3) Faith
[Remember
to keep holy the Lord’s Day.]
{Remember the Sabbath day, to keep
it holy. Six days you shall labor, and
do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it
you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant,
or your maidservant or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates;
for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in
them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day
and hallowed it.}
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Faith requires
belief in what is not observed. The unobservable
is transfigured from the realm of pretend into the miraculous to validate
presence in reality. The miraculous
becomes sanctified. Faith therein
becomes a structure of support for the superego to retain rather than dismiss
the connected ideas. Faith is convenient
to dismiss negative information which contradicts prior volition or truths one
consciously or subconsciously chooses not to face. The fact we evolved from and still are
animals who could eradicate each other at any moment and what our volition
represents is the ultimate fact buried under the Meme. This perpetuates religious faith.
Faith prompts people
to utter the dubious, “Everything happens for a reason.” This mantra keeps only supportive stimuli and
converts non-supportive stimuli into optimism, selective editing, or attributes
the event to a later proposed consequence in the judgment of a higher being
whose existence, knowledge, and planning shall not be questioned and need not
be comprehended due to faith.
Questioning the
logic or planning of god, harkens
back to the second commandment and will be punished. The very idea of thinking of questioning god could then be attributed as the
cause for the non-supportive stimuli. The
omnipotent-being knew such questioning was approaching and modified the events
of history to preemptively compensate.
The Meme preys on this human-neurosis and origin story of a negative
feedback loop.
All presuppositions
of a theistic society require faith in an improvable unverifiable insensible deity. Stories are carried through memes in oral and
written history to convey events where such a deity has violated the void of
empirical evidential matter to confirm the existence and interplay of deities
inside space-time. This is conveniently
truncated by the Meme prior to recorded audio or visual technologies. After photography new religions are more often
than not dubbed cults.
Given the isolation
in historical timing, one is left to question if the entire contents of the Bible
and Qur’an are edited scripts. Not only
is the miraculous tautology impossible, but the characters (e.g. Jesus, Moses,
and Mohammed etc.) may have never existed or if real manipulations of truth. The players in this theater may be
amalgamations of people who did or fictionalizations of those with alternative
agendas.
Religious faith often
begets ritual to affirm faith in the presence of others. (E.g. Church requires at least two be
gathered in His name.) Pageantry,
exercises, kneeling, standing, arm-flapping, chanting, stage-shows, megaphones,
banners, stained-glass windows, ornaments, relics, sacred spaces, aromas, holy
confections and brews, recitals, karaoke, and readings are all core elements to
religious faith.
Faith by itself is a
feeble, fragile, feckless conception.
Faith’s clay is mutable and powerless without consensus. One can believe in the flying spaghetti
monster, jesus, Tom Waits, or cthulhu.
Without others around there is no vessel to fill with faith; there is no
traction in the Meme. Myth, lore,
consequence and representations similar to evidence must be required to magnetize
the faithful around a syncretic nexus. See the deceased otiose faiths of Zeus etc.
The third
commandment presents ritual to the center stage. Ritual is critical to solidifying blind
obedience in the lack of empirical evidence which would be used in its place if
available. The faithful are commanded to
go to services every seventh day in number three. Not attending or observing the various
iterations of abstinence associated with the arbitrary window of time (whether
it is not consuming mammalian muscle tissue, bowing to the proper longitude and
longitude of a historical city, or not puffing a cigarette) the thought-control
is in consummating obedience in the devotee to reaffirm faith so that the Meme’s
power rejuvenates.
Parents instruct
ignorant children to replicate such behavior, often inside a microcosm of a
single flavor of organized Pablum ritual.
This mutes the adult-child’s rebuttal once aged. An adult is much less likely to reveal
criticism in a large group setting and even less likely in one that includes
minors. The smell of glib absurdity is
sublimated as Christians with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are taught to
outwardly lie to and bribe their children for their children’s “benefit.” Adults are hampered from amending their ideas
on the parting of the Red Sea or metaphor of Jesus turning water into wine at
Cana to parallel transubstantiation or asking what DNA was in Jesus’
semen?
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Adults are taught to
observe, create and not speak of the make-believe around humanity. The cult of holiday is in every way an
insidious beguiling of the populace to usurp pagan ritual with religious
obedience in a macro level effort for compliance to social norms to repress
individual volition and maximize consumerism, patriotism, group-think, and
fundamentalism inside the Meme.
After American Labor
Day the assault begins with Halloween which mocks paganism and bifurcates
make-believe into monsters and religion.
This segregates religion as sacrosanct and monsters as ludicrous to
convey the two are not equally fantasy. In
Thanksgiving, patriotism mocks pagan natives and honors and sugarcoats
imperialism. Christmas, Hanukah, etc. confirm
faith and religion to the serotonin release of capitalism. This coincides with college and professional
football, hockey, and the World Series in baseball to encourage the populace
into passionate zealot-like behavior mirrored in soccer and cricket outside
American myopia.
The waste of
resources to rejuvenate the cultish meme of faith by ensnaring capitalism is
the central American cultural ethos. It
is in no small way linked to the American brand of fundamentalism. America is brash, vengeful, and arrogant in
asserting its separation of church and state as long as the U.S gets a large
helping of god.
God is understood to
be Christian by most Americans. Jews can
tag along as long as the gimp allows abuse when convenient. Hanukah like other non-Christian northern
hemisphere solstice religious holidays in the West is lumped as a smokescreen
of inclusion. The marketing campaign of
the intentionally ambiguous slogan of Happy
Holidays diffuses the Meme so that its religious tentacles ensnare with a
public skin display of mirthful constriction and the hardened muscle of
generations of atavistic population control asphyxiation.
