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The Price of Speech
ajani_mgo
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The world is spiralling into a deep crisis now as days pass by we hear of more deaths, more rumours, and more enemies. This is not a racist essay, but an objective view of the world.
But I am not going to preach! But I am going to speak on the attachment of label to this!
For ages, entire religions in their deepest irony, have spoken about the left is bad, right is good stuff in many different ways. Be it a snake, a hand, or even a road! If given two options always take the right one and you will be fine!
Now we know from modern science that the left brain is responsible for language, while the right brain for images.
And I ask of each and all of you now to think. Had you ever wished for telepathy to be true at times? Have you ever felt the dying desire to communicate an important thought to a keen listener, but found that words alone did no good? How many work hours of non-productivity have one ever wasted on trying to phrase the next proposal together in senteces? How many preachers and evangelists here would pray for others to seek the same experience as they feel, rather than the former to have the intellectual ability to explain the Entry of the Holy Spirit to a layman?
So I have proven, thus by observation, that there are concepts in this world way beyond words to use.
How does this all link to the world we live in now?
The price to mutter a certain word in some lands may be as much as a beating or a life, be it past, present or future. The currency of the right of words has been in existence for as long as humans had invented speech, but only in its inflation nowadays do we realise it.
In a not so-long-ago past, to publicly shout "Yahweh!" in a crowd would bring one stern looks and harsh whispers.
In a nearer era, to just say "Catholic" would bring doubts on a man's allegiance to the state.
Then some of us remember through dusty memories, there was a time when to say "Democracy" costed nights without sleep in dusty prisons.
Most would recall those days, when to say "Jew" brought a one-time session of chemical poisoning.
With times "Black" became costly as one became the rabbits of hunting rifles.
Now of course, some of these words still cost as much as they have, prices remaining the same despite the passing of time.
But seeming to obey "market forces" of their own, new words became products of higher prices in our world. What is this market after all? To say that all the products developed isolated, disobeying market forces would be so wrong.
Interdependently, "Catholic" advanced as a word from "Christian" from the Jew's cry of "Yahweh". Time and human identity proved to be the market forces in this market. From the rise of the Protestants came the workings of modern "Democracy", where one would soon come out with an ideology to oppose it in competition, to turn "Jew" as its product. "Black" became a jealous evolution of all that came before it, of a price that all could not pay easily.
But today, ALL these words have inflated in value, all costing a death by mention! The market forces involved? Human identity and hatred.
But what is this identity in the first place, that serves as the product to be bought by death?
We see it in action everyday. Millions scream at the killings each day committed and wonder why is it all happening. Most of us, I say, ARE GUILTY.
Those who stand that "all religions are different", how many times have you tried to explain your belief to another, only to have yourself ignored or rebutted and vice versa?
Those who stand that "all religions are the same", how many times have your tried to explain your belief to another, only to have yourself ignored or rebutted and vice versa?
ALL OF US ARE GUILTY OF COMMITTING THIS. We cling so much to our own identity at times that when someone attempts to unify or divide, we attack.
Could we all not slow down and realise the semantics of the label? Or even the nature of the experience?
Of course, I do not beg myself to be an exception, though I now realise this, and I appeal to all to dilute their left brain and to move a little more to the right. (Damm! I'm brainist!)
It is a common atheist's fallacy to argue that "Religion is the root of most problems we face today.", although it is permissible to see why is it so advocated.
I apologize if my essay isn't very well-written and detailed, but my final thesis: Do not attach yourself to LABEL.
But I am not going to preach! But I am going to speak on the attachment of label to this!
For ages, entire religions in their deepest irony, have spoken about the left is bad, right is good stuff in many different ways. Be it a snake, a hand, or even a road! If given two options always take the right one and you will be fine!
Now we know from modern science that the left brain is responsible for language, while the right brain for images.
And I ask of each and all of you now to think. Had you ever wished for telepathy to be true at times? Have you ever felt the dying desire to communicate an important thought to a keen listener, but found that words alone did no good? How many work hours of non-productivity have one ever wasted on trying to phrase the next proposal together in senteces? How many preachers and evangelists here would pray for others to seek the same experience as they feel, rather than the former to have the intellectual ability to explain the Entry of the Holy Spirit to a layman?
So I have proven, thus by observation, that there are concepts in this world way beyond words to use.
How does this all link to the world we live in now?
The price to mutter a certain word in some lands may be as much as a beating or a life, be it past, present or future. The currency of the right of words has been in existence for as long as humans had invented speech, but only in its inflation nowadays do we realise it.
In a not so-long-ago past, to publicly shout "Yahweh!" in a crowd would bring one stern looks and harsh whispers.
In a nearer era, to just say "Catholic" would bring doubts on a man's allegiance to the state.
Then some of us remember through dusty memories, there was a time when to say "Democracy" costed nights without sleep in dusty prisons.
Most would recall those days, when to say "Jew" brought a one-time session of chemical poisoning.
With times "Black" became costly as one became the rabbits of hunting rifles.
