Pure Brutality

[Leonardo17]

And that's why the brutality done in the bad old days tended to justify itself in religious terms. Not always, but sometimes.

But I think recent times have proven that we are plenty capable of extreme brutality with non-religious ideologies as well. Perhaps we're better at distancing ourselves from the evil we do -- dropping bombs that are out of sight and out of mind. Or setting up policies that seem bureaucratic and bloodless, but end with misery for lots of people. 

But this is just as brutal, and in fact more efficient at ruining people's lives.

- That’s what I am talking about. Yesterday I was talking with someone about the Political Islamist party in my country. The person I was talking with was telling me that the Political Islamist Party did not care about religion and that their only goal was to rob the countries riches as much as it could.
 
   My answer to that was that it is their very nature to be whatever it is that they are. In terms of energies, these are lower energy people. They like to lie, to twist things, do things that are bad for others and “good” for their own ego and otherwise they’ll just fit in. If religion is available, they will use it and try to pass laws promoting polygamy for instance (This happened yesterday in Iraq). If not, they don’t need it either. They’ll present themselves as socialists (like Maduro or the Sandinistas of Nicaragua) or even as pure pragmatists (like the regime in Russia).
 
   So that’s the little thing that we as spiritual have that atheists usually don’t have. When you are into some genuine form of spirituality. You end up distinguishing ego centered behavior better than other ordinary people.
 
Sheldon + Grand Nudger:
 
  

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You have to be in it to know some of the stuff happening today is pure invention. You know, Deephak Chopra (who is of Hindu faith) wrote a very nice on the life of the prophet Mohammad. When I am into that kind of interesting literature I still wonder how some people were / are able to interpret the messages of these enlightened beings in a way that is so completely wrong.
 
    I know what it looks like from the outside. And being where you are you are not entirely wrong.
 
   For me “to be in it” means not even knowing how people in the IRI brought themselves into the situation in which they are right now. In a Course of Miracles it says “Do not underestimate the vengeance of the Ego”. And that’s what happening here.
 
   This is supposed to be something that helps us / lifts us above our material – worldly conditions so that we all end up living a better life while knowing that it’s only a dream.
 
But when people are so deeply rooted in what we call “the false self” or the “physical self” the result is that they take those spiritual tools and use it for all sorts of thing.

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If I had to formulate this in a more materialistic manner I would simply say this: Having parents is a good thing, you know. Having been loved, having been raised in a human way. Not all people have that. That’s what I am trying to say in a nutshell.