Many things occur in life, and when that life is busy, they seem to occur even faster. Living a life in this world is fraught with perils such as too much information, too little compassion and love, heightened senses of insecurity and mistrust, and other mullings that come with living in an age of never ending war and violence, and limited growth in personal and spiritual growth.
Spiritual growth is never always about what faith you follow, what deity you pray to, or even if you believe in a deity at all. Spirit, that essence in humanity that gives us pause when we make life changing decisions, is something we neglect, even theists do so. Sadly, with the external happenings in the world, things can often seem too much, and there never seems to be enough mechanisms of help to turn to. Governments are cutting from essential services and the poor, in an ever increasing orgy of arrogance and pay backs to those who have put them in power and bankrolled their election campaigns. Anyone going naively into politics, with the intent to change the system from within, either find themselves unprepared for what they encounter, or, even if they manage to keep that rebelliousness, they are placed far out of reach of having any power to do what they can. The average citizen is then left to perpetually toil away in a system that was designed to harness the greatest productivity whilst destroying the drive or inner light of the citizen who hopes to improve their lot in life. The industrial revolution, not only brought big change in how things are produced, but it brought arounud a change of how people are produced and educated to scrape by in the system. Like in 1984, the Proles, whilst still having their freedom from living under the party, have an upper, middle and lower class, and are kept enthralled by trappings to make their lives appear to be their own. Is all of this, they are used to fight the wars of the party, to produce the base neccessities for the party and to show "devotion" to the party when they are required to do so.
These are the things that I have noticed in the last decade, the decade or perpetual war, the decade of deceit and blind arrogance of the Party. I couldn't tell you if that spiritual revolution that I constantly wish for, and work for in my own little way, is anywhere close to fruition, but, the seeds are being sewn, it is just a matter of seeing whether the soil is ripe for growth.
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As many of you know, over the past year, almost two, lots of changes have been happening within, and, around me. Life has a most interesting way of making you wonder if the universe has a very demented sense of humour, or if there is a controlling deity, whether s/he has a demented sense of humour, or just left the computer simulation in free will mode, and moved on to something a lot more interesting and less troublesome. I hear that my views or humour in relation to them, is quite often somewhat blasphemous and that I should show more defference when talking about the lack of control or oversight that occurs in the universe. Personally, I don't think myself some divine saint or esteemed and enlightened guru, but I often feel that all this life of pain and health issues have given me a lot of time to think and mull the universe around in my head. I still refuse many times, to believe that there is some guiding hand working in the world to bring us to a promised afterlife. If this is the earthly kindgom that we keep hearing about from many holy books and beliefs, I am inclined to think that this deity is a very psychopathic individual, OR, that we are in "hell" and are suffering for some imagined sin that we may or may not have committed, and are just waiting to pay off our infraction and return to the happy place that we are forced to forget until we return.
Sadly, I don't think that this is the case, and thus means that, in essence, we are in the "kingdom" and what we have done is pretty much fuck it up, and now we seemingly have no way back, other than continue through to the end and hope that we don't thoroughly destroy ourselves in the process. If this is what we have to look forward to, then we either have to find a alternative path to walk down, or take a stand, and decide that enough is enough, and grab the reigns of our future from those whose only interest is profit, war and the impending destruction of a majority of the world's population, and remind them, that we are capable of governing ourselves, that we are able to be responsible stewards of the earth and have the ability to live in harmony with eachother, regardless of race or belief. The only thing that we have issue with, and that isn't something that we have to worry too much about when the insidious influences are removed, is religion. The majority o history has shown, that before global wealth and banking became a big and profitible thing, religions and races were able to live together and thrive with very minimal violence and destruction of the surrounding environment. It wasn't until the advent of exceptionalism both politically and religiously, that the global balance shifted. With exceptionalism, came a complete and utter radicalization of Nationalism, and desires to wipe out the "competition" of either the competing deity or nation state. Other than wars of expansion or defence of borders, humanity originally rarely showed the need to anihilate their neighbours, because no neighbours meant no trade. No trade meant unrest at home and no money for new building projects or research, religious buildings or needs of the people when and if they were considered.
But times have changed significantly, people have no reason for ignorance in the developed world other than through choice. Poorer nations have limimted resources compared to the developed countries, but more often than not, they are prey for the developed countries due to their unmolested natural resourcues. I won't go into any of todady's ills as we have more than enough information to write down here, but, the one thing I want to say, is that without a fundamental shift of mindset in both the developed and under-developed worlds, we are going to finish in a cacophony of violence and turmoil, that we as a species, may not recover from.
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