4. SOCIOLOGY
(THE BASIC OF THE COMIC RELIGION)
4. A, B
A. INCOMPATIBILITY
IS WHEN TWO PEOPLE DISAGREE
BUT IF THEY WERE COMPATIBLE*(1)
THEN ‘ANGER’*(2) THERE IS IMPOSSIBLE
*(1) – COMPATIBILITY DOES NOT MEAN THE SAME LIKES AND DISLIKES, BUT THE SAME ‘SENSE OF VALUES’ WHICH MUST ARISE FROM THOROUGHNESS, CASUALNESS, ON THE OTHER HAND, CANNOT
ACCOMMODATE HUMAN INTELLECT (OR THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF MENTAL ASSOCIATION POSSIBLE AS A RESULT OF EACH RECEPTOR PERCEPTION) TO THE FULL, FOR THE RATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF TRUE VALUES. THE TWO – A THOROUGH AND A CASUAL – CONSTITUTE A HUMAN, SUB-HUMAN’ INCOMPATIBILITY.
*(2) – ANGER USUALLY ARISES FROM A CONFRONTATION OF DOUBTS; AND NOT FROM AN EXPRESSION (EXPOSURE) OF ESTABLISHED WRONGS. SO THE BEST WAY TO AVOID SUCH CONFRONTATION, AS WELL AS SATISFY ONESELF, IS TO CLARIFY THE DOUBTS CRITICALLY– WITHIN ONE’S OWN SELF. THEN, THERE WOULD BE NO NECESSITY FOR CONFRONTATION; AND ONE WILL BE ABLE TO DRIVE AMPLE SATISFACTION (OF AN ESTABLISHED TRUTH) AS WELL!
(ANGER CAN ALSO ARISE FROM IRRITATION, AGITATION, FRUSTRATION, AND HUMILIATION AND, PERHAPS, OTHER CAUSES TOO. BUT IT IS AN ALWAYS A DISTURBING AND UGLY WAY OF SHOWING DISAPPROVAL.
AND SHOULD NEVER BE PERMITTED A FREE REIN.)
- COMPATIBILITY IS THE ABILITY TO FIND COMMON HAPPINESS,*(1)
WITHOUT WHICH THERE CAN’T BE LOVE OR EVEN TRUE FRIENDLINESS
SO IF TOGETHER YOU MUST BE, IN A UNION OR COMMUNITY;
FIX LIFE’S GOAL OR ITS MENTAL LEADS*(2)
THIS WILL BRING IN LINE ALL PHYSICAL NEED.*(3)
*(1) – THIS SIGNIFIES A HAPPINESS WHICH ARISES FROM TRUE HUMAN WELFARE; FIXED AS LIFE’S PURPOSE, AND FOUNDED ON THOROUGHNESS. CASUALS (TOGETHER) MAY FIND MUCH HAPPINESS – OF A BASIC, BANAL VARIETY. FOR A CASUAL AND A THOROUGH, IT IS ‘NEVER THE TWAIN’. (CASUALS RARELY HAVE A LIFE’S PURPOSE; IF THEY DO, IT IS INTELLECTUALLY SCANTY.)
*(2) – YOUR ‘SENSE OF VALUES’ OR ‘PRIORITIES’ DETERMINE YOUR WAY OF LIVING. THESE ARE: 1. HOW TO EARN – MEANS OF LIVING, 2. WHAT TO LEARN – UTILIZATION OF HUMAN INTELLECT AND 3. THE WAY TO RELAX – HEALTH AND HAPPINESS; AND CONSTITUTE THE MENTAL LEADS OF LIFE’S GOAL, OR LIFE’S PURPOSE.
*(3) – PHYSICAL NEEDS ARE A DIRECT MANIFESTATION OF MENTAL LEEDS, THE PHYSICAL NEEDS OF HUMANS VARY LITTLE, AND EVEN THIS CAN BE ADJUSTED EASILY. FOR, ALL SENSE DELIGHTS ARE AS OLD AS THE HUMAN YET AS NEW AS THE MOMENT. BUT THE REAL BINDING FACTOR OF HUMANS ARISES
FROM THE UTILIZATION OF THEIR INTELLECT, AND RESULTING SECURITY; AS EVIDENCED BY RELIGION AND POLITICS: THE ESTABLISHED
THE ESTABLISHED MEANS OF WELFARE. THE HUMAN DESIRE TO INVESTIGATE AND COMPREHEND LIFE, OR THE TRUE NATURE OF THINGS, SHOULD ALWAYS REMAIN DOMINANT. AS IT IS THIS (WHICH MADE HUMANS ‘STAND UP’ TO INQUIRE BETTER) THAT TRULY ELEVATES THEM ABOVE ALL OTHER BODILY BEINGS, AND STABILIZES LIVING. THIS THEN IS THE HIGHER IDEAL OF TRUE LEARNING. IF ONE IS THOROUGHNESS. IT IS POSSIBLE TO LEARN AT ALL TIMES; UT IF CASUAL, LEARNING EVEN AT STUDY BECOMES DIFFICULT. ALSO, GENUINE CONTENTMENT IS A RATIONAL RESTRAINT TO PURSUE TRUE LEARNING … RELUCTANT RESIGNATION DUE TO BELIEF OR JUST INDOLENCE
4C.
