Even though our world is filled with darkness,
It can’t extinguish the candlelight of truth.
DANGEROUS CREATION — for thinkers.
"Argue not with fools, frauds, fops, and fanatics. Seek instead better companions." —– "Show me a millionaire and I will show you a man who has never thought about the meaning of his life."
The truth seems to be what everyone is trying very hard to deny right now.
I have just been reading about “Deep Survival” and the first rule was to avoid the trap of denial and accept the truth of your situation.
Until people accept the truth about everything that is happening in our world today they will not be able to make the changes necessary in their own lives that are needed to live better.
I agree, we can’t seem to change the world, we can only make our little corner a bit more whole, healthy and sane, but first we need to see the truth/reality of what is out there.
So many people here in the US are waiting for the recession to end and for everything to go back to the way it was. That it can’t happen and never should happen does not seem to enter their minds.
I don’t know if the truth can make us free, but it can sure keep us from acting in ways that are really stupid.
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David G Reply:
August 25th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Jeannie, the truth is all too often a two-edged sword.
Sometimes I wish I was ignorant and just went with the flow as most people do. But we must be true to ourselves and, within reason, do what we can even if the task we set ourselves is impossible.
Cheers!
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We, HUMANS, belong to a world of nature of limitless possibilities and we are her proud creations—indeed the crown of all creations—with equally unlimited possibilities and power. It is some kind of artificially in-built subconscious MIND that is putting all these limitations, fear and inadequacies. Man is indeed greater—unlimited and perfect– than what his mind can envision. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear must be that we are powerful beyond measure. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around us. We were born to make manifest the true greatness that is within us. As we liberate ourselves from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Leadership of this world has indeed slipped away from human hands. Only that the present world does not want to admit this stark reality in so many words. Human society, as a whole, is treading without any agenda. Badly and suicidally caught in the current of giant vicious circle, man is led more by his passivity than by his activity. For the first time in history, man is desperately caught in a deadly vicious circle of his own making, from which not even the leaders seem to find any way out. And our present global leaders are all functioning, not as the culprits of this vicious cycle but as its leaders of victims–as the leader puppets of the force of the ‘current’ of this vicious cycle. Today man is doing all things in the wrong way simply because there is no option, in the present system, to do it in the right way.
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David G Reply:
August 25th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
“We were born to make manifest the true greatness that is within us.”
My view of humanity is less rosy than yours, John.
“…man is desperately caught in a deadly vicious circle of his own making…”
Amen to that!
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JohnMuthukat Reply:
August 27th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Abrupt genetic alteration, particularly through artificial/scientific process is highly detrimental for any species. Modernization has done just that to man and other species in nature. Major evolutionary changes, that normally require millions of years, today take place within a span of hundred years or even within ten years. This creates serious adaptation problems.
For millions of years , man lived as the child of nature; for about the last two hundred years, man started to live as the child of machines or as mechanical system,a new development which has become his undoing, not only as a human being but also as a machine being.
Today man is growing in outer package and shrinking in content. Nature is to man what technology is to modern man. Never in history was man wrapped in such world class packaging as he is today. Modern man is identified more by his packages—by his status in society, by the academic degree he possesses, by the top dress he wears, by the mansion-like house he lives in, by the type of car he drives, by the top eating houses he dines, by the high-tech gadgets he uses for communication……and not by the unique individual quality he holds. In his marathon race to progressively develop his mechanical packages, he is not only ignoring the development of his own person, but also critically overcharging the already weakening person that he is. The tragic result is that man today is shrinking instead of growing; degenerating instead of generating. What we see as the greatest problem mankind faces today–pollution–is the over-accumulation and the resultant decay of the growing heap of this mechanical and non-cyclical packages and the suicidal impact it creates on nature and other life forms. The problem today is not alone the fast shrinking man and his other natural resources, but also the fast shrinking capacity of man to use the resources left.
John
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David G Reply:
August 27th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I think we’ve had more an abrupt environmental alteration than a genetic one, John. Other than that I agree with nearly every word of your perceptive comment.
