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 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 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.
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 prior to recorded
audio or visual technologies.
Given the
isolation in historical timing, one is left to question if the entire contents
of the Bible and Koran are edited scripts.
Not only is the miraculous tautology impossible, but the characters
(e.g. Jesus, Moses, and Mohammed etc.) may have never existed. 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, or cthulhu. Without
others around there is no vessel to fill with faith; there is no traction. Myth, lore, consequence and representations
similar to evidence must be required to magnetize the faithful. See the deceased 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 ritual. This
mutes the adults 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 absurdity is sublimated as Christians with Santa Claus and
the Easter Bunny are taught to outwardly lie to 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.
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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.
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 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.
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 population control.
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.
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The Torah was
abducted inside the Christian Bible.
Jews get to stay as long as Jews don’t get too loud. The world need only look at 9/11/01 to
witness the glaring divide and America’s ignorance.
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 Patriot Act
has led to Americans violating the U.S. constitution to spy on domestic and
foreign people on a massive level without prior cause. Snowden 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 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 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. Yemen becomes an
egg sack.
If we misinterpret
how Al-Qaida fits 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.
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.
Although 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, 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 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.
America cannot
tolerate films or media presentation where the hero fails or that the hero is
not of a Western-overtone. The hero can
only be Eastern if the conflicting enemy is also Eastern. The images of Jesus and his apostles are
coated in illogical 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.
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 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.
The U.S. god is
understood by the preponderance of Congress and federal and state governments
to allude to a Judeo-Christian paradigm.
America’s steadfast support of Israel and cricket-chirping support of
the Palestinian people in comparison clearly communicates this bias. 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 more easily toppled.
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 most 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
portfolio.
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