Kwanza and Ramadan
are corrupted into the commercial herding just as the Shia Ashura resembles the
Christian Easter “Holy Week” to the Jewish Passover before it. As long as humans designate these apportioned
times as special or a holiday, the Meme is working.
To an atheist every
day is an equal holiday in such
regard. To the anti-Meme, time is an
equal platform; the specificity for historical mandated elation to commemorate
an arbitrary calendar’s numeric placeholder is an abduction of volition. Such memories and thoughts could be had at
any moment and are bias to the false-exclusivity on individuality to the
celebrators.
Veterans Day in
America of soldiers vanquishing enemies is the inverse end of barrels and
shrapnel to bodies beyond borders. The
event is about protection from fear and marketing death. Thanksgiving is amnesia for imperialism and
slavery given vantage point. So in the
religious and secular designated histories find conflict born into the Meme,
rather than the absolute of goodness or badness.
Symbolic ideologues
of such holidays like: Uncle Sam, a kind pilgrim and cooperative pagan, Santa
Claus, cupid, or a Leprechaun represent Meme-masters roping and whipping cows
to the slaughterhouse or fenced confines for alternative purposes conducive to
the Meme’s greater objectives sheathed inside the costume of holiday. Flags, luck, fated-arrow love, and sleighs
all distance volition. The holidays are
barriers to observing astronomy linking humanity with the atomic universe by
simply looking up at the sky. The
celestial cycles are bulldozed first by ‘pagans’ then the religious marketed
products of holiday, which in the end is all the rapacious Meme.
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9/11/01
The intentional
hijacking and converted missile status of four commercial airplanes struck a
level of panic and irrational level of fear in America that the amped up
xenophobic fallout prompted invasions of Iraq (who played zero part in 9/11)
and Afghanistan. The entire department
of Homeland Security was created.
America passed corporate-friendly tax policies against its long-term
self-interest to stimulate its economy as if the financial security of the
world’s largest superpower was threatened by the loss of four airplanes, two
and one quarter buildings and about three thousand citizens. Worse carnage was avoided by the volition of
astute humans accepting death to plummet in a Pennsylvania field rather than the
Capitol building.
The U.S. economy was
not threatened. The U.S. was a poked
lion. A display of strength, a puff of
the mane, a flex of the shoulders, a dangling of the testes, and a piss and a shit
all around the neighborhoods of the globe for the U.S. show who is still king. Like the animals we (humanity) are, the U.S.
urinates and defecates in claimed territory so that nobody fucks with the apex
country of the Meme. If the curtain does
not rise on this theatrical production and close in acts that conclude a final
of winning then the lion risks repeating Vietnam. That is why in 2015 the United States still
has troops in Afghanistan. The theater
of marketing victory (the perception of order through dominance [the Meme]) has
always been the point. There was never a
real risk of abating functional small group bombings or assault rifle violence
on U.S. soil. The chaos of volition of
individuals is still absolute.
After 9/11 the
United States did not know who sponsored the murder of U.S. citizens through
aircraft. The FBI eight months past
September didn’t know. Maybe the
terrorism was plotted in Afghanistan through Germany through the United Arab
Emirates and the United States. Osama
bin Laden became the poster poker of the lion.
Evidence was what the lion said was evidence. The marketing campaign needed a Jafar to
explain who dared insult the sultan. The
U.S. prepared its Aladdins to go to war in Iraq despite logic telling the
majority of the world opposed to the invasion doing so would just poke an ant
hill increasing the likelihood of terrorism and do little against the actual
terrorists. The U.S. started a global
manhunt for Bin Laden. The Meme saw a
chance at a new villain and tried to expand the fear of that marketed villain
as a mechanism of control so that W could emulate Reaganomics.
The Patriot Act led
to Americans violating the U.S. constitution to spy on domestic and foreign
people on a massive level without prior cause.
Snowden, Assange, and Manning are condemned on a global level for
uttering truths. The collective superego
denial of facing the reality that at any moment a group of small individuals
could convert an airplane into a bomb and cause mass destruction set off a
tidal wave of self-debilitating, self-defeating, economically-cannibalizing
compensating behavior in theist-majority America. Brittan followed suit. The Humans-are-not-Animals meme was in full
panic or glory depending on how one views the garish aftermath.
A non-Meme reaction
would be to step away from over-reaction and focus on what the realities of why
and how America is subject to such threats from militant Islamist-based
country-less terrorists. Where does
their power and money come from? (The
ultimate answer is the power from the fear inculcated by fundamentalist theism.) How could their numbers grow or decline based
on how we proceed. America has chosen to
combat a figurative hydra in a nationless rouge-terrorist threat by attempting
to cut two of its heads (Iraq and Afghanistan).
Mushrooms sprout in the side-casualties of drones to haunt the surviving
descendants of the World Trade Center. Pakistan
is an Islamic refuge for the Afghan war.
ISIS and Syria is fallout from the Iraqi power vacuum. Yemen becomes an egg sack. Saudi oil is
sacrosanct.
If we misinterpret
how Al-Qaida and ISIS fit into the Meme, we risk compounding this form of
terrorist threat. Al-Qaida’s is
ultimately pro-Meme in the same way churches, mosques, and synagogues work as
partners with governments to perpetuate the Meme through control. Al-Qaida uses the fear from the Poor
exploited by the systematic economics and governmental policies to gain
power. Al-Qaida teaches external
volition as one is abdicated from responsibility for murder via religion and is
righteous in doing so to infidels labeled as the West (non-Muslims). This is despite most of the humans killed by
Al-Qaida also being Muslim.
Al-Qaida utilizes
the values of the third commandment in imposed obligatory behavior commanded by
Allah. This is the original
Abraham-derived monotheism teleological suspension of the ethical Kierkegaard
described in Commandment One. One
suspends the morality of the faith because of a fundamentalist interpretation
of instruction from god to murder.
