Echte Aufklärung trägt den Impetus zum konsequenten Aufklaren

Unter Intellektuellen grassiert das modische Bekenntnis zur Aufklärung, zu der man sich selbstverständlich zugehörig fühlt, wenngleich man sich im schicken Selbstverwirklichungsdrang allen möglichen Glaubensabsonderlichkeiten öffnet und ihnen mehr oder weniger unreflektiert, aber bedeutungsschwer folgt.

Nicht hinterfragte Glaubensfreiheit gleicht Narrenfreiheit!

Aufklärung im eigentlichen Sinne fordert logische Denkarbeit zur Erklärung von Phänomenen, die wegen ihres bis dato nicht verstandenen Aufkommens mit Glaubensansichten und Anschauungsdogmen belegt werden, um den Menschen im Sinne regierender Kartelle gefügig in die Irre zu führen.

Aufklärung steht in logischer Unwiderrufbarkeit gegen jede Religion und Ideologie. Wer als Anhänger jener geistigen Bevormundungen für sich Aufklärung als Glaubensgrund und angebliche , im Glauben begründetet Freiheiten reklamiert, hat von Aufklärung nichts verstanden, ist im aufklärerischen Sinne kaum ein ernstzunehmender Diskussionspartner, trägt aber als Dogmatiker ein nicht zu unterschätzendes Gefahrenpotenzial für alle „Andersdenkenden“.

Auf dieser Linie erklären sich alle Religionskriege, aber auch ganz private Tragödien, die aus Glaubenstiefen jede sachliche Vernunft verhindern.

Humanität, Emanzipation und Freiheit von Gewalt sind aufklärerische Errungenschaften, die irrtümlich mit zum Beispiel christlichen Werten ummäntelt werden, obwohl das Christentum von einer Gewaltorgie in die nächste überleitete, heute freilich subtiler (mit „God bless“), weil auch tatsächlich durch Aufklärung, das heißt, durch wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse aufgeweicht, irritiert und geschwächt.

Der Mitgliederschwund der Kirchen bedeutet kaum vermehrte Relevanz der Aufklärung, ganz im Gegenteil. Die meisten der Kirchenfernen und Ratlosen flüchten sich in abstruse gesellschaftspolitische Modelle und finstere Wunder- und Jenseitsverstiegenheiten unter allzeit esoterischer und paranormaler Anleitung ungezügelter Phantastereien und Scheinbefreiungen, in den Industriestaaten vor allem auch in allgemein ausufernder materieller Gier und Zurschaustellung der eigenen Wichtigkeit, die immer häufiger der blanken Dummheit entspricht.

Vor diesem Hintergrund erscheint Aufklärung fast in Vergessenheit geraten zu sein, wirkt geradezu utopisch.

Und dennoch können sich die maroden Zustände der Gesellschaft nur in einem Konsens zu aufklärerischen gemeinsamen Werten positiv verändern.

Aufklärung beinhaltet die Forderung zum Aufklaren der Verhältnisse, zur Entmystifizierung, zur Realisierung des Humanen mit ausschließlich freiheitlich humanen Mitteln. Das ist die einzigartige, zukunftsträchtige Aufgabe. Sie verdeutlicht sich in ihrer ganzen Schwere in Anbetracht der überkommenen gültigen gesellschaftlichen Normen.

Ein aufgeklärtes Staatswesen lässt sich nur durch eine profane Gesellschaft etablieren, die sich im öffentlichen Raum keine der tausendfach erdachten und sich auch widersprechenden Glaubensschrullen aufzwingen lässt, damit niemand durch den Staat zu irgendeinem Glauben genötigt werde.

Diese Forderung hat Konsequenzen in der tatsächlichen Trennung von Staat und Kirche, von unbehelligter Öffentlichkeit und ureigener Privatheit.

Konkret: Glaubenssymbole in öffentlichen Räumen gibt es nicht, ebenso wenig wie staatliche Konfessionskindergärten, Konfessionsschulen, Konfessionskrankenhäuser, Konfessionsseniorenheime und so weiter, die sich alle als Glaubensvermittler entpuppen, obgleich der Staat hauptsächlich die Kosten trägt.

Es besteht dadurch kein Widerspruch zur privaten Glaubensfreiheit, sondern es unterstreicht, dass Glaubensunterweisungen wie Glaubensausübungen (Religionsunterricht, Gebete, Gottesdienste, etc.) keine staatliche Angelegenheit darstellen und genauso wie religiöse Vereinigungen, Institutionen und sonstige Organisationen keine staatliche Förderung und keine gemeinnützige Anerkennung erhalten.

Nur eine aufgeklärte Gesellschaft kann vermeiden, dass Religionen über politische Parteien weiterhin die Geschicke der Menschheit bestimmen.

Die Gegenwart der Menschheit befindet sich noch immer in absolut religiöser Gefangenschaft, in blutiger Knechtschaft, wie sie jeder neue Kriegskonflikt drastischer auf die dekadenten Flimmerbildschirme projiziert.

Das Kosmonomische Manifest beschreibt den zaghaften Entwurf einer global anzustrebenden humanen Gesellschaftsordnung.

Dafür lohnt es sich, Herz, Hand und Verstand zu erheben! 
In klarer, gewaltfreier, pazifistischer und menschenwürdiger Selbstbestimmung.

