In biological organisms, the largest and
smallest organisms tend to have no patterns or stripes. We see this,
for example, in elephants and mice. This physical reality is reflected
in states of consciousness as well, in the way that infants and senior
citizens have no preconceptions
or "learned beliefs" that bias their interpretation of reality. Hence, to become wise one must become like a
child, because only with the innocence of a child can one interpret reality without the lens of fear or
judgement.
The
problem, however, is that as a child,
mot people are taught to hate themselves; for either, on the one hand,
failing to measure
up to a moral ideal of human perfection in an image called "Jesus
Christ" - which happens to be an image of moral perfection that, because
Jesus is considered to be "God," is completely impossible for any human
being to ever achieve, even if they had eternity to try and do so
(which only sounds like pure hell, by the way), and
for which they are held responsible for murdering with their "sins" of failing to be as morally-perfect as Jesus - or on the other hand, for failing to
measure up to and look like the
photo-shopped images of the perfect "consumer" which bombard our senses
every second of every day, from an ocean of screens, which
baptize our mind from birth with their gospel of consumption and in
which we are
bathed for our entire life.
Later,
the
emptiness that such unrealistic yardsticks are "intelligently designed"
to cultivate in us, are used to bore a giant cavity into the center of a
person's own sense of self worth and identity; a cavity which is then
filled with both the spiritual ideal that we can only love ourselves by
first
loving the God who made us all so imperfect in the first place, as well as the consumer-ideal that we can only be fulfilled by forever chasing after the images in our commercials which are used to
condition us all to behave like obedient little Eichmanns, by the flickering shadows being cast on the walls
of our digital cave.
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