03-25-2012, 04:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-25-2012, 04:41 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
(03-25-2012, 04:09 PM)Siren Wrote: On this planet human beings tend to think in black & white terms of either this or that, illusory/imaginary or real, when in fact, there is no such distinction (this befogging is product of the "veil" upon the mind).
An astute observation. Isn't this- really- the most fundamental "lesson" which needs to be learned? The ability to think beyond "black and white", "good and evil", etc?
Which leads me back into some of our previous discussion. A notion which is associated with the dark path is that some people are just too ignorant to know what is in their own best interest. As this notion goes, spiritually speaking most people on earth are as infants, and as such, need somebody else to make decisions for them until they are developed enough to discern all the "colors of the rainbow" as you have put it.
I have to say- and I know I am probably going to get jumped on for this- that I can really see where this thought is coming from. Look at what we have created with our "democracy" here in the U.S. It's a total mess! Now, a democratic system would work very well if its constituents had moved beyond this simplistic, dualistic way of thinking which insists on dividing everything into two camps. But most people refuse to do the inner development necessary to move beyond this infant mentality.
Is it truly beneficial for the whole that people be allowed to vote when their thinking is at such a rudimentary stage? I tend to think, no, what this does is actually harm the collective because what we have is most people running around voting on important issues based on an extremely simplistic worldview where everything fits into one of two neat and tidy "boxes". Now I know- this is exactly how one ends up down a path of "elitism"... and I know better than to "go there"...but then what is the alternative solution? Personally speaking, I am growing increasingly irritated and tired with all these laws and restrictions put upon me by others who refuse to develop beyond this kind of mentality, and who in their arrogance seek to use democracy as a means to push their self-righteousness onto others, and force them to behave in ways which conform with their own simplistic view of reality.
