Religion As a Mirror: Are People Inherently Good?

 

Why are atheists passionate about their non-religion?  I mean, if you truly believe in nothing, wouldn’t the appropriate action and emotion be, well, nothing? Why would you bring energy into nothingness?  That makes no sense.  True atheism would be spiritual disinterest with no energy expended whatsoever.

So what causes people to be passionate about nothingness? (And I’m not talking about the Buddhist nothingness, that’s different and does have a religious context.)

I have a working theory, which is that these atheists actually do believe in God, but are so terrified at the thought of their own unworthiness that they violently reject God to protect themselves from the pain of their on spiritual unworthiness.

“If I don’t believe in Hell, then I can’t be sent there.”  But if you don’t believe in hell, then that entire sentence makes no sense. 

Religion, when applied faithfully, serves as a mirror – you see yourself and all your good and bad aspects.  People who reject religion aren’t rejecting the mirror, they’re rejecting the reflection because they can’t deal with the reality of their own imperfections.

This brings me to a fundamental philosophical question:  Are people basically good?

A lot of people, especially people in various forms of “love and light” spiritual bypass will say, yes, people are basically good and “turn evil” through corruption, etc.

But if one removes this distortion and answers the question honestly, the answer is much more troubling.  Throughout human history, people have not been basically good.  In fact, most people are pretty fucked up.  That’s not to say they’re “bad,” but they’re not inclined to goodness.

Thus the mirror test.  Some people look at the mirror with rose-colored glasses and say “I’m all good, even the bad parts are good, isn’t this wonderful?”  Well, no, it isn’t.  Humans are selfish.  They kill.  They fight.  They hurt each other.  They’re lazy.  They’re corrupt.  Outside forces didn’t corrupt people, people themselves did that.

It’s hard-wired into our brains to kill, to steal, to rape, to lie, to hurt.  Our primitive brains tell us we need to do these things to survive and pass on our genes.  The fantasy that people long ago were good people is 100% false.  People long ago were literal savages and did horrible things to others without any second thought.  They had no mirror.  They had no angel on their shoulder.  They were fucked up people doing fucked up things.

And the worst part? Every one of us walking the earth is a genetic byproduct of those fucked-up people.  Nobody on earth comes from a pure, good lineage. We all come from savages.

And when you take off the glasses and realize you’re as fucked up as “those other” bad people, or at least on the same spectrum, and that is in fact the human lineage, it can be jarring.

No, we are not all divine light.  We’re mostly fucked up people from fucked up lineages.  And that fucked-up-ness is literally the reason we are here.

Some people look at that and see hopelessness.  We’re all doomed.  Therefore there cannot possibly be a god, because that would mean God would condemn his entire creation and what would be the point of that?   If we’re products of the universe then the universe must also be fucked up and it’s all for nothing.

Some look at this reality and deny it.  No, no.  Everyone is good, we just need to “integrate our shadow” and recognize the divine light in every other person.  All is one. 

Different justification, same result:  nothing changes.

Religion, when applied properly, holds up the mirror, shows us the evil inside, allows us to identify it as evil and reject it, and serves a path toward eradicating that evil and building a good life.

Now, here some would say, well, we’ll never get this.  Only a small fraction of people on Earth are even mostly good.  Another small fraction are mostly evil.  And the huge majority are in this broad spectrum of “fucked-up-ness” and every time we make an effort to get better, we just fall right off or find some other avenue to vent our evil.

The promise of religion isn’t that you’ll achieve perfection on your own, but that you learn to identify good and evil and set your thoughts and actions more and more toward good.  You’re not perfect, but you seek betterment, not to gain something but to actually become a good person.

That in itself is an act of goodness.

God does not promise us perfection in this lifetime.  God does not promise us that if we go to church or follow his rules that everything will work out just fine.  In fact, all religions “promise” that the world around us is fucked up and there’s no getting around that because it’s literally in our DNA.  What God does promise is we don’t have to resign ourselves to this fate.  We can turn our gaze toward good and move – however imperfectly – toward the good.

