Sunday, April 1, 2012

religion the oldest heritage

Religion is the oldest heritage that man has and people’s sense of reality was easily enough undermined, and from there replaced – a process also known as brainwashing which has continued for hundreds of years. Sigmund Freud suggested that “man has in him an active instinct for hatred and destruction.” Freud went on to contrast this “instinct to destroy and kill” with one he called erotic—an instinct “to conserve and unify,” an instinct for love.
Humans are driven by two basic impulses, one impelling them to independence and survival, the other to propagation and thereby to the loss of individuality. Paranoia functioned as a religious worldview, and bound all religious followers into a community. The paranoid person logically weaves all events, all persons, all chance remarks and happenings, into his system. The death instinct will work its ruin and reduce life to its primal state of inert matter.
The death instinct provided the biological justification for all those vile, pernicious propensities [to war] which we are now combating. Does not every religion lead ultimately to this—a sort of mythology? By twisting the natural processes through semantic twists and scriptures which set of beliefs becomes a religion.As Hubbard the inventor of Scientology remarked “all I’m asking is that we take a look at this information, and … let’s see if we can’t disagree with this universe, just a little bit. He went on to add that the human mind is a perfect computer corrupted by ‘incorrect data.
The painful conflicts in which humans have been entangled throughout their history and pre-history do not come only from oppression, poverty, inequality or lack of education; they originate in permanent flaws of the human animal. We’re treating the present-time beingness, that’s religion, not mental science. The history of religions in the 20th century is the privileging of the mystical, secret, elitist aspects of religion, often to the neglect of the mundane. In Eastern theology, Hindu way of life, Vedas and Buddhism practiced “karma’ - or self-mastery through the acceptance of a personal fate, a condition that was supposed to go with tranquility of mind.

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