Bundeswehr-Showroom

Wir Dienen Deutschland, „Dienen“ groß geschrieben, sprachlich so daneben wie „Showroom“; offenbar fehlt es deutschen Militärs sogar an fundamentalem Deutsch.

Vielleicht möchte man in dem Etablissement Bundeswehr-Showroom im Herzen Berlins tatsächlich Krieg mit einem Hauch von Show an die junge Generation herantragen.

Zur PR-Eröffnungs-Show der Kriegsministerin an der gedankenlosen Stätte wurden Schülerinnen einer Berliner Schulklasse extra herbeigefahren.

Das erinnert fatal an den Unrechtsstaat, der noch vor nicht so langer Zeit an eben diesem Ort „Friedrichstraße“ die Menschen in unwürdigster Manier bei Ein- und Ausreisen drangsalierte, sie überall willkürlich hin- und herschob.

Den Medienvertretern zum Rekrutierungs-Happening erging es nicht viel freiheitlicher, denn ein Bombenhund der Feldjäger musste vor dem ministeriellen Auftritt erst die PR-Ausrüstungen „abspüren“.

Wie albern und dämlich!

Angesichts von Gegendemonstranten sagt Ursula von der Leyen (CDU): „Es ist wichtig, dass wir die Auseinandersetzung suchen.“

Wie wahr:

Setzen wir uns mit dem Krieg wirklich auseinander, auf den unendlichen Friedhöfen jeglicher Zivilisation, in den aktuellen Trümmerwüsten Syriens, im Irak, im Gaza-Streifen und an so vielen, auch verschwiegenen, Abgründen des gewaltigen Elends, und vergegenwärtigen wir uns endlich, dass kein einziger Krieg je Frieden brachte, lediglich vorübergehende Ruhe durch Siegerdiktat und/oder durch Erschöpfung, durch Massenmord am Humanen!

Welche „Auseinandersetzung“ sucht die deutsche Regierung eigentlich?

Nach dem ministeriellen Statement waren den zahlreichen Journalisten zwei Zusatzfragen gestattet.

Befehl ist Befehl! 

Quelle: Berichterstattung des ZDF, Mathis Feldhoff, 20.11.2014

Sequenzen von Skepsis (190)

Aphorismen zum Nachdenken und Zitieren:

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Wenn sich in den Hochhausschluchten,

wo sich Fenster nur noch auf dem Touchscreen öffnen,

in den Wohnsilos der Trabantenstädte

und in den Wellblech-Ghettos der Slums

der weite Horizont zum Punkt zusammenzieht,

dann markiert sich der kapitalistische Standpunkt:

Wachstum!

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Ein Tor, wer den Fußball mit Ethik aufbläst und ins Netz seltsamer Verflechtungen köpft.

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Nie landeten Menschen auf dem Mond, sondern geblendete Befehlsempfänger, die nach der Rückkehr seltsame Bahnen verfolgten, weil niemand mehr sie steuerte.

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Der Gipfel klimatischer Dummheit speit immer wieder glühende Glaubensbrocken des Hohns auf die Wissenschaft.

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Eine Ethik, die Krieg zulässt, hat sich verwirkt, hält dem Unrecht perfide die Steigbügel.

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Wer den Glauben an die Menschheit verliert, erklärt seinen eigenen einsamen Tod. Ich setze nicht auf die Masse, aber auf Individuen, die zumindest zeitweise die menschliche Intelligenz beweisen.

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Der Mensch hat keine Bestimmung, er maßt sich jedoch vieles an.

2391

An Geister glaubt die Geistlosigkeit.

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Im zu oft gerechtfertigten Misstrauen gegen Mitmenschen unterlässt der Mensch wirksame "Hungerhilfe", rechtfertigt er Kriege, verwüstet Landschaften und verweigert humane Sterbehilfe. Der Grund des Misstrauens ruht in Glaubensweisheiten, in jenem Paradoxon: Denn das Glauben beweist nichts, es weiß nichts.

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Im tabubeladenen Schweigen erstirbt erst das Belanglose, bald darauf das Nennenswerte.

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Die Freiheit der Gewalt tobt sich aus in dekadenter Krimisucht. Der tägliche Schuss verraucht immer schneller und öfter, den letzten haben viele schon nicht mehr gehört.

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Die Masse ist tierisch beschränkt, das heißt, ich stehe ihr mit genau den Gefühlen gegenüber, wie ich sie für die Natur allgemein empfinde, also ambivalent. 


Copyright: Raymond Walden,  www.raymond-walden.blogspot.de

Freedom Defines Humanity

Man’s picture of himself and of the others is of shadowy appearance only. There are concepts of all styles and techniques, even complete paintings which are representing, at best, a respectively regional search but in no way the human in freedom.

Undoubtedly the human being – and not the subject – will find to himself only, if he lives in liberal circumstances.

The meaning of freedom may depend on superficial feelings but is categorically a question of intelligence and education, both to be understood as antipodes of egoism and self-assertion. At this level of self-consciousness only debates on freedom make sense.

Man is bound to historical facts, to conditions and inherent necessities which are excluding an absolute freedom in a manner that offers a “freedom of voting” between different options on precondition that the search for options is intelligent and responsible. This, then, is about developing individual choices and not imaginations of freedom, for example, under religious influence that is – similar to systems of totalitarianism – talking into believing in freedom by brainwash and enforcing it even violently.

