Written by Mathew Naismith
This is an interesting discussion
on IONS discussing the History of the Devil which seems to refer to the
controlling ego as being the devil inside all of us.
Reference to: History of the Devil
Highly recommended to watch the
documentary prior to commenting.
In an attempt to unite the
contrasting and varying degrees of understanding of topics discussed on these
boards, including some of the internal dissension I have witnessed recently, I
would like to post this video as simply something to think about and share
comments and insights, including - especially and specifically - how we
individually witness the "devil" within ourselves.
G'day frequencytuner
Sadly enough I'm on limited
downloads so I can't watch the vid.
Reading both comments it would
seem you are talking about the ego being the Devil, couldn't agree more. Who in
this reality doesn’t have a controlling ego to contend with? Very few of us,
even the ones who say they have no ego are obviously controlled by the ego
within their responses/comments. I call this the hidden ego which is worse than
expressing the ego freely & uncontrollably because their living an utter
lie, their egos want them to believe they are egoless or at least have the ego
under control but that is the ego telling them what they want to hear.
This comes down to if we all
contend with the ego what does that say about society as a whole, is it
evil? The answer would have to be yes,
if it’s ego controlled it must be evil however on the other hand if the ego had
no or little control what would that then make society? The opposite of evil
which is good I would presume. It seems
to be obvious to me that we are living & being evil in an evil reality if
we allow the ego to stay in control. No wonder we are destroying this reality
at an alarming rate!!!
G'day NoetPoet
You do have a problem with me I feel.
RE: "Ego is not evil and it does not
deserve to be vilified by being equated with the Devil."
Of course your ego is going to tell you this;
it doesn't want to hear anything to the contrary so it will want you to stick
your head in the sand, how do you think the ego works?
Ego is a natural phenomenon in an
egotistically controlled reality, most definitely & yes like I have stated
myself many times, without the ego we wouldn't do anything because it's the
driving force behind all of what we do however this would be fine if the ego
wasn't always in control of us.
It's when the ego is controlling,
which has always been going by human history, that gives us evil intent. If for
once we brought in a bit of wisdom we would be aware of the controlling factors
of the ego to make a better existence for ourselves but the multinational Gods
of the church of consumerist materialism don’t want this to happen obviously.
Yes I am one person who would be
quite content in living in rags with a meagre roof of some kind over my head,
I've been there.
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The varied degrees of evil intent
I feel is in line with how controlling the ego is & of course the more
controlling it is the more evil intent we express but does this actually say we
live in hell? Well not really because this is defined by our own perceptions of
hell, most of us in the west have a picture of fire & brimstone with an
evil demon on the throne. I don’t really perceive myself living in hell however
I can see others living in hell. The more we are expressive or influenced by
the controlling ego the more we will perceive we live in hell.
Recently on this IONS site I was
in discussion with someone who said war is good, this to me denotes the ego
being in control. There is also another discussion on IONS about “Can we think
our way out of extinction”, my recent reply was as follow.
The heading of this discussion
is, “Can we think our way out of extinction”. If we are still thinking in the
same way we did in the dark ages how are we going to think our way out of
extinction?
This supposed new way of living
& thinking is still witch hunting, the ideologies are still based on fear,
our emotions are still dominated by the controlling ego & we still have a
warring hierarchy of dominance. All of what is mentioned here has always been
in one form or another, all we have done is modified & disguised what has
always been, the same mentality still exists from warring tribes.
Recently I was told war is good,
see how much our mentality has changed, it hasn’t so how are we going to think
our way out of extinction? Change the way the ego controls us because after all
we are the ones in control not the ego however the current system/ego wants you
to believe otherwise.
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