I also visited your site and found it interesting. It’s great to meet another thinker.
see both Johnmathulkat and David’s G’s points, but I think that man coming from monkeys, some of us are more evolved from primitive behaviors, than are others of us.
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Netanyahu is the most dangerous man in the world. Israel is the epicenter of organ harvesting for the world. Please note http://www.realzionistnewscom, latest article and others.
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Interesting link, Therese. Thanks. And I agree that evolution doesn’t seem to touch some people. Cheers.
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David wrote, “I think we’ve had more an abrupt environmental alteration than a genetic one, John”
In MAN, what interest me most are the sharp contradictions that exist between man MODERN and man PRE-MODERN. You will notice this reality if you can just compare the deep-felt difference between yourself and your great, great…grandfathers and grandmothers. May be, more people have come to share this sort of an interest as is the evidence of more and more people having suddenly come to find ‘gold in old’ and are singing the glories of the ‘good old days’ in the past. While the development of all pre-modern societies, that existed for hundreds of thousands of years and ages, were based on the single method of control by nature. The modern society of industrial civilization that has come to exist only during the last 200 years is based just on the reverse method, that is, by controlling nature.
No species in nature, including man, live by exploiting or feeding on another of its own species. But modern man is an exception to this ‘law of nature’! By being highly mechanical and market-friendly, he cannot live without exploiting or feeding on another man. Which means man is not what he has been for hundreds of thousands of years and which is why modern man is said to be fast going to be the exterminator of mankind as a species.
In looking back it is seen that modern man stands highly fragile, strangely isolated and unprotectedly stranded from nature and from other species and, also from the man of pre-modern history. Modern society has distinct anti-human and anti-nature characteristics that are proving to be its own nemesis.
For example, no species in nature, including man, has a third sex (apart from the male and the female of the species) except modern man, who has middleman (businessman) apart from man and women. No species in nature, including man, depend on synthetically (non-cyclically) grown and artificially prepared food as totally as modern man.
David wrote,”I also visited your site and found it interesting. It’s great to meet another thinker.”
Thank you, David. It is nice to hear such another great thinker. But thinking is what I really hate to indulge. Only I wanted to live a true man of nature.
Man, as a species of nature, is not supposed to think but only live his life. Man thinks today because he has to find ways to solve the problems created by man’s thought yesterday or before. All his alibis in perpetuating the ongoing faulty evolutionary process are solely on the strength of his apologies of helplessness or optionlessness in the present situation—modern society– which too is a ‘gift’ of his thought (hypothesis or imagination) process.
We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by forces that have ‘crossed bridges’ in their IMAGINATION far ahead of the crowd and our living in such imaginations keeps us always frightened and passive. Thus the main challenge before man today is to cross this fear psychosis that has been engaging his unnatural thinking for centuries and that steadily only put him more into more unnatural thought process and thus into greater fears and problems.
Thus man has to engage in more deep thinking today to solve the problems of his past thinking so that he can prepare a stage or situation to stop thinking and thus to lead a natural higher order life.
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“Only I wanted to live a true man of nature.” I agree that our departure from a more natural lifestyle has created real problems for the human race, John.
Regarding the ‘thinking’ dimension, I feel that the trouble the world is in is a result of almost universal non-thinking. If the masses truly thought they couldn’t be manipulated as easily as they tend to be. They would question everything they are told and act to bring about a better, more peaceful world. In the main they are sheeple.
P.S. I’m not a great thinker! But I can put two and two together and get four.
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The most tragic thing about mankind, among all its crimes against itself and against nature, is not its brutality or its apathy… its the fact that we dream of perfection and are damned to fail. We have the minds to see a future where men are like gods, there is no death any more, no more pain. We can even, in our shortsightedness, believe such a future to be attainable merely by our own devices. I think I agree with you Dave G, at least on one point. Man is dangerous. And not just for his non-thinking, although that certainly helps those who wield power keep it. Man’s intellect is just a damning as his primitivism and his apathy. I have a suspicion that even the beautiful spirit of humanism that pervades your blog sir, with all its emphasis on thinking and goodwill, will still lead to the atrocities, in the name of good. In the end, nothing stands against our intrinsic inhumanity.
