Men who have spent many years in prison will often get very confused and unhappy when they eventually are released. They don’t know what to do. They don’t have any friends out there. Often they commit a crime again just to be put back I jail again. There they feel at home.

To wake up, to be released from mind prisons, is not necessarily like a walk in the park.

Appearances are deceptive. Some people pretend that they are happy, friendly and straightforward, but in reality they have a secret dark agenda. They love their big smiles but are completely unaware of their negative and egoistic plotting. They have a perfect cover. So, stay away from very positive, loving and friendly people. You will never know what they are after. It is so much easier to deal with assholes, because then you know for sure that what you see is what you get.

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The desire for food is inborn. We want something to eat if we are hungry. But eating can turn into a disease. Some people just can’t stop eating. They eat and eat till they end up in hospital.
Egoism is also inborn, I believe, and egoism can also turn into a disease. Some people just want more and more, but they don’t end up in hospitals or addiction clinics.

It is hard for those with riches to enter the kingdom of God, but it is not impossible, absolutely not. It is said in the Bible that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, but one has to remember that the eye of a needle here refers to one of the gates to Jerusalem called the Needles Eye. This entry point was so low that camels had problems passing through it.

Well, there are literal and metaphorical interpretations of the Bible. Rich people will find their interpretations, and poor people will find theirs. Isn’t it clear now that anyone can interpret the Bible or any scripture completely how he or she feels? No one is right, and no one is wrong. George Bush makes his interpretations, and Eckhart makes his. I have mine, and you have yours. We are free now. And we are free to not read the Bible at all if we don’t feel like it. We are free to say no to all religions and ideologies. We are free now after thousands of years in religious and ideological dungeons.

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A professor in History with right-wing views will find a different story and a different truth compared to a left-wing professor. Their ideological glasses will distort their research. A professor in biology with a right-wing conditioning will, in the same way, look at life through right-wing glasses.

Someone with right-wing views will read the Bible or any spiritual literature with right-wing glasses. Someone with left-wing views will see something completely different.

So, how does one free oneself from ideological and religious conditioning? Is it possible? Is it like taking off a pair of colored sunglasses? Is it painful? Does it take a lot of effort?

So, you can look at the world through American middle class glasses or English working class glasses or French hippie glasses, or ultra right wing glasses or left wing glasses. You can look at the world through Muslim fundamentalist glasses or scientific atheist glasses or…

you can look at the world through pessimistic glasses or optimistic glasses or crazy glasses.

But, is it possible to see the world as it really is, without any ideological or religious glasses? I don't think so.

Manifesto

We are not religious, not atheists, not agnostics. We are not Catholics, not Protestants not Greek Orthodox. We are not Hindus, not Muslims not Buddhists. We are not left nor right-wing orientated, not anarchists, not humanists, not feminists. We are not mainstream, not avant-garde, not out there.

We are not nihilists, not relativists, not post modernists. We are not biologists, not logical empirics, not rationalists, not pragmatics.

We are not indifferent, not disillusioned, not resigned.

It is not necessary to define oneself or to profess oneself an adherent of any particular belief system. You don't need to be a Marxist to make a cup of coffee, or cleaning the toilet or actually doing anything. You don’t have to be a Buddhist to take a swim. You don’t have to be a Protestant to go in to town. The belief systems are simply superfluous. We have now reached a point in the evolution when we can discard our mental luggage. We don’t have use for it anymore.

The law of the jungle still applies. Everybody knows that. But it is not a matter of eating or being eaten. That is a misconception. Everybody will be eaten, rich and poor, good and bad, everybody will end up as food for someone else; worms, insects and microbes. Life is completely just.

All life here on this planet stems from one single cell that was formed almost four billion years ago. This cell divided itself into two cells that divided themselves into four cells and so on. All life here on this planet is really one organism.

Yes, you can serve two masters. You don’t have to be devoted to one and despise the other. You can serve both God and money. Isn’t that perfectly clear by now?

Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are jealous and petty minded failures.

It doesn’t really matter if you enter through the narrow gate or the wide and easy one. All ways lead to the same goal: death.

Practice your piety before men in order to be seen by them, for then you will be rewarded. Thus, when you give alms, sound trumpets before you. Be proud of yourself. Believe in yourself. Kick ass!