WHEN TO BANISH SPIRITUAL ZOMBIES

UNFOLDING EVOLUTION OF INTERESTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS:  There seem to be niches of perspectives of consciousness.  Some niches support evolution of perspectives that communicate feelings of empathy and that seek to preserve decent civilization for members.  Other niches mark the cannibalizing demise of decency.

Whether a niche or society is on a rise, unfolding along a sustainable path, seems to flux with the sharing and raising of consciousness, both among members, and in regard to members' respect for their common Source.  While members respect decency, civilization tends to enhance decency.  While members remain interested in God, God seems to retain interest in members.  When members lose empathy and spiritual interest, and turn instead to seek fulfillment exclusively by pursuing short-term material wants and transient pleasures, thus sacrificing empathy and spirituality, then empathy and spirituality seem likewise to sacrifice interest in such members --- even in entire civilizations and niches.

It is charitable to try to help a basically good person to recover his or her sense of purposeful empathy and spirituality.  However, many recipients of good intentions cynically manipulate and abuse such efforts, thinking supporters misled, impotent, ridiculous, and worthy of being conned.  It becomes hard to help such people (Rinos and Dinos?) out of their spiritual hole without being pulled down into it.

The less one's resources and the more fallen and depraved the person one would help, the more it becomes important to appreciate when to let go.  There are people and nations whose salvation, even in terms of material wants, is best left to God.  To restore some derelicts to spiritual health requires miracles of intervention beyond capacity of the best of human intentions.  To linger too long to try to restore spiritual health to those who have allowed themselves to become spiritual zombies can lead one to lose the spiritual path for helping those who remain committed to it.  Such is not an empirical judgment, but necessitates a quality of spiritual insight, intuitively best accompanied with prayer and receptivity to Higher Consciousness.  Such receptivity is needed, if one is to acquire experience and skill to detect when the habits of others have fallen too deeply into grooves of anti-spiritual, material cynicism.  Absent such skill, one can hardly recognize when it becomes necessary and important to abandon spiritual zombies to the existential despair they have worked to put themselves into.

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Pin ball mechanics and post modern deconstructionists often join and ingratiate themselves with those scientists whose expertise and egos tend to be single-mindedly devoted to reducing everything to the materially quantitative. Of course, religion, spirituality, and moral values are derived more in respect of the qualitative than the quantitative. Yet, one whose mind or faith is bent to believe that all that is qualitatively worthwhile can and should be reduced to the scientifically quantitative will soon deconstruct and find that nothing, and no value, can be shown to be worth preserving or defending. Nowadays, professors of deconstructionist philosophy and reductionist science have united to ridicule and rout all who would defend any assimilating values. Thus, the mass of people find themselves being pushed by elitists, who know nothing of any qualities that are worthwhile, to value only the value of nothingness. (Of course, valuing the nothingness of no values is the supreme confusion and hypocrisy of modern elites, and it trumps all their epithets of “hypocrisy” against everyone else who at least strives but always falls short.)

Thus, our elites prefer to believe or model as if our universe arose out of a singular bubble from an otherwise mindless void of nothingness. Our "elites" prefer that no one should be entertained to intuit or believe that any eternal Source of spirituality may yet mingle with us. For them, God is departed, dead, or never was. They prefer that all talk of spiritual and moral intuition should be driven from the public square, eventually to be politically decreed a form of child abuse. They wish politically not merely “to wall away” an establishment of religion, but politically to nullify every religious, spiritual, and moral view.   The road “the wall people” want to divert us to is a road to perdition, where all Christian, spiritual, and charitable basis for the Golden Rule is denied and ridiculed, to be replaced by a politically enforced equality for all, where the distributors of “equality” will be those Napoleons who most fervently believe in the moral value of no moral values, excepting this: some are more equal before the government than others.

Of course, America's Founders, as well as everyone with insight above that of a rebellious child, knew this to be a prescription for moral Babel. Yet, “elites” of such hatred for the moral authority of any spiritual intuition cannot be cured of their blindness or ferocious devotion to moral anarchy.

There are true incorrigibles.  For example, a "religion" that gathers adherents by force rather than by attraction based on the intuitive goodness or reasonableness of its doctrine is not a religion, but a recipe for thuggery.  A "science" that pretends to know, and that ridicules all who intuit otherwise, that there is no basis for moral values apart from those "values" "reasonably" taught by elites is not a science, but a language for "wise guys," posing as "moral scientists."  Such thug religionists and faux scientists mean to ridicule, rout, and push all opponents from the field of toleration.  For non-adherents to tolerate such intolerant know-it-alls, who claim to know that which cannot be known but only intuited, is to tolerate the destruction of all those who refuse to adhere to insanity.

Instead of reasoning with incorrigibles, they need to be let go, quarantined, banished, or cut off — like gangrene. That is, if any semblance of decent civilization is to be preserved. There comes a point where you just can’t fix know-it-all stupidity. Many of these people act so incorrigibly to logic and common decency that they believe there actually exists --- and not merely as a mathematical function or model --- an ultimate, actual, inanimate, dumb, particular “thing” — which they reverentially call the Higgs boson (or family thereof). I suspect the truly faithful among the a-theists will find this "Thing" nestled close to the Easter Bunny or the Great Pumpkin, right next to the Bible of the Morality of Nothingness.

@Thus spake Dlanorrenrag.