The inability of
Islam and all forms of theism to segregate morality, virtue, and goodness from
the necessity or concept of a specified interactive god fuels Al-Qaida through the inherent hypocrisy the requirement a
specified god mandates. The three Abrahamic-derived monotheisms are
inherently designed to employ this hypocrisy to justifiably kill through the
story of Isaac. Humanity must see such
killing as immoral. When humanity
inserts the badness back into this form of deistic-instructed killing and
social control the anti-Meme has a chance to conquer this form of
fundamentalism.
When humanity
separates goodness from theism, then evil will have no bearing of righteousness
commandeering such linkages. In this the
imaginary lines of country, religion, and race might dissolve and natural
reflections into the machinations of the ego to acknowledge the autonomy and
culpability of our volition might progress.
The threat of
killing spreads fear in the same way dictators like Saddam Hussein are used by
the West. Although far less controllable
due to the loss of a skeletal economic system for the Meme to manipulate, the
rogue actions of Al-Qaida allow the Meme to implement a broader security state,
military-industrial complex, and correlated profits across the globe.
The potential chaos
of Al-Qaida being outside a government is less than ideal for the Meme. This particular brand of fundamentalism’s
evisceration of volition through martyrdom makes Al-Qaida for its majority
pro-Meme. This is like the Catholic
Church which supports other forms of martyrdom whether in a coliseum, Crusade, a
heart’s self-denial, or family planning center.
The chaos of a militant
dictator imposing fear in the Poor to submit is pro-Meme. This mirrors Al-Qaida. This is something the First-World derivation
of the Meme would want to impose on the Third-World. The Meme does not want chaos in the First-World. We will discuss this further in Commandment Eight
under theft. This is why such terrorist
organizations are both ally and foe for the Meme depending on how well the quotidian
physical destruction can be confined to the Third World.
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Prayer, ribbons, and
flags for troops and victims are ritualistic placations to the Meme in the
third commandment. A U.S. president
cannot give a speech without uttering god
bless America. This is a juvenile
mocking of the citizenry. Our pledge of
allegiance and pre-testimony swears are adapted to require god’s inclusion. A
politician intertwining such a self-destructive meme with public policy
discourse coddles the people as if god is on America’s side or that this phrase
brings favor like the third commandment.
If we ask ourselves
why America is this way we can look at the Meme’s collision with the New Deal carried
forward from FDR in the 1930’s under President Eisenhower in the 1950’s giving
Labor more power in business. We can
look to the coalition between Christian leaders and the business community to
convince the Poor to vote against their self-interests under the idea of
merging the identities of both a capitalist and a Christian to believe in a
perverse libertarianism where the rewards and difficulties of life are
apportioned with one’s efforts and actually ignore many of the New Testaments
teachings on the Poor. This is exactly
what the Meme wants to do, delink social interrelationships and treat the
wealthy like Herculean demigods who earned their way to keep the Poor laboring
in an unachievable idolatry. It
contradicts the core of what Jesus is attributed to teach, yet because the Meme
fuses the idea of god with politics,
those politics are most often supported by the most evangelical American
Christians.
Look back to GM, DuPont,
the Chamber of Commerce, Firestone, Hilton, IBM, Maytag, Sun Oil, and the
National Association of Manufacturer’s and a speech by Rev. James Fifield in
1940 to fight collectivism through religious faith. Look at the slogans, “Freedom Under God” and
“Slavery of the State.” The New Deal is
evil creeping socialism. Eisenhower’s
own Christianity began the Presidential Prayer Breakfasts in the 1950’s. The Soviet stance was atheist socialism. America became Christian capitalism inside
the Meme as the cold war set its roots in the post nuclear era.
Sid Richardson, an
oil tycoon, one of the wealthiest dudes in America in the 1950’s started the
run of Reverend Billy Graham and the evangelical capitalists with the help of
William Randolph Hurst’s media. Down
with unions; government restrictions on business are Satan’s work. We get prayers at D.C. cabinet meetings and
patriotism gets fused with piety to drown out Woody Guthrie.
The pledge of
allegiance, money, postage stamps, and our national motto: all got
converted. This is mainly in the
1950’s. Ever since Reagan every
presidential speech has god bless America as the official closing. Read Kevin Kruse’s One Nation Under God. Look at 2015 and Indiana’s religious freedom
bill. Look at southern states like
Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal and Arkansas’ Mike Huckabee trying to paint a picture
that religion (i.e. Christianity) is under attack in America. There is a false presentation of war in a
paradigm Southern and evangelical voters typically respond to rally the Meme.
America cannot
tolerate films or media presentation where the hero fails or that the hero is
not of a Western-overtone. The hero usually
can only be Eastern if the conflicting enemy is also Eastern. The images of Jesus and his apostles are
coated in factually inaccurate to the region European features. To insert a darker face or a tyrant-America
out of anomaly context is to present a flawed god to the West and thus to the
dominant meme. This insecurity to face
the full circle reality of the American and Christian empires brings about constant
requests for godly blessings coordinated with the Meme in the third
commandment.
Inverse faces
operate in the Middle Eastern Islamic empires descending from the original
Caliphate from the 7th and 8th centuries from Muhammad in
the Arabian Peninsula through the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates stretching
through the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, the Iberian Peninsula, to
Northern Africa and later into Indonesia.
The god-bless phrase
must be ritualized or mythical penalties will be had. If the word god was replaced with any sort of
specificity, the univocal phrase would be condemned. The ambiguity allows a broad untruth. Each listener is provided sufficient
subjective interpretation to find tolerance over protest. The knowledge if the word Jesus or Allah were
used in “god’s” stead shows the immaturity of the phrase, the politician, and
the people the politician purports to represent.
