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Articles Regarding
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Fundamentalism, The Watchtower Denial, Ignorance & Security
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Fundamentalism's Hall of Fools
This page and it's links contain articles I have previously written where I now stand much differently
- Today, I lean toward a non-theist with pragmatism, plural relativism, psychedelic and existentialist views that
may still hold on to some of the Platonic ideas but reject the monotheistic limitations from human phenomenal means
and limited perceptive capabilities that are not comprehended in many of the articles written here. And so, I look
back on former essays, sometimes embarrassed, sometimes with still a sense of accomplishment, as I still emphatically
reject (even more so) Watchtower mind meltedness and all the blind ignorance of fundamental thinking that permeates
our current collective views in political and cultural outlook, yet do so under the acknowledgment of all conceptions,
ideals, ethics, and morality codes created under the linguistic and societal constructions of humanity itself,
nothing more, nothing less. It is up to humanity of which model to choose, to accept the degrees of relativity
and reject the absolutes or to cling on to external meanings that lack the inner and superior development, how
he or she decides the meanings, origins and reasons for all interpretative and perceptive definitions. - Richard Schwartz
The ignorant, the fundamentals,
. . . wait I know . . . it's a stage of the psyche we all have to grow through. The need to create absolute models
and schematics to follow, the need for mapped out realities with security, and permanent walls to lean on for the
lack of self support which cannot progress existentially, all this can be found in every religion, every philosophy,
political agenda, organization, scientific, superstitious, pragmatic & etc. The psychology that lives behind
the teaching, and while it's positive traits bring order to the chaotic man, its intolerance destroys humanity.
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George W. Bush
The current "king" of fundamental agendas. War, corporate
welfare, increased limits on the working class, errosion of privacy rights (all so for the sake of liberty), enviromental
degradation, religious orthodoxy done with complete sincerity.
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'If your right arm is making you stumble, cut it off !"
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Jerry Falwell
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The Watchtower Bible &
Tract Society
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"Mohammed was a terrorist. . . Moses set the example." One can
write an entire book of fucked up quotes by this man. I just don't have the time or ambition to do so.
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"Unless we are in touch with the faithful and discreet slave class (Jehovah's Witnesses),
we will not progress upon the road of life." This comes from a truly ignorant
organization of neurotic persons. I speak from personal experience here.
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Mohammed Azad, Bibi Amina
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Tertullian
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"Islam Will Conquer All Other Religions And American Power Will Diminish" While this claim may come true, it is of course only due according to divine prophecy.
I wonder if human kind is really advancing?
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"After Christ we have no need of curiosity." One had
best tend to one's own salvation. The final truths had been revealed in Scripture, no need to further learn. I'm
not going to even bother writing more. I mean if you can't understand the implications, then you must grow on your
own. Try convincing a bear not to shit in the woods or a frog to stop eating flies and when you succeed please
let me know your techniques.
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St. Augustine
To Yearn for knowledge is the "concupiscence of the flesh or the "lust of knowledge." (associated
with sex). Take the religious experience of Christianity, fragment it by the Orthodox,
add some Platonic wisdom and mulitply it with severe neurotic sexual disfunctionality and you have St. Augustine.
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 "(Liberals
are) about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their
children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993 And this
man ran for president! Then again, so did George W. Bush.
"Rebellion is like witchcraft. That's what it is, it's like witchcraft." Missouri
State Rep. Jean Dixon, on labeling "offensive music". USA Today, March 20, 1990
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 . . and
a finally some good, sane advise;
"A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in
the physical." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787
Now put that in your PATRIOT ACT, Mr. G.W. Bush!
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CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM
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MOSES
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SUFI - MOSLEM
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"Mohammed Was A Terrorist"
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"Kill Every Man,
Woman and Child"
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"Compassion
Is True Origin"
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Jerry Falwell
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Moses
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Hazrat Inayat Khan
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“I think Mohammed was a terrorist. I read enough, by both
Muslims and non-Muslims, [to decide] that he was a violent man, a man of war,” Falwell tells Simon. “In my opinion…Jesus
set the example for love, as did Moses, and I think Mohammed set an opposite example.”
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"Kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept
with a man." - Numbers 31:17
"We devoted every city to destruction,
men and women and little children. We left no survivors." Deut. 2:34-35
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Compassion, runs like a golden thread through history, untarnished by dogma. In
fact, compassion is the true origin of religion in its purest aspect, and is the soul force by which religion in
all ages inspired an outburst of devotional creativity, each subjective to the cultural conditions of mankind at
a certain time and place.
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WATCHTOWER FUNDAMENTALISM
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"Let God Be Found True, And Every Man Be Found A Liar " - Romans 3:4
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Formal, Institutional,
Fundamental. Beginning the work of submitting themselves to principle-the
law, but they do not yet understand the spirit of the law, consequently they are legalistic, parochial, and dogmatic.
They are threatened by anyone who thinks differently from them, as they have the "truth," and so regard
it as their responsibility to convert or save the other 90 or 99 percent of humanity who are not "true believers."
They are religious for clear cut answers, with the security of a big daddy God and organization, to escape their
fear of living in the mystery of life, the mystery of uncertainty in the ever moving and expanding unknown. Instead
they choose the formulations, the stagnation of prescribed methods and doctrines that spell out life and attempt
to escape fear. Yet these theological reasonings simply cover over fear, hide fear and do not transcend it in spite
of with acceptance in expanding movement. All those outside of Stage
II are perceived to be as Stage
I, as they do not understand Stage
III and Stage IV. Those who do fall, reverting from Stage
II to Stage I are called "backsliders."
There is a Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart, Benny Hinn, Pat
Robertson, mentality (one-sided thinking - ignorance that produces hostility) in every religion, the one-sidedness,
in every ideology. Christianity cannot be condemned as responsible for the fundamentalists who claim to represent
such. One just has to look at Mother Teresa or Martin Luther King, Jr. to see the opposite of such thinking. You
can find the Falwell in Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Jainism, Mohammedism and of course Christianity. That is the
narrow one-sided exclusiveness that limits insight to one set of rules and one objective truth, under the literal
logic or rationalism, that fails to apprehend the unseen intuitive essence of existence and ignorantly labels outsiders
as misled sinners, while surrounding themselves with interior neurotic and finite walls of security and certainty.
All is safe in this illusion, but all is not just, nor fair, and does not transcend prejudice that surpasses tribal
identity, an identity that must be scrapped in order to bring higher consciousness of planetary cultural peace
and love based on principle with intuitive insight.
There is also a Bin Laden (evil intolerance) in every religious culture and teaching, in every
social, political and cultural view. Islam cannot be condemned as responsible for the extreme fundamentalists who
incorporate harm and war. One just has to look at the other side within Islam, to the Sufi of compassion and peace,
that of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen or Hazrat Inayat Khan. Yet the evil of extreme fundamentalism resides in all facets of society, those who would kill
and destroy, torture and humiliate, all in the name of their theological and ideological views. They are of course
the extreme fundamentalists, yet all forms of fundamentalism, both moderate to extreme, Stage II mentality, fails integration with non-acceptance, that of one-dimensional perception. And yet,
in each of these same cultures, although the minority, there exists communal and mystical persons, Stage IV persons, those transmitting inclusiveness and compassion, who transcend all divisiveness in
oneness.
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