I watch a lot of arguments and discussion between people. When you're at Law School (which I was personally in, in the mainstream system though, only for a short while because I rapidly went into a government role that had its own 'in house' system of legal training...) at some point you will participate in 'moot court.' By standard definition this is a 'mock court at which law students argue imaginary cases for practice').
Depending on what your motivations are, you might always throughout the whole of your life, observe these situations - but you might do it with 'an edge,' so to speak, and not simply because you like watching politicians speak.
Supercar Blondie - not 'Barbie' although... lol Can drive though. Damn yeah! |
At a certain stage of your build-up of knowledge or what must pass for it in this world - you will observe that many good people, even those with very sound basic 'positions' on some crucial matter, will, when they are 'flying freely' in the subject, start to parrot off things that have been around for a long time, and that others have said as part of the 'dogma' if you will, of the 'position.' They are not really thinking about what they are saying.
When we are considering the peculiar subject of, say, ET Aliens being here, many people look back into the past and make suggestions a la 'Ancient Astronaut Theorists.' LOL
The fact is, it is wrong to say that anything we can see as 'artifact' from the past - at least in the form of any created object - was ever made by advanced ET Aliens.
Even the pyramids are clearly the work of human beings. There is nothing in respect of 'materials' or construction tools that evidence the advanced technology even of ourselves here today.
Sure it is advanced, and clever and industrious work, - but human, and human from a nascent time of Man's development albeit Mankind possessed great skills and intelligence.
So a great problem with human thought as we see it today, embodied in ideologies,
regardless even of whether they are scientific ones, and not simply religious or belief system ones - is that they are all heavily subject to open blind ignorance as soon as people feel free to speak gratuitously. Which is all the time. It is such a trap too, that in most cases it becomes impossible to explain to that person espousing the position, exactly how off-the-trail they really are. People get things right, and from there, they quickly throw in loads of rubbish that is completely. They never seem to be satisfied just 'sitting pat' on clear-cut truth at all. And staying there.If you are not already capable of doing it on your own, certainly I could take you, over just a few weeks, stick you in a darkened room most of the time, and at the end, you won't have any difficulty at all knowing the difference between imaginary friends, or hallucinations - and actual encounters with actual people who are not at all from this planet!
There is a widespread modern pop cultural - although, it has more than just the dimension of being a teen thing and is supported by the older generation (on account of the strong Confucianism social environment there) - idea in Korea, that 'K-Pop' groups must not have boyfriends or girlfriends and only 'fans,' and that they cannot even marry anyone. If they do, they must leave the group.Rabindranath Tagore - great poet of modern Korean culture. Huh? Oh, but you knew, right? |
The story is 'they have the pure morals/moral purity of angels...'
So - would it be possible to point out to Xtian ideologues, for instance, that in the standard New Testament text, 'angels' are really really sexed-up creatures??
No, you could not say that to anyone; no one would believe it. But it is there starring everyone right in the face and no one appears to 'get' the words they are reading.
Alternatively, the Quran makes a fuss of Jesus coming back to 'break crosses' because the competing ruling Abd' ul Malik wanted to envision the destruction of the Byzantines. He even caused Islamic eschatology to say that the rise of an apostate regime would stop at 'Rum.' He meant - Constantinople; which he wanted to take complete control of and which he believed would remain an ideological battleground into the future, even after he took it by force.
Why couldn't Jesus come back to um, I dunno - say, Lhasa and 'break Buddhas?' (At least that would have shown whoever wrote the Quran really did know the future and things that hadn't happened yet at the time of the first exposure of the Quran) Or how about Sri Lanka and break 'idols?' Because none of those places had any relevance to Abd' ul Malik!
...So.
Where does this leave us?
The big three religious/philosophical/morality systems in the world: pop Xtianity, Islam, and Vedic (which includes Buddhism) though possibly with some exceptions with the Vedas because they are so diverse and wide-apart morally in places - all have this concept of 'judgment' because you have or are 'breaking' someone else's law; it's not your personal internal individual law code -, it is from outside of you/outside of your life.
Suzanne Chesterton - 'trance singer' lol... Is. Honest. Nothing more, nothing less. |
And all of them force you to this notion that there is someone or something outside of you, that has so much greater power than you, that you must accept their/its enforcing, delivery downwards onto you, of its rules. And you have to fit into it, because you are essentially not 'it' inside.
However, there is an entirely different notion that is quite unfamiliar to most of the world, and it is around in places, one of those being the texts which speak of 'Guardians' that are subtly here and extremely powerful but whose aggression and aggressive is hidden because they don't even want to be known of as forceful and overpowering. They have no money, no wealth, no position, no social entitlement, but they are really, the actual gatekeepers to you. To what becomes of you.
And, they are hidden, in disguise, but actually present under your nose. All the time.
There's documents about them. People don't talk about those. If they have even encountered them, they think it's just a speculation. Virtually a pointless speculation. Taoism has some similar ideas. And even there, in that ethnic context, it is Confucianism that rules on the surface.
You see, it is utterly cruel to expose to everyone else, that you got out, and that they didn't and nor could they ever at this stage of their um 'development.' So there is a gulf between 'you' (if you 'get' the idea, the key - the golden key, which isn't 'gold' at all, of course), and the values that everyone else has, and what they all hold is important and valuable...
So...
This track is a ballad, not really the style that we have been posting recently, but it is from Sue McLaren and Suzanne Chesterton.
It's called, 'Guardian.' Interesting vid.