Trying to bridge the gap through the “most people are good” delusion ignores the truth and denies the work.  Collapsing into denial is also a lie – it’s saying your DNA is more powerful than God. Which is nonsense.  It’s not easy.  It may feel hopeless at times.  You will fail far more often than you succeed.  But none of that overcomes the truth that goodness does exist and is available to us, no matter how fucked up our reflection in the mirror is.

At this point people will argue that this is exactly the language bad people use to control others.  And that’s true, it is.  Bad people are drawn to power, and especially religious power, because this is the ultimate means of control.  So yes, a lot of organized religion is corrupted and run by bad people.  Not most, certainly not all, but “the devil quotes scripture” in all its forms.

So critics point to bad people who misuse religion to get people to do very bad things.  Yes, this happens.  People also do very bad things for no reason at all.  The commonality isn’t religion, it’s people.  People do very bad things.

Religion can certainly be misused as a trap, but that doesn’t make religion itself bad.  God is still there, even if his word is being misused.  And rejecting God doesn’t make the bad stop happening, it’s throwing away every tool you have to become better than your DNA. 

Rejecting God actually makes it easier for bad people to manipulate and control you.  Notice how communist dictatorships all seek to stamp out all religion and impose atheism.  In order to give the evil complete control they need to stamp out any hope for goodness. Then they can control the language to make evil sound good with words like “equality.”  (“Equality” is one of those “nice-sounding” evil words that literally replaces a good concept (fairness) with a cruel and amoral measurement system.)

Those who seek power – and evil people are profoundly drawn to power – tend to be those most passionate about getting people to turn away from the mirror.  Don’t look at yourself and try to get better, look over here, this is your problem, and I can fix it and then you’ll feel good without having to try to be good.  This is a fundamental aspect of communism, but also every other oppressive, evil structure that has come about through human history.  Evil Roman emperors engaged in this deception.

There are modern “spiritual leaders” who also seek to bypass the mirror, or sell the idea there’s some magic fix where you wave a wand and the “evil structure” vanishes leaving our goodness in its place. And notice how they also seek to appoint themselves as the source of truth and the final arbiter or goodness, often under the false pretense of “freedom.”

The reflection in the mirror sucks.  It’s supposed to suck. That means you can see good and evil and that you don’t like the evil you see.  This is actually good!  It doesn’t mean you should collapse into shame, that’s another bypass.  You see the evil, you reject the evil and you change thoughts and behaviors.  And for this to happen, you need a clean, good, strong, accurate mirror.

And yes, breaking that mirror is very bad luck. 

Prison-Seeking Programming

 

Why is collectivism so powerfully attractive to some people?  To anyone who values personal freedom at any level, the very concept seems repulsive.  I think most people don’t actually believe Communism is a good idea, even in theory.  But a lot of people do.

But why is it that, even with the mountain of evidence showing that collectivism in all its real-world examples has been a horrible failure – and I mean unbelievably horrible, not subjectively – people still gravitate to this concept?

Why do people join cults?  It seems so stupid and self-destructive to anyone being objective.

Why do a significant percentage of prisoners want to stay in prison?

All these questions point to the same human trait, which is “prison-seeking behavior.”  People say they don’t want to go to jail, but if you made the jail comfortable enough, eliminated the violence and cruelty and put in just enough things to give it the illusion of personal choice, a lot of people would gladly volunteer to live there.  Not most people, but a significant percentage.

This is prison-seeking behavior. 

Don’t believe me?  There are massive dorm structures going up on college campuses with no windows, thousands of students crammed into these things, and a waiting list.  China has waiting lists for multi-story apartments that are worse than some actual prisons, and there are people who want to create that reality in Europe and the US.  Cults still exist with no shortage of members.  A lot of people stay in the military for the structure and the rigid boundaries, or have difficulty transitioning to a more open-ended lifestyle.