Humane cosmonomic freedom requires higher quality than the current democratic implementations which, although pleasingly libertarian in comparison with the omnipresent systems of compulsion and the indoctrinated societies, do not withstand a sound analysis because they are hollowed by double moral standards and are cheated by interests of power and capital.

The contexts of such intrigues are becoming clear only by adequate background knowledge, by having wide and alert interests which are the bases of critical faculties and contributing capabilities.

Exactly those criteria are still concealed by the usual democracies at the beginning of the 21^st century by an unequaled misleading of the masses.

To sum up: Human freedom in such circumstances is impossible.

All the celebrations of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” as victory of humane values got wild and are used as fuel for globally uncounted and even secret wars. Warmongers and war profiteers are determining unalteredly the fate of the globe by improving equipment.

Wherever this happens in the name of liberal self-adulation the methods are even more perfidious for the individual fate that doesn’t count.

However, presidents, chancellors, monarchs and popes may appear embarrassing but they play the keyboards of stupidity in a virtuous manner: Desperados of Egomania. Dictators, at least, roar out their hate of human freedom truly and unambiguously.

Freedom, in particular, is a brainpower creating nonviolence, freedom from military pressure, is preventing wars and stabilizing pacifism.

But pacifism doesn’t mean indecision on destructiveness, quite the contrary: Lived pacifism is fighting with logic, perspective and consequence against its opponents. For example, pacifism doesn’t practice apparently peaceful money-deals with unfree regimes, doesn’t exercise any diplomatic low trade, avoids weapon-deals and, inter alia, is creating distance to the less peaceful capitalism and to not peaceable religions.

Building up freedom and stabilizing it by force of arms is drawing a fatal phantom because weapons actually mean captivity of mankind characterizing the evolutionary interim phase which is marked essentially by stupidity, a typical state of mind that could be stopped long since by humane reasons were it not for mightiest powers against.

Most people objectively live in miserable living conditions as the world population is growing and a few privileged people only store their profits. This is applicable to several groups as well as to the United Nations. As long as the industrial and progressive societies which are systematically made dump deliberately conceal that status freedom will be an option just for dreamers to escape. The mob is resistant to peace and is kept specially powerless proven even by activism and idiotic diligence.

In Germany, for example, they drove methodologically the education system “on the wall”, they bungled the healthcare system, formed the media landscape into a sump of mockery of intelligence, they lost orientation in financial spheres, they juggle with dressed-up unemployment figure, they are even fighting war which is circumscribed in belittling manner, they propagate maniac environment scenarios that even the weather report is characterizing the whole situation: “Potential of thunderstorm or, simply, climate without competence!”

The only system apparently functioning without complication is spying and observing the citizens.

How is this possible in one of the most liberal states at all on earth?

Firstly, Germany is queuing up in the obviously international decadence of capitalism, secondly, the former “land of poets and thinkers” holds a special status as a direct result of the unconditioned capitulation of the Nazi dictatorship.

As is well known, Germany was divided into two states because of the controversies among the allied victors and to this very day there is no peace treaty. The West, at that time, hurried up and founded the “provisional” Federal Republic of Germany and the East answered with the “for ever” established GDR. It is historical irony that the “provisional” solution from the beginning played the better cards, and, after all, the communist state surrendered and was integrated into the “provisional” on basis of the Two plus Four Treaty.

This particular contract does not substitute a peace treaty and doesn’t guarantee the German sovereignty whereas the Anglo-American troops didn’t retreat from their occupation zones.

Furthermore the reunited Germany has no constitution because the valid Grundgesetz (Basic Law) is exemplarily and conditionally liberal but there is no legitimization by the people. The former parliamentary council (Parlamentarischer Rat), as creator of the Basic Law, was installed on command from the Western Allies and consisted of 65 identities (plus 5 not voting members of Berlin) and not of elected representatives of the people. (The federal parliaments were allowed to agree to the act.)

The Basic Law is conditionally liberal only because it includes Article 79 (3) which states that the division of the state into different states (Bundesländer) never ever can be changed. In addition, the Basic Law is demanding the establishment of a constitution as soon as Germany is reunited. Up to now there are no indications that the task will be fulfilled.

At the latest, since 1945 Germany is not a sovereign and free state even though it is comparably influential as economic power. This seeming potential follows from a strict dependence from the USA which grant to Germany the roll of a vassal.

Let’s return to the beginning of our thoughts: “Freedom is voting”.

The German citizens, like the most worldwide, have no options of free elected alternatives but are just allowed to vote on nuances within the failing capitalist society draft.

Most of the people don’t take any notice, they are not to realize. Whatever the global US-subjects are voting for, Obama and his actual wire-pullers will not be effected in their strategies of world determination.

For long terms such stultified meaning of freedom is converting the being of men globally into a dump twilight which, at any time, may violently escalate without any improvements of earlier epochs, and which is swearing solemnly mankind to live as underdogs for the arbitrary sacrifice on the battlefield.

Conclusion: Freedom exists within tactically ordered limits which hardly allow the founding dimension of human life.

It is firstly evident that cosmonomic philosophy today must be sensed mostly as futuristic and even as an ivory tower.

Nevertheless, the Cosmonomic Manifesto is indicating a clarification on the horizon, a mark of hope even for present times of usual crap, of anxious uncertainty, and of more and more unnaturally appearing loss of orientation.

