Stefan Molyneux has often said that the reason the Atheists keep losing is that nature abhors a vacuum. His point is that if you remove something that huge from the human experience and you don't fill that void with something else, you will fail. Miserably.
So, in the past fifty years, a certain generation, who gave up God in the sixties and then tried to fill that void with drugs and sex, have chased one fad after another and never being able to fill that void.
One of my good friends is an addiction counselor. She never speaks of individuals in anything but the most generic sense, so I'm guessing, based on this that they are, indeed, human beings. We talk more about mental states that allow you to do the things you have to do to stay high all the time. She uses me as a sounding board, because no matter who you are, there are times you question your own judgment.
With that said, we are in agreement, it's a damned good thing I never majored in psych. I would be a terror as a therapist. I see nothing wrong with slapping someone and yelling at them to stop being a freakin' baby and accept reality.
Human beings are hardwired for belief. Yeah, it's actually a provable, scientific fact. It doesn't mean that you have to believe in God, but we want to believe in something above ourselves. I'll let you in on a little secret, it's what separates us from the apes in actuality.
So, since the Sixties, when the Purveyors of Nothing told us to tune in and drop out, and so many did, no one talked about the aftermath. The Seventies. When these college kids were suddenly spat out into the world, coming down and having to get jobs they still felt empty. The sex hadn't filled that void, the drugs also had failed to fill it. It merely gave the momentary illusion of having been filled at all. So, in their twenties and early thirties, they found themselves at EST seminars, primal scream therapy. Psychotherapy became the new religion. For those not into that sort of thing, mindless sex, drugs and nightclubbing became the new drug. One night stands took on a new vogue when before it had always been seen as shabby and more telling about the type of person who would do it. Relationships became anathema.
We embraced "living with" rather than marriage. It's always easier to plan your exit strategy because the grass is always greener, right? We began to degrade the values our religion had given us before. We rejected belief in something larger than us and our minds payed for it.
Never before in human history has there been the glut in mental disorders as there have been in the past fifty years. Not because they're are being just now recognized, but because they just erupted in minds that could not deal with that void in themselves and continually being told their were wrong for wanting to fill it with something bigger than the latest fad. Scarsdale Diet, New Age drum banging, crystals, UFOs, Low carbs. You're always chasing something trying to fill that void.
Now, here's the real kicker, churches of all sorts are experiencing a new renaissance due to the number of people who are turning to deity rather than succumbing to the void and doing away with themselves. The Purveyors of Nothing sneer and try to apply more social pressure, but whether it's yoga or Presbyterianism, human beings need to believe in something. Call it God if you like, but it's something.
Personally, I believe in God. It's such a deep seated belief that fire could not burn it out of me. However, I am not religious, despite being raised in the Catholic faith. I believe in God, that is deity. I do not believe in religion. That is man. I believe in God the way I do because I was raised within the bosom of Western Civilization and so my God is a paternal figure who has certain rules for how I should behave to live amongst my fellow man. That is me. This is what settles that part of me which seeks better, seeks more and keeps me striving to be and do better.
That is not everyone. I know others who cannot separate God from religion. I don't get it, but sure. It settles that place within them and keeps them living as people I don't mind knowing, so I don't care HOW they achieve that state.
We entered this new century with half a century of emptiness and nothing to fill it. So we sought something to fill that void and the usual suspects glommed onto politics and Global Warming as their new religion. Ask yourself why they consider anyone who spoke out against Obama or Hillary as heretics? Why do they still say that if you deny global warming that you should be burned at the stake? Where have we heard that language before?
Obama quickly became the Torquemada of this religious zealotry of political position. For eight years he sent his acolytes out, with just enough information to draw you in, like any good cultist, then made rules that trapped you once you were in, while he winnowed the populace for those worthy of promoting to higher power to lord it over the plebs.
When Hillary didn't win in 2016 it was far larger than a political loss which normally is forgotten within moments as you await the future. Oh no, Torquemada helped Hillary with the Russia narrative and they have been busy putting anyone on the rack and promising they would repent and convert.
Then the Mueller Report was sent to the General Counsel at the DoJ and bits of it were leaked. No indictments. No tearing down of a president.
It's funny how, in their religious fervor, they thought that Hillary would immediately be put into office, even though they deny thinking that. I've heard too many slip ups on panels and in interviews.
The Mueller Report was the greatest blow against the void. It showed us that we could trust something we believed in, like who was elected president. A man who railed against their politics and the whole global warming scam. Suddenly, their attempt to fill the void was shown for the stupid hatred and lack of logic and reason it really was.
We're seeing the death throes now and they will not go down easy. We just have to make sure that they are always held up as an example of what is not to be done. Ever. Then we build on their ashes. It's the only good they will ever serve. Their ashes will fill that void.
So, in the past fifty years, a certain generation, who gave up God in the sixties and then tried to fill that void with drugs and sex, have chased one fad after another and never being able to fill that void.
One of my good friends is an addiction counselor. She never speaks of individuals in anything but the most generic sense, so I'm guessing, based on this that they are, indeed, human beings. We talk more about mental states that allow you to do the things you have to do to stay high all the time. She uses me as a sounding board, because no matter who you are, there are times you question your own judgment.
With that said, we are in agreement, it's a damned good thing I never majored in psych. I would be a terror as a therapist. I see nothing wrong with slapping someone and yelling at them to stop being a freakin' baby and accept reality.
Human beings are hardwired for belief. Yeah, it's actually a provable, scientific fact. It doesn't mean that you have to believe in God, but we want to believe in something above ourselves. I'll let you in on a little secret, it's what separates us from the apes in actuality.
So, since the Sixties, when the Purveyors of Nothing told us to tune in and drop out, and so many did, no one talked about the aftermath. The Seventies. When these college kids were suddenly spat out into the world, coming down and having to get jobs they still felt empty. The sex hadn't filled that void, the drugs also had failed to fill it. It merely gave the momentary illusion of having been filled at all. So, in their twenties and early thirties, they found themselves at EST seminars, primal scream therapy. Psychotherapy became the new religion. For those not into that sort of thing, mindless sex, drugs and nightclubbing became the new drug. One night stands took on a new vogue when before it had always been seen as shabby and more telling about the type of person who would do it. Relationships became anathema.
We embraced "living with" rather than marriage. It's always easier to plan your exit strategy because the grass is always greener, right? We began to degrade the values our religion had given us before. We rejected belief in something larger than us and our minds payed for it.
Never before in human history has there been the glut in mental disorders as there have been in the past fifty years. Not because they're are being just now recognized, but because they just erupted in minds that could not deal with that void in themselves and continually being told their were wrong for wanting to fill it with something bigger than the latest fad. Scarsdale Diet, New Age drum banging, crystals, UFOs, Low carbs. You're always chasing something trying to fill that void.
Now, here's the real kicker, churches of all sorts are experiencing a new renaissance due to the number of people who are turning to deity rather than succumbing to the void and doing away with themselves. The Purveyors of Nothing sneer and try to apply more social pressure, but whether it's yoga or Presbyterianism, human beings need to believe in something. Call it God if you like, but it's something.
Personally, I believe in God. It's such a deep seated belief that fire could not burn it out of me. However, I am not religious, despite being raised in the Catholic faith. I believe in God, that is deity. I do not believe in religion. That is man. I believe in God the way I do because I was raised within the bosom of Western Civilization and so my God is a paternal figure who has certain rules for how I should behave to live amongst my fellow man. That is me. This is what settles that part of me which seeks better, seeks more and keeps me striving to be and do better.
That is not everyone. I know others who cannot separate God from religion. I don't get it, but sure. It settles that place within them and keeps them living as people I don't mind knowing, so I don't care HOW they achieve that state.
We entered this new century with half a century of emptiness and nothing to fill it. So we sought something to fill that void and the usual suspects glommed onto politics and Global Warming as their new religion. Ask yourself why they consider anyone who spoke out against Obama or Hillary as heretics? Why do they still say that if you deny global warming that you should be burned at the stake? Where have we heard that language before?
Obama quickly became the Torquemada of this religious zealotry of political position. For eight years he sent his acolytes out, with just enough information to draw you in, like any good cultist, then made rules that trapped you once you were in, while he winnowed the populace for those worthy of promoting to higher power to lord it over the plebs.
When Hillary didn't win in 2016 it was far larger than a political loss which normally is forgotten within moments as you await the future. Oh no, Torquemada helped Hillary with the Russia narrative and they have been busy putting anyone on the rack and promising they would repent and convert.
Then the Mueller Report was sent to the General Counsel at the DoJ and bits of it were leaked. No indictments. No tearing down of a president.
It's funny how, in their religious fervor, they thought that Hillary would immediately be put into office, even though they deny thinking that. I've heard too many slip ups on panels and in interviews.
The Mueller Report was the greatest blow against the void. It showed us that we could trust something we believed in, like who was elected president. A man who railed against their politics and the whole global warming scam. Suddenly, their attempt to fill the void was shown for the stupid hatred and lack of logic and reason it really was.
We're seeing the death throes now and they will not go down easy. We just have to make sure that they are always held up as an example of what is not to be done. Ever. Then we build on their ashes. It's the only good they will ever serve. Their ashes will fill that void.
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