What Bovine lexicon would be complete without the central of all definitions - that concept which identifies a bovine herd psychology from all others, i.e., the concept of “innocence”.
Innocence = non-culpability.
Because the herd moves from grazing grounds to watering hole, as if some collective mind were directing it, with no leader - though internal hierarchies are acknowledged - as if some external will were in control - see sterling flocking, and fish swarming - each individual unconscionably reacting to its neighbours movements, and they to its own, in a kind of dance - collective unconscious - the bovine considers the will of an external agency - a god…or a universal programming. In essence the herd is the universal mind - hive mind.
Salvation is not necessary when you reject all responsibility - something Christianity embraced to justify its own salvation mythology.
For a sophisticated bovine such admissions of guilt, requiring surrender of will, are not necessary because it rejects the very idea of individual will, having never accepted anything other than collective will.
When nothing is admitted and innocence is innate, there is no necessity for surrender and salvation - you are already innocent.
Innocence also offers the bovine absolution from all the negative things that have happened to it, usually used to accuse others of what it claims for itself. Quickly this self-contradiction is rectified if it is brought to the bovine’s attention. Then it willingly and happily extends universal innocence to preserve its individual innocence.
Nothing that has happened, or will happen, to a bovine, good or bad - usually more the bad than the good - is to be blamed on it.
There is an external force, factor, idea, which is responsible, absolving ti of all degrees of responsibility, ergo there is no need for a Christian salvation and redemption myth, since there is no primordial sin - it never actually makes any choices, but simply becomes of them when they’ve been made for it.
This the bovine thinks is its transcendence of the Christian redemption mythology.
There is no good/bad because nothing is ever contrary to how it what always - eternally - meant to be, ergo there is no need for redemption, contrition, or guilt.
All are innocent.
Universal absolute order is a bovine’s replacement of the less sophisticated one-god, monotheistic, narratives.
‘God’ replaced by the term ‘order’, or ‘universe’…or ‘world’…while retaining the qualifications of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.
one = singularity - absolute oneness, i.e. uni-verse.
If not one then nil replaces the conceptualization of absoluteness - i.e., indivisibility, immutability, completion, teleion/telos, perfection, whole…
An allusion to its own herd, abstracted as a complete, concision, wilful whole, made of imperfect, non-willful, individual automatons.
The herd is its world, i.e., humanity = world; world = humanity.
It is the universal, singularity, the complete absolute order of the bovine collective spirit - herd psychology extended beyond the herd as a universal collective - next step in bovine consciousnesses and identity.
The bovine is now a member of a eternal, infinite, collective of bovines, like itself - the ultimate womb, i.e., idealization of herd psychology (universal herd).
There is no need for a salvation mythology and redemption when no bovine is ever responsible for anything it does - it does not break any rules when it cannot do so because even breaking rules is part of the rule - cosmic law dominates all.
Advancement in bovine husbandry - a happy bovine is a productive and placated bovine.
Although the bovine originally surrendered its will to another so as to accuse it of all its failures and bad judgments calls, it begrudgingly extends this absolute absolution - i.e.,innocence - to preserve its own.
It cannot make a mistake - placing its own high opinions of itself in doubt - since everything is already determined, and there are no errors at all - fatalism.
Innocence is the salvation myth pushed to its logical limits.
Also a term to imply ignorance, for to not know is itself a form of innocence.
Ergo, to deny all degrees of conviction is to remain eternally ignorant and therefore innocent.
Power of Nil is palatable here. Refusing all knowledge, understanding, which are not absolute, is to justify the absolute absence all degrees of conviction - “I know only that I know not”, becomes a saving grace.
What a manimal does not know cannot be held against it - innocence of the ignorant cow - Ignorance is bliss, but also ignorance does not require contrition and absolution - a reversion to a state of primal “innocence” .
In the words of the Bovine christened one - i.e., chosen one - speaking on behalf of the universal collective…
Luke 23:34 wrote:
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
The individual bovine knows not what it is doing, so it is innocent, and already absolved, saved.
Innocence has a further powerful component, it implies victimization.
The innocent one is a victim of power, entities, universals, it is a part of and determined by, but has no ability to alter…and so it is an innocent observer of its own fate, victimized by the eternal other.
Bovine spirituality extents this self-serving victim identity to all and everything.
The individual sterling in a flock of sterling is a victim of the collective’s, seemingly conscious whims, and of external entities that are beyond the sterling flock collective. It choices are not truly its own therefore all causality is void of its agency, ergo it is a victim of the unknown forces which it does not participate within in any significant way.
Its choices are buried within the myriad of choices made by the collective, and all of them are not really choices at all, but expressions of a universal Will, i.e., God.
Innocence is central to bovine identity.
Either as a state of being that has been corrupted and lost, and must be returned to, or as a state of being that always was, is and forever will be, therefore was never lost and so no contrition, redemption, salvation myth is required because no bovine has ever strayed or could ever stray from its universal path/role.
This the bovine interprets as the meaning of “beyond good and evil”…yet cannot even abide by its own convictions and still holds on to both good and evil, by renaming them so as to evade detection and accountability.
“Good & Evil” are here associated with the more primal “Good & Bad”, in relation to the bovine’s own organic needs/desires.
Good is what gratifies and pleases; evil is what denies gratification and causes pain/suffering.
Simple bovine binary logic…primal and base…easy and efficient.
If a lie pleases then it is ‘truth’ and not a lie at all. If a ‘truth’ displeases then it is not truth but a lie pretending to be truth - hedonism replacing reasoning.
Simple organic dualities.
To approach the god is to feel his presence as pleasing; to distance yourself from god is to feel it as suffering.