Elders

Our species is unique in that we are all more or less made in the image of a very small group of elders. These elders created the essential human values and lifestyles. Elders might include Plato, Socrates, Christ and Jimi Hendrix. Depending on your nature, you seek out the company of certain Elders.

Each of us has had many ancestors that looked and thought like us. Perhaps they succeeded in life, perhaps they perished. The point is that we are an extension of a prototype. Whatever elder captured the imagination of their times and the imaginations of future generations, we are all part and parcel of them. Whatever elder menaced their people into submission and created prolonged suffering, we are part of them.

Tenets:


We all view reality through the filter of our nature.
I am a balanced person so my world view is about forces in balance.
A romantic person will form a world view full of drama between righteous and
unrighteous. A cynic will form a world view full of pessimism and bitterness.
One does not state a greater truth through their world view, the express their true nature.


Those that know good from bad shall not know right from wrong.
Those that know right from wrong shall not know good from bad.

Any faith or philosphy that cannot keep its promises now, in this life, is likely a sham.
(The religious/faithful are like teen-aged school girls. Whichever faith or philosphy parades itself the most handsomely, promises the most gifts, lavishes personal attention and performs the most amazing stunts, leaves them swooning. )

Spiritual materialism is worse than materialism.
Spiritual gluttony: wanting the greatest god, the greatest reward in the afterlife, the most eternal of eternal salvations, the greatest punishment against those that don't agree with you etc. etc. At least with regular materialism there is an effect for overindulgence. With spiritual materialism there is no harsh penalties to check the overindulgence so the individual(s) becomes a greater and greater annoyance to all around them. Eventually they become brute moralists and idealists bent on imprisoning the minds of the young and the feebleminded.

The thing to fear the most is the State. Once a state is formed, other free peoples must form their own states to protect themselves from the appetites and brute tactics of the new state. Eventually the once free people become brutes themselves. The state promises to save and care for the lives of its citizens through welfare, protection and services, but then sends its citizens off to die in political wars in the tens of thousands, or even millions, it taxes them at criminally high rates and enacts extraorinarily harsh punishments for acting as an individual - and that is in the so-called free societies. Since the state cannot be dismantled or defeated (it can only be influenced), it is most profitable to fear and avoid it. However, complicity with the state is difficult to avoid.