Good God, evil world

I’ve been watching the Game of Thrones clips on Youtube yesterday, as well as some of the reactions.

There’s a character named Ramsay Bolton who is an evil sadistic fucktard (OK, that applies to most characters but he’s above average). There’s a scene where he rapes a female character and apparently there was all sorts of shit in the media about how that’s horrible and how could they film that and how it’s a semi-historical portrayal of the dark ages when women were treated like shit and so on. And it wasn’t a particularly nasty scene, he simply fucks her against her will and treats her like a thing of little worth. Poor women bad men, right?

Not really, since the same fucktard character in another episode has a prisoner crucified in the dungeon, where he cuts his dick off, bores through his foot with a screw, cuts him with a knife and humiliates him in every possible way. A logical conclusion would be that this is a fucktard character, not that women are in a particularly bad position relative to men. If anything, I’ve seen more scenes of men getting a shitty deal, having their arms chopped off, eyes poked out, being crucified, having their cocks cut off, being humiliated and denigrated by both relatives and enemies, being flayed alive, disemboweled, having their heads crushed and so on. Yeah, women are being raped, strangled, stabbed, have their throats slit and so on. It’s a lovely series of which Satan would approve fully.

But there’s an interesting scene, where a female character, Arya Stark, pokes a man’s eyes out, stabs him with a knife multiple times while humiliating and denigrating him, and eventually slits his throat. Not a single feminist seems to be offended by that scene, and I am yet to read a single comment stating that it’s a semi-historic portrayal of the medieval times where men were treated like shit by women because there was no equality or men’s rights. When a man does it, it’s a horrible crime, but when a woman does it, it’s cute. It’s female empowerment.

The problem is, the series is quite realistic. The horrors might be more concentrated than in actual life, but I read enough history to know that reality was sometimes actually worse. Also, although feminist hypocrisy initially pissed me off enough to start writing this article, I quickly came to understand that something else pisses me off even more.

The purpose of this world is, supposedly, evolution, and learning things that would otherwise be impossible to learn, in order to accelerate spiritual evolution. That is according to Sanat Kumar. He’s a really compassionate fellow interested in the well-being of others, or at least so he says.

You get to learn horrors of the kind that are impossible on the worlds that were actually created by God, and not by Satan. You get to be exposed to pressures that would otherwise be impossible, with the purpose of making you believe that God had forsaken you and that you are worthless, trying to break you spiritually and turn your evolution away from God. You get to be raped, starved, tortured, humiliated, exposed to weakness, disease and poverty. And the supposed purpose of all that is “to be like God”.

The actual purpose of all this is to subject souls to such humiliating treatment that they would never even dare to think that their destiny could be anything other than humiliation, pain, weakness and loss. The actual purpose of this world is to convince souls that the Prince of this world is their master and that they shouldn’t even dare to think of any other potential destiny, for instance that which God actually wants them to achieve. The purpose of this world is not evolution, it is to break your spirit to the point of such hopelessness and despair that you accept your enslavement willingly and actually refuse any possible salvation, calling this world the only valid reality, refusing to believe in anything transcendental.

And I agree that this thing is possible only in this world, which is why its creator it the most evil being imaginable. I completely understand why people who think that God created this world want to become atheists (although the argument negates itself, because if you believe that God did something bad, and you renounce his authority because of that, you’re not an atheist, because in order to hate God you have to believe there is one). If I believed God created this place, I would spit in his face and curse him with my dying breath, and I would refuse any kind of an afterlife where I would have to look at the bastard who created this cursed dungeon of a world – because that, too, is the purpose of this world. It’s meant to make us hate God and turn away from him. The whole purpose of this place is to convince us of a lie. But it’s not reality; the true reality is the beauty and magnificence that is God. This is just a very persistent, convincing illusion that is perpetrated by suppression of memory, mandatory restriction on use of spiritual powers, and immersion in a sensory illusion. Imagine the Game of Thrones, a virtual reality engine, that suppresses your memory so that you can’t remember anything before immersion, and then the “fun” starts, when you are forced to try to survive by committing and surviving hideous acts that break and condemn you spiritually, all with the purpose of altering your spiritual evolution so that you become a plaything of Satan.

