This video discusses an age-old question which has currently become of immense, literally vital, importance: Will our species survive or die out like the dinosaurs? is the most crucial issue of our time. It is related to the fundamental fact of our existence for it is about the struggle between the forces of Life and those of Death. The consequences as to the winner of that inner struggle have to do with no less than the continued survival of life on this planet or total planetary collapse.
In the struggle between the current powers of life versus death, it is helpful to remember Freud's paradigm-shifting observations about the human psyche on Eros and Thanatos....
Freud established that we act out a will to live and to be in the sun and to have fun and to love and to like goodness and health and truth.
Freud also saw that we have at other times an opposite feeling that causes us to want to live in the dark; to not be around people; to shy away from life and the light and being seen and recognized and even to wanting to be lonely. This feeling causes us to not care about fun, to hate and be angry, indeed to hate everyone and even to want to lash out at them for no reason other than what might be self-labeled as spite. It makes us jealous of those who find happiness or pleasure in their lives and impels us to lash out at them and make them suffer the way we, on the inside, know we do. Because of this self-defeating tendency we irrationally beat up on our own bodies as well and abuse them with all kinds of substances and behaviors.
Thanatos is why there are always Republicans or something like them — Pharisees, Inquisitors...
And times in which they hold sway—stifling, life- and creativity-averse, stagnant and little changing times: the Middle Ages, for example...
This downward pull makes us want to hate goodness, calling things "kumbaya moments." This part of our nature causes us to be jealous of others who are more giving and to hate them for that, to call people "goody two-shoes" or say something is "schmaltzy," or to be saying that all that good stuff is just "drama." It has us putting out terms like "bleeding heart" liberals. It causes us to not care about the truth, but rather to say things instead to hurt, get revenge, to get back at. Or it has us say untruths to get advantage, to disable our competitors, to hide from the evils we commit which enslave us further in the hiding of them, and so much more....
Right about now, it might be occurring to you how this makes sense of so much, seemingly insane, human behavior we've seen of late. This Will to Die explains why we continue nonchalantly our march to armageddon. It shines light on how we can suck up air in cities that gives us raging allergies, clogs our lungs as bad as chronic smoking would, and will kill off the children we raise there long before their times. It reveals how we could drink poisoned water, blithely go about our business as the globe fills up with nuclear radiation and makes its way into our food supplies and as our government refuses even to test for it, and turn our backs as the oceans die, and killer tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis chalk up thousands in the kill column. It explains why people allow themselves to be enslaved and controlled by others—allowing fascism in established democracies—unconcernedly voting for rabid folk who would take away their rights and security and bring down their freedoms, health, and even lives, while watching those living under totalitarian systems risk their lives for a such freedom and rights and democracy. So much more....
That is why I say what we are discussing is an age-old question. Although to our detriment...or fortune?...it is now more than any other time crucially relevant, and it is the most immense importance and consequence as to the winner of that inner struggle.
For while we watched with paralyzed hand on one side, on the other our lesser selves are presently taking us on a path that leads inevitably, one way or another, to total species extinction. ...
That is why in upcoming sections I focus on this question of dire importance.... I deal with the question of the sway of the the "dark side" as over against the Power of Truth, Love, Higher Power; God...if you will; Sathya Sai, that is, Truth Love...if you will; the Universe; or simply the Better Angels of Our Nature manifesting in increasing numbers of lives....
The questions we need to ask are about which side will win in the end. For certainly it will be decided one way or the other, and soon, of that we can be sure. And that is what makes this time and this question different from any other time. Because this question is not an academic one, now. It is one whose answer will become known far sooner than we would ever wish.
So, we will continue to live, and we will become good citizens of this planet and our species will continue on?
True? False?
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The Will To Die, Pt 1: Apocalyptic Zombies & En-Raptured Proselytists - FULLby sillymickel77 views
True, False.....Both. My personal belief is that part of the population is made up of pure evil and the other part of the population is the total opposite. There are some in the middle for various reasons, exposure to upbringing, environment, their own brain chemical make up or genetics. I am a believer in God and Satan and the Spiritual War. I place my life Into God's Hands and I will do my best to help people get through it, but will be will be. Enjoy everyone & everything till then.
1023awaken 1 month ago