You can look back to
1964 with prayer in school and see that it was Protestants, Catholics, and Jews
who rallied against a constitutional amendment for school prayer after the
Supreme Court said state sanctioned school prayer was unconstitutional. The religious organizations felt the lack of
specificity would dilute prayer. What it
would have done is reduce their splintered powers and further expose the Meme.
The U.S. god is
understood by the preponderance of Congress and federal and state governments
to allude to a Judeo-Christian paradigm.
The constitution does not state this directly, but it has been long
understood that not stating makes the Meme stronger than explicitness. America’s steadfast support of Israel and
cricket-chirping support of the Palestinian people and predilection for bombing
Islamic states in comparison further communicates this bias. Look at what that bias has done to our
national security. The Meme benefits
from this lack of specificity in overt language by explicit endorsement in
action to coalesce power behind a religious consensus in America as a microcosm
of the planet.
The opposing
iterations of consensus in Western Europe and America, the Middle East, and
East Asia actually aid the Meme. A single
global religion would be a one-legged tripod.
The segregated ideas of god represent varied product lines to sell and
lines of defense to protect the Meme through infighting over semantics rather
than the flawed commonality. Diversification
makes corporate entities, viruses, and investments stronger to prevent
collapse. Jesus and Mohammed work the
same as having both stocks and bonds in the Meme’s pre-modern portfolio.
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The uproar over
weapons of mass destruction is a direct Meme-response to the limited-synthetic
security States are able to provide citizens against rouge nationless terrorism
or guerrilla warfare. The Department of
Homeland Security, NSA surveillance and foreign invasions at best provide security
based on faith.
How safe is a
person? The safety can only be verified
by a nonoccurrence which bears estimated likelihood that because such terrorist
events have not been common, that such terror will not occur in the present. The safety-systems are often granted
false-credit for nonoccurrence, as if all non-occurrences are the result of the
safety-system. There is little evidence
that TSA actually stops threats from boarding planes. Internal tests in 2015 verify their error
rate at ninety-five percent at catching fake prohibited material from being
detected in searches. 67 of 70 weapons
got through checkpoints. The annual
budget for the TSA in 2012 was $7.6 billion.
When threats
materialize, the threat is marketed to be an anomaly not a systematic vulnerability. The U.S. and British governments cannot
guarantee or truly prevent such threats.
At best the theatrics in response are illusions to avoid the greatest
threat: panic which results in chaos, which could seep towards reducing the
adoption-threshold of the Meme.
This is why the U.S.
and other global powers do not really participate in military
humanitarianism. The U.S. may advertise aid
to characters labeled as innocents so that Americans may dub the American
military-industrial complex movements as Good and the regime being confronted
as Bad. What happens to the lives of the
foreign Poor in these countries is dust under the rug outside the occasional
marketing effort to validate an ongoing federal expenditure or replenish faith
in a flag. In many cases U.S. action is
a direct result of the title role of innocents and evil-doers flip flopping
with the threat of unleashed chaos towards the Global Power (U.S.) Often Global Power security would be best
served by doing nothing since today's oppressed become tomorrow’s
oppressors.
Iraq was taken off
the terror list as Cuba was added in 1982 to offer Saddam U.S. aid before we
used Hussein as a scapegoat to display order after 9/11/01. Cuba was finally removed in 2015. Ousting Hussein in many ways bred ISIS in the
chaos enveloping Iraq and Syria flushing refugees into Turkey and Greece. The U.S. funds a fake Iraqi army to defend the
shambles of a country with the irascible tone of a Wasp haggling price with a
Babylonian bazaar merchant over a paperweight as countries crumble.
Afghanistan’s role versus
the Soviet Union in the Cold War compared to guerilla Al-Qaida stronghold
paired with Pakistan is the most glaring modern example. The U.S. supported the mujahedeen rebels in
the 1980’s against the Russians. The
Pashtun population in Pakistan/Afghanistan has never accepted the British
imposed Durand line of division.
Pakistani President Muhamad Zia-ul-Haq was a fundamentalist Islamic
military dictator who helped generate the Taliban.
Conflicts in Darfur,
Somalia, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Vietnam etc. have created a string
of post WWII conflicts where the Global Powers have determined political apathy
or selective involvement based on the threat of spilt-over chaos to threaten
the Meme rather than humanitarianism. War
becomes a meretricious marketing endeavor.
WWII was possibly
the last major conflict predominated by my tank, plane, battleship against your
iteration in organized uniformed uncertain conflict. The Cold War showed the world the trump card
of nuclear weapons in the post Cuban Missile Crisis landscape where JFK’s
arrogance or dumb luck over the socialist threat and some defunct missiles in
Turkey almost led to WWIII. JFK’s faith
in Khrushchev’s desire to avoid mutual nuclear human destruction and the happy
near miss of a Radio Moscow broadcast avoided an apocalyptic event. Vasili Arkhipov blocking an order to fire
submarine nuke torpedoes on October 27, 1962 might have saved more lives than
any man in human history. Any
significantly escalated formal engagement of Global Powers via tanks, jets, and
submarines is countered by what U.S. citizens did to Japanese citizens in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what might have been if pre-emptive aggression had
prevailed in October 1962.
Post WWII only the
world’s superpowers are permitted to have nuclear weapons. Israel is allowed to have them covertly
through the U.S. and Western Europe, but Iran cannot. See the Dimona reactor. Iraq cannot.
Any insectile country which might have a score to settle for past or
current exploitation cannot. The Meme
requires such an imbalanced order. The
Meme is repressing science and entropy to manufacture this unsustainable
pretext.
