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Farzana Hassan is asking if there's an
alternative way to live without all our argumentation and problems on this planet,
without anyone imposing the Truth on us.
I think there is, but I cannot give it to you
on a plate.
Let us examine the fallacy that Farzana is
proposing.
"Do we [then] live in a state of
anarchy," she asks, "where everyone is able to practice his or
her 'truth', however det-rimental it might be to
society as a whole?"
In saying this she's not looking at the state
of the world with all the havoc that has been caused by our God-given wisdom
about good governance and the distilled Truth of centuries of argumentation
and bloodshed. . . .
Farzana maintains that the "truth" of
secularism [and, one might add, democracy], practised
by a handful of so-called civilized nations of the world, "should not
be seen as an imposition."
Why not?
Finally, Farzana says that "In the West,
we have statutory freedom of religion, conscience, speech, etc." and
adds in the same breath that "Secular governance is a 'truth' but one
that affords us* many liberties and opportunities."
(* =
meaning, I suppose, earthlings and aliens and illegal immigrants and
mullahs and all kinds of scarecrows who can be shoo-shooed by an environmentally
friendly size 10 hand-flung missile)
It is necessary to see the thrust of her
argument, which I shall now answer.
First, the least we can do is open our eyes to
see our hard-wired conditioning which results in dual or binary thinking, e.g.,
good, bad; day, night; God, Satan; order, chaos; freedom, anarchy . . . or, as Farzana put it in post #37, "a
state of anarchy," and so on.
We need to acknowledge, very simply, the fact
that we are conditioned human beings, and then wake up to the fact that
mere repetition of our so-called truths is a lie. One hell of a big Lie
with a big L, just as God's honest Truth is Truth with a capital T since we
are all repeating what's been said before without realizing it within our
souls.
Self-realization truly changes our perception
of the universe around us, but first we have to come out of our parrot
mode.
In the very act of looking without judgment we
see what is what, without meaning to colour it one way or another.
Then truth is.
Rashid Mughal
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