(Überarbeitet 2021)

German version

Kosmonome Philosophie für geistig Erwachsene

Letztendliche Ohnmacht ist des Menschen Schicksal,

es zu verdrängen, erleichtert nicht,

Angst ist zwecklos,

Auflehnung manchmal bedingt befreiend.

Gleichmut und Gelassenheit mögen helfen

bis zum Finale, wann immer,

wenn sich als Konsequenz absoluter Freiheit

alles in nichts auflöst.

Niemand war zuvor und wird hernach sein.

Das Universum dreht sich weder um mich

noch um die Menschheit – einst auch nicht existent.

Also kein „nach dem Tod“,

weil auch kein „vor dem Leben“:

Kosmonome Philosophie für geistig Erwachsene.

Sinn und Zweck sind hier und jetzt im Leben selbst,

seine Kultivierung, Etablierung von Frieden,

Gestaltung der Freiheitlichkeit
und Verifizierung der Würde des Menschen.

"Putin", Du bist doch Mensch

Putin ist kein Demokrat

schon gar kein lupenreiner,

Schröders Lupe hat Linsenfehler,

Obama agiert ungeniert als Drohnenmörder,

Merkel, sein Vasall,

entsprechend politisch schwergewichtig

im zielgerichteten Übersehen von Menschenrechtsverletzungen

zugunsten von Geschäften,

in der Kreation von Feindbildern,

wissenschaftlich so überzeugend wie der Klima-Rat,

unrettbar verirrt, eben wissenschaftsfern,

Cameron, Halb-Europäer, amerikanischer Wurmfortsatz in Tradition,

Hollande, ein gehemmter Pariser.

Und der Papst spricht „heilig“ oder „selig“.

Und dann gibt’s da noch die jüdisch Klagenden an der Mauer,

die um die Kaaba rundenden Muslime (oder Islamisten?),

die indischen Witwenverbrenner,

die chinesischen Hinrichter der Demokratie,

die lateinamerikanischen Kifferkartelle

und nicht zuletzt die vergessenen, geknechteten afrikanischen Menschen.

Pardon,

nicht alle Menschenverachter aus Überzeugung,

in Selbstgefälligkeit oder Unfähigkeit sind genannt.

Die Wunderheiler, wilden Esoteriker, Angsterzeuger und Gutmenschen

lassen sich nicht so leicht namhaft machen.

Aber mal ehrlich, „Putin“,

Du bist doch Mensch. 
Wir sollten miteinander reden.

Sequenzen von Skepsis (189)

Aphorismen zum Nachdenken und Zitieren:

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Unwissen und Wertevermessenheit richten zu Tode.

2373

Intensives und engagiertes Arbeiten stiftet Lebenssinn und Daseinsfreude erst durch adäquate Pausen.

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Ausgekochte Gerüchte spielen sich trotz einer freiheitlichen Rechtsprechung zum vernichtenden Richter auf.

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Das Militär soll attraktiv sein,

für die Besten der Gesellschaft,

also wird familienfreundlich aufgerüstet,

personell aufgestockt,

waffentechnisch investiert,

um mitzumischen

beim traditionellen Hauen und Stechen

um Werte,

die man in strategischen Gefangenschaften

regelmäßig verrät, kühl und kühn,

im Kabinett.

Auf Schlachtfeldern wird geschlachtet.

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Handel und Wandel sind käuflich und nicht etwa geschenkt.

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Das Weltbild der meisten Menschen hat Kindergartenniveau.

2378

In einer unvermutet gehemmten, spießigen Gesellschaft fördert die Emanzipation der Geschlechter eine für unmöglich gehaltene prüde Sexualfeindlichkeit zu Tage.

2379

Die Wahrheit ist die Endlichkeit jedes Menschen. Auf dieser Basis wird Wahrheit den meisten zur unerträglichen Angst, und der allgemeine Kampf ist eröffnet als Vertuschung, Unterdrückung, Verdrehung, Täuschung und brachiale Lüge.

2380

Die schädliche Funktion des Rauchens übernimmt jetzt exemplarisch die Angst vor dem Rauchen, die Angst, dass alles ungenießbar sei, sogar das Klima, eigentlich die Angst vor dem giftigen, vergifteten Menschen.

2381

Klimawahn und Gotteswahn treffen einander, werden propagiert und gepredigt, um die Menschen ein- und auszunehmen.

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Wissenschaft ist weder göttlich noch teuflisch, obwohl gewöhnlich schlicht unterrichtete Kreise so tun.

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Das aktuelle Gezerre im Deutschland des Jahres 2014 um eine wegelagernde Straßenmaut verdeutlicht exemplarisch die primitive Zerrissenheit des Interimsmenschen. 


Copyright:  Raymond Walden,  www.raymond-walden.blogspot.de

Carpe Diem

Prayers are based on emotions, not on stupidity or on intelligence, because they are formulated by virtue of learning that is practically started by baptism and that paralyses any critical components of even the most intelligent brain and this is why, more or less randomly, only a few people escape from the illusions of prayers.

Imagine an indoctrinated “God”, “Jahwe”, “Allah” etc. whose “ears” permanently receive billions(!) of prayers: Israelites beg for the good of their country, the Palestinians as well, the fan of Celtic Glasgow pleads for the victory like simultaneously the friend of Glasgow Rangers, German Christians in majority prayed for Hitler, the people of other nations each for their government and soldiers. They all went into the heaviest human inferno, blessed by God. And the march is going on.