The reality that
U.S. and Israeli use of preemptive force builds global consensus to support
global WMD buildup is dismissed in the arrogance of the Meme. The non-apex of the Meme sees the apex as the
greatest threat to safety due to unilateral engagement based on events like the
post 9/11 Iraq invasion and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. The apex sees itself as a liberator and peace
preserver.
The zero-sum of
humanity and the U.S. chemical and WMD-hypocrisy was entrenched so that a level
of escalated panic and psychological sensitivity would forever be imbedded into
the American psyche by what line Americans are ready to cross. America has collective guilt over dropping
the bombs and is thus more concerned that no party ever uses nukes again. Subconsciously America is aware that of all
countries the United States is due such a retaliatory blow even if the strike
is less likely to come from Germany or Japan. America has made sure to install itself as the
proxy military of both countries.
This leads one to
question the necessity of constructing and investing in tanks, jets, and
battleships. Taxpayer-funding for global-national
corporations like Boeing and Lockheed Martin mushrooms political patronage and
stock prices. Suggestion of
non-necessity is anti-Meme. This would
reduce the appearance of order over the marginal-order such investments
provide. This has to be weighed against
alternative budgetary uses of the funds.
This will be
discussed in Commandment Seven on stealing later, but one can see how for the
U.S. Republican party no amount of defense spending will ever be enough. The idea of opposing defense spending as a
matter of principle is the anti-Meme goading chaos by reducing order. The mathematics: the number of tanks,
soldiers, jets, or bombs is irrelevant to the appearance of choosing entropy.
Global Powers must
be able to engage in a commensurate level of faith that one will not launch
nuclear warheads at the other. Nuclear
war’s most likely scenario would come from Israel launching nuclear weapons at
Iran, followed by retribution cascading into an eventual non-missile nuclear
detonation from inside the United States by a fundamentalist nationless rogue
group displaying how defenseless the West is to stop such acts when there is no
nation to fire a nuclear weapon back at.
The United States would be stuck with its many nuclear penises in silos
with no one to fuck, but a vague idea of which enemy to market to extract the
amount of blood the American people under the Meme would expect to sustain the
shredded belief that Western governments could ever really stop such a threat.
In lieu of international
trust or true security from such a threat we have massive economic sanctions
against States deemed untrustworthy. A
lack of trust is typically associated with countries with dominate
religions-memes, which contradict the religions-memes of the Global Powers
acting as the driving force behind the sanctions. However the root is economic whether it be
American democracy to Soviet or Chinese communism or Wall Street to OPEC. See America’s policies with Saudi Arabia versus
Iran. Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabism is far
more fundamentalist than Iran, but the Saudi’s play economic ball.
Religion is
primarily a costume to commandeer the wealth-creation mechanisms and
systems. The power drawn from
predictable control of regional and global wealth ultimately determines the
balance of trust. Such actions become
entwined with money, natural resource extraction, and most importantly
preservation of the Humans-are-not-Animals meme. The Meme must preserve the appearance of
order and the subsystems of maintaining order.
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The work week is
modeled after the third commandment to allow observance of the Jewish and
Christian iterations of Sabbath. The
meme of religion becomes attached with commerce in such habitual
repetition. Labor during the week;
spend money and pray in services on the weekends. Workers alternate from caffeine to speed
through Monday to Friday to alcohol to slow down Saturday and Sunday. Each encourages the Meme by avoiding the
power and potential introspection of being in the now.
The third
commandment captures the absurd falsities of the book of genesis on the origin
of the universe and planet. The six day
formation is a level of untruth unfit for retort. Possibly the greatest danger inferred in the
third commandment is the creationist ideology.
Modern humans, who deny Darwinism, evolution, and the true nature of
what we are and come from, do so in protection of their core god meme, which is inside the
Humans-are-not-Animals meme. Faith is
slathered on seven-fold to retort science with blind rhetoric and nonsense such
as, “Why do monkeys still exist if we evolved from apes?”
Like climate change,
evolutionary science presents a roadblock to which theists often split
ranks. Most theists agree with
evolution. A lesser number agree with anthropogenic
climate change. However the point is not
to win over the deniers, for that requires no argument. The scientists of our planet have researched,
evaluated and concluded on compelling evidence in each case. (See the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) A debate where the evidence of faith and
holiness are considered on par, if not trumps to carbon dating, thermometers,
barometers, hurricanes, forest fires, extinctions, deforestation, oxygen
levels, and droughts etc. is a farce.
Even Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si May 24, 2015 recognizes
this.
Einstein warned, “If
the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four
years of life left. No more bees, no
more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” Scientists
warn the average rate of vertebrate species extinction is 114 times higher than
normal. The losses since 1900 should
have taken 800 to 10,000 years.
Elizabeth Kokbert’s The Sixth Extinction documents the past and
warns what is occurring is based on what we are choosing. What is occurring is not normal. Humans are choking the foundation of our
survival. Will we choose empathy?
Vehicle choice can
also be syphoned in the extremes across the Meme. The sports utility vehicle is pro-Meme with
its ride-high seating position, armor-like weight for overly fearful passengers
and disproportionate carbon emissions for many drivers who rarely if ever go
off-road. Pick-up truck cowboys
appearing larger and faster typically hauling nothing but a single human is
also pro-Meme. Electric hybrids are
anti-Meme with smaller footprint, eco-consciousness, and greater acceptance of
the risks of vehicle operation. A Smart
car being smashed on an interstate is the anti-Meme accepting death and
interconnection. One can group carpool mini-vans
and motorcycles the same way.