This gravitation toward systems that deprive agency in exchange for predictability, conformity, structure, safety and lack of personal responsibility (basic needs are taken care of for you) is powerfully strong in some people.

It turns out this attraction is strong in people who grew up in “permissive” households where there were few if any boundaries.  This environment created an anxiety that makes being controlled very attractive.

And if you don’t feel that attraction, the prison mentality can evoke a visceral negative reaction – it feels like they’re bargaining away your freedom along with their own.  And in many cases, that’s true. The irony of the prison mentality is that it lacks personal boundaries, having never learned the concept as children.  They just assume, since they have no boundaries, neither do you, so they’re entitled to give your agency away as if it were their own.  They literally can’t tell the difference. 

This is why I say there is no bargaining with collectivists, or with the prison mentality.  They see their own freedom as a personal threat, so they see you exercising your freedom also as a personal threat.  You can’t bargain with people like that.  This is why standing for freedom often leads to conflict – the other side literally has no concept of personal agency or sees it as a form of evil, so free people have to constantly fight back.  And it’s why collectivist societies inevitably lead to genocide – the very concept of people having personal agency is so threatening to those living in the prison mentality they have to delete them and call it good.

Those outside the prison mindset – and that’s most people – can see the fallacy of collectivism in all its forms.  Ultimately there is a structure that sits above the prison mentality that manipulates them and benefits from their voluntary servitude.  A collectivist society with free people won’t work, because the free people will just leave or refuse to participate.  The prisoners can’t operate the prison because that would require making choices and taking responsibility, which terrifies them.  So the system naturally needs to recruit and cultivate a certain number of free-thinking people (who are inherently corrupt and often outright evil) to run the prison.  They benefit from the system and run the system while living apart from it (notice how all the Communist leaders live like excessively wealthy Capitalists without actually producing anything of value themselves, unlike the actual Capitalists they emulate).

Can people in the prison mentality free themselves?  Yes.  But not from within the structure, which reinforces the learned helplessness and low personal self-esteem that creates the crippling fear of personal agency.  They need to see that, yes, they can take care of themselves better than the group.

And by the way this mentality plays out in micro levels in codependent and abusive relationships, so don’t think just because someone votes Republican they’re immune from the trap.

And events can trigger otherwise independent people to revert to prison mentality out of confusion or fear.  Look at all the people who reveled in locking themselves away, masking themselves and standing in long lines for tests and vaccines during the “covid pandemic.”  This wasn’t a case of a few politicians making edicts, large numbers of people gladly went along and tattled on their neighbors for living normal lives.  Because they wanted the prison, and they didn’t want to be pained by the thought of others enjoying a freedom they were incapable of giving themselves permission to enjoy.

To those who recognized the lunacy of the lockdowns, the prison mentality people seemed crazy, cruel, stupid and downright evil.  And objectively they were those things – those are inherent qualities of Prison Mentality Programming, lets not mince words or be quick to dismiss evil thoughts and actions in the false name of equanimity.  That’s not the purpose or function of equanimity and we shouldn’t corrupt noble terms by blurring distinctions between fact and fiction or good and evil.

But dismissing the masses of lockdown fanatics as “stupid and evil” because it’s objectively accurate misses the deeper lesson here, and I’ll admit I’ve been guilty myself of overlooking the bigger picture out of revulsion for the behavior in front of me.

Another aside for those who think I’m being too harsh on my lockdown-loving neighbors.  I’m not saying their hearts are evil.  But it has been proven that a large majority of people will set aside their morals to do something cruel and wrong to another if directed by a perceived authority.  And among that large subset is a significant minority who will willingly and gladly do so if properly motivated.  So no, everyone who supported lockdowns is not evil.  A lot of them are, and all of them were being evil at the time. This is just an objective fact.  Can they find forgiveness and change their hearts?  Sure, but I’m not Jesus, that’s not my job.  I’m looking through the lens of “what is” in order to dispel illusions and help people find true freedom.  I’ll leave it to Jesus to handle the “what can be” and “what will be,” that’s not my domain.

