Who are you?

Chimpanzees obey their leaders, and humans obey their bosses. When we go to war, we follow our commanders and commit whatever atrocities they tell us to.

The chimpanzee elite and the human elite have much in common; they are successful top performers.

Middle-class chimpanzees and middle-class humans also have a lot in common. They are anxious to be good enough and to be accepted by the higher-ups. They are bootlickers, and they despise those who are below them in rank.

Low-class chimps and low-class humans can go and fuck themselves.

We have much in common with chimpanzees, genetically, socially, and politically. 

Of course, we are more intelligent than they are; we can read, write, create art, and behave ourselves on a bus, but still, we have many basic similarities.

The best way to understand where we are coming from is to go to a zoo and observe a group of chimpanzees.  

However, at some point in the evolution, morals appeared. Then came spirituality, religions, philosophies, and eventually modern science. 

Moreover, breaking out of the social and biological prison and escaping the matrix is possible. How do you explain this? If we have the resources to sustain ourselves, we don't have to follow leaders, gurus, and bosses.

Intrapersonal communication

When you are talking to yourself, which self are you talking to? 

Are you teaching your jealous self the right way to look at things?

Are you telling your angry self to calm down?

Who is doing the talking? The true self? The clever self?

When you talk to God, which God are you talking to? 

There are many gods to choose from. 

Do you talk to your parents' God or a God of your own creation? 

Do you talk to Kali, Yahweh, or one of the modern Evangelical Gods? 

Or do you talk to one of his spirits or angels?

What answers do you get?

Thoughts

Thoughts and ideas are not particularly important—except those that affect your actions and decisions, thoughts that make you stay or make you go, or make you vote for Tweedledum or Tweedledee.

Some thoughts and ideas are critical; they can change your life. They may make you jump off the bandwagon or jump on another. The idea that thoughts must be silenced or ignored is wrong. Meditation and being in the present now do not necessarily lead to awakening.

Awakening

The moment you realize you have been fooled is an awakening of sorts. This form of awakening is not a pleasant experience. You feel like an idiot.

Deception has many faces. You can be deceived by your partner, parents, best friend, salespeople, mainstream and social media, politicians, gurus, and religious leaders. You can also be deceived by yourself and your ideas about who you are and how the world works.

Before awakening, you may feel great or depressed, wise or stupid, but after, you always feel like an idiot. ”How could I let myself be deceived like that?”

Relax; don't worry.

The world will spend more than $2,500 billion on arms in 2024. We must defend ourselves against each other; we cannot afford to invest in a green energy transition. The top priority is to accommodate defense production needs.

The US and its NATO allies are at war with Russia in Ukraine. After this war, they have to take on Iran and China. Israel is trying to get rid of the Palestinians, and in Africa, there are numerous tribal wars.

Humankind does not have a future; we're doomed: climate collapse or nuclear war armageddon. However, this insight is not helpful. If we want to spend the final years at peace with ourselves, it is much better to be optimistic and listen to fairy tales with a happy ending.

And if most people understood how dire the situation is and where we are heading, our economy would collapse right now. We wouldn't bother to work hard to save money for our pensions.

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

Pluralism

There are around 4000 different religions in the world today, and there have been many, many more throughout history. There are also many different political ideologies. People with all these various religions and ideologies are at odds with each other, which results in wars and hostility.

There are also many different private belief systems. And all people are convinced that they have it right.

Some people are convinced that they are superior to you, and some are convinced that they are inferior. Some worship the golden calf, and some worship baloney.

Pluralism is the idea that everyone must be accepted in society regardless of their beliefs. However, we can only become close friends if our beliefs are similar. Then, we belong to the same tribe.

Romeo and Juliet came from two feuding families. Their love story did not end well. Love is not a force strong enough to win over bigotry. 

Who are you?

What part of you is going to heaven when you die, do you think? And, if you are a Hindu, what part of you is reincarnating? What part of you is coming back here? Do some of your memories survive? If so, how could that be?

Buddhists believe that the soul is an illusion. They think that it is only your actions that are somehow reincarnating.

Materialists and physicalists don't believe in reincarnation, and they don't think there is any heaven or hell. They believe that no part of you lives on after death.

How do you explain that people of different religious faiths interpret their Near Death Experience differently?