This would be the “Lord”, if he was there!

The imaginary unshaped character, being omniscient, would have planned the world down to the last detail and would have created it, thus would be responsible for Good and Evil to the human whom he is torturing until death, believers think, even longer perhaps as reward also. If a person dies from a consequently ongoing suffering of cancer accordingly to the universal plan, God’s children indeed will imagine that the higher “ruler of the world” may have just made a mistake and, by stammering prayers, would correct his decision for the benefit of the sick one. God, in doing so, should have “known” anyway before the prayers for the dying person.

Even a senile pope in his last hours is accompanied by millions of prayers. What for? Should he never end, stay on earth eternally? Or is he suspected to be such a sinner that orgies of prayers should prevent him from hell which God, if need be, will have ignited for him as well, though the “Vicar of Christ” even practiced the ritual of exorcism in his life time. (Earlier “Holy Fathers” performed entirely different orgies.)

The procedure of the whole Catholic worship is reminding intensively on scenes of sports events when, before starting the game, the teams are gathering for cheering up themselves. Nothing other are the often repeated prayers and references to God during the Holy Mass. Is the “creator” deaf or forgettable that you have to praise him again and again, that you have to confess your faith and to replicate the same beggings ad nauseam, that you even have to thank for being allowed to belief in “Him”, that you are elected?

The operation is clear, the fellow Christians are to be tied up with religion by the repetitions like a prayer wheel because, if the inevitable death happens, no God will help. The died person is dead and the believers are so shocked, in the situation of abandonment they actually should be pleased with the luckiness of the deceased. But despite of all the litanies the faith isn’t going that far. Nature itself obviously is preserving a rest of scepticism for the deceived brain, a scepticism that is boiling up in the focus of human finitude of life and is having an effect the more dramatically the less the mind has been used to take part before in enlightened thinkings.

Suffering legitimates every search for relief.

However, prayers are reinforcing the sufferings by distance from reality and the regularly following disappointments which, in turn, should be coped by prayers.

Concerning the limited effect of placebos in the individual case the prayer is just witnessing the spiritual childishness of man because the growing-up is prevented by illogicality which is camouflaged as “mystery of faith” and is instilled ideologically.

If enlightenment which, of course, is in existence will not awake finally, there might germinate the last “Amen” as the world population rises. The lunacy would just interrupt a path of evolution, by the way, very typically.

Therefore optimism is advised to further generations also because it is worthwhile to meet the religions on the level of intellect, namely on all human spheres.

There is a saying, rather superficial but very true:

“No risk, no fun.”

Life offers plenty of beauty that should encourage the naturalistic and religion-free thinker to take bravely his risk which is, at nearer glance, no recklessness or even daredevilry because it characterises nothing else but the ancient “Carpe diem!” 

Twenty-four hours of brightness and night, just for understanding, for ethical appreciation and enjoying.  

German version

The Pitfalls Of The Interim Human

Pitfalls traverse mazily and manifoldly the being of the interim human, they disturb it on various levels in also different intensities which, in the end, are responsible for the respective moods. Even the pronounced individualist is depending on such sentiments which he, in contrary to the mass human, can derive approximately and explain, if he is of sufficient intelligence and critical curiosity.

As social beings we are bound necessarily to the community which itself is needing really a form of government. This problem is as old as mankind and represents a stage of development the higher the farther the ruling structures are contrasting against the right of the strong and are turning to co-determination.

Today we rightly claim democracy to be the best possible form of state!

But behind this elegant and noble statement a fatal hypocrisy is hiding for present mankind because those societies which are calling themselves “democracy” are in fact just presteps, interim solutions with immanent cartels and string-pullers, with rigorous assupmtion of power in the interests of single persons and dogmas of faith. Those systems keep upright by massively influencing the public opinion, by definite lying, by targeted concealment, by lack of education in general, even by intentions of keeping the population stupid which, of course, is denied emphatically by “education experts” within such structures because they may not even notice it (or they aren’t allowed to recognize).

The less humans are understanding the more easily can they be made unsure, they can be directed, as one can observe by thematic undulations: waldsterben, mad cow disease, bird and swine flue, tick bites, climate, allergies, diets and so on are marking only some of the regularly recurring epidemics of mental sensitivities which, due to the severity, generate almost pseudo-religious convictions to be propagated as unimpeachable by even militant manners. The medially best proven concepts are the only criteria deserving this term whereas, apart from this, the deplored lack of clear planning is significant with broad sections of policy.

The pitfalls of the interim human are tightened within superordinated systems but “epilepsy” is also reflected in everyday issues. It’s going back and forth in endless serious debates: Value-Added Tax down but then up, public finances to be put in order but then gigantic debths, less bureaucracy then tremendous administrative regulation, decisive denying any competences of political opponents afterwards coalition with exactly the same persons. And as an almost compulsive must the incantation of peace to ensure it by armament, weapon deals and wars!

The stupefied people is occupied with getting bargains around the clock, with taking advantage of them and is cheated either. Or is anybody telling the customer honestly what one-hundred percent really is before the price reduction? Or are the shopaholics even interested in knowing which people are exploited for the production of the cheap goods?

On the contrary, the actually fleeced ones are adoring the Rich and the Beautiful, I frame it crassly, they have a tongue hanging out for their ill omissions and comments.

