I was going to title this something else, but it would have been like a blunt instrument and would have mistreated the subject matter by simply taking it to the level of some kind of metaphorical allusion to Star Trek story arcs.
Basically, we are talking about those episodes written by the Sci Fi writer Theodore Sturgeon to do with the Vulcan T'Pau.
To cut back from there and bring it to what we want to address, all that needs to be said is that for some reason - maybe the Universe was sending info into Sturgeon's head (and many others as well, who were responsible for the show's themes and underlying ideology, you could call it), and consequently the show develops some ideas that actually exist in real human cultures of the ancient past.
'Pure,' but alluring. And this is according to the story writers themselves. |
Notwithstanding that the roots are in the ancient past, we have been 'eating from the fruits of that ancient tree' though, ourselves, up till today. And I'm not talking about this infamous 'Garden of Eden' tree, although who darn well knows what is all hooked up into things there!
Okay so the fundamental problem with human beings is to do with this word they have: 'love.'
The ancient Greek philosophers understood things better than we do now, today. We are a long way from using a real language with accurate meanings - we have a sinusoidal type of linguistics, where words have completely false meanings often, in fact. This is deliberately done to pull the wool over the eyes of the naive.
This word we use - 'love' - is one part of the 'philo' thing the Greeks had. They are basically still using the same Sanskrit root: 'Lubhyati.'
We also employ many common phrases but never stop to think why we are saying it the way that we do:
'We have love.' But 'God is Love.'
Even in the Christian texts the matter is treated that way too - 'no greater love does someone have...'
But if you examine the whole thing carefully and consciously acknowledging the explicit and implicit intended meanings, then you see that all these ancient writers and thinkers - even Jesus Christ Himself - are demarcating between the human individual's use of 'love' and that there is some kind of 'thing,' as in, an actual 'thing' known as Love which is entirely separate from human beings and that is not simply some phantom that 'comes into existence' because of humans. This is the same fallacy idea, this idea of the action first developing the principle subsequently, that idiots like Richard Dawkins entertain all the time: Pythagoras' Theorem came into existence because of material reality. Not. No it did not though!
When you think 'crushed velvet,' think T'Pol. |
T'Pol the half-Romulan, pseudo-Vulcan humanoid, well she gets into some difficulty because her mind has been 'damaged' from getting addicted to Trellium-D. And this makes her emotions very active, whereas, in the mode of a 'Vulcan' person, she has suppressed them.
Now this is actually close to the ancient Greek idea about 'Lubhyati.'
The word does not actually mean 'he desires' as Wiki claims for people who actually know Sanskrit. It means to go into a frenzy over something you like.
And so, the ancient Greeks correctly wrote that 'Love is a Divine Madness.' The Star Trek Vulcans don't approve of love because it leads to fights and arguments and eventually wars and death and whatever else that is unwanted.
And so their plan is to suppress this 'frenzy;' and as they would say, this 'madness.'
But you cannot actually have love. You do not 'love someone.'
You don't understand how sinister this 'way' that people carry on, really is. It is the reason super advanced beings cannot just come down here and cause the disposition of many problems.
You see, when a human says 'I love so-and-so' what they really mean (without ever admitting it), is that they are intending to obligate that other person on account that they have 'given,' or extended/offered, something of the most important thing that they own, to them. Well that's what they are trying to say.
Art Nouveau in Compton Chapel, in England. 'The Morning Stars Sang Together.' |
And so, typically, human society fraudulently converts this idea into a fanciful concoction about two people agreeing equivalently, to 'give' some super important internal 'part of themselves.' And so then this forms the legalistic basis of a putative 'spiritual' union and contract - which quickly blends in to the spirit world: real estate, inheritances, money, status, children, civic duties and obligations.
According to the Sanskrit teachings, 'Lubhyati' is a god-thing only. According to the Greek philosophers and to Christian Cosmology, 'Love' is a god, and with the Platonic people and the Christians, Love is the HIGHEST of the Divine Beings; it is actual 'God.'
It is also, as accurately enough portrayed by the Vulcans, a kind of a madness.
Love 'is.'
And it permanently 'is.'
A person's ego and self and consciousness can be 'put into a dormancy.' It's like having a light switch on -, and then turning it off.
'I love so-and-so.' No. You 'might' if you are lucky, be able to go into a Spiritual Force which is an actual being. And from which place, you cannot come back out though.
You go into the light of something that 'is.'
And then you get totally burned up and are no more.
Moth to the flame.
Richard Dawkins, one of the stupidest men who ever walked the planet, will tell you, that the reason you find someone's face attractive, is because the quality of attractivity (just like gravity, which they all understand really well, right...) arises from the confluence of multiple configurations (this is called the fallacy of number, where something categorical, lies beyond its enumerator, simply because there are so many numbers to look at, that whilst it must be there, we cannot actually say where this is, well, because, you know - too hard/too many numbers/too much to bother with, really. But it is there, really; trust us. We know. We are 'sci-entists').
Looks like something you can eat. |
It just 'arises out of.' Just like the Right-Angle Triangle thing just arises, out of, well out of thin air of course. Because naturally there is no way it can be a thing, that doesn't actually have any specific material substance itself but somehow exerts total power over everything material.
So someone's face and their body and whatever else is attractive, because 'evolution' and the need to replicate and there are all kinds of amazing causative species reproductive reasons for every single angle. Also, why you find crushed velvet attractive.
LOL
I am not the person, like this 'Saint Stephen' and all of them, who, when being stoned to death by the Dawkins's of the day (adamant that they didn't want to hear a different story than the one they were making money out of) as he was dying voiced that God should forgive them.
I am the person who, not only will bring to the fight the declaration that you cannot blaspheme against the Spiritual Divine Agency and get away with it, but I have friends in high places with nasty attitudes too. Who are just looking for an excuse.
Let the fun and games begin. That's what I say. No point stoning me!