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Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 2:47 am
Hilarious.
And true.
- If someone just spouts off whatever pops into their noggin’, without giving the words rational consideration, that someone may simply be a mindless medium for evil.
- The root of spontaneous hatred-spewing grows within after being implanted. The potential for hatred-spewing lies dormant and is activated by secondary conditions such as frustration, which is an element of duhkha (samsara, suffering).
- Those on the receiving end of the transmitting spewers get to hear the fruit of the seed that was planted, usually long ago, when the seed host looked differently and was discovering things because of youth.
- For example, many man-haters are actually father-haters, and any man who encounters the man-hater gets to be a simulacron of the hated father, or of some other masculine authority who may have been guilty of nothing more than being the immovable No, (but too often that is not the cause) and so the substitute target of hatred gets splashed with the spew bubbling up from what’s rooted inside the afflicted.
- What I admire about Christians, and Christianity, is the equanimity caused by the perpetual awareness of the Christian view (awareness made possible via Christian means) that naturally elevates human-caused actions such as irrational spewing, into principles of right and wrong that guide skillful-means responses that need not be thought out but arise naturally from compassion, love, and kindness.
- Quite often, the appropriate response is stillness, and silence.
- However, it seems to me that stillness is not always the appropriate Christian response.
- Christian tenets may have a definition, and guidelines, for compassionate responses that don’t indulge spewing, and one guideline that comes to mind is Jesus kicking ass when the money-changers fouled the temple.
- If you give enough rope to someone, sure, eventually they will hang themselves with it. They will run with the hatred until it exhausts them, after they have sprayed graffiti on the temple walls.
- Then being empty and now afraid of the emptiness inside, they will once again contritely seek the refuge of kindness. This can also happen after life kicks all the crap out of them.
- While they are endlessly stagnating in their evolution, anyone in the vicinity gets to choke on their excess rope that caused their own fear and suffering, when they actually did catch a glimpse of emptiness.
- The thing is, some folks are just so stupid that they will go back and forth through that doorway, like some chemically unbalanced bi-polarist until all the allotted breaths of life have been used up repeating the same pointless cycle, always knowing where that road leads and taking comfort in the familiar signposts.
- Permitting and facilitating the exercising of idiocy may benefit humanity as a cautionary tale, but that’s assuming the idiot has a moral governor that divides mental violence from physical violence. As we know, many don’t.
- Bottom line question: Does Christian tolerance in fact feed idiotic responses that could fuel intolerance of Christians in general, an intolerance that could physically manifest upon some unsuspecting simulacron?
- And, correlating to that question …
- Is there anything to be gained from that other religion’s philosophy that essentially says,
“You may not love me, but you will fear me.”
