(August 31, 2014 at 11:41 am)Natachan Wrote:(August 31, 2014 at 11:25 am)Greatest I am Wrote: I disagree. Man like s rules and laws and these need a hierarchy to protect and enforce.
Take that hierarchy away and you have chaos as all would do as they like.
Man likes rules and order and shuns chaos and anarchy.
Remember that in spite of our intelligence, most people are in religions and that means that they are followers of rules by nature just as you are.
Regards
DL
The issue I have is how that hierarchy comes about and is maintained. Take our current system. No one is inherently better than another. No one grovels. Everyone is fundamentally equal. Yet we do have laws and rules. They have come about through a mutual cooperation and understanding (ok, I know that's a gross oversimplification). If a person in authority does something wrong they are held just as accountable as anyone else. Authority in a democratic system can be gained or lost by the collective trust we put in a person based on the respect they have earned.
Setting up a system of ruling with a set person or persons at the top who cannot be moved and who are set as infallible or above reproach is revolting. It is just as revolting as the concept of a god. A civilized person does not give to Caesar, he permits no Caesar.
I think I see your mind set. You do not mind leadership and rules but object to tyranny. I agree.
We should all seek the ideal man to lead and rule over us but not idolize him or her.
That my friend is pure Gnostic Christian thinking and that is wht I am.
Even after my apotheosis, no it is not woo, the ideal or Godhead I found, I set aside, raised the bar of that/my view of ideal, and seek a new God continually.
That is what we should do politically as well as spiritually.
My religion aside, do you see what I mean?
Regards
DL
