Pure Brutality

[The Grand Nudger]

Nudger said: “I never know what you mean when you say things like this.  I suspect it's because you don't really know what you mean either.”

 
- I see myself as a lucky man. I come from a not so religious family and I got involved with this New thought” movement + Yoga philosophy + mystical Islam very quickly. So what happened to me was not a change in my mind. I still like to interpret the world in a reason and observation based manner.
 
Yet, there was a point at which I started seeing value + universalism in the core of all religious teachings. I am not saying “All religious people are absolutely right about everything”, I am saying that there is a core teaching in all religious teachings (that has been largely ignored and forgotten for the benefit of some mindless and repetitive rituals and dogmas) and that if you can get there, you can get to the almost Jungian archetypes and universal teachings that have their benefits that are beyond some simple philosophical or other mind-based approaches.
 
And I don’t think anybody should be shocked by these arguments. It’s not so complicated either

You overlook the possibility that the core value of many religious teachings is the same horrid shit you reject.  Islam's core value might be, for example, the conformity that abject terror can often inspire.  Thus, islamism.

On Political Islam and Islamic terrorism:
 
Etiologically “Islam” means “To Surrender” (to God). So
1) “Islamism” does not even exist. It cannot possibly exist.
2) If it was as you said “God” would actually have to be some evil entity playing with humans the way a child plays with its toys.
3) There are elements in the life of Muhammad that raise many question marks. Like “Why didn’t he abolish slavery or (let’s say) Polygamy?  

Whew, glad you cleared that up.  Islamism can't exist.  Just not a thing.  Obviously, whatever string of rationalizations lead you to this conclusion is airtight and no thinking person would believe their lying eyes or the islamists lying mouths.  
 

The problem with the Prophet of Islam is that he is the most human among all great spiritual teachers. So in some cases the answer is “Maybe he could not / maybe he didn’t have that kind of power”.

There you go again.  Most this, most that.  Bullshit.  Big Mo is a cheap knockoff of a cheap knockoff.  
 

Societies have a fabric. Some people say that Hitler was a boy-scout in comparison to Stalin. Did you know that Mao Tse Dong scarifised some 50 million people during his “cultural revolution?”
 
Great spiritual teachers don’t operate like this. Jesus, for instance, did not even flee the Romans. Yet, with the passing of the ages, he still managed to transform society and provide us (individuals all over the world) with this opportunity to learn about his message that has a deeper meaning beyond the more ritualized and dogmatic interpretations of this teachings (as I tried to explain before).

You're reading new magic book like a news report from the galilelan front.  Wanna know why jesus didn't run from the romans?  Because there never was a jesus and rome didn't operate the way magic book describes.  I know...I know..you mean "in the fairy tale" - but in the fairy tale, jesus doesn't run because a crucified god has to get crucified.  Be an awfully abrupt end to the story otherwise, eh.

-"and jesus fled" the end.

You're operating, ultimately, under the premise that "great religious teachers" know some profound thing that isn't obvious from what they write and..often enough, is the direct antithesis of what they wrote or has been attributed to them.   Worse, deepak fucking chopra qualifies, for you, as such a person.  There's a twitter account that uses generative ai to write deepak deepities and, surprise, deepak fans consistently fail to distinguish between the real deal and actual gibberish spouted by a random number generator on roids.

Here, let's try it. Which of these quotes is the real deal and which ones are a joke?

1. The Higgs boson gives rise to the doorway of acceptance.
2. The web of life differentiates into incredible potentiality.
3. Your heart co-creates sub-empirical positivity.
4. The invisible unfolds through the barrier of life.
5. Death imparts reality to the flow of balance.