Tolkien told a story about how Morgoth created the Orcs, by capturing the Elves and deforming them by vicious torture in his dungeons. When I read it, I thought: so that’s where we are, and that’s the purpose of this place. We are in the dungeons of Satan, submitted to vicious torture and humiliation in order to turn us into Orcs.

What I don’t understand is how anyone can look at this world and seriously believe it had been created by a good God. Because there is good in the world? Yes, there is. There’s a good thing on the hook, too, says the fish. The problem is, sometimes it’s the good thing that gets you into trouble, because it’s the real purpose of its presence there. The bait is always a good thing. Discrimination, or viveka, is not so much about knowing what is true and what’s false, or what’s reality and what’s an illusion. It’s about knowing when an apparently good thing is really a bad thing, because, how many fishes would try to eat a hook without a worm on it?

7 thoughts on “Good God, evil world

  1. When I first read Bible I realized that there is something wrong with the notion about good, benevolent God creating universe and then repeatedly killing its inhabitants, like in the Great Flood, S&G and many other instances.

    What do you think about these stories? Did Devil really had some kind of interventions in history and people thought it was a punishment from God?

    • I look at those things differently: people were trying to make some kind of sense out of the entire situation they were in, and so they combined spiritual experiences, intuition and imagination in order to create myths. Those myths are not necessarily all bullshit, and they are certainly not literally true, but they tell you a lot about how people think and how they attempt to justify their actions. When they slaughter people they say God willed it, when they are defeated in battle they said they sinned against God and God delivered them into the arms of their enemies. I know a section in the Old Testament where you can’t really make heads or tails of all the rationalizations and justifications, and I looked for historical context. It turned out that some Jewish king got arrogant because the one true God is on his side and he refused to pay tribute to Babylon, and their army came and enslaved the entire Jewish population. You can’t figure it out from the passage in the Bible because it’s completely messed up, it’s all about proper sacrifices to JHVH and him being angry for Jews worshiping other gods and the military context is all upside down and unclear. So basically, it’s dangerous to get your history from the Bible, because it’s not really about history, it’s mostly about rationalizing history, justifying someone’s actions, making sense of the world, mostly with limited success.

      Let’s say you believe your tribe is God’s chosen people. Let’s say there’s a sudden flood that wipes all but a handful away, they all drown. Let’s say the Babylonians or Romans come and conquer you with overwhelming force, enslave the entire population, crucify all who oppose them, and you perceive God of power being on their side. You either renounce your religion altogether, or, more likely, you make contorted justifications for why you pissed God off so much. We must have offended him somehow. Maybe we didn’t sacrifice properly. Maybe we turned away from him to worship idols. Maybe we gave his true son to the Romans to crucify. But there must be a reason.

      • That’s why I usually say that monotheism introduces much more and worse problems than it appears to solve. In monotheism, you eventually either end up attributing all evil to God, or admit that God is utterly powerless, to the point of non-existence.

        • And then atheists use that for their advantage to point out how “stupid” Christians are, or “sheep” or whatever they call them.

          • Each side seems to be unaware of its own problems but very much aware of the problems of the other side. I refuse to accept the rulebook according to which evidence of transcendence is used to support some middle-eastern cult, and evidence against middle-eastern cults is used as evidence against transcendence. The world simply doesn’t work that way.

            • It is interesting that atheists don’t really attack eastern philosophies. Actually I have never seen some serious attack on Buddhism or maybe Taoism.

              • That’s probably because European atheism is basically a schism within Christianity, and science seems to have become a weapon of trying to disprove God in order to rob the ecclesiastic class of authority and power. They don’t really care about Buddha, they just don’t want the Pope to be in the position to anoint the kings.

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