Do You Really Want Personal Sovereignty? Question Authority!
64Do you really want personal sovereignty? Before you say "Yes", I bet that you really don't, even if you think your answer is “Yes”. Why? Because you are not willing to question authority. In fact, to question authority probably never even occurs to you.
Yeah, you may think that you are an exception, but the overwhelming odds are that you are not.
This essay is about questioning religious authority. Have you ever questioned religious authority? Only exceptional people question authority. The rest are sheep people -- “sheeple”.
Naturally, almost everyone considers themselves to be exceptional. But, obviously, they are not. By definition, only a few people are exceptional. That means that 99% of the people are ignorant or stupid, or both. So the odds are overwhelming that you, also, are stupid or ignorant, or both. Just as is almost everyone else. Sorry about that.
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Religionists no Different than Aborigines -- Primitive Thinkers
Chances are you hold some religious belief. You are a Jew, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, whatever, even if you are not “active”. You believe in "God". That belief makes you no different from some “primitive” doing a rain-dance. Yeah, you have a computer and a Blackberry. Perhaps you think that rain-dances are quaint. But take away your comforts and toys, and you are mentally just as backward and tribally group-think bound as that primitive.
You don't really know if there is a "God". A simple question: Has he, she, it (heshit) ever bestowed upon you a personal appearance? (When not on drugs, anyway.) Why not? After all, “God” is supposed to be omniscient and omnipresent. Should be no problem to indulge the simple request of one of his “sheep” to have a personal chat, however brief. No? That just means that you have accepted solely on faith that there is a "God". You have taken the word of delusional schizophrenics and power-hungry witch-doctors that there really is a “God”. You don't have direct evidence of a “God”. The fact that you exist is not evidence that you were created by a “God”. You just believe; you have just taken the word of some “authority” that there really is a “God”. How did they get themselves appointed as anointed representatives? Why should you take their word, when they are likely just as screwed up, or more so, than you? Why don't you question their authority?
Have YOU ever questioned the basis of your religion? Have you ever questioned its teachings? I doubt it. How come? Why haven't you questioned authority?
Again, almost everyone considers thinks that they are exceptional. But, obviously, they can't be. By definition, only a few people are exceptional. That means that 99% of people are stupid or ignorant, or both. That means that the overwhelming odds are that you, yourself, are stupid or ignorant, or both. Just as is almost everyone else. Sorry about that.
Christian Hypocrisy
Religion is for the Psychologically Immature
You were born not believing in any religion -- as an atheist. Then your parents, your schools, and your community indoctrinated you into the religion of your parents and/or community. Why is it that you haven't freed yourself and become a "born-again" atheist? Why is it that when you were a child and indoctrinated into Christian beliefs, you are are still likely to be a Christian, rather than having switched to Islam or Judaism? Why is it that when you were a child and indoctrinated into Islamic beliefs, you are are still likely to be a Muslim, rather than having switched to Judaism or Christianity? Why haven't you given up childish things?
Obviously, the answer is that you have are unwilling or unable mentally and psychologically to "Question Authority". How about growing up! Claim your sovereignty.
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Sorry AE, I do NOT respect your beliefs. You WERE born an atheist. You had no idea of a "god". Your parents, primarily, and others, INDOCTRINATED you.
BTW, there are many alternatives to saying "oh my god", but because there are so many prudes created by religious people, I can't give you an example here. Think scatalogical.
Your example of the atmosphere shows that you are ignorant of science as well as of psychology and philosophy.
dabeaner - I don't need anyone to tell me about God, or the lack thereof, though I did find your hub interesting. Have you ever heard the phrase "spontaneous knowledge"?
Actually I did have a personal visit by god. I was about to do something which I felt was morally right but the bible said was morally wrong. I went to a friend and asked how a man like Martin Luther king would handle it. He found a bible passage that said I should do it although I felt with every fiber of my being was wrong. But it is said you must have faith and so in good faith I did it. I was not expecting anything. About a month laer I heard the voice of god. I was wondering if this was a hallication. Has a talk and god suggested something to help me over my moral conflict. There is a question of if the universe was random or ordered by god. God when he spoke to me suggested the proof, the terms and the conditions. Basically if it it a random universe, it shows in every aspect. If it is an order universe god could influence random events and have whatever oder he wanted happen. He suggested I buy lottery tickets. If I won, it proved he could control random effects and If I lost it would prove the voice I was hearing was a hallucination.
Couple of thing. I don't like the lottery.
The odds are way too stacked again you and you won't win.
The second thing. Many people don't like the fact so many things happen at randons. But randomness if not a bad thing especially if you are trying to create a universe. I write novels and it is said a writer facing a blank piece of paper knows exactly how god felt just before he created the universe. When writing a novel, I am creating my own universe and believe me having thing happens at random saves me a lot of writing and work.
So who won. God's and his orderlyness or chaos and it randomness? Chaos won. The voice I heard was a halluciaction. I will tell you this, if you ever have this hallucaintion. you will believe it god. I don't care how strong a non-beliver or athesist you are, you WILL belive it is god. Only if you consider this might be hallication because I had visions and more before, and was able to realize this might be another one. (By the way, I wasn't under the influence of drugs or any mind altering subject.)
However if you say to me I can do this and you don't do it, I forever afterwards consider you a liar and will never believe in you. Even if you're god.
Interesting take.
