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The Reason For Hate Is No Excuse To Hate
Everything happens for a reason. This is something we’ve all been told since childhood. Instead of looking at this phrase as a pacifier- as something to calm one’s nerves following the death of a family member or otherwise caustic traumatic event- I believe it to be a human affirmation of a universal energetic rule. This is a concept that the evolutionists share; any given physical or behavioral trait must be explained by an actual need.
Everything happens for a reason.
Everything happens for a reason. Even the worst actions completely devoid of compassion and love can be regarded as a necessary step toward some greater purpose. We tend to disbelieve this when we regard any action through the narrow vantage point of the human ego. You may say, how does this affirmation explain War? How does it explain the Muslim idea of honor killings? Genocide?
As Robert Anton Wilson said, our reactions and perceptions are a result of the tools used to measure and perceive. As humans, we perceive through the human filter, the individualized ego. To the ego everything is an insult or a compliment- when every action seems to me to be neither, it is only an action.
Think of… a serene pond. A small child throws a rock in the pond and breaks the serenity into a series of rippling waves. Up and down and outward these waves flow to affect the entire pond. Is the water mad at the child for disturbing its serenity? That is not up to me to decide, but I’m guessing not. Stephen Hawking uses the metaphor of ripples on a pond to describe time. An event happens in time to cause a ripple throughout space, the ripples continue into infinity, up and down and up and down, like the rise and fall of civilizations. The peak of each ripple representing the peak of any time in civilization, whereas the nadir, or low point between each peak, represents the worst points of any given civilization. Up = Good. Down = Bad.
We may see a peak, and equate it to the Renaissance, and a low point to the dark ages. The only reason we believe this may be because we measure these things with the human ego. Good and bad are human constructs, two aspects of the same force pushing toward the same end.
This force can be neither good nor bad, it simply exists, and for a good reason. Now, one may be thinking, how can there be a justifiable reason for war and hatred?
I offer this perspective.
I once read that the advanced ancient civilization of Atlantis was extremely connected (Whether or not you believe in Atlantis is not relevant to the assumption I am offering), connected so much in fact that each member of the society could read each other’s minds and share the physical and mental perceptions of every other member of that society. So if one member felt a feeling of love for another, they all revered in that state of being, they all felt the love. Conversely, when a member was sick, every member felt it. So if one member of the society died, a piece of every other person was effected so strongly they felt as if they were going to die as well, perhaps those emotionally closest to the deceased did die. Think of a “tremor in the Force,” if that helps.
That we are all connected should not be disputed, I assume that if you have chosen to read this far, you have likely already been introduced to this concept- perhaps even accepting of it.
This type of connection is, of course, “good” and “bad”. One can imagine the benefits of human societal actualization of such a connection; perhaps it was the utopian Golden Age so often referred to in “mythological” and “religious” texts. And on the other side of the coin, one can imagine why it would be maladapted for an entire population to get sick all at once, or feel the pain of death because your brother is dying painfully.
Suppose now that the cataclysm that wiped out the glorious civilization, said to have been more advanced than any in recorded history, was a function of evolution. Man could not reach his true potential because He was weighed down by his fellow Men. This may be why we have war. This may be why Cain iced his brother. The war-like tendency in man of recorded history could have a purpose far beyond that of the notion of "survival of the fittest."
Ten thousand years of war and fear and hatred may be absolutely necessary for us to be able to handle the death of a fellow human! Cain had to take glory in killing Abel because it is necessary for our advancement.
Modern society is so desensitized to violence and murder that it has become entertainment! We have to be sufficiently detached to be able to watch our brother die and not die ourselves.
The next step in Man’s evolution is what the story of Christ is all about. The figure or energy referred to as Jesus Christ is the energy of Pure Love. Love thy neighbor and thy enemies. Emerson once wrote that rather than idolizing Jesus, we must recognize that he is the manifestation of the full potential of man as a loving being. That is where we all are heading, to the realm of infinite love and compassion. We are again starting to recognize that all humans- no, all life, is connected. Love is the key, but without hate it would have been unrecognized- as if one concept cannot be defined or understood without first knowing it’s opposite.
Our role, as the new humans is to get past that hate, to forgive and truly love the person who killed your brother because HE is also your brother. Hate is no longer necessary as an evolutionary tool, but it took 10,00+ years of hate for us to know love.
With Love
S