word religion) or how we try to share our experiences is at fault, these are the blessings of our religions.
Our individual experiences of Divinity in our lives become greater blessings when we can share them; sharing these blessings through our religions may always be worth preserving.
It is the corruption we must address, it is the deceit and the abuse of power we must address if we are to make our religions safe havens for the spiritual guidance of our communities.
The primary deceit used by exploitative religious practices is to subtly teach people to feel divorced or lost from God.
People who feel separated from their Divines feel weak and afraid; in the illusion of an absence of God in their lives they must seek another higher authority and their religious 'authorities' are ready to step in and act as intercessors on their behalf.
That's the hook.
Sometimes they aren't so subtle, they may state flat-out that all people are born sinful, apart from God, and that they can only find God by following their doctrines, doctrines that can lead uninitiates to surrender to their authority completely, unquestioningly.
This simply is not true, albeit many religious practices can lead their faithful closer to wisdom in spite of the corruption and politics that have become parts of their indoctrinations.
When any institution forbids anyone to challenge their beliefs they are usually defending corruption.
Sad, perhaps, but also unavoidable, until we achieve a level of enlightenment individually or collectively that enables us to free ourselves from the domination of deceitful institutions.
Many arguments may be very instructive, particularly when we are adept at knowing how to learn.
Alas, too many arguments are deliberate misdirections perpetuated to reinforce social conditioning.
Bringing together two sides in an argument who are determined to disagree rather than to find unity helps both sides build up their cultural defense mechanisms and to build their internal unity.
This is one reason the 'great debate' between science and religion is continually re-introduced to the public's awareness by the media, this debate helps keep people brain-washed.
It doesn't matter which beliefs are being reinforced among the opposing parties, both systems of opposed beliefs will serve those who maintain and manipulate this debate.
The Great False Debate, Science vs. Religion With regard to emotions and their relationships to memory and behavior, it depends which kind of learning we are talking about.
It is definitely the case that stresses and the emotions concommitent with stresses make good tools for teaching, if our teaching methods include relying upon brain-washing.
Stress actually shuts down higher cognitive functions and channels our behavior through older cognitive routines which have become more habituated, more socially conditioned.
For the purpose of social conditioning, strong, stressful emotions are wonderful tools for mind-control.
If we wish to enable ourselves to learn how to free ourselves from domination by exploitative social systems, we must learn to be more peaceful.
Our minds explore issues better when peaceful, we enable higher cognitive functions when we are peaceful that help us learn more deeply and intuitively.
This deeper sort of learning examines more about how we think and why we feel the way we do, it is less concerned with any specific data or the potential truth values of our data.
This sort of learning is impeded by strong frightening emotions such as fear, anger, resentment or jealousy; because of this, fear and anger are constantly applied to disable people, to keep them desperately clinging to their safely conditioned beliefs and desperately clinging to the corrupt, usurperous authorities they allow to dominate them.
The very best kind of learning, learning about who we are, learning how our hearts and minds really work, flourishes with love, compassion, nurture, and respect.
Enjoy!
Namaste
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Hi Anki,
You have this right, many people want to change because their existing habits are hurting them, but at the same time they fear change becaue their old habits are familiar, in spite of recognizing these habits cause them pain; old familiar behavior is part of what is known as someone's 'comfort zone'.
A process that mediates change and slows it down is called homeostassis. Homeostassis regulates our bodies, minds, emotions, social relationships, etc...
The purpose of homeostassis is to provide a baseline of functional behavior and health that is restored to when anything changes. If we have habituated ourselves to an abusive relationship and our partner dies, our homeostassis will typically find ways to compensate, such as by getting us into another abusive relationship.
If we begin a new diet and lose some weight, our underlying motives to be too heavy will emerge through our homeostassis and help us put the pounds back on.
Homeostassis is mostly a healthy process, however, when we learn harmful behavior and habituate it our homeostassis learns to incorporate the new bad habits and maintain them, making them more resistant to change.
We really should embrace change, as nearly as we can tell, all illness results from resisting change.
This is why Kaos magick is so popular, kaos magick embraces change.
You analysis of how fear is used to trap people into believing they must have an authority for spiritual guidance is accurate, we are glad you understand this point so well.
Your two paths of learning analysis is also a functional description of a common problem. It is one reason schools do not prevent bullying by students or teachers. Schools rely on fear of punishments; fear must be a constant presence in order to trap kids' minds in a retarded state where their capacities for original thinking and their eagerness to challenge false authorities and the lies they spread is crushed by stress.
As you note, many people do attach themselves to something they perceive as bigger, stronger, better than themsleves, for many motives, including fear, greed, and envy.
You are correct that failing to see their own strengths and virtues often leads many people to seek these qualities outside of themselves, which, of course, will never work for them in the long run, since they were manipulated to feel insecure about themselves in the first place in order to stimulate a reaction where they attach to a social organization and choose to follow its rules. They wind up joining social institutions who help perpetuate their sense of insignifigance and powerelessness in subtle ways while offering them illusions of strength through association with something stronger than themselves.
These instituions require us to be weak, so they set us up to believe we are weak.
Our churches and states are less concerned with what people believe than whether or not they can be herded into extablished camps of belief.
Anyone who cannot be herded lacks adequate social conditioning and is identified as a threat. People like ourselves. <wink>
Emotions are like gas for the engines of our cars. They fuel our manifestations with our energy. This makes emotions dangerous, for they represent raw power.
Love is the most difficult emotion to inspire and maintain for most people, partly because our societies and cultures, while relying on love are also threatened by love.
Love inspires revolution.
Fear inhibits revolution.
Love enables our minds to grow stronger and clearer.
Fear disables our minds teching us mistrust.
Trust is required to create meaningful social change, so fear is applied by most social insitutions to habituate their members to fear anything different from their own cultures, anything that might introduce change.
Without trust we become divorced from each other, we become socially weaker, socially more vulnerable to domination and abuse.
We must love and trust to heal.
Many of the principles you describe here are explained in more detail throughout our current project:
Our Future History – How the Earth Made Peace Enjoy!
Blessed be...
Namaste
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We might not consider you a common person Anki, except that we might consider ourselves a common person as well.
However, our two examples were chosen to be as common and familiar as possible; but to hit the nail on the head twice?
Well, it happens by dumb luck or by divine grace, but rarely because we are trying...
We collect and study wild beasts, social disease semi-automatons, hostile memes. Hostile memes train people to make themselves partners with people who will take advantage of them.
The memes responsible for teaching yourself to allow yourself to be hurt are on our ten-most-wanted lists...
Hostile memes infect all people on Earth, with possibly a few excpetions. It takes extraordinary enlightenment to make yourself free of hostile memes.
We are working on it, and we are trying to introduce the necessary concepts for this enlightenment in our Future History, in case you haven't yet gotten very far with that, there are several parts related to memes and enlightenment and counter-meme cognitive strategies.
Also, you may like our series on memetic warfare which we may also have invited you to examine before, but which we include here for completeness for any readers who may wish to follow deeper into this dialogue.
Enjoy!
Our Future History – How the Earth Made Peace
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Hi Anki!
Thank you for trying to learn to use a new term so bravely. Most people would call this a codependent relationship, or an abusive relationship. Usually in abusive relationships codependency is the factor that keeps abused partners from leaving.
We will have to consider whtether a strictly memetic relationship might be possible, as your mistaken use still makes sense.
Mm, what is scary is you could be right, we could say that many relationships are much less about two humans exploring each other and themselves, and more about how their memes interact.
So yes, a memetic relationship is possible, and it is very likely you were in a mostly memetic relationship.
Some memes helped set you up to accept being abused, but other memes may have provided the majority of what you had to say to one another.
Wow, thank you for helping us review this, we sometimes forget quite a lot.
What are memes?
The smallest memes are the tiniest parts of thought or thinking, they are the quanta of our cognitive processes.
Memes can grow very elaborate and powerful.
All social organizations are memetic organizations as well.
Memes can transmit themselves from person to person like a virus, inhabiting many hosts and changing how each host thinks and perceives the worlds around them.
Memes are alive, even though they may only inhabit human minds, human cultures, and human information systems.
A scarlet A on a dress is a meme.
A dictionary is a collection of many memes, some of which are very complex ideas.
The Star Spangled Banner is a meme that supports nationalism, but not necessarily patriotism.
There are two classes of patriots, patriots who all agree 'Our country right or wrong' (another powerful meme) or patriots who believe that when our country is wrong we must take responsibility to change what is wrong and become better.
Both clasess of patriots will be inspired to nationalism by the Star Spangled Banner, however one group will often attack the other and say they are not patriots at all. Will both groups find their patriotism as well as their nationalism inspired? Possibly, we don't know.
As we see it, what the first group of patriots really feels is nationalism, not patriotism, while we would call the second group more patriotic, less nationalisitc.
Ironically, the nationalists prefer to call themselves patriots and will attack true patriots if those patriots point out how America's own imperialistic and exploitative actions on the global stage may have led to many people in the world believing we deserved 911.
911 might just have been a wake-up call from God to our nation, not to wrap ourselves up in illusions of our superiority, not to see enemies on every side whom we must defend ourselvs from, but to humble ourselves before the world and atone for our past mistakes...
Anyways, memes are ideas; memes are often very powerful ideas that aquire a life of their own because they can be passed down to successive generations, outliving the people who are credited with their creations, and they may spread from culture to culture, like a plague, bringing change wherever they go.
Because memes often program how we will think, what we will believe, and how we will behave, memes can act in the world using their human hosts as actors.
In the hands of skillful people, memes are brain-washing tools that can be used to trigger specific behaviors such as compluslive shopping.
Advertising agents and military espionage agents are both well trained how to use memes, although they may not call the ideas they manipulate memes.
Memes that program people to act in the world on their behalf become memetic agents
All people are conditioned with triggers associated with various memes. Skillful advertising or espionage agents know how to use programmed triggers to their own best advantages.
Triggers almost always result in reactive conditioned behavior. A person must know how to mediate their own reactive conditioning to avoid responding reactively when one of their memetic triggers is pulled.
You may be more familiar with such triggers as 'pushing someone's buttons' another good example of a meme.
We explain a lot of this in our Memetic Warfare articles, but thank you for stimulating us to think about memes more deeply.
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We have long argued against the conflation of the man they named Jesus with the Spirit named Christ brother Malaclypse, peer more closely, dear brother, we are bewildered you might believe we might be a born-again Christian.
We are much more FNORD obnoxious than the very worst examples of their kind, do you not suppose?
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Humanity... seems to have a well known history of misunderstanding ...
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Dear sister Lady of the Night,
Mm.. we would suspect that if we could be sure there was no God, then the predicate we used breaks down a bit, we did presume that God both exists, and is only Good, which we like to choose to believe at times.
If there is no God to gaurantee that all of creation must really be good, then perhaps this also rules out a Devil, but not necessarily.
We are pretty sure the structure of our arguments can be restated without God, but God adds a little weight and is demographically appropriate to use if we consider that at least two-thirds of Americans, and perhaps a much higher ratio of people globally, believe in God, regardless of how much they may disagree regarding the details of their respective beliefs.
Perhaps we did not make it clear that it is the practice of using the word 'evil' to label people and ideas that we might most object to.
As we see it, the word 'evil' has little or no meaning outside of its applications to polarize communities and to prejudice people, to help them adopt brain-washed opinions that agree with and support whatever authorities they uphold above themselves in their own lives.
We are really pretty sure that if you examine all of what might be considered the properties of any person or thing, that evil and good will not be properties, only descriptive labels.
All the definitions are screwed up, all of them. Even what we say.
You have to start defining things on your own from scratch, a slow tedious process.
All academic authority boils down to a bunch of people who agree about something publically to build the prestige of their institutions, but who internally fight incessently over the details to build their own prestige.
Hypocrisy.
We can trust nothing taught with hypocrisy.
According to epistemology, it is impossible to know anything but our own opinions.
Academia is a huge con game driven by fear, fear that everyone will discover what too many academics try to hide from themselves, that their can be no authorities.
All authority is illusion, just ask Malaclypse the Elder.
Regarding if evil has a purpose, we may have already said this, that if there is a good purpose for evil, wouldn't that make evil good?
Certainly, in the hearts and minds of those who plot wicked schemes, some of whom fervently wish to be evil, it may be possible that whatever 'evil' they may get up to has a purpose for themselves.
However we are pretty sure you mean a Grand Design sort of purpose, in which case it usually means a design for the best benefit of all.
Some people choose to live within belief systems that flat out declare that God is a child-raping evil monster, or worse, if there can be worse.
They appear to hate God passionately.
Who knows?
They may be right!
Enjoy!
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Polarity equal opposite between dark and light
positive negative charges.
God head construct of the mind to form a believe of guidliness or law
Good positive charge Evil Negative charge
Both exist in measure balance it the key
Distrupt the balance and you have polarity
into negative and positive
Some carry more one charge that others
balance the polarity and you have even status
Evil is just a construct of the mind to create fear and imbalance
there is no evil only super negative charged beings;.
Read the word backwards LIVE = EVIL = the mirrored polarity
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Thanks Turukai,
We weren't expecting such a strong supporting argument from this direction, it's not a direction we are accustomed to thinking in any longer...
We recognize the neg/pos balances, but we now see them as unified energy systems; each one is an interactive, single, self-balancing system for each entity that can be described in polarized terms.
In our Chakra Game, balancing Yin and Yang energies is one of the principles brought into play.
Pity we haven't published our Chakra Game yet, we lacked adequate play testers and input.
Perhaps we will get back to it this year.
Enjoy!
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