Apocalypse

Oh, fuck! Apocalypse is coming, again!
Biblical theorists say our demise will occur when an asteroid strikes the Earth in September 2015!
Sounds terrifying and legit, especially when the person who made that claim is self-proclaimed prophet!
However, since I have survived a couple of apocalyptic events, or to be more precise: 1985,1987 Apr 29,1987 Aug 17, 1988 Sep 13, 1988 Oct 3, 1989 Sep 30, 1990 Apr 23, 1991 Sep 9, 1991, 1992 Sep 28, 1992 Oct 28, 1993, 1994 May 2, 1994 Sep 6, 1994 Sep 29, 1994 Oct 2, 1995 Mar 31, 1996 Dec 17, 1997 Mar 26, 1997 Oct 23, 1998 Mar 31, 1999 Jul, 1999 Aug 18, 1999 Sep 11, 1999, 2000 Jan 1, 2000, April 6, 2000 May 5, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 May, 2003 Nov 29, 2006 Sep 12, 2007 Apr 29, 2010, 2011 May 21, 2011 Sep 29, 2011 Oct 21, 2011 Aug–Oct, 2012 May 27, 2012 Jun 30, 2012 Dec 21, 2013 Aug 23, I will remain calm.

Asteroid Apocalypse Spells End Of The World In September 2015

Total liquidation. It’s what Jesus would do.

It is nice that Pope Francis is a nice man. It is nice that he spends time making personal phone calls to sad people. It would be much nicer if he would fully leverage the power of his huge and powerful global institution to maximize the amount of good it could do for the world’s neediest people (all of whom will be waltzing into heaven as the Vatican’s accountants struggle to thread themselves through the eye of that needle). If the Catholic church wants to be the most Jesus-like institution it can be, it needs to first stop advocating hateful, divisive, and backwards political positions. Then, it needs to spend its wealth properly.

Pope Francis doesn’t need to build any more churches. He needs to start selling churches. Let’s imagine that, by liquidating some holdings of the Catholic church, he could cobble together $600 billion. (That seems like a number that is well below the church’s total wealth.) What could be done with that money? Well, about a fifth of that cash could be used to fully eradicate malaria, a disease that kills almost a million people every year. Then, hell, you could take the rest of it and give a thousand bucks each to every single person in the bottom half of the wealth distribution in Africa, the world’s poorest continent. Or, you could fully eradicate world hunger for a dozen years. Take your pick of causes, really You could do a lot of things, for the world’s poorest people.

And if you sold off all of the Catholic church’s holdings, you could do even more for the world’s poorest people. This would also stop all the lobbying and proselytizing against them having access to birth control and abortion. Everyone wins. Poor people would see their lives materially improved. Denizens of the Catholic church, a wealthy institution, would greatly improve their chances of getting into heaven. Pope Francis could smile on his good works. And the faithful could spend their Sundays outside helping people, rather than sitting inside a stuffy old church. Because the church has been sold.

Total liquidation. It’s what Jesus would want.

http://churchandstate.org.uk

It Is Time For Changes

The social values of our society, which has manifested in perpetual warfare, corruption, oppressive laws, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions, environmental destruction, and a despotic socially indifferent profit oriented ruling class; is fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality. The emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law.

The emergent nature of reality is that all systems; whether it is knowledge, society, technology, philosophy, or any other creation; will, when uninhibited, undergo fluid perpetual change.

What we consider commonplace today such as modern communication and transportation, would have been unimaginable in ancient times. Likewise, the future will contain technologies, realizations, and social structures that we cannot even fathom in the present.

We have gone from alchemy to chemistry, from a geocentric universe to a heliocentric, from believing that demons were the cause of illness to modern medicine. This development shows no sign of ending, and it is this awareness that aligns us and leads us on a continuous path to growth and progress.

Static empirical knowledge does not exist, rather it is the insight of the emergence of all systems we must recognize. This means we must be open to new information at all times, even if it threatens our current belief system, and hence, identities. Sadly society today has failed to recognize this, and the established institutions continue to paralyze growth by preserving outdated social structures.

Simultaneously, the population suffers from a fear of change. For their conditioning assumes a static identity and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension. For being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact to be proven wrong should be celebrated. It is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness. The fact is, there is no such thing as a smart human being, for it is merely a matter of time before their ideas are updated, changed, or irradiated.

And this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system, sheltering it from new possibly transforming information is nothing less than a form of intelectual materialism. The monetary system perpetuates this materialism not only by it’s self-preserving structures, but also throught the countless number of people who have been conditioned into blindly and thoughtlessly upholding these structures, therefore becoming self-appointed guardians of the status quo. Sheep which no longer need a sheep-dog to control them. For they control each other by ostracizing those who step out of the norm.

This tendency to resist change and uphold existing institutions for the sake of identity, comfort, power and profit is completely unsustainable; and will only produce further imbalance, fragmentation, distortion, and very invariably destruction.

It’s time to change.

From hunters and gatherers, to the agricultural revolution, to the industrial revolution, the pattern is clear. It is time for a new social system which reflects the understandings we have today.

Pinheads

"I think most of the education that I’ve seen today is essentially producing a person for a job. It’s very specialized. They’re not generalists. People don’t know a lot about a lot of different subjects. I don’t think you could get people to go to war if they knew a lot about a lot of things. I think education is mostly rote, and they’re not taught how to solve problems, not given the tools emotionally or within their own field of how to do critical thinking."

"Patriotism, weapons, armies, navies, all that is a sign that we’re not civilized yet. Kids will ask their parents… ‘Didn’t you see the necessity of machines? Dad, couldn’t you see that war was inevitable when you produce scarcity? Isn’t it obvious?’ Of course the kid will understand that you were pinheads raised merely to serve the established institutions.

We’re such an abominable, sick society that we won’t make the history books. They’ll just say that large nations took land from smaller nations, used force and violence. You’ll get history talked about as corrupt behavior all the way along until the beginning of the civilized world. That’s when all the nations work together.

World unification, working toward common good for all human beings and without anyone being subservient to anyone else. Without social stratification whether it be technical elitism or any other kind of elitism, eradicated from the face of the earth. The ‘state’ does nothing because there is no ‘state’.

The system I advocate, a resource based global economy is not perfect, it’s just a lot better than what we have. We can never achieve perfection."

It Is All One

I think I spent 30 years of my life, the first 30 trying to become something. I wanted to become good at things, I wanted to become good at tennis and school and grades. And everything I kinda viewed in that perspective I’m not okay the way I am, but if I got good at things… I realized that I had the game wrong, because the game was to find out what I already was. 

Now, in our culture we have been trained for individual differences to stand out, so you look at each person and the immediate hit is… brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer poorer… and we make all these dimensional distinctions, put them in categories and treat them that way. And get so we only see others as separate from ourselves in the ways in which they are separate. And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you not different from you. And experiencing the fact that that which is essence in you; which is essence in me is indeed, one. The understanding that there is no other…it is all one. I wasn’t born Richard Albert, I was just born as a human being and then I learn this whole business of who I am, whether I’m good or bad, achieving or not… all that’s learned along the way.

The old appeals of racial, sexual and religious shovanism to rabid nationalistic fervor… are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism… and recognizes: an organism at war with itself is doomed.

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