So what to do about the Prison Mentality Programming?  I’m assuming if you’ve read this far that means you haven’t succumbed to this programming, because otherwise you’d have reacted violently, rejected this and either tried to attack me for calling out the truth or, more likely, gone away back to your prison.  The most important thing is to recognize the programming – after a while it’s pretty easy to spot.  Look for the physical and emotional signs of the “artificial hive.”  You can also spot the leaders, the people who are consciously exploiting submissive followers through manipulation without producing anything of their own.  They’re all over politics, but not just there, they’re everywhere. 

Notice it and guard yourself against it.  Just as you can’t argue with a hornet’s nest, you can’t reason with the prison mentality.  Avoidance and personal protection is your only really effective strategy. 

Also this will help train you to identify other programming, since this is one of the more prominent ones that exist, making it easy to identify and inoculate yourself from.

And also, we humans are complicated.  There might be parts of you that are attracted to a form of prison or commune.  Notice this feeling.  It is a compass guiding you to wounded parts of you, places where you fear freedom or severely doubt yourself.  You are capable of far more than you realize and you are stronger than your upbringing.  Remember that and keep walking toward the light of freedom.

On Zorhan the Retard and the Future of Human Evolution

This Zorhan guy in New York, who will likely be their next mayor, is about the closest thing energetically to Actual Hitler I’ve seen in the US, at least at that high of a level.

It’s strange to me the attraction of Communism.  It’s such an evil, destructive ideology that creates nothing but poverty, misery and death.  That’s been its legacy everywhere it’s been implemented, in all its forms.  And yes, Nazi is functionally and energetically indistinguishable from Communism, which is probably exactly why Hitler hated the Communists so much.

And yet here in the most prosperous country on Earth, at the highest point in Earth’s prosperity – precisely because of the innovation and abundance brought forth from worldwide capitalism – millions of people want to turn instead to absolute destruction, hopeless poverty, suffering and death. It boggles the mind.

Marxism is one of the worst mimic structures ever created by man.  Conceptually it’s badly aligned, but it claims to want some kind of equal shared flow in exchange for having every aspect of your life – including your right to even exist – controlled by some self-appointed rulers.  Energetically it is a complete, irrevocable death of money flow.  The only way out is to uproot the entire evil structure, kill it, and completely replace it, it’s incompatible with basic human life.

Communism at its best was stagnation, boredom, mediocrity, and just an endless grey.  Nothing would grow, nothing would change.  There were no inventions.  Technology was stuck pretty much wherever it was when Communism came on board, except for whatever they could steal from their capitalist neighbors.  Then it goes way downhill from there to the horrors of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, who in terms of numbers and magnitude of deaths, were actually more deadly than Hitler.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the death of Bolshevik Communism, the world has seen prosperity like never before.  Extreme poverty is closer to elimination than ever. “Average” people have access to technology and comforts that even the wealthiest people couldn’t have dreamed of fifty years ago, and weren’t even a pipe dream in the Communist countries.

And yet, millions want to throw that away for guaranteed misery.  It seems to appeal mostly to NPC’s and people with serious boundary issues who want to control every aspect of everyone else’s life.  And New York City has a high NPC energy, there are a lot of “zombie followers,” basically rats scurrying around waiting for the Pied Piper.

About the only thing Communism even remotely gets right is pointing out the failures of the current economic system. But those failures are due to institutional and emotional kinks in the flow of energy.  The solution is to return to the natural flow of wealth and prosperity, not to completely drain it, remove all money and leave everyone with nothing but a bullet in their head for their troubles.  That’s just mass suicide.

Which brings us to Zorhan The Retard, who wants to basically transform New York City into a Stone Age version by promising free crap for everyone. Hey, it worked great for Venezuela, right?

