Of course, conflict per se isn't necessarily bad; indeed it frequently promotes "tonus" and can actually help evolutionary process. But institutional craziness and retardedness is potentially good only in the sense that these lose/lose social cancers could challenge Mother Nature to replace them (via natural selection) with more survival-suited ecological dynamics. Knowing profoundly what doesn't work (e.g., probably any institutional religion -- or perhaps even a delusional "belief in God"), frequently catalyzes, however indirectly, what DOES work.
And what's so terrible about being a "child of the Universe" anyway?
Eventually the human race in general has to get it together that ultimate realness is where we already are. This, as they say, is It, but what passes for "religion" traditionally abhors and is abjectly terrified of this truth. For such institutions, the Reality/Universe is merely a "motel" in which they play out their foolish salvation/damnation games. Maybe that's why they always steal the towels and trash the "motel", since their eye on the prize of some "after death" sitcom alternative reality.
Well, this is some motel! I guess dark matter, the accelerating expansion of the universe, Einstein's out of the box relativities, black holes, the Alice in Wonderland quantum soup, and (more here and now) the probable beginning of a magnetic shift of the poles of the Earth which may leave us cosmic radiation defenseless for a few hundred years (no protective magnetic shield!) are just wallpaper for the absurd motels of religion.
Get real.
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W. Christopher Epler
<http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/>
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