Religious Texts: .. that text was written by some half literate guy living in a desert who heard tenth hand folk stories from his community from people who had died about a hundred years before his time, mixed in with legends, myths and fairy tales that are thousands of years old ... but it's all true because it came from God, believe it or you will burn in hell forever.
It's like watching an idiot take the wheel of a car, threaten everyone that he's going to drive a car full of people off a cliff..... and everyone just shrug their shoulders and say, 'Well, we won't do anything until we hit the bottom of the canyon, then you'll be sorry'
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. "
We like to think of how backward our ancient ancestors were to praise sun gods, believe the world was flat, that plagues happened because we didn't sacrifice animals or people or that a saviour is going to some day arrive and end the world.
We live in a global civilization right now that believes in infinite monetary wealth with numbers growing ever higher backed by nothing but belief and trust. There is so much imaginary wealth right now that it is way beyond what can actually exist. The last time I read about it was about ten or 15 years ago ... it was an article that estimated that if all debt, all over the world was stopped at the time and everyone just spent time paying everything off, it would take thousands of years to repay everything. Yet in that time, all we've done is keep increasing debt and imaginary wealth.
The whole system is built on our belief in the system. The belief that eventually things will be paid off or that finances will be balanced. It is all built on trust and promises.
If at any point, enough people in parts of the world stop believing or trusting this system ... it will all come crashing down.
Money is our new religion and we all believe in it and praise it and put all our hopes in it.
It exists because we praise it and worship it.
As soon as we stop believing in our gods of finance ..... the whole thing will end.
Just like what happened to our ancient ancestors who believed in sun gods, god kings or powerful beings sitting in clouds in the sky.
It's like what happens when you stand up to cowardly bullies in the school yard. When the bullies can hide and take pot shots at you and adults defend them, they act without remorse and bully every small kid they can find.
But as soon as you stand up to them, and punch back even just a little bit .... they start crying and running away.
I never downvote people on Lemmy but I did for this one .... I just spent the past month going through some invoicing and paper receipts and it is absolutely infuriating to still see some businesses using MM-DD-YY while others insist on DD-MM-YY and some businesses have invoicing and receipt printers that use one or the other but not the same. It's not a big deal if you are dealing with documents that are a month or two old because you can guess from what time period they come from ... but it is absolutely confusing if documents get older than that.
Especially right now in this period .... what kind of legacy is it to say that you followed orders, from a criminal, selfish, idiotic leader that does not represent the people but only to wealthy backers and to monied interests and to their own self interest.
The lies only work if there are enough idiots around to believe everything that is said
Trump is only part of the problem .... an entire chorus of idiots surround him and enable everything he says ... while at the same time an entire audience of people are willing to believe everything ...
... and at the same time a vast throng of people everywhere just watching it all without saying a word or lifting a finger to do anything about it. I'm not saying they should violently revolt but at the very least, everyone should be out in the streets wanting to get their country back to what it was.
Maybe L. Ron Hubbard was a time traveller that had already started everything 3,000 years ago and decided to restart it all again 70 years ago.