Now of course, some of these words still cost as much as they have, prices remaining the same despite the passing of time.
But seeming to obey "market forces" of their own, new words became products of higher prices in our world. What is this market after all? To say that all the products developed isolated, disobeying market forces would be so wrong.
Interdependently, "Catholic" advanced as a word from "Christian" from the Jew's cry of "Yahweh". Time and human identity proved to be the market forces in this market. From the rise of the Protestants came the workings of modern "Democracy", where one would soon come out with an ideology to oppose it in competition, to turn "Jew" as its product. "Black" became a jealous evolution of all that came before it, of a price that all could not pay easily.
But today, ALL these words have inflated in value, all costing a death by mention! The market forces involved? Human identity and hatred.
But what is this identity in the first place, that serves as the product to be bought by death?
We see it in action everyday. Millions scream at the killings each day committed and wonder why is it all happening. Most of us, I say, ARE GUILTY.
Those who stand that "all religions are different", how many times have you tried to explain your belief to another, only to have yourself ignored or rebutted and vice versa?
Those who stand that "all religions are the same", how many times have your tried to explain your belief to another, only to have yourself ignored or rebutted and vice versa?
ALL OF US ARE GUILTY OF COMMITTING THIS. We cling so much to our own identity at times that when someone attempts to unify or divide, we attack.
Could we all not slow down and realise the semantics of the label? Or even the nature of the experience?
Of course, I do not beg myself to be an exception, though I now realise this, and I appeal to all to dilute their left brain and to move a little more to the right. (Damm! I'm brainist!)
It is a common atheist's fallacy to argue that "Religion is the root of most problems we face today.", although it is permissible to see why is it so advocated.
I apologize if my essay isn't very well-written and detailed, but my final thesis: Do not attach yourself to LABEL.
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Until one is free of the "conditioned mind" structure what you discribe is inevitable. I could go in depth into the why's of the correlates of consciousness, a discussion of neuron pathways which may seem off the "Buddhist" path so I won't digress here. I will offer you an experiment of how fast correlates register. Take a breath, and read the quote below. Go slowly.
"Don't think of a monkey." Now take another breath.
Your brain had to first think of the symbol or image of a monkey to not think about it.
Do you really believe that it is really a common atheist's fallacy that religion or God concepts that people are fighting over? Concepts of God are the #1 reason for war, just behind the reallocation of resources. Once again, the mind conditioned to believe in the illusion of seperateness rather than an independent nature. Theisim promotes that I was put here by a great unknowable entity to fullfill it's will, rather than having and acting with an understanding of the interdependent nature and action/reaction of the ultimate reality. IMO
Can one get beyond the conditioned mind and really have a true conversation free of the conditioned mind?
I have a 47 page document that I would send for anyones consideration. PM me and I'll email it to anyone who wishes a copy, warning it is not a Buddhist text.
Now what kind of bell did that ring!! LOL
Allow me to use a real-life example.
(In this conversation, real names may have been modified to protect the privacy of the individuals involved.)
Prulla, a religious pluralist: I am a Buddhist-Christian. In the book "Living Buddha, Living Christ", it says of the Spirit being mindfulness itself, and through many other instances I have experienced that in fact both are the same religion!
(By saying so, Prulla offends Lebla.)
Prulla thinks, "Well, heck, if I have interpreted everything as of what I have done now, Buddhism and Christianity teaches the same thing!"
Prulla: Right, I can just drop Buddhism and still be a Christian and still have the same stuff!
Lebla: Ah, that's good...
This example will not be easily understood by religious non-pluralists, but for those who do, good for you!
Another analogy.
A Chinese and an English both bump into a piece of steel at the same time.
"This is STEEL." the English stresses.
"No! It is TIE!" the Chinese retorts.
At the end of the day, are they not the same after all, only in different languages, like the different labels we give?
Of course, there are those who will state that my argument does not appeal to the majority, which are non-pluralists of religion. However, do all religions not have common points? Even as one does not go into those "specialised" teachings of different religions, is it not possible for a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Hindu etc. etc. all to just say "Love" or "Compassion"?
But at the very end people like to say things like "Christian Love", "Muslim Love", "Jewish Love", "Buddhist Love" or "Hindu Love" to assert their independence and their identity, which when we truly take a step back, is "Love" not the same after all, despite its different cultures, sexes, history, language or teacher? Are we all Satanists to each another???
As of now I still believe, that all this is yet another conditioning of the mind. However, I would be interested to read the document you mentioned with my suspended judgement.
Don Miguel Ruiz says, "We are all dreamers of our own dream, the collective dreams make up the dream of the world."
In my opinion, we are each a node of the universe looking at itself.
Consider that to many "Love" is a conditional state, requiring that certain preconditions are needed for it to exist. Your argument aligns with the teaching of no-self.:thumbsup:
By the way the document is from a week of lectures that J. Krishnamurti gave in Sweden. Read as if you were listening to someone speaking. The speaker discusses the kind of mind one needs to have true dialogue without attachment to one's own concepts.
Please send me a PM with your email address so I can attach the document.