I do believe religion is a primal instinct, but I don't believe it's useless. It has, caused for example, lots of wars. And lots of charity. And nations. And more wars.
It's a double edged sword. I myself have a very interesting belief system, but it's not something I care to convey whole heartedly to anyone unless they specifically ask me.
That said, I don't deny I am a some-what spiritual person.
Namaste. ;)
I don't know why atheists just like to get on people's backs about religion. My advice, shut up and people might respect you more. Quit insulting people left and right, because honestly, I don't think you have any concept of life or religion what-so-ever. Therefore, "chances are, YOU are stupid or ignorant or both".
The world doesn't make exceptions for low-lifes. I suggest you change your attitide, or you will perish. (I don't mean the religious Catholic-y kind of perish. I mean PERISH)
alicia jade browne --
I don't care if you religious wackos respect me or not. I am not running for office or trying to gather or lead a flock of sheep-people, so I don't need the idiot mass's approval.
Typical religious wacko non-sequitor: "Quit insulting people left and right, because honestly, I don't think you have any concept of life or religion what-so-ever". That could well apply to YOU.
Yes, I am going to perish. And so are you, you idiot. You think some Hayseuss is going to save your a**?
BTW: One of the best pieces of advice I ever heard is to beware bimbos using all three names.
DABeaner, yes, I really want personal sovereignty. And I have no trouble questioning authority. Sometimes have trouble submitting to authority, when it might behoove me to do so, just in order to survive and fight another day.
Authority doesn't always come in the form of religion. Sometimes it's the academic community, or the legal community, or your neighbors. It might even be the male chimpanzee you are raising who is trying to establish that he is dominant over you.
Aya: Maybe you can use what you have learned about dealing with chimps to deal with politicians, bureaucrats, and priests/ministers/mullahs. And provide tips for us humans to deal with those lower animals (politicians, bureaucrats, and priests/ministers/mullahs). And maybe teach them human language, also.
Seriously, not kidding.
The caliber of the men,the caliber of their courage and the caliber of their character stands well in the history of the world and in the history of struggle of any people anytime in history. If we have to tomorrow, we are going to have to look back in order to look forward. We will have to look back with some courage, warm our hands on the revolutionary fires of those who came before us and understand that we have within ourselves, nationally and internationally, the ability to regain what we have lost and to build a new humanity for ourselves, first and foremost, and for the whole world, ultimately. It is a problem for many people to de-program themselves from how they were brought up, and it is not common to do so(thinking outside the box).I think everyone has their sovereignty intact, it is just that people dare not invent their new selves, for they have not been programmed to do so(as you have aptly observed). For most people, to claim their sovereignty is to invent themselves, their thinking and their new life anew, form nothing - since they are used to their programmed upbringing. Grown up they are, afraid to move from their upbringing, will mean changing the world as we know it. Many people fear that. Their looking back to their childhood i filled with those childish memories(indoctrination?) of which they were ever prepared to substitute that, in as much as be depended on that type of teaching. John G. Jackson says: "If it could be proved that something supposedly so unique and detailed as the Christian passion tale was merely an adaptation of a religious drama that was already over two millennia older than Christianity, the argument against the authenticity of Christianity could be strengthened several orders of magnitude. The notion that Jesus Christ was no more historical than Zeus, Osiris, Krishna, or Bel would be virtually proven".
Dr. Ben put it this way: "No positive region that has moved man has been able to start with a tabula rasa, and express itself as if religion were beginning for the first time, in form, if not in substance. The new system must be in contact all along the line with the older ideas and practices which it finds in possession. A new scheme of faith can find a hearing only by appealing to religious instincts and susceptibilities that already exist; and it cannot reach these without taking account of the traditional forms in which all religions feeling is embedded, and without speaking a language which men accustomed to these old forms understand... no major religion of today is exclusive f moral and philosophic concepts of any of the people with who it had contact in its earliest development, and these are the ones that really began religions called Judaism(Hebrewism), Christianity and Islam(Mohammedism) - formerly "Mohametism". I guess what I am saying is that, studying and understanding the origins of our indoctrination, may help with people becoming or 'grow up to claim their sovereignty' thus moving in a more radical and different lifestyle than their childhood indoctrination.
s my two cents.
AEvans Level 7 Commenter 2 years ago
mmmmm... Looking all around us I know there is a God and we as humans were not created by the big bang effect nor doScientists have an explanation for the light and matter. Your brain processes a mass amount of information and takes in everything it sees, feels and smells. Your brain holds all of your thoughts emotions and memories. Your brain also keeps track of everything you are doing, the big bang could not create that. Gravity remains consistent, nitrogen and oxygen only are appr 50 miles out from Earth, how can that be? Scientists have been baffled by this for centuries and cannot provide an explanation. Have you ever thought that discussing God, is because it has been weighing heavily on your heart and you are trying to find an explanation just like the scientists have been trying to do? When you are shocked or amazed do you say Oh My God? Have you caught yourself doing this? How odd would it sound if you said Oh my Sovereignty?
God did create life and I respect your thoughts and I sincerely hope that you respect mine. To me there is a God always has been, always will be. For generations my family have believed in God, so I was certainly not born an Atheist, my parents concieved me, but God helped to create me. Again this was not the bing bang theory. There is logic and God will give answers to those who seek him. There have been many atheists who turned to God and maybe one day you as well will find him. :)