(November 1, 2017 at 2:31 pm)Khemikal Wrote: What you've offered here won't do a single thing to stop wars, violence..or...strangest of the bunch..sickness. It also doesn;t demonstrate why anyone sn;t getting what they want by the way they're living, nor does it present a shred of a hint as to what to do to get whatever they want.
Wrong and useless, a dizzying combination.
Khemikal, I get the impression that you do not want to see any truth that may be found in what I have to say. This is fine with me. We all have the right to close the eyes of our understandings and refuse to see what we don't want to see, even if it is obvious. I respect your decision. It is not my intention to convince you or anybody anybody else of anything . I'm just offering a theory that makes sense to me, as a courtesy, only to those who may find the theory to make sense to them as well.
You assure us that what I have offered here won't do a single thing to stop wars, violence..or... sickness. And you imply that even if people start observing the Universal Moral Code I have presented here, people will not (as a result) experience more peace, or health, or any of the other conditions people value and want to experience in their lives. However, it is impossible for you to really know that what you are saying and implying is true, because you have not tried it; you have not lived in observance to the Code in an environment where all other living beings do the same, and you have not experienced the results of that way of life.
What I'm saying follows logic, and must be true. I know this, even if I have not lived according to the Code myself, again because my conclusions follow by logical necessity. For example, If all people decide that they will abstain from warring with each other and they follow through with that decision, then we can be assured that wars will cease to occur (even if this has never actually happened before). As long as all people abstain from making war, there will not be any wars. We can say this with certainty. It is logical.
Now, if we go back to what the moral code says, and imagine that all living beings follow the code (they all respect the life and the will of all other living beings, and they refrain from inflicting harm on any other living being, in any way, and they practice the rest of the code), then it follows that there would be peace and health, etc. (microorganisms would respect our lives and well-being, so they would not invade our bodies in a harmful way). There would be nobody getting harmed or disrespected by anybody else because all living beings would be refraining from inflicting any kind of harm, suffering, or injustice on any other living being. This is what most people want, I believe.
Of course, the obvious question is how do we make others follow the rules, without imposing our will on them, thus breaking the rules ourselves? It cannot be done, nor can we stop from eating other living beings. This does not mean that the Code is not righteous and just. It means that we are forced to live in an environment (internally and externally) where we cannot be righteous and just to all living beings, and as long as we remain living in this unjust environment we will have to deal with evil and injustice being done against us (everybody is doing it, everywhere, so it is just a matter of time before somebody does it to us).
So, what could we do? I'm not telling anybody what to do. This is a personal decision.
I'll tell you what I will do. To me, life is like an unfair, wrongful, unjust, and hurtful game. I don't like the field where I play; I don't like the arena. Some of the players are rather nasty; I don't like them. The umpires plays favorites; I don't like them. I don't like the official rules of the game because they are unfair, because they cannot be complied with, yet I must be penalized for not complying. A lot of foul play and cheating goes unpunished. I feel bad when I cause an injury to some other player. There are too many injuries and hurt players, including myself, for me to really be able to enjoy this game. So, I will quit playing the game when I feel the time is right for me to quit (not immediately, for some reason I don't fully understand I still want to stick around).
If you find anything useful here, you are welcome to apply it in your life; if not, let me not waste your time. Peace.