One can extend this
linkage to large quantity of progeny and small in families. One’s indulgence in the perpetuation of one’s
genial line is often commensurate with one’s dedication to the Meme. Genial
perpetuation is ego worship. Seeking
eternal life is ego worship. Accepting
death in a realistic swallow is anti-Meme.
The things the
average solitary driver verbalizes to other drivers also exposes the Meme. Our animal comes out in road rage. We curse and criticize drivers insulated by
steel because our fear of death is closer.
We know we are in moving weapons.
If others are in the car maybe we don’t call the other driver a fucking
asshole or throw our hands up because while they were staring at their cell
phone, slow on the pedal, and eek through the yellow we catch the extra traffic
light. When we do that it is the animal
coming out in our alone space swimming around in the social pool flashing our
disdain for the Meme where we feel no one can hear us. Look at the car behind you next time you
swerve into their lane or break too hard.
The animal is right there ready to roar, especially in males.
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Another
variant in human behavior tied to faith and the planet is vegetarianism. The religious/ sacrilegious idea of eating
human flesh in Catholic Communion contrasts with the traditional Catholic
forbiddance of meat on Fridays (the day that Jesus supposedly was killed.) The host is/represents human body. The wine is/represents human blood. The idea of god is a direct reaction to bury the meme of cannibalism and
animal-like murder between humans. The
Eucharist both indulges the hidden id urges for cannibalism and unleashes our
animal nature while at the same time framing the idea as sacrilege to preserve
the insulation of the god-meme. One
cannot eat the Eucharist alone; one must be permitted by the Church (the Meme).
Diving
into the underlying rationale for vegetarianism, one can see it is not the
death of the cow; it is the excessive resources required and earthen
liabilities created to grow the muscle tissue of the cow nourishing the
consumer’s body. Less water, corn, land,
air pollutants, and time is necessary to provide similar nutrients through
divergent plant-based (sun-energy-based) means per gram of sustenance. (Note the metric system is anti-Meme. Metric represents a consensus.) Less carbon is created from the plant versus
animal waste. The concern for health
detriments to humans from factory farming of animals is anti-Meme. To be concerned for the extinction of humans
or any mass death is anti-Meme. The Meme
can offer wealth to usurp such risks. The goal of wealth substitutes for the goal of
existential awareness of shedding the self in the constant now.
Capitalist
highways are linked to the proliferation of an animal-based diet. Marketing the idea of a plant-based diet to
lower health costs while destroying the economic engine of animal-based
industries is anti-Meme. The Department
of Agriculture and Wall Street have comingled dietary suggestions and
institutionally monetized what is against humanity’s best interest by creating
wants for unneeded levels of meat. The
biological directive mapped by our evolution relies on a majority plant-based
diet. The heart disease and cancer rates
accelerating in Western diet-societies are like an elemental organic response
to the insurrection to what a fast-food drive-through represents. The fiscal subsidies to animal feed corn and
soybeans distort the total economic implications to the pro-Meme focus on the
ego.
The
question of “What tastes good now?” springboards from our biological processes
to treat fat and sugar as rare energy sources valued on our tongue cells. We want what is rare, despite knowing what
water is to our bodies (sixty percent of biological us.) We do this in human relationships. We want and chase what runs away from
us. We ignore and avoid what wants or
pursues us. We cannot get that later. We can get that later.
This
predictable response mechanism is used as distraction to avoid the shedding of
the ego to think collectively in what the sun, plants, and water represent in
our concurrent spiritual existence. It
is this very delinking of what tastes good for me now because it seems rare to
what is best for what we are now which is the challenge and the purpose of the
extinction risked in the beautiful artful awakening present in the human diet.
Eating
plants is in a way acknowledging the ready availability of love. Love’s exponential extrapolating principles
are like a germinating seed. Love and
plants are not of low value despite abundance.
Love is trapped in seeds in all of us awaiting empathy to acknowledge
our fear of interconnection. In this way
plants are a blueprint of the anti-Meme.
The
probability of human sustainability on the Earth is theoretically prolonged by
preserving Earth’s resources. Antibodies,
hormone manipulation, and harvesting animals are the more economically efficient
methods in the short-term. This does not
encompass the full profit equation for the negative consequences on the planet,
animals, or humanity in the long term.
This is pro-Meme. The
consideration of these variables is the underlying anti-Meme being addressed by
vegans and vegetarians.
The
Meme will attempt to convince humans need meat for protein to be strong apex
examples mimicking the pursuit of financial resources, of dominating others. Elephants, deer, hippopotamuses, and bears are
either herbivores or plant-dominant omnivores.
Human vegans can achieve commensurate physical strength through beans,
soy, and other plants. Certain vitamins
like B or iron may require supplements.
The colder the climate the more unrealistic a full vegetarian diet may
be for humans, but like most of life absolutism is a goal of the Meme. A morsel of pork or mutton sinew does not
fell the people. Systematic mathematical
consequences depleting resources mandatory for survival fells the people.
The
Meme wants us to focus on body and ego.
A seed grows from sun and water like a miracle in a time capsule of
genetic material. To distance our
species from plants shuns empathy by distancing our atomic connection from the
animal’s muscle tissue we kill to consume and our common link through plants
with all animal life that the We Are Not Animals meme attempts to shield. For the Meme we can become more than animals
by being the dominant animal. The point is not the mammal or the legume. The point is the interconnection of all
life. That is what the anti-Meme ‘we are
animals’ means.
Therein
we are animals made to eat and be eaten.
This is the anti-Meme. Factory
farming as an institution is an apex militarized derivation of the Meme so that
the methods, chemicals, agents, and process of how living beings are set to
live in the equivalent of concentration camps to become never-living tissue
wrapped in cellophane for a refrigerated Wall-Mart bin. A human asked to sit face to face with the
bovine or the ovine and enact volition to cease its arteries flow in an
undisrupted circuit who could not press blade to throat should not segregate
his or her volition from the lifting of that cellophane carcass into a checkout
line. In eating the muscle tissue one is
commiserating in death.
