Nice people, or true people, who would I choose, if I could only choose one?
Wouldn’t it be odd, if the truth made man amoral and un-nice?
But as things stand now, the truth is far too mystical, too far outside of human reach, and we’ll have to choose values instead. Good religions are made up of good values and good people, not necissarily true, but virtueous. If the philosopher wants only truth and not virtue, he will most-likely set aside almost all of human culture, seeking out very rare men and women whom each have set asside the addictions of the sensationalism that virtue is based upon. That will not be fun, that will be so sober that it would bore all sorts of ordinary people. Society luckily ignores that type of truth, so that even if it contradicts their greatest fundamental values, they do not declare war on it, or persicute the philosophers. They’re keenly destracted by all of the mass media and products, and less likely to attack professors, these days. Governers today have not burned or decapitated philosophers, and not that there are many as a “threat” in the first place, but if truth ever reaches that level where it starts to threaten human fundamental values, the value [chemical thrills] of violence will immediately rise up to affirm itself through sensation.
If man is too weak by then, it would not even be violence anymore, but instead it would be simple hate : “Amoral persons are disgusting.”
I’m not sure where to sit, do I want the good or the true? Could I mannage to have both?
I know that people would hate me, if they knew all about me. They would hate the moral difference, the non-compliance. Burn those witches, god hates fags, mock the wierdos, dum all outside of the dogmas of concentual physics as some sort of insane sub-persons, and whatever else, it is this reason why the individual truly needs privacy. In private, there’s no-one to clasp your **** with victorian imperialism. “God” as an all-seeing entity, counteracts the amoral / immoral liberties of privacy. All-seeing-God means God can hate you, or judge you, even if you disobey / deviate in a private place. This moral boogey-man that hides far away and watches all that one does, ensures that morality is more deeply enforced, that the mind is controlled more fully, that totality is somehow morally reached, so that man can be forced to be good. It means you can be scared alone, even when away from danger.
The natural fear of large numbers of people, exists in almost everybody. This survival instinct came about through complex situations, or it simply was part of a subliminal logic that everyone should have, to know that being observed by a large group of strangers is dangerous. But that is the essence of justice, too, that a jurry and a judge and all kinds of witnesses observe someone’s actions, then control and attack amorality. The law itself, for most of history, has been ‘terrorism’, by definition, with such public executions and strictness mainly meant to scare people, to use fear for control, to enforce the moral.
The bible speaks often of the fear of god… I believe it’s all been submission and not love. The submission gives some relief from the feeling of fear, thus it feels liberating, it feels like a little bit of salvation. Jesus has already had his public execution, his torture and whatever else, in our place and for our sake. It would have made allot more sense back in Rome and Greece, a martyr took the bullet that really needed to be morally shot. To have him die and be tortured instead of us, “paying the price for us”, that “ransome sacrifice”, would have ordinarily reduced the fear of god [the fear of morality and justice] just enough to be able to submit and bow down instead of running away immediately.
At the root of their hearts, allot of the witnesses are still scared. They each believe in armageddon, on god’s judgement day, in a sort of mass-killing unlike ever seen before. The fear and terror runs deep, twists, it later becomes that love which is not, to appease and gain the enemy, and oh what a way to live… To live with good values and justice, instead of truth.
One question, does Hell get Internet service?