PRIDE OR INORDINATE SELF-ESTEEM LOOMS LARGE ABOVE ALL OTHER HUMAN FRAILTIES (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF DECEPTION) AS IT STANDS IN THE WAY OF ASSOCIATING WITH ASSESSING AND ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE FROM THOSE ‘INFERIOR’ TO ONESELF.*(1) (ALSO, ANY KNOWLEDGE ONE ACQUIRES IS OF LITTLE VALUE, IF IT IS INCAPABLE OF ACCOMMODATING OTHERS’ REACTIONS TO IT AS WELL. THE THOUGHT OF FEELING INADEQUATE, OR AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX, CAN PRODUCE A PARALLEL EFFECTS; OF BE DRUDGING AND REJECTING LEARNING MERELY BECAUSE IT HAS COME
………… SOURCE, WHICH ONE BELIEVES, IS PRIVILEGED. (B………….ING ALSO OPENS UP A VISTA OF ENVY
AND HATE). THOSE TWO EXTREMES – OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND INFERIORITY AND INSECURITY –
CONSTITUTE THE WORST FORMS OF DELUSION,*(2) WHICH OFTEN DEPRIVE ONESELF OF ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE – POSSIBLY VITAL. (BETWEEN THESE TWO EXTREME LIES CONFIDENCE OF KNOWING,’THAT WHICH UNDERLIES APPEARANCES’.)
*(1) – ONE CAN BE MENTALLY SUPERIOR ONLY IF ONE HAS A SUPERIOR CHARACTER, WHICH MUST NECESSARILY ARISE FROM A SUPERIOR INTELLECT, ENABLING ONE TO IDENTIFY ONESELF WITH AND COMPREHEND ANY SORT OF EXPER……………TANY TIME. THIS IS EMPATHY. AND, IT ALSO ENABLES A HUMAN TO BE CONTINUALLY ALERT EVEN TO CONVERT OTHERS EXPERIENCES, INCLUDING THE
RESPONSES OF NON- HUMANS, TO ONE’S OWN KNOWLEDGE (AND SO CONFIRM ONE’S OWN EXPERIENCES) FOR TRUE SUPERIORITY. MOREOVER, THIS IS THE ONLY WAY BY WHICH ONE CAN ‘ DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD EXPECT OTHERS TO DO UNTO YOU’ – IF RESERVED. (THIS IS HUMAN JUSTICE AND, IS NOT THE BASIS FOR SUB-HUMAN COMPASSION)
*(2) – SUCH DELUSIONS INVARIABLY LEAD TO INTRACTABLE IGNORANCE AND SELF – DECEPTION: ‘HE
WHO KNOWS NOT THAT HE KNOWS NOT’! FEAR OF FAILURE PREVENTS ONE FROM ATTEMPTING TO LEARN, THEN ‘PRIDES HIMSELF INTO SHOWING THAT – HE ALREADY KNOWS’. THE SAME BEGRUDGING
AND REJECTING THE PRIVILEGED, APPLY TO SUBTLE ‘INADEQUACIES’ TOO. (THE LIFE OF THE LATE PRESIDENT PREMADASA OF SRI LANKA SHOWS, HOW AN OVERPOWERING INFERIORITY COMPLEX CAN LEAD TO AN INORDINATE SELF ESTEEM AND A DELUSION THAT ONE KNOWS BEST, ABOUT THING OF WHICH ONE ACTUALLY KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT. PREMADASA WAS JUST IMBALANCED, NOT MENTALLY DERANGED; AND REQUIRED ONLY COUNSELING OF A PSYCHOANALYST, TO SET RIGHT HIS ‘SENSE OF VALUES’.)
4 .D
EVEN THE SIMPLEST INDULGENCE SHOULD BE RATIONALLY ASSESSED, IF ONE IS TO DERIVE THE VERY BEST FROM IT. THEN, WHAT ONE LIKES AND DISLIKES (RATIONALLY) WOULD CONFORM PERFECTLY TO WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG (NATURALLY); AND COULD NO WAY DISTORT TRUTHS – OF JUSTICE OR REALITY. TRADITION IS THE MAIN OBSTACLE TO SUCH ASSESSMENT AND ADJUSTMENT; AND A SOLACE TO TH DIFFERENT. EVERY ACTION OF ANY BEING IS WITH THE WANT OF
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HAPPINESS; EITHER TO CONSTRUCT DIRECT HAPPINESS, TO OVERCOME UNHAPPINESS. NO AMOUNT OF TRADITION CAN ALTER THIS FACT. TRADITION ALSO CAN NEVER…? ER THE FACT THAT INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR BODIES; BUT BY THE WAY THEY USE THEM…… MEANS THAT YOU ARE DEFINITELY NOT YOUR BODY! THOUGH TRADITION HAS TO MAKE YOU OUT AS YOUR BODY. (AUTHORS OF BOOKS, WHICH ARE NOT EXTREMELY TECHNICAL, CAN COME CLOSE TO BEING AUTHORITIES ON SUBJECTS; MERELY BY RESEARCHING FOR THEM. THIS AMOUNTS TO CONFIRMING FACTS BY REASONING THEM ON ONE’S OWN EXPERIENCES. AND THE MORE ONE INVESTIGATES BY
ASSOCIATE AND ASSESSING, THE MORE WILL ONE BE ACQUIRING ESTABLISHED FACTS THAT ARE NEARER TO TRUTHS. AS A TRUTH IS AND ABSOLUTE, UNCHANGING FACT. IF WE FOLLOW THIS PROCEDURE, IT WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO REASON OUT THEM MOST PERFECT COSMIC RELIGION. AFTER ALL, REASON PERVADES THE ENTIRETY OF EXISTENCE; WITHOUT WHICH THERE COULD BE NO DEDUCE KNOWLEDGE. AND, THERE CAN BE ONE TRUTH ONLY, ABOUT OUR PAST, PRESENT AND
FUTURE; WITH IT EXTENDING TO A COSMIC RELIGION.)