The main thing that differentiates Communism from Nazi is that, while economically in both cases the government controls the economy, the Nazis added this supernatural belief in their racial supremacy.  And sure enough, this Zorhan guy has his own racist element, with his hatred of Jews and desire to increase taxes on white people.  The elements are certainly there for some real ugly abuse of power that results in massive suffering and death, if his cabal got enough power to pull it off.

Being mayor of New York City gives someone just enough power to screw up the city pretty badly, but even that takes time.  He could bankrupt the city and ruin the economy, but the economic engine would just relocate, probably to Miami. He would have no way to fully destroy anything, since he doesn’t have absolute power in a geography he completely controls.

Which would be the next step.  Because Communism only “works” if it has absolute control over a fixed territory.  And it only keeps going through military expansion – otherwise it becomes totalitarian crony capitalism disguised as Communism, like China and Vietnam.  Money needs to flow for growth, and by definition that cannot happen in a Communist society. 

Assuming this Communist venture isn’t just some stupid, bored white people doing something stupid once and then forgetting it, the evolution would be toward complete control over people’s lives. At which point the stupid white people who thought this was fun would seriously regret their choices but be unable to undo them or escape.  I’m not sure New York as a whole is quite at that level of collective stupidity, but it’s clear this guy is.

I see strong Luciferian energetic ties when I look at his energy.  He’s not “coming from a good place,” he’s coming from an evil place and knows exactly what he’s doing. You can see a similar contract with AOC, the Congresswoman also from NYC.  She’ll bobble through her day like a dopey waitress and then in certain moments her language, mannerism, voice would all change and it’s like the evil entities grabbed the controls.  The shift is palpable and really scary when you see it.

But with this guy, there’s no “pause,” he’s like that all the time.  Which means he’s not being controlled, he is the controller.  He’s the entity, not the host.

It’s bizarre how the NPC’s gravitate toward this kind of disgusting crap, but they do, and they always have throughout history. There’s a lot of hope now that the overall global energetic structure is improving a lot, but this expansion might actually make the pockets of evil more concentrated and, well, more evil.  We're seeing this in places like Los Angeles, San Francisco and apparently New York City.

The bigger problem here is that, based on my observations, while most people are good, the percentage of ultra-low-frequency-and-proud-of-it people is so high they would sabotage any evolution efforts, like crabs in a bucket.  They’re low-frequency creatures at the level of rodents.  At best they’re fools and at worst, it gets much worse.  But a fool isn’t inherently good – they’re fools and they do really foolish things.

If you go to areas that are poor, you can see this poverty energy in place.  You could put a pallet of millions of dollars in the middle of the village and within a year 99% of the village would be the same as before – still poor, still doing the same things – and the other 1% would have skipped town with some of the money, the rest of the money would just be lost to the wind and pissed away, the fool's favorite thing to do with money.  It’s never going to change for the huge majority of them, and sometimes these people convince enough other people to elect cultural suicide through Marxist revolution – and then those left return to their fields doing the same thing as before under a different flag and with fewer neighbors and limbs. 

Those that move from the village usually create new pockets of fools – and evil people with more resources – and the cycle continues. 

And when I see these fools get together and support an obvious evil, it doesn’t give me much hope that Earth can ascend.  Because every time we’d create the flow, the rodents would chew through the wires, build their nests in the flow causing damage to everyone, hoard, steal, manipulate, pollute and otherwise ruin the flow for everyone.  Or they would run around sowing doubt in enough low-confidence people that they’d give up and it fizzles out.

I have serious doubts that humanity can get its act together.  They can’t even reproduce anymore. It’s truly a dying society. 

So maybe Zorhan The Retard is the natural progression of the rats of society who only know how to bring others down and resent anyone who evolves.  He’s like voting for the giant meteor. 

I don’t like being so cynical about things.  Maybe we can evolve and just leave the rats behind, I don’t know. I do know that Communism and other forms of totalitarianism will have no place in the evolved society, which values freedom, contribution and fair exchange of value.  And we're a long way from that.