Darn it people!
Some of your ideas and knowabouts are so polarized, that I have to believe that you're unconscously agreeing to all the things your parents and the teachers you actually did respect teach you.
Please don't just object outright since I know it's true for 99.99% of the population.
Substitute the fatherly/motherly figures above with someone else, but the result's almost the same.
I'm one of that retarded 0.01% who can't jsut accept anything unless they have chewed themselves through it...so far I'm still looking for something that would "live through the process".
I'm another f***en nihilist or cynic like an0n except that I'm actually looking for something....I wonder what.
Religion.
Damn, why do people always have to treat it something like the aspect of which football team you support.
I'm not degradign the actual faith of people, but for almost 6000 years it was religion alone that could bring order to this thing we call life.
It wasn't social order. I wasn't physical order, or emotional order at all.
It was just a feeling that there's some kind of order and for that sake you can go along, the sky's not gona fall on you.
What we call polytheism is actually polydeism - the European/Western person grown up in a Judeau/Christian world( this once again has nothing to do with your belief!) - has no chance of understanding it or hinduism or shintoism or buddhism for instance.
In that sense, the world is not overseen or run by some kind of entity.
The actual world is nothing but a manifestation of those entities. Your very heartbeat is a spirit of a deus, the air you breath is another one, so is the ground beneath you feet.
A Western person used to the idea that things are simply what you see can't understand.
Monotheism - Theism! Coming from Theos = an entity uniting all the aspects of all deuses in a single vessel - is once agian not that easy to understand from a modern point of view.
It was God, who's benevolence created your existence, it was his will that made the world around you.
This is the reason I'm pissed when people like an0n keep yeepping about how religion is kust a cancer of the human mind and sh***....
Nevermind, but there's more to it than you'd imagine.
The Christian religions brought a sense of collectivism into the fragmented world of the Romans it once again united people after individualism has torn the civilization apart.
Later the Reformation stripped that gigantomanion monster from its cape and purged light into its dogmatic darknes.
Yes the inquisition was a bloody bad thing, but for heaven sake you're in the Middle Age! The ancient knowledge of the ancient times is transferred only thanks to your hated muslims, who were actually the most enlightened people of their time.
The Anti-Refomation actually brought the changes that Luther wanted in the churh, moreover they once again become leaders in research and literature, instead conservatism the Church was once again moving forward - in the name of keeping traditions!
The islam you're refering to is more a product of the rigid tribal order that was their only viable way of living rather than the Koran.
As for our pitty self - for Heaven's sake why the Hell would we be special - we're nothing but another pice on the chessboard of fates, but once or match is done we're all going back to the same box. Kings and pawns alike.
That's also the lesson that Hitler haters should learn.
Hitlern could have been the angry neighbour next door. It doesn't take special meneance to kill people - it's being done even in our so called "enlightened" age.
In the Middle age killing a man was fairly not an issue.
You speak of the Jews as if they were special.
They are NOT!...and that's their tragedy for they still had to die for it.
The Jews rigidly kept with their customs, as a result they couldn't be assimilated into the Middle Age and Early Industrial societies.
As a result they were also the ones to be in the none conventinal frowned upon professions, that later proved vital to society.
I'm speaking of the modern middle class, that created the new aristorcarcy of the modern era.
What people can't get in their heads is that Jews got into high and intelectual positions because their customs and the societies relentless hostility forced them to.
There was noi Jewish consiration now or ever.
If these people ifluence our world in manners that you distate, than for Christ's sake go out, and out do them!
Compete them, learn more, be better and push your own traditions and ideas forth!
This same rigidnes is the reason why they could be slaughtered in the concentration camps - and yes. THEY DID KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
Never the less they went on in good manner - "properly".
For once pleas read a book:
Imre Kertész: Sorstalanság.
It just won the Nobel Prize in Literature, so it might be worth a read...
The same happens to people in these re-education camps.
They **** their own minds, 'cause no one's inherently rebellious.
The so called rebels are part of a movement that identifies itself with the opposition of the current social stuckture...but that's the weaknes, they rarely have another picture in mind to put forth instead the one they're about to destroy.
True rebels never waved their flags high, and shouted with the mass.
They were the few who saw the cancer in the society built on the skeleton of idealism of their time, sheated with the muscles of individualims.
They were the ones who tore open the body and gazed into the abbsy beyond, the people who had the courige to step into the vacum of soul and put forth their own heart in hope of filling it.
Camus, Faughtwangler, Nietzche, Marx, Engels, Thomas Mann...