The interim human is both victim and offender, the offence can be described regularly as undue advantage, as an egoism that is practising unrestricted ruthless outside of any fair competition and rivalry. The methods also are following the same principles:

1        Complication of intrinsically easy procedures

2        Targeted and cunning misleading

3        Protection by cooperation with cliques combined with

4        Inability to think in terms of complex effects

5        Inhumane indifference and at the same time

6        Readiness to use violence

My following remarks should not be understood as denigration and looking at the black side but as stocktaking of an at any time extendable kaleidoscope of negative habits and behaviours of the interim human.

Are you, dear reader, readily able to “read” and understand your electricity or gas bill? What about your insurance policy or even your tax declaration and the following tax assessment? Your payships of income, deductions, bonuses – everything internalised? Your bankings – firmly in grasp? Or are you sure that almost every small print should actually appear in bold print?

These are only some complications of impertinent attempts to take advantage of you. For what else such wild outgrowths?

Do you still believe in tax equity as multinationals often don’t pay any taxes?

What are you to think of a confusing healthcare reform that is causing higher expenses – to the pleasure of pharmaceutical companies but to the disadvantage of the patients and even some doctors? Whereas truckers reasonably have to take pauses hospital doctors have to work 24 hours and more. Not to mention the other clinical staff that is exploited by low wages and, not least, by the resulting shortage of manpower. Can you seriously endorse a two-class-medicine (statutory health insurance verses private patients) that is expressing equal rights for all people but doesn’t put them into practice? How dump does the advertising of medical products take the citizens by repeating everytime at the end of the spot the same monotonous sentence: “For information on risks and side-effects please read the pack insert and ask your doctor or pharmacist.” Can you trust at all the “pharmacist”, if you remember his arsenal of esoteric remedies and all the quacks?

Is it necessary, from a legal point of view, to drum the much-quoted phrase?

How stupid, the responsible persons think, is the consumer and patient?

Obviously the contempt of man is playing a roll. The same applies to broad sectors of advertising because of its blatant penetrance and swindel, but this would be an issue on its own merrits.

We permanently witness the enforced conformity of the public by TV programmes. Instead of presenting ambitious contributions you can watch on various channels simultane cooking performances, then animals in zoos, after that magazines of amazing similarity, finally talkshows on all frequencies.  

Why is nobody protesting and taking the responsible ones to the task? – The people behind are puppet masters as they are dominating our complete media system by operating overpowering groups. Of course, this is nothing special, we are facing the same problems everywhere on the economic scene.

Can we really accept, for example, the “free competition” at the gas-stations? Or the “alternative offers” of big energy suppliers? The more concentrated the market dominance the more uninhibitedly appears the publicly approved or, at least, tolerated bullshit.

The often criticized German Railways hardly attract attention in this scenery. Apart from “technical” problems en masse their own employees don’t understand the jungle of travelling expenses, traffic network connections are cut. Punctuality is a word of yesterday, but they set their sights on the stock exchange, on the place of maximising their profits without effort!

At the stage of such self-assertion it happens that the complete workforce of the company is spied out from the fair motive of fighting corruption. This practice is used in all sorts of firms and nothing really effective happens against it. Apparently the interim human has ever had a spying tendency, if you think of the executive persons (executors) behind each espionage, from whatever society they originate: NAZI regimes, communist or capitalist communities. Those noble characters in any required numbers aren’t affected in any way by the situations of their victims, those are the useful columns of bastards which every injustice can rely on.

However, comparatively few common citizens only grasp the situation as the majority is occupied with their performances as communicating culture – the mobile phone is so important at any place, at any time and even more serious is the endless babbling.

A welcomed occasion for spies of secretly monitoring and localisation. Position finding and registration is also familiar on highways, on railway stations, in supermarkets and actually everywhere. How sleepy must be a mass that is bearing such harassments without resistance in a free democracy? One may suppose that the harassments aren’t experienced at all, at best people have some vague notion only.

Nevertheless, a definitive loss of democracy is announced thereby. We are on a disastrous way.

Dear reader, I suspect you have had enough. As so much convulsion is difficult to bear. You are right!

Although these were only some German examples we save us the glance at modalities in other countries because there, too,  mainly the interim human is settling.

But some important aspects have to be mentioned.

The responsible citizen doesn’t come into being or he is degenerating to a picture of misery within an ever since “God blessed” capitalism. A capitalism that is praising to the globe unscrupulously the US American presidential elections as an exemplarily democratic procedure, just there where the responsible citizen is prevented by money, where even the last remaining sharp mind surrenders – drone by the media, blinded or mobbed – and pleases himself about the grandiose beauty and immense vastness of the country in order to ignore the problems.

God may bless America and her vasalls, to the world the USA and her system mean a catastrophy – all the more physically because the “One-Nation-Under-God” lives in a great manner by exploiting the rest of the world. Regarding mental developments we are facing an unworthy infantilism to a “God”, if he was reality, he would undoubtedly be sentenced to death by the common American justice. 

But this is not going to be an unilateral scolding against the USA, naturally she is shaping many processes as the leading economic and military power, but other states surely don’t embody anything better. The Chinese system of society as well as the Indian or Japanese ones are by far much more underdeveloped and unenlightened and there is hardly to announce a success in consequent peaceableness, in respecting the human rights and true humanity in Russia and Europe with its small-state mentality. And no better conditions can be found in the Arabic sphere or on the Latin-American subcontinent.

