If you are a devoted believer in karma, destiny and fate, then you will not like what I am going to say. However, if you are searching for truth, and have an open mind, looking for objective facts, then you may enjoy the concepts I will put forth here and see where they lead your own ruminations.
Religion has always been about control of the masses. That is it’s point and purpose, to keep large numbers of people under control and easy to manipulate into doing blatantly ridiculous or evil acts.
Going back in history to the rise of Christianity or Islam, we can see the massive growth of those religions was based on wars, conquering weaker cultures, and forcing conversion with the alternative being death. How can decent human beings attack and murder innocent unarmed cultures? By being so controlled by the concepts of religion and the promise of a better next life.
The purpose of religion is to control, and governments are the modern ‘church’, they are both the same concept, control the masses. Religion was fading in its power, which has led to the rise of radical religious movements and some governments bringing religion into law and cultural norms. Governments are losing their power to control the masses, and they needed to find a way to gain back total control over the population.
The internet has caused a big problem for the people in power, it has spread information and incites independent thinking of the people. Events like the Arab Spring (a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s), or mass riots in the USA, could not have happened without the internet. The governments needed to find a new way to control people, and taking the lesson from religion, they found a way to make people follow like sheep based on the concept that the government, like the religious leaders, are trying to protect you, yes you personally.
To control a mass population is very difficult if they are strong, so like in any war, if you want to win, you have to weaken your victim so they are easy to defeat.
Religious authors came up with the concept of Karma, and Destiny. What happens to you now is your fate due to something you did in previous lifetimes. You have no idea what that was or who you were, but you accept your fate and life situation now, because you deserve it, it is your own fault; karma, destiny, and if you are obedient now, then next life, you will have a reward.
That next life could be heaven or a new human incarnation, depending on the religion you ascribe to, but the point is, you will do what you are told and not fight back, for something you cannot be assured of having, other than through blind faith.
Religions also love the concept of telling you how you are so inferior you can never understand God, which does make sense, but that everything is God’s will, and God has a plan, so you have to suck it up and accept whatever it is. You are too stupid to comprehend, so ‘trust me’ and I will tell you what is really happening. If you believe them, then they are right, you are too stupid to understand because you gave up the precious and uniquely human qualities of common sense and logical reasoning.
If destiny, karma and God’s will is real, and that everything is the way God wants it to be, and we are created by God, then why do we have this innate desire to improve things, to right the wrongs, to help others and to change ourselves? Obviously, God put those feelings into us, since all we are is made by God.
If God gave us the desire to change then why would God give us that desire and then tell us to not do anything about it because everything is the way He wants it to be?
The only way one can accept karma and destiny is through blind faith. There is no logic or reasonable explanation that we should suffer in this life for things done in a pervious life that we have no idea what they are, and that if we are good now, in a next life, which we will not know at that time about this one, we will get a reward. Or if we donate to the church and religious leaders, after we die, we will go to heaven, guaranteed, or your money back!
It’s all about stopping you from independent thinking and logical reasoning which is how you will grow and evolve, and replacing that with a blind trust in whatever you are told, regardless of the facts showing it is false.
As God said in the Adam and apple story; ‘Now that Adam has eaten from the Tree of Good and Evil, we must prevent him from eating of the Tree of Eternal Life, LEST HE BECOME LIKE US.’
So kick him out of the garden now that he knows the truth about what we are doing before he revolts and attacks us. Read the story with logic, the mind of a child who has not been programmed, and see what you make of the story.
A little behavioural psychology lesson is appropriate to put this in context. When a person is certain they know something, it is impossible to get them to see they are wrong. No matter how much you tell a person who has a closed mind, but is certain that they have an open mind, that they are being closed minded, you will never break through to them. When the student is certain they know, it is impossible to teach them anything. Do you ‘know’ what the bible story means?
Let’s move up to today, the end of 2020. As I said earlier, the internet has led to mass riots and revolts, major changes and difficulties for governments to control their people, and it cannot be stopped. The only solution was to find a way of weakening the people through fear to get them to give up their freedom and rights willingly.
