Um, Mark? Can you say schizophrenic?

Don’t worry if you are a Mark Twain fan. Believe me I have the greatest respect for someone who would risk “burning in hell forever” in order to decry a serious wrong.

Too bad he didn’t leave any descendents that could be prevailed upon to follow in his footsteps.

Now while I hate to make reference to the Bible, yet it does contain a truth or two that should not be discarded along with the baby and baby’s other do-dos.

I forget where it is, but there is a passage where it is talking about those who refused to keep the knowledge of god (aka admit the possibility thereof) in their consciousness, and so god afflicted them with mental problems. It is as if god decides that a person is no more worthy of his recognition and afflicts such a one with terminal mental problems, thereby indicating that such a one is no longer worthy of life itself (I guess).

Am I making this up? No. Any shrink will tell you that they know better than to try to treat a psychopath. That sort of mental illness is beyond their level of expertise. All they can do is try to invent a med to deaden the part of the brain that presents this sort of behavior.

In short, it has been my experience that when someone develops mental problems later in life – especially one who exhibits anti-social lashing-out behavior- it is a sign that his Creator has consigned him to the trash.

Now while I hate to make reference to the Bible – again, yet it does contain some wisdom. For one thing it says in Proverbs that there is no percentage in smartening up a chump [my modern-day translation with a nod to W.C. Fields]. So do I care if someone refuses to admit the possibility of there being intelligence greater than his? Naw. What’s the point?

But yeah go ahead all you fanatic disbelievers and ignore all the empirical evidence of there being an intelligent being behind all this. Why not go to: http://theflatearthsociety.org/? They make some really cogent arguments for the earth being flat. All you gotta do is be a psychotic ostrich who can’t deal with outside verifiable information and just say all them photos of the earth and the moon were done by artists in some lab, and the whole landing-on-the-moon thing was done in some studio.

Its adherents have enough sense to run out of town on a rail any fanatical Pharisee who insists that his followers not eat the best cuts of an animal already declared clean by their deity (hind quarter – tenderloin, porterhouse, etc.).

Of course they still need to weed out the fanatics who lie and insist Jesus foisted grape juice onto the celebrants of a Jewish wedding. Anyone who can read a Strong’s and a Greek dictionary can tell that the word for wine is used in the account, not the one(s) for grape juice.

I mean think about it sanely. If Jesus had “created” grape juice when the wine ran out, the head of the reception would not have heard compliments from the guests about how it was the “best for last’. He would have been spat upon, and Jesus would have been crucified by his own people for real right then and there.

Funny. I used to admire the real God who is in charge of all this (including His creation of all the lesser beings like Yahweh), because He was the opposite of His glory-seeking, self-aggrandizing, angelic beings who went about selling the human race on the lie that they were the real “gods” (see my earlier comment above on this page).

If Yahweh in the OT found someones who didn’t want him to be their god, he ordered Israel to wipe them out. But the real God prefers to keep a low profile. If people go about claiming they are the progeny of slime that dwelt in some fetid swamp, does He just lash out and afflict them with boils?

Naw, He lets them get away with it. It doesn’t bother Him a bit if people think a huge explosion in outer space created all of this.
This real God shuns the limelight.

Yet, in the very Bible (I sounds like I am repeating myself from my original post above) are clues as to why all this suffering, all this conflict, all this good-vs.-evil keeps going on, and why those of us who engage in the battle against the bad while hoping to make a difference feel so frustrated.

God is a mix of good and evil. Even Yahweh —while pretending to be God— admitted it as if he was a chip off the old Block when he said, “I create evil.” One would have to have a Strong’s Concordance (mine is in the recycle bin) but it’s in there somewhere among the Minor Prophets.

Anyway, now the only way I do admire the real God is the way He tells on Himself and is not averse to exposing His negatives. First of all, you need to keep in mind that the Bible says that it is infallible and incapable of error. Bible thumpers hammer on this self-declaration of intrinsic worth as their reason to invoke it for whatever they want to shove down your throat.

Yet, in the very Bible were the declarations of “the wisest man who ever lived” who lived large to the max, only to end up screaming in frustration to learn that the real end of man is no better than that of a dog. “As one dies so dies the other”.

There is no hope past one’s physical life, in other words.

Now here is where the religionists jump in to denounce the veracity of the scriptures. The Bible is true, but what Solomon said was false. (So it’s in the Bible. So what? He was mistaken. Probably got messed up in the head jumping all them pagan gals, right? )

Can anybody out there not recognize there being any sort of psychotic element in religion?

Me? I feel sorry for Solomon. Apparently he felt for humans and their “vale of tears” and spoke out against the system. I mean he had it all. (Ok so he had 700 mothers-in-law, but he was the king… hehheh. Mothers-in-law back then prolly knew enough to mind their tongues.)

But the fact that he lamented there being no greater level that a human being can attain to than the one he experienced on this earth made him seem like a real empath where I am concerned.

No wonder Yahweh destroyed him and his realm.

Arthur21743(at)yahoo.com (for those Solomons out there).

I cite Karl Marx, not because I think he thought it through where people and God are concerned, but because up to a certain point he sounded rational. It is from the following where the dishonest types wrest his words to make religion sound like the victim instead of the perpetrator.

“Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man—state, society.

“This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality.

“The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.”
Reference: Wikipedia article: Opium of the People, Karl Marx

Sounds good, doesn’t it? I mean he seems to care about the human condition and human suffering. Maybe he even meant it. All I can do is wonder if he was being disingenuous, or if others came later who had more nefarious goals, and used his words to promote their private agendas.

All I can say to the above referenced Karl Marx (and those who followed in his footsteps) is this:

But!!! If you wish to oppress the masses, and if you are smart, you will leave the masses their narcotic of religion (though well-controlled, continually monitored and totally censored – and perhaps in the early stages of the subversion of the system, even bought and paid for at the pulpit), in order to dull the pain of slavery, lest they find an alternate way to ease their pain–such as in revolting and giving their lives to attain their freedom.

This is why we can’t have nice things. <_<

Isn’t this site supposed to be about “rational” thoughts?

It’s also good for people so pathetic they can’t even come to grips with the Shift key, and block it out of their consciousness. But…! Hey! If the religion drug doesn’t send you, there’s always cocaine… or whatever you use to escape the here and now, so you can avoid joining the rest of the decent human race who want to try to contribute to a well-behaved, orderly, mannered society without all the religious psychopathy….