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David G Reply:
August 29th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Ah, Sparticus, your final sentence is telling. I cannot disagree with its message.
Thanks for your enlightened comment!
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JohnMuthukat Reply:
August 30th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Sparticus wrote, “The most tragic thing about mankind, among all its crimes against itself and against nature, is not its brutality or its apathy… its the fact that we dream of perfection and are damned to fail.”
Yes, Sparticus, your ideas seem to come very close to mine.
Unless we identify our basic problem and understand certain vital realities of our present problem solving mechanism, we may not be able to proceed even an inch forward in the right direction of correcting the human society or solving its basic problem. The question today is not what man can do today (like going to the moon) which he could not do for millions of years but as to what man cannot do today (like living in complete harmony with nature) which he used to do for millions of years and which helped develop the pre-modern man to be the crown of all creations. Today man cannot do almost 95% of what he used to do for millions of years. However, what man can do today – all mechanical and scientific –are all ending up as his undoing today that threaten his imminent extinction, as a species.
However, some sort of pessimism seems to envelope even many serious, worthy intellectuals. They may have indeed identified the right problem but only to be finally overtaken by them. This seems to conclude that the whole mankind is being overtaken by the machinekind, only to become machinekind themselves.
In closely following the problems of man, I have indeed distanced myself from my followers—my near and dear ones and the local politics–at last to find myself in the thick forest all alone but closely keeping an eye on my enemy’s (the basic problem of mankind) foot steps and movements, a mission which keeps myself tightly engaged and which I however find adventurous and stimulating.
I write from life. I just cannot afford the luxury of writing anything for the sake of argument. Today the extremities of global problems that are threatening the very existence of mankind are such galore and popular that it has almost become trite to narrate them. Today everybody wants to be smart and worldly wise in a market-dictated world, no matter such temporary approach may even proves suicidal in the not-so-long run. But today, when it comes to be a case of my own survival then I think I have to think twice. And thus in the ‘global village’ of today, in the planet run on buttons, you cannot save yourself unless you can save the whole world, the whole planet. So even in self-defense it is always the world that comes first; we cannot save ourselves without saving the planet as a whole. Therefore, if somebody even promises me the whole world under the condition that I keep mum and go about the way the world is going, I will not be able to keep his word for I cannot see things separate from the world I am living in. And I am not interested in a world that is not capable of promising me, my children, my friends and all my near and dear ones a secure place in it.
To war with the moral system of one’s age is a terrible thing. In a democratic society, the fate of nations hangs on the moral strength of the people. But, when the people themselves are ignorant and helpless to do anything about it–especially when they are fast elapsing into a curious state of snobbishness, with their morals at the lowest ebb–the whole weight of the sense of fate falls on those who still can afford to think and reason with a rare sense of responsibility. And it is a comfort that there, nonetheless, are individuals like you who can think out loud and establish truth with clarity and will.
My expectation here is to strengthen solidarity of those who can yet reason on par with truth and man so that our combined effort may help awaken the conscience and common sense of the people and rid the civilization of this grave sin of omissions of our present leaders.
By the way, pardon my inability to engage in chain debates; I don’t have a computer and I have to come to the town to rent the internet facility and I come to the town only once or twice in a week or so. Further, internet facilities are not as readily and smoothly available here as they are in the developed part of the world. So let me be a once-in-a-while participant.
John
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Early feminist studies showed that women focus more, on life, and men, on death — simply put. And then came Hillary…..
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“…and which helped develop the pre-modern man to be the crown of all creations.’
John, if one examines the history of the world over the last ten thousand years we find many horrific events, large and small, that suggest that man is hardly the crown of all creations.
Humans have constantly engaged in rape, genocide, torture, pillaging, the sacking of cities, slavery, the sacrifice of virgins, the burning of witches, crucifixions…you name it, they’ve done it! And they still are.
That is the truth and we who think have to deal with human reality if we are to change anything.
P.S. that you don’t have access to a computer makes your participation on this forum even more noble, John.
Therese, feminist studies are correct. Most men are predisposed towards violence. It’s in our genes.
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