The
anti-Meme omnivore accepts his or her role in death, in killing, in
participation in all systems he or she engages.
She or he may eat meat through divergent methods, less meat, or no
meat. This choice is a function of the
only mechanism we control, volition. Like
the killing in abortion this is owned by the anti-Meme. Like the passive lack of acknowledgment to
the factory farming industry, racial privilege, systematic injustice drenched
in political apathy, or the commercialization of healthcare or education
systems, the anti-Meme acknowledges the role of our individual volition and in
many cases attempts to evolve our role within those systems.
The
very anti-Meme idea in the superego is seeing quasi-equality with all life. Humans are openly viewed as animals in the
vegetarian and vegan memes. However the
extrapolated divergent consequence upon domesticated animals incapable of
surviving in the wild without human assistance reveals the root of the vegan or
vegetarian meme, which is to counter the Humans-are-not-Animals meme.
Vegetarianism
is not solely concerned with the physical pain of the animal. In all likelihood if humans crossed a threshold
of vegetarianism or quit eating pork or beef all together, but still consumed
chickens, the number of domesticated farm animals of the no-longer eaten
species would plummet towards extinction without human intervention. Therefore the campaign for vegetarians to get
the world to stop eating cows is not necessarily in the genetic best interest
of the cows from a Darwinian standpoint.
One would have to adopt Gandhi’s one time sentiment, “Hitler killed five
million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to
the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from
cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.” Although it may appear extreme and sardonic,
this quote may be Gandhi highlighting the evolved role of the ego given the
eternal universe while accepting what is beyond one’s control in our temporal
physical form.
We
are animals. One may imagine humanity in
a gigantic circular herd. The mass
swirls with conceptual immortality of the Meme at the center and death stinging
those at the perimeter. The Meme
represents the societal rules that communicate and enforce the push of members
of the collective towards the edge.
Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and economic status force people to
the outskirts where death is perceived to be more probable and protested less
by those at the center of the Meme.
The
anti-Meme understands these forces are arbitrary and based on the ease of
communication and physical imposition, not logical derivation of quality. The anti-Meme accepts the chaos that we are
each vulnerable to death. Being at the
Meme center of the circle white heterosexual rich Protestant American male does
not make one immortal. The Meme has
elected and empowered these and other qualities to impose order to the social
herd. The order has always been held in
volition. An animal can eat another at
any moment.
In
many ways veganism is the ultimate evolution of the anti-Meme
communicated. (Not only will I not kill
another human, I will not participate in a system that kills or exploits another
animal.) The empathy and volition
communicated are key to have viable replacements for the communication our
species craves and uses the inefficient current Meme.
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A
consciousness that all human life may end for scientific reasons does not sit
well with a theist. If god sent a meteor, earthquake, or
drought, these can be tolerated. If
man’s misuse of water tables and carbon emissions warms the oceans to create
massive hurricanes and raises sea levels and empirical scientific evidence is
presented to a theist behind a global consensus of scientists such as the IPCC,
then such evidence is often determined to be an inconvenient truth, the talk of
crazy men, too expensive to confront if true and too difficult to change
behavior. Environmentalism requires a
collective empathy that threatens the egoism central to the Meme’s power to
drown in accepting chaos.
All
of these responses are correlated with belief in god. Evidence has to be
ignored or not-required to believe in god. Faith is the substitute. Therefore faith is more likely to be applied
to other issues or the absence of evidence in a theist’s spiritual life creates
overcompensation in how much evidence one requires in matters of business, science
and social interactions before trust if god
is not a variable in the equation of determined credence. One is found to be more judgmental,
skeptical, and to form unchangeable opinions.
This mirrors the escalation of commitment to faith. If a believer is confronted with opposing
ideas, the faith is doubled and redoubled to preserve the comfort. Infidels are despised and viewed to be
subjected to the harshest penalties. Sometimes
infidels are subject to worse levels of perdition than murderers.
The underlying
linkage between the faith required by the third commandment and concepts like
the formation of the universe and climate change is that if god did not make the earth on such a
schedule then the Sabbath is arbitrary and an invention by man. If the bible is literal then this is a
problem. If sin is attached to
nonattendance on the Sabbath, then that is a problem. Nonattendance leads to lower tithing, which
is the underlying objective of commandment three.
To adhere to the
Sabbath implies a tithe shall be offered.
Some preachers even go so far as to instruct it is even more important
in times of financial stress to tithe.
Doing so will somehow assure god’s
graces. The more blood from the stone
the closer one is to god. Money ensures longevity. The ego avoids hell.
Religion’s tax
exempt status in some governments is directly correlated with the third
commandment. Societies lose billions on
resources to institutions that provide some health and welfare work, but little
else besides placating the Meme to maintain societal hierarchy and order. Often diverted funds and more importantly
student and parental energies to private schools weakens public schooling
systems making it more difficult for classroom environments to have a mix of socioeconomic
backgrounds. This expands classism. Societal class-position becomes ingrained. Scientific ignorance is often also
perpetuated through buffoonish religious explanations to continue the
narratives of goat herders.
The exclusivity of
what makes an organization “religious” is entirely subjective. The Internal Revenue Service uses terms like
‘recognized creed and form of worship, definite and distinct ecclesiastical
government, formal code of doctrine and discipline, distinct religious history,
literature, regular congregations, Sunday schools for religious instruction of
the young, schools for preparation of its members, established place of
worship.’ What any human or group dubs god or god so that one can take a tax
deduction to pay another human funds for that human to say feed, clothe, or
hide themselves under the cloak that the payee is facilitating the work of said
god or god could be Jesus, Zeus,
Shiva, Allah, or a gym membership.
