by sceneshifter » Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:12 am
<br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:blue;font-family:helvetica;font-size:medium;">it is very easy to say to oneself: we are a christian nation, we are good, and we must stay good - it is easy to go to war saying to oneself: our war is righteous, theirs is not, god loves us, and approves our war - it is harder to say: we are not a christian nation, we do not act as jesus would, we are bad, and that means we hurt ourselves by hurting others - <br><br>it is too easy to believe what we want to believe - but it is better to be realistic, to try to see the truth - with reality, you can make happiness - with unreality, you cannot make happiness - you will be always bumping into the furniture if you entertain false ideas of where the furniture is - pride is entertaining false ideas of where the furniture is<br><br>justice is a virtue - justice is the first of the cardinal virtues - the four cardinal virtues are part of the christian virtues - the virtues cause happiness, the vices cause misery - how do we rate on justice? - how do we rate on happiness? - how much do we measure and try to measure our justice, our submission to the reality that happiness depends on the virtues - our injustice [our theft]: pay ranges from one billion dollars to one dollar a fortnight - the first world is still squeezing $200 billion a year out of the third world, although the economy of africa is smaller than the economy of italy - we are plunderers - we have total faith in grab-all-you-can - we accept any amount of money that comes to us, from inheritance, lottery or business - we never ask: how much have i contributed to wealth by my work, because i want to take out only as much as i put in? - although the social pool of wealth is limited to the sum of human work, we think nothing of taking out as much as we can, legally or illegally - <br><br>'let none be paid who does not work' - the bible says - obviously justice is fairpay for work - but we allow and even support pay up to a million times the average pay, although this causes the universal unhappiness of the labour and violence of everyone grabbing from everyone perpetually - no one can work more than about 10% harder than the average in an hour - but we allow and support pay up to a million times the average - [billgates, $18 billion in 1997, which is peaks of 10 million an hour] - [average pay in 1997: around US$10, if you pay all workers, including all housewives and tertiary students - pay doubles every 12 years at 6% global inflation - present [2006AD] average US$15 an hour, or US$75,000 per family - housewives paid too] - overpay so extreme causes underpay of a 1000th of the fairpay - are we trying to be christians? - christians are just, we are superhyperextremely unjust - christians do no hurt - we hurt others and thus ourselves superhyperextremely - why are there palestinian terrorists and no swedish terrorists? - an old readers digest article on the swedes said that the swedes have learned that you cant enjoy unless everyone enjoys - the golden rule - which should be obvious - people are not doormats - people who have been injured are violent<br><br>charlie chaplin punches the boxing machine - it punches him back - he gets angry - and punches the machine as hard as he can - it knocks him over - very funny - hillbillies shoot across the valley at neighbours for centuries - very funny - but stupid - are you injuring yourself? - are you hammering your head by hammering the head of another, of someone who is not a doormat? - is pride [satan] preventing you from admitting that to yourself? - we are christian only in our sin, our errorfulness, our failure to be christian or selfloving or selfcaring or selfish - our blindness to our ceaseless, escalating selfcrucifixion - every other animal is pursuing its happiness with intelligence - we are victims of pride - fooled into hurting ourselves terribly<br><br>bible: 'if a person sees someone in need, and has means to help them, and doesnt, love is not in them' - the prime christian commandment is to love - and only those who obey christ are christians - and christ says love, and love is helping those in need when you have means - <br><br>but why should we love? - why should we obey christ or anyone? - because you want to be loved, because you want to receive love, not hate, so you must not hurt - so you must not allow overpay, which causes underpay, which causes hurt - to the underpaid first and then to you, as they try to grab something of a fairshare, or grab as much as they can, because you did - as a willing or unthinking part of your culture's mis-ethic - humility is the power to learn - pride is 100% selfdestructive - and we support and abet pride, which is willful selfblinding<br><br>the 100% selfish person will hurt as little, please as much as possible, will smile at everyone, make friends of enemies, make better friends of friends - all for selfish reasons - to make his world more pleasant for himself - that is the golden rule: make your world as pleasant for yourself as it can be by doing no harm, by making friends not enemies - most of us are not up to that level of sanity of even the 100% selfish - we are more confused and stupid and selfdestructive than the 100% sanely selfish!<br><br>we think jesus gave the command to love in order to boss us around, out of his power to command and threaten with hell - we dont understand he said it out of love: because he knew it would help us, make us happy - <br><br>we are doomed animals, doomed by pride - unless we can slip a little sanity under the locked and bolted door of pride, of selfblinding - unless we can submit to learn a little of reality - where the furniture is</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--> <p></p><i></i>