What is the true objective of religion? I am convinced after having studied different beliefs, history and myths that it has a purpose of controlling and manipulating on one hand and misconception of the whole picture on the other.
Christianity has done much harm over the centuries pulling the wool over peoples eyes hiding any logical interpretation of the bible. The ever lasting crusades to annihilate every creed that isn't connected to the one "truth", never seems to cease, failing to learn instead of teaching.
I see the religions, myths, legends and the beliefs of all civilizations as different expressions of the same equation. The trinity is something that is appearing again and again as well as the failure of mankind, Armageddon. The equation being: A higher entity, a savior/wise man, an X factor. I would like to recommend a book that brings this issue up to date: " Fingerprints of the God's" by Graham Hancock.
OMG!!! I regret reading today's paper, something I tend to avoid since everything that is written in it consists of a populist soup which makes me want to poke my eyes out after glancing at it. Hmm.... an article on New Age with all the intellectual keywords: gnosticism, reincarnation image, individualism, consumerism, etc. etc. A never ending masturbation of the brain. I cannot believe the people coming up with all this crap!!! Referring to this and that philosopher. Arthur Schopenhauer ( who the fuck is he anyway?) Different professors of "high" dignity none of them applying any sense whatsoever, but yet they manage to create a load of crap theories to bamboozle the impressed masses.
" Through consuming magic rituals the New-Age believer attempts to achieve a strengthened, individualized autonomous self, disconnected from the collective and is unthreatened of societal changes and worsening "......Errrrrrhhhhhhhm, really? I could go on quoting more crap from different idiots word pooping in this article, but I hope you get the picture.
Sociologist Caj Schmitz sees the magic rituals in the New Age movement as a linguistic playground under which the members gets a possibility to disconnect the common sense and the critical thinking...( OK! then we could: a) Take a semiautomatic and REALLY have some fun, hell N N says it is all right common sense disconnected an'all. b) Chant some mantras 'til we drop dead, or until our leader/ghost/ reincarnated God tells us to have some nice orange juice with a spiff of some killing ingredient...(call Michael Swango for tips)
A small example of how utterly stupid you get when you go to University, he probably was born with anencephaly, poor man!
First of all we cannot intellectualize creed. New age is a mix of idiocies with an occasional grain of truth in it made for bored/ horny uob's and desperate people seeking an identity instead of doing the only right thing: Kill themselves! If you cannot apply the brain you may or may not have been born with, applying other peoples thoughts and beliefs will just make you even more pathetic than before. This is one of the reasons why I H A T E the academic world!
The academics wants empirical proof matching their paradigms, which is what? Based on what? If the original paradigm is wrong the whole chain of empirical proof will also be wrong. The whole theory will therefore crumble.The reason being a lack of searching for a realistic truth that also works in Practice. Realizing that would mean that we would have to scrap every book written. Empirical proving by using paradigms directly rules out any application of common sense. But these are the only accepted instruments handed to you in the academic world, that is if you want to have your Ph.D. of course. All they make you do is compare one book to another which would eventually lead to a "new" conclusion founded on????? Think for yourselves here, good exercise.
Our governments have no interest in making us think for ourselves whatsoever! This is one of the reasons why established "truths" (paradigms) has been the very basis of most of the scientific studies in the humanistic fields. The very frames given for individual theories and the forming of new ideas is so limited that it impedes any intellectual progress. Going to university doesn't make you smarter, it makes you fit in the society and become a productive member of it, perpetuating old beliefs based on, nothing! You might sound smart though and fool 99.9 % of all the people you meet in life, but you should pray never to meet me IRL or anyone like me.
Shit! I got sidetracked again, have to make a part II for the church.Yeah yeah, I know all you academic halwitted and intellectual wannabe's think I am rambling, but I am having my say at least. And if I can get your blood boiling for any reason whatsoever with my "ramblings" my mission is completed.
Hallelujah!