michaelsherlock Wrote:It is about fostering both a cognitive and behavioural humility amongst an otherwise egocentric and overconfident species, whose confidence has been predominantly rooted in misguided beliefs and perceptions that have been reinforced by various psychological strategies employed to protect the house in which these beliefs reside, the ego.This could be potentially disasterous. My religious friends don't necessarily believe because they lack the critical thinking (which is what you're hinting at from what I've gathered) but because it benefits them socially, whether they achknowledge that consciously or not.
It is about attempting to address and reconcile the various aspects of our own consciousness (individuation) which have been divided and pitted against one another, causing the proliferation of internal and external conflict and the dominance of the ego-self over the “true-self,” for lack of a better word.
It is about maturing beyond lame and impotent “hero worship,” and becoming the hero, the saviour, the teacher and the student, all at one time and giving up childish things, like religious faith, political ideologies and scientific and academic dogmas.
It is about putting an end to the emotional manipulation achieved by the belief, which, in the hands of various belief peddlers, has fostered inequality, poverty, war, yadda, yadda, yadda and which has underscored each person’s relationship with societal institutions since recorded history and probably even longer. Hopefully by cutting off this root, (the emotionally manipulated belief) in each and every individual, we would effectively cut the strings by which our religious, philosophical, academic and political leaders have made us dance and in so doing, learn to walk for and by ourselves, for the first time.
I think that cutting those strings would turn their reality upside down and shatter what is dear to them. The relationships formed through church are very fragile because the only thing keeping such a diverse set of people together is one common belief.
I don't know if I'm even on the money here or if I missed this 'I am Christ' thing altogether. It's 2am here.. Sleeeeep.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
