bobevenson wrote:Ken, I don't believe you have actually read "The Ouzo Prophecy" or the rest of the Ouzo papers based on your comments. Our institutions are the basis of evil, and the simple bidding game of Ouzo is an allegory to help you understand this. The spokesman for the Spiritual Counterfeits Project understood everything I wrote, and didn't have a single question. Perhaps this is a sign that you do have a long way to go.
If the simple bidding game of ouzo is to help us understand that human beings institutions are the basis of evil, then there is no need for any game to come to that realization. I thought that was pretty obvious already.
Is that all the ouzo prophecy is trying to say?
By the way, "your" institutions are derived from human beings. Institutions are not their own free agent. Human beings dream up, invent, and create institutions. So, the real basis of evil must lay with human beings themselves instead, and not in institutions themselves.
Some people say greed or the love of money is the root or basis of all evil. But what causes adults to be greedy or have the love of money is from being abused in childhood. And what allows children to be continually abused in the first place is denial. Dishonesty is the basis of all evil. Dishonesty causes ALL children to be abused continually.
To Me, anyway, the true basis of evil is adult human beings being dishonest about their abuse of children, their unopenness, closedness, or denial about this fact, and their unwillingness to want to change for the better is HOW ALL the world's ills were created and are being caused.
Adult human beings can try and blame anything other than themselves, including institutions, for the mess or evil in the world, but do not forget who it is that creates institutions and causes those institutions to be the way they are.
There is a common saying used frequently by adults, and it is favorite among government workers, when they being questioned about the way the institution works that they are working for, and thus being
paid from. That saying is "That is just the way the system works", of which I usually frequently think and question, but already know the answer to, and that is,
'Is there really a system that is controlling human beings, of which some human beings actually have absolutely no idea of how that system works, or how "it" is controlling them, or is the real truth human beings create and cause institutions to be the way they are?'
Institutions are created by human beings so that some people will gain and prosper from it, usually in monetary terms, while others must lose and fail from it. Then, when an institution is challenged or questioned about this, the people who are being paid with money to work within it have been instructed to inform the people challenging it to say stupid comments like, "That is just the way the system works". The people who created the money profiteering institutions indoctrinate the followers, the paid workers, in to what to say and how to mis/behave, just like all cult leaders do, and followers do. This cult is just the love of money cult, with a following as big as there are living adult human beings. This following is sometimes justified by some as being a natural human instinct.
The Truth, however, can sometimes be so far different from what is being perceived. How much a brain is blinded by or being deceived of a Truth will depend on how much that brain has been influenced or "brain-washed" throughout its childhood or informative years.
The basis of evil comes from human beings, through their dishonesty. The basis of evil does NOT come from institutions. Unless of course you can show otherwise, to which I will wait. I have already explained that I can not find anything in your links that shows the basis of evil come from within institutions. You will have to provide the proof here, if you can.