I was
thinking about Christian
faith and how far removed from common sense we humans have
allowed ourselves to become, to even think about and come up with an
idea to worship a symbol of a man on a torturing device - the cross. But that is just how the story goes - that he was put on a cross. I would not be surprised if what actually happened was that the
angry mob who demanded his
death for their entertainment, actually put a sharpened stake through his
anus, just to make him suffer a bit more. Because why not. You
know, like they also did to a lot of people in The
Dark Ages. Would those who worship
the symbol of a man on a cross also worship a symbol of a man with a stake through his anus? I wonder. So, some people still worship and prey to the symbol of torture, because they beLIEve that they will somehow get saved from their
sins by
doing so. Of course, having a short ritual every day is a lot easier than actually standing by the the principles the man on the cross stood by and as: do onto another as you would like to be done onto in their place. But we can
laugh at those carrying such symbols around all we want. The fact is, that we all still do more or less the same: we worship torture. Just look at
the world, what do you
see? People torturing people, animals, nature - for profit and
self-interest. Look at all the
refugees coming into Europe, because we allowed their countries to get bombed by "democracy" and "freedom". And so they get tortured for someone else's pleasure and self-interest. And now we entertain
ourselves by watching the news and having all sorts of comments, either
spiteful, outraged or pitiful. But in
the end of the day, for most people, it's just a form of entertainment. A form of torture worshiping. So many people get afraid that these people coming
here as refugees will make problems and burst our comfort-zone-bubbles of self interest. And so as we worship our self-interest, we make war-ships to spread
hate and violence towards these already tortured people and sink their boats before they reach our comfort-zone-bubbles. Look at the
news, how do we welcome them? By men in uniforms kicking them around, beating them down. And reporters of course sometimes
helping the
police, sometimes just trying to get a
good shot. Not of the little children though, they provoke too much sympathy in people who still know what that is. I just read that Macedonia is also
thinking about building a wall on it's south border. You know, like Israhell.
So, what is the
solution to all this - torture worshiping? Because face it, as long as we allow torture of anything anywhere, we are all torture worshipers. Because we admire it, instead of
stopping it. The solution
here is
simple: lets stop worshiping torture and stop it altogether, by not allowing it anymore in our own lives and by standing in every
breath by the principle: consider and
care for another as you would like to be considered and
cared for in their place. This means we have to stop
creating war-ships, burst our comfort-zone-bubbles and
change ourselves.
Sounds scary?
Fear is just an idea that we create in our
minds and so we can forgive our
fears and stop them. And if we don't, if we continue to
fear for our little self-interested bubbles - we are the abusers and the torture worshipers, because we admire torture and abuse, either with
positive or
negative emotions and reactions. But our emotional reactions to it does not matter, as long as we don't do anything to stop the abuse of people and
Life in general. So lets do that. Lets stop all the abuse and grant everyone, each other, a dignified and safe
life. Let's implement a system that will actually allow everyone to have a dignified and safe life: I invite you to investigate the
Living Income Guaranteed proposal and start being active by helping to make it a reality for all people everywhere.