We get together at
the church of the horse track every Sunday.
We teach of the trifecta and sip scotch from the tabernacle of Johnnie
Walker. We hand out pamphlets and
literature on the vast history of equine lineage. The governing council of your ass gets beaten
if you don’t pay up and what hat to wear to the derby guide the Bukowski flock.
Everyone worships
whatever we invest our attention and energy in the now. The act of choosing what we focus is the
temporal altar of our volition. To some
that is a religious organization according to the IRS to some it is a yoga
studio, a casino, a stock price, fashion, food, or sports franchise, but most
commonly it is our ego. We are coupling
an external place or group with our ego.
The paradox of worship is if we are god any worship in a traditional
sense is self-worship. An omnipotent god would not want the worship.
The divinity of god
being all, everything that we and the atomic universe and the spiritual
universe constantly are would imply that worship as a measure of focus is
directing which section of what we are to choose to give our volition. The more egoic the less the universe is fed
through flow within itself. The more
finite and limited the more we make our energy like a light under a basket. The more we shed the ego the more we explode
like a star to participate.
We understand our
interconnection that we are not special as humans. All is connected because we are more than
human. We are stardust. We are the instinct of the canine. We are the petal of the lotus. We are the extinct microorganism. We are the evolution of the complex brained
being of a future derivation on a planet beyond our vision. We are interconnected all. In the Meme to say we are not animals is to
say we are not the all. To say in the
Meme humans are special is actually an insult to the totality of what for lack
of a better word is god or the interconnected everything.
The paradox of
worship is that only by losing the self can we worship the whole which includes
our self. In this we transcend
selfishness; we join the divine we all share.
We quit viewing life as a journey, but as a single transitioning moment
that we are in, which takes no road, but that of awakening, no footsteps, only
awareness, consciousness.
If we view human
life as a workbench, a quest for a subsequent spiritual life, this is the ego’s
requirement to rationalize reaching the divine through a concept of time. What is always and everywhere is. There is no road, no gate, no tool to fit,
only us releasing (self). Shedding what
is unnecessarily held to validate the shell of the self is done in choice. We are to be in the choice now. We are to be intimate with consciousness of
what takes no path to reach, no step, but stillness, humble ego-less stillness.
If
god is assumed to exist; what if that
god is frustrated with being
worshiped? What if that god thought after creating everything,
why are beings wasting time congregating in buildings singing in festivals of
sycophancy? If that god somehow was to degrade omnipotence into the folly of a
human-like psyche, why would insecurity, jealousy, or happiness be mandatory
variables? Such beliefs imprint our ego
onto god in the ultimate solipsism of
the Meme.
What
if under the Christian paradigm this was the primary intent of the man known as
Jesus? What if Jesus was to destroy
religion and assert independent volition of kindness over maliciousness? Jesus was to destroy eye for an eye (i.e. eat
or be eaten). Jesus was to assert
volition; daring to approach the anti-Meme.
The gospels were written not by Jesus but by men or groups of men in
lingering periods decades after Jesus’ biological attributed period which
divided the human account of Meme time into B.C. and A.D. A.D. makes time more digestible to shroud the
idea of a universe always existing. What
if Christianity is a corruption of the ultimate anti-Meme by the pro-Meme?
If
any such human asserts such anti-Meme messages and other humans followed, the speaker
would likely be condemned in the last year of B.C. or the 2013th
year of A.D. The storylines can be
debated, but the logical human reaction is displayed in countless examples
under the Meme.
If
such a god were to be angry, forms of
religious practice may draw rather than diminish such anger. The miracles of declared prophets are in one
fashion testaments to the limited imagination and prowess of such a god.
The third commandment declares the opposite (i.e. god desires worship). In a
variant of Pascal’s wager this could prompt more wrath, not less. The Meme seeks to set the mortar of worship
firm, while the anti-Meme alludes that worship ranges from arbitrary to
detrimental. Does humanity not have
better things to do with our limited resources?
Ultimately
it is disengaging our imprint of ego onto the concept of god, that might allow us to release the imprisonment our individual
human ego confines us to a myopic prism to view the full spectrum of not only
our physical atomic reality, but our concurrent spiritual reality. Then we can see that neither ever ends, both
simply are. We often associate the end
of respiration or brain function in biological death as an ending because we
identify as our ego. We are not our
ego. God is not a conceptual ego mirror.
When
we release our idea of god’s ego, we
may release our ego. The two are
entwined. As John Lennon once sang of
what god might be, “God is a concept by which we measure our pain.” In ego release we may then begin to see god
and who we really are as part of god absent the paradigms of individuality the
ego so often desires. In this freedom
the idea of what we are traditionally worshiping in the third commandment
becomes clearer that the worship is the worship of the self. We are bowing, singing, cajoling, requesting,
pandering, politicking, and praying to the idea of self. That worship is a false road. Proselytizing and fundamentalist
evangelicalism reinforce group approval of such ego-worship.
Acts of kindness and
generosity mixed in such worship are independent of the second-level idea of
self god represents. When we worship in this sense we shed the ego
and recognize the all that we are is also a component. In offering our sister bread or brother a hug
we are loving the universal whole as we share as both giver and recipient. We do this to be in the moment. The moment itself is the reward to our universal
self. When we attach such kindnesses as
a form of tithe we become a slave to the ego.
When we identify that the collective is simply a threshold of common
volition choosing good for the sake of good subject to change without
retribution by the Meme, then we evolve into the anti-Meme.
To Commandment Four: Hypocrisy
To Commandment Four: Hypocrisy
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