There is no compatibility of the interim relations with cosmonomic standards but there will be no changes during our epoch which is ruled by excessive egoism that initially corresponds with evolutionary development criteria: The dominant will of self-assertion is prevailing but only to a degree of overpopulation with egoists who already now  are destructing more and more the foundations of themselves and of future life.

Cosmonomic philosophy is not compatible with actual conceptions of statehood, not with all practiced politics and confessions of faith because the interim systems surpress violently every in-depth knowledge and clarification, they don’t tolerate them.

We are missing a truly democratic culture of debate, so no official call for alternations or even system changes is recommended – for the sake of non-violence.

Non-violence stands for the cosmonomic minimum consensus of the humane. If cosmonomy is not willing to betray itself, it will just practice self-contemplation for the time being, it will watch out for perhaps like-minded people, it will keep away from common political dealings and intrigues to live an own conscious life.

Three main goals are fundamental:

Respect of human dignity,

assumption of self-responsibility and

wise management of fauna, flora and environment.

The base of such a human attitude is education which is lifelong learning, keen interest and carefully considered engagement for the enlightened picture of a post-interim-mankind.

Depending on personal circumstances one may create happiness-in-life although in most of the present social systems a cosmonomic lifestyle seems to be rather impossible. 

Very much suffering will occur in future.

German version

Weisheit

Weisheit erweist sich als Rarität,

die aus Erfahrungen aufstrebt,

gesammelt an zahllosen Gabelungen des Lebenswegs

hin zu einem ruhigen, einsamen Pfad,

der sich mit reifendem Alter in einen schmalen Grat verjüngt,

auf dem ein grandioser Ausblick sich öffnet,

eine Umschau über das schwerwiegende,

gewaltige Faltengebirge menschlichen Daseins.

Atemberaubend die Weite des Horizonts,

unendliches Sehnen des Lebens in seiner endlichen Suche.

Letzte, endgültige Antworten gibt es nicht,

trotz des Schalls und Rauchs in den Tälern, Schluchten und Gruften,

trotz der Turmbauten und Feuerwerke verletzender Eitelkeiten 
in eingefleischter Dummheit.

Der Philosophen-Baum

Der Philosoph pflanzt in der Wildbahn einen Baum,

und während erste Knospen und bald Blüten treiben,

will sich ein Esel daran reiben.

Köter kläffen, heben ihre Beine,

ein Kamel hält sie für Schweine.

Talkschnepfen geben dem Thema Raum,

Zeitungsenten wissen zu berichten,

Quoten steigen, der Papst sogar nimmt Stellung,

die Kanzlerin will’s richten,

der Regierungssprecher preist moralische Erhellung,

dass man das Klima retten solle

und niemand Schafen an die Wolle wolle.

Es geht um Ideologie und willkürliche Werte,

wie sie Unverstand seit jeher lehrte.

Übrigens,

den Philosophen-Baum hat man vergessen, 
ist beiläufig teurem Unsinn aufgesessen.

Consciousness Is Creating The World

Consciousness comes into existence by biological life, it can be proved in gradings with animals and it characterizes the human being very unambiguously depending on age and intelligence. Human life is consciousness.

Man is reflecting his being, is regarding himself – and this is the only point – in relation to his fellow citizens, to the nearer and farther surroundings, lifeless or animate.

Everything that man is undertaking for the sake of “positioning” himself into the common frame is describing culture in the widest sense, even the deliberate falling out of the frame.

Culture exists as historical ideas, as present wishes, as hopes for the future, in each case by concrete small and great works.

What then is it that is creating the world?

Consciousness only!

Imagine, at a single blow there wouldn’t be any single man on earth, hence not any consciousness.

What would be the “value” of the universe of dead material? – Not even Nil because the Nothing, too, exists in awareness only.

For instance, if you are walking along the deserted strands and wooden shacks of Rimini at the end of season, or if you come too early to the Cote d’Azur at spring time – with also boarded up facades, it will become clear: People are the creators of these worlds of flair, of life at all.

They procreate Gods and Devils.

And these apparently are there because consciousness is only billowing as there is  but far no guarantee of “knowing”.

It is grotesque and the fact remains: Consciousness is creating the world even without knowing  or with significant gaps in knowledge.

Or: Without human beings in their complexity there is no world.

But at what level is human consciousness ranking?

It is similar to the animal development, namely limited and unfinished.

Dogs, for example, can be pleased, can be depressed, loving, purposeful and loyal as well as neglected or dreadfully aggressive. Maybe they are accepting their “masters” as their “Gods” and do not suspect with which needy being they familiarise themselves.

The insanity of the world, as lamented again and again, is the work of man as a result of an indeed developable but still very insufficient consciousness.

In other words:

Consciousness is urgently demanding education – like the world. 
The world is shapeable for the benefit of mankind only in accordance to its natural laws and not by pretenses.  


German version

Sequenzen von Skepsis (188)

Aphorismen zum Nachdenken und Zitieren:

2359

Klares Denken und Religion schließen einander aus wie Demokratie und Kapitalismus. Mit anderen Worten, Frieden wird es sehr lange nicht geben, sehr lange ... und Krieg ist keine Kultur.

2360

Zu denken ist an das Individuum gebunden und an seine Einsamkeit. Es gibt kein Denken im Chor.