And so we have Covid. The government tells you to stay home, don’t go out and exercise and stay healthy, breath through a mask so that your body cannot get fresh oxygen which is vital to produce blood and keep your brain functioning optimally, don’t stand more than one or two meters apart (depending on each city, seems the virus flies further in some areas than others), take your temperature every few minutes, from one shop to the next in the same mall, a family can live together, a couple can have sex, but they cannot sit at the same table in a restaurant. The worst one is, register every place you go, have your phone run the app that traces your every movement and location throughout your day.
You cannot visit your dying wife in the hospital, you cannot see your grandchildren on the holidays, the atrocities that are being carried out in the name of keeping us safe while destroying our humanity, our basic need for human interaction and connection, our right to make a living and work to have a home and food, any visiting alien from another world would be horrified.
All in the name of our safety. Yet the obvious facts show that there is nothing to fear, other than the fear mongering that the governments are pushing out through the press which sells fear. One person works in an office, and is said to have it. Everyone in the building has to isolate themselves. No one else is found to be sick.
What strikes me every time there is an announcement that someone in this building, or that shop has covid, they isolate people there, but what about the shops, restaurants, gas stations, banks, ATM, everywhere else that person was, even just that day, not to mention the previous few days of that persons life?
Obviously this virus is not that contagious. And the deaths, in some countries like Malaysia, they report the details on the people who died RELATED to covid, notice that no one dies OF covid, but always related. They almost all are over 70 years old, and ALL had some other terrible illness like cancer or heart or lung disease. Basically, they were dying anyway and were under treatment that made them easily susceptible to death from any cause.
Why is it in some countries they do not report the cases who have fully recovered but rather just increase the number of cases as if they are all active, when in fact, less than one percent of people die. That means 99% recover. There are not many fatal illnesses that have that good a recovery rate, even the common flu kills more people of all ages and health conditions. And why do they count a-symptomatic people as having it? If you are not sick, why have you been tested?
Yet people follow and live in fear even if the evidence clearly shows this is all unnecessary and that things are not what the government tells us they are.
It’s all about the few controlling the masses. They have weakened the masses with economic depression which has led to emotional depression, and that leads to desperation. That leads to blind faith when a saviour comes along and proclaims he will save you and protect you, and promise you a better future. This is what Hitler did. Germany was in total economic collapse, and Hitler said he can fix all the problems through World War II. Germans are not bad people, but desperate enough, we see what people can do.
The people in power, governments, the 1%, whoever you want to believe is in control, have taken the same concepts from religions to control people through the idea of destiny and karma to remove self will and the impetus to stand up for the individual rights that we all have, and the desire to make a change and improve our life.
So what better way to keep the slave and servant passive then to tell them that it’s God’s will that they have this destiny of a life, or that there is a deadly attacker and we are at WAR! It does not take much thought to see where this is all leading. Religions have done it in the past, war with the heathens, war with the infidels, war with the invaders before they invade us, and now war with each other because you never know who is standing next to you with the deadly disease to pass on if you get too close.
Fear of hell or a terrible rebirth controls half the world population already. Now they are trying to control the other half as well. I simply want to encourage everyone to think for themselves, do the research and be cautious of what is said in ways that imply categorical truth without backing up the statements with evidence of both sides.
This world has always run based on keeping people uneducated and thus under control of the ones who are educated and thus implied to know better. The internet has given us all the chance to be self-educated, if you know how to look for the truth between the lies. A middle class was born and grew in India and China and other countries in the past 20 years. They are all being destroyed now because their jobs and small businesses have been shut down. Power is returning from the masses to the hands of a few.
Question everything. Why are women considered incapable of learning? It’s not just the muslims, although they are still doing that to women, treating them like dumb animals, but the Christians and Jews, until not that long ago, also said that women should not be educated, not learn to read. Why would they do that? Because women are smarter than men and men were scared. Brut strength won over intelligence.
Now, the governments are scared, there are too many people with access to too much information, so they are desperately trying to prevent people from joining together and potentially revolting. The powers that be are using an imaginary war with an invisible enemy. Don’t join the fight, just live your life and encourage everyone to live because you are going to die one day anyway, so please, do not miss any more days.
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An illuminating article with really sound advice at the end thanks David: ” just live your life and encourage everyone to live because you are going to die one day anyway, so please, do not miss any more days.”