The example of Eve
May 28, 2024 11:43:38 GMT
Post by Stella on May 28, 2024 11:43:38 GMT
I cannot claim to be a Christian, or that religious, but I highly recommend revisiting the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and examining the reasons why they got tossed out by God. It was because of course Eve took the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, the forbidden fruit, and committed the original sin. This is what I suggest we should all do in life.
Why?
We are all enslaved to ideology and our own Egos by the various hierarchies and institutions which dictate and determine our social and cultural values. We live in a society where what you believe is far more important than what you do. It's important to understand that our social and cultural values exist for the comfort and convenience of various organizations and institutions, various hierarchies. They do not exist for your comfort and convenience. This is the consequence of social and mental conditioning, necessary to maintain a certain order in society, to make us easier to deal with and more tolerable to live with.
But it also gives us a deep and profound sense of isolation, alienation, and loneliness. Many of us feel that we are separate from the world, separate from society, separate from other people. We see ourselves in terms of our Ego, a centre of consciousness contained in a mind, encased in a physical body, constantly subjected to the wider social forces all around us, and other people's opinions and attitudes. Very few of us are treated well in this 'system' and the process of socialization, education, social and mental conditioning, and sometimes upbringing, and we often go through life trying to compensate or escape a kind of perception that we are somehow bad, unacceptable, or undeserving.
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Why?
We are all enslaved to ideology and our own Egos by the various hierarchies and institutions which dictate and determine our social and cultural values. We live in a society where what you believe is far more important than what you do. It's important to understand that our social and cultural values exist for the comfort and convenience of various organizations and institutions, various hierarchies. They do not exist for your comfort and convenience. This is the consequence of social and mental conditioning, necessary to maintain a certain order in society, to make us easier to deal with and more tolerable to live with.
But it also gives us a deep and profound sense of isolation, alienation, and loneliness. Many of us feel that we are separate from the world, separate from society, separate from other people. We see ourselves in terms of our Ego, a centre of consciousness contained in a mind, encased in a physical body, constantly subjected to the wider social forces all around us, and other people's opinions and attitudes. Very few of us are treated well in this 'system' and the process of socialization, education, social and mental conditioning, and sometimes upbringing, and we often go through life trying to compensate or escape a kind of perception that we are somehow bad, unacceptable, or undeserving.
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