in the absence of god, all things are permitted…
and I would venture a guess the existence of god hasn’t actually prevented
much of anything…even with the presence of god, popes still fucked
and still waged war and still broke the ten commandments……
most people seem to assume the presence of god, somehow changed people
into “god-fearing behavior” and yet, the history books tell us otherwise…
the presence of god hasn’t seem to change people behavior, one way or the other…
and that was the self appointed task of Nietzsche, to find some basis for
morality without any recourse to god…hence he tried the ubermensch,
as Nietzsche was a snob, he didn’t care all that much about the “masses”,
the higher man, he was all about that…
the reality is, a psychopath like IQ45 doesn’t care about anything other then
his own demented self…he doesn’t care if he does good or bad, it just doesn’t
matter to him…all that matter is his ego and the strokes he can get for his ego…
what the hell does that have to do with god?
nothing, absolutely nothing…
for most people, god doesn’t even exists within an behavior equation…
he is just a word that means nothing and has nothing to do with most people…
even with the existence of god, people still killed and people still steal
and people slept people other then their wives or husband and have done so
since the beginning of time…and that “bad” behavior
certainly hasn’t change in the last million years… with or without god…
people will find their own rationalization for doing whatever the hell they want to do,
regardless of their being a god or not…….
just read a history book, any one will do, why hell, read the bible,
people kill and have sex and steal and it don’t mean a dam thing…
and why?
because we are temporary creatures… our individual actions are
nothing more then just farting in the wind and last about as long…
until we get human behavior attached to something, something
that has consequences for our behavior, we won’t even begin to
become human…we are still human/animal… and until we
lose the animal part of us, we are going to spin our wheels in
the ground and get nowhere……
there are no consequences for disobeying god… heaven, hell,
they mean nothing and they are nothing……
we must attach human actions to something real to get
people to become aware of what they can become……
or to say another way, we must become weighed down with
something that forces us to act “responsibly”………
and I think the answer lies in history… past, present and the future…
we must become aware of, mindful of who we are and how we must act……
and being weighted down by the future is one such possibility…
every act you make influences and changes the future…
those idiots who are burning down the amazon forest don’t realizes
that they have doomed their country to desolation… they only see
what could be built in the amazon to make some money… the worst idea
ever… to destroy a natural resource that can’t be replaced for some
transitory, temporary wealth that will be gone in a few years…
history won’t be kind to those morons and it is in the eyes of history
we must act…what kind of planet or civilization or state,
do we wish to leave to history?
is civilization really about putting condo’s in the amazon?
really……. really?
we, the planet and us, share a common fate… we cannot live without
the planet and the planet cannot survive us acting for the betterment
of mankind… because what is beneficial for us humans is damaging
to the earth… at some point, we are going to have to put the earth first
or die… the choice will be as simple as that…
and that is how choices is made without god… note,
I haven’t mentioned god in the last few paragraphs and why?
because it wasn’t necessary… we can easily exists without god…
if there is no god, life goes on as is……that is why
there aren’t any changes… we behave as we always have done…
badly and foolishly and destructively…
Kropotkin