The whole truth
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Here's something I came across in "rants & raves" on Craigslist:
"Have you ever wondered how the whole God Thing happened? Not the question about how the earth and mankind came into being, but why a god? More specifically, why does God look like a man? Is it really plausible that otherwise reasonable people came to that conclusion for no good reason?
Here's a thought: they had a reason. Someone told them so; someone who looked remarkably just like a man and -- owing to the seeming magnificence of his abilities--All Powerful. The only thing wrong with most spiritual paths is God--their God, any God, whatever God. . . he stinks of man. My thesis: the point where science and spirituality intersect is God. More importantly, the degree to which spirituality is corrupt is the measure of man's attempt to usurp and control it.
Jesus Christ (mind you, I'm not a Christian) was likely doing just fine on his path of virtue--meditating, discovering truths and developing wisdom--until that interfering dude calling himself Dad showed up and skewed the lot. Purposefully, I might add. I'm not a scientist, nor even a science fiction aficionado (nor am I 'religious'), but I've caught a whiff of scientific advancements that leads me to think time travel is not far off. And if it's in the future it's everywhere, right? Psychotronic warfare, directed energy weapons, remote viewing, mind reading goggles and computers, holographs, virtual this and virtual that. . . it all smacks of very Buddhist sensibilities and beliefs (except the war and destruction part). Things previously only found in the pages of sci-fi are now becoming commonplace and we have the likes of celebrated scientist Richard Dawkins ending a talk on TED by mentioning the probability of future generations being able to walk through walls because they know they can. Years ago, I came across a quote about how scientists would reach the top of the mountain only to discover mystics already there, waiting for them. Buddhists have long meditated on the idea that life, our world, is as fundamentally insubstantial as a dream.
Richard Dawkins also gave another Ted Talk proclaiming, as a High Priest of Science, There is no God! (there is no God, there is no God), in effect doing two things: 1) weaning culture off that tit, God, and 2) identifying Science as the truth-teller, the saviour to liberate mankind from the lie of God. Omitting entirely it was Science, in the hands of corrupt power-mongers, that created the God delusion in the first place. So, yes, I'm going on the premise that time travel happens. I don't know how, but it's so. (I don't know how electricity works, either, but it does.) I don't believe in god(s) but I believe this. Sadly, with time travel came the urge to play God. . . but first they had to make him up.
Here's a thought: God is just Dog spelled backwards. Everybody loves dogs, right?
And why weren't there pictures/images allowed of God?
Here's a thought: At some point, someone would be liable to point out, "Hey, God looks an awful lot like that CIA creep. . . what's his name? Jones? Yeah--Jones, now there's a sadistic fk Jones, until he died and McPrick took over the role. "Jones got drunk at a xmas party last year and announced no one had the right to weigh in on gov't issues but him and his CIA cronies because only they had a clue about the truth. What a jackass."
And just imagine the thrill of making misogyny sacrosanct. (Take that you c___t of an ex-wife who took the house and half my pension.)
It follows, of course, that there are 'travellers' amongst us, people from the future with likely very good reason--need--to come to an earlier time. And it follows these people are our children. They are our human family in the position of both needing help and being able to give help. They, too, are held in the sway of the self-serving, fear mongering powers-that-be. But truth is a game changer.
As philosopher Mary Midgley says, 'science is just the most recent creation myth'. Our world is 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. Science explains some things but its answers actually veil more profound truths. One of Buddhism's central understandings should be followed as a lodestar: Nothing is real but everything matters. Wishing you all the best, Tannisz
PS The Dalai Lama caused a big controversy by cautioning all Buddhists to stop venerating a God called 'Dolgyal'. He said Dolgyal, though worshipped by many Buddhists for hundreds of years, was actually a worldly spirit. He also mentioned that in a dream/vision he saw him a white man. Now, this may be more a stretch for you than it is for me, but do you see the words 'dog' and 'loyal' in that name? PSS "If you see a buddha (a god) in the middle of the road, kill him (or her)." Metaphorically.
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-------------- Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. - Jesus in Matthew 10:34
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. -Jesus in Luke 19:27
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