Message from @The Enlightened Shepherd
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So it makes more sense to call them Normalizers, who intervene en masse when the pendulum swings too far in either direction. It happens to be swinging too far to the left now, so they come off as right-wingers. But circa 1990, it was swinging too far to the right (Tipper Gore and the PMRC), and they came off more as left-wingers.
this is stupid
it's stupid but it touches on a real thing I think
the phenomenon of normal people, under leftism, but with living souls/common sense
Christ is the universal divine force behind all creation. Oh and he can incarnate himerlf and invalidate death and undermine prior religions as demonic.
That's the problem
you immediately presupose a divnity behind a creative force
As there cannot be good without evil and if he is good there has to be evil.
and above all, make a hierarchal structure in an arbitrary way
And by benevolence, he willed evil into being
and you presuppose that creative force is related to only one power
That's Platonism/neoplatonism
"all of things are matter" this is a pleonasm
Europeans pushed the spirit world beyond their world.
While for primitive peoples, the spirit and the material are interwined.
Wrong on so many levels
It's not wrong.
For all traditional teachings
What is traditional?
This is traditional.
I mean what is "traditionaL'
that which belongs to traditional civilizations
Traditional civilizations actually believed that.
According therefore,to all traditional teachings
Traditional Indo-European sky father wills the world into being.
Through cognition
Material world was a manifestation, and as such full of symbols which revealed, but not represented higher meanings
CAN STILL BE MONIST HOWEVER
It is not a manifestation.
It is an imitation.
PLATO SAID CAUSE TO EFFECT: IDEA => MATERIAL
Body itself, was, when you deeply contemplate on these teachings, perhaps the most sacred of all
The idea is not material
The soul is not your body
IDEA (CAUSE) => MATERIAL (EFFECT)
THAT HOWEVER
IS A FORM OF MONISM
NOT DUALISM
And the most revered teachings were those that were deeply inner, therefore urelated to mere exoteric, like serving the masses
AND THIS IS WHAT (I THINK) @The Enlightened Shepherd IS TRYING TO DIFFERENTIATE