Satanus:
If as you muse it "was a necesary step on the road to understanding that we are all interconected on this dirt ball" then you needn't wonder too much about assimilating places like China. It's more a case of needing to catch up. Buddism has taught that we are all interconnected - in a very real, immediate way - since well before Jesus made his appearance.
Monotheism - the beginnings of one world govt?
by Satanus 27 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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melmoth
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Satanus
Scratch india. It may not have much problem seeing montheism as an equal. In hinduism, all religions are seen as leading to the one source. Hinduism, while having many gods, still views them as emanations of one.
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Satanus
Ok, cuz you're a naughty little froggy, an i like naughtiness, i copied the text and shrank it a bit
BEWARE OF MONOTHEISM
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission." The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done. Monotheism therefore does no harm to hive-oriented terrestrials (Stages 10, 11 and 12) who eagerly seek to lay-off responsibility on some Big Boss. Monotheism does profound mischief to those who are evolving to post-hive stages of reality. Advanced mutants (Stages 13 to 18) do make the discovery that "All is One," as the realization dawns that "My Brain creates all the realities that I experience." The discovery of Self is frightening because the novitiate possessor of the Automobile Body and the Automobile Brain must accept all the power that the hive religions attributed to the jealous Jehovah. The First Commandment of all monotheisms is: I am the Lord, thy God: Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. All monotheisms are vengeful, aggressive, expansionist, intolerant.
Stage 10: Islam-Catholicism
Stage 11: Protestant Evangelism
Stage 12: Communist-Dulles ImperialismIt is the duty of a monotheist to destroy any competitive heresy. Concepts such as devil, hell, guilt, eternal damnation, sin, evil are fabrications by the hive to insure loyalty to Hive Central. All these doctrines are precisely designed to intimidate and crush Individualism. The process of mutating into Self-hood plunges the mutant into this cross fire of neurogenetic moral flak. Most of the freak-outs, bad trips and hellish experiences are caused by Monotheistic Morality. Again, it must be emphasized, that Monotheism is a necessary stage. Monotheism is a technology, a tool, to bring pre-civilized tribespeople and caste-segregated primitives into the collectives necessary to develop the post-hive, post-terrestrial technologies.
The major evolutionary step is taken when the individual says: "There is only one God who creates the universe. This God is my Brain. As the driver of this Brain I have created a universe in which there are innumerable other Gods of equal post-hive autonomy with whom I seek to interest. And my universe was, itself, created by a Higher Level of Divinity—DNA, whose mysteries and wonders I seek to understand and harmonize with."
From The Intelligence Agents by Dr. Timothy Leary, Ph.D.
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the_classicist
Rome was the first power that exploited the concept, and it worked wonderfully.
Funny, many Romans, especially in the military, thought Rome fell b/c of monotheism and the rejection of the old cults, which is why St. Augustine wrote de Civitate Dei.
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tetrapod.sapien
yes, i even understand that there is a "sect", if you can call it that, of hinduism that is for "hindu atheists". a bit illogical, but wild!
a one world gov't would be a natural step to us becoming a real space faring civilization. however, sadly, at this point in the continuum, it would require a substantial paradigm shift to naturalism/secularism for about 65-70% of humanity. heck, make that 85%. ultimately, i would prefer to see this happen within my life time, but i may be living a dream. we'll see. things change fast these days, don't they? but the one world gov't would have to stand for secular/humanistic concept. i am not saying it would be perfect, but it would be a step in the right direction for the self preservation of the human species. there will probably always be religious radicals in our life time, but if we could contain them with science, then that would win a lot of people over. now i am sounding like some future kook. but really i'm not. the chances that we spiral into ecological and nuclear disaster is, IMO, just as great as progressing to my dream bio-techo-utopia/permaculture-paradise, if not even more.
also, regarding china and a one world gov't. aren't they some of the best prepared people for a one world gov't? i would think that the "freedom at all costs" capalists would be the hardest to win over to actually thinking about the survival of the species.
...oh, yeah, china is becoming that anyways. scratch that. damn.
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Satanus
I would be interested in how it's fall was attributed to monotheism. However, after it fell politically, it continued on for centuries by means of it's religion.
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tetrapod.sapien
Funny, many Romans, especially in the military, thought Rome fell b/c of monotheism and the rejection of the old cults, which is why St. Augustine wrote de Civitate Dei.
ah, yes. the separation of church and state. good old boy augustine. -
Satanus
Another question is, what belief system naturally follows the fall of monotheism? For me, it is a sort of pantheism. For lots of other, it's atheism.
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Spook
How did communism make it on his list?