2361

Wer dem Mond den Hof macht, tritt die Erde mit Füßen und die Menschheit vor den Kopf.

2362

Bezüglich Menschenfreund: Der einzelne Mensch kann uns Hoffnung geben, uns Respekt abverlangen, unser Freund sein, uns zu Verehrung und Liebe begeistern; sobald er sich jedoch ideologisch und dogmatisch orientiert, sich programmieren lässt, muss unsere Skepsis erwachen, die sich viel zu oft bestätigt.

2363

Entgegen aller Tagträumereien bleibt es dabei: Wer Diktaturen wirtschaftlich stärkt, ist kein Demokrat und versteht Frieden lediglich als verhandelbare Opportunität gegenüber der menschenverachtenden Unterdrückung. Zeigt der Diktator irgendwann sein längst bekanntes Gesicht, herrschen „Heulen und Zähneknirschen“ ob der vertrauensvollen Ahnungslosigkeit.

2364

Seine freie Zeit gehöre ihm, versichert mancher mit Überzeugung und verschenkt sie im selben Augenblick an das Glauben.

2365

„Brot und Spiele“ zum Stillhalten der Menschen; Verunsicherung, Verängstigung und Unaufrichtigkeit, um sie zu regieren.

2366

Kleinmut, Langeweile und Verzagtheit führen in die Apotheke, in die Unverblümtheit pharmazeutischer Profitgesundung, in die Ärztemangel mit tödlicher Ausbügelung aller Leiden – auch unter Zuzahlung.

2367

Wäre euch das menschliche Blut wirklich heilig, käme es nie zu einem Blutvergießen, wie ihr es pflegt, wie ihr vergossenes Blut sogar verherrlicht und anbetet.

2368

Grün, Nato-Oliv ... Braun.

Die Verfärbung der irrig leeren Farbenlehre war aufgrund der Ganzheitsansprüche von Anfang an immanent.

2369

Ein Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten wäre eines Gottes Staat, also imaginär und unmenschlich.

2370

Gerne denke ich im Liegen, umspanne entspannt das weite Universum und bestaune meine Winzigkeit. Sie lässt mich unter den großkotzigen Welterklärungsphantastereien hinwegtauchen und schärft meine Wahrnehmung ins Feinste, in empfindsames Wissen gegenüber dumpfen Dogmen und Glaubensverwerfungen.

2371

Wo Windgeneratoren die Schlagschatten takten, synchronisieren sie die pseudoreligiösen Anwandlungen, mit windigem Geld, sage und schreibe, das Klima zu retten, mit aufgeblasenem Profit- und Politaktionismus zum Platzen. 

Copyright: Raymond Walden,   www.raymond-walden.blogspot.de

Pacifist Awakening

As a convinced pacifist I have been criticized several times, I could afford such a conviction only because others would pay the price for me in the case of emergency. Actually I was a slacker who could take the view of nonviolence only until he would become the victim of violence. A victim, because he wouldn’t be prepared in any way against a violent attack, he wouldn’t be able to defend himself, perhaps, in a tragic manner, wouldn’t be willing to.

Admittedly, the logic of such a rebuke is obvious within the conventional thought patterns but is not relevant for clear thinking.

History of peoples and nations so far, the history of mankind is an endless orgy of violence, of mutual humiliation and destruction. No social order and no state  have ever succeeded in stopping this circulus vitiosus that is escalating further by technical progress.

On the contrary, greed, ridiculous notions of honour, revengeful stupidities and unrestrained desire for power describe the motivations for all the cruel and contemptuous scenarios of extermination. The combat-ready contemporaries of all epochs are just canon fodder, not one bit more, their commanders serve as poor fools of the glorification of violence.

All combats are acting as losers as they kill the humane.

So, whatever can pacifists loose?

Nothing!

It is a question what they can win and how.

It is concerned with de facto peace and not with regularly mendacious letters of intent and breaches of contracts, not with euphoric conferences which don’t have fundamental conditions because structures of power characterize the negotiations and debates, and by no means the human individual.

“Power is arising from emancipation” is the demand of a cosmonomic thesis, just to break several taboos: nationalism, racism, religions of divine election, militarism and the mentality of exploitation. Military is taking the key function as a mean and, at the same time, pathetic executing authority of any policy. It is based on enforced blind obedience which is undermining all praises of civilisation and humanity, which remains, as a permanent scandal, to be glorified as virtuous.

Nevertheless, there is a clear beginning of softening the military anachronism, as a method of manslaughter, by increasing efficiency of material battles, because the real decisions of global meaning will progressively take place on the terrain of electronics and informatics.

But science and technology do not depend on military strategies as they develop as per the principle of causality – much more calculating and calculable than “hurray-patriotism” – even more impersonal and more destructive. The ordered killer is just pushing a stick, pressing a button and hardly perceives anything of the caused disaster, perhaps he will read later a selected press-report. Or he himself will get sick, because his own military had consciously sent him with toxic substances against the enemy.

Man is enabled to barbarity, if bogeymen and objects of hatred will block the psyche, they are proverbial “the root of the evil”. Once sown, the kraut grows rampantly and doesn’t tolerate pacifism beside, choking it easily, because pacifism on such a field is defenceless, is lost.

The only possibility for pacifism to come into reality is the prevention of constructing bogeymen and hatred. This may seem utopian in view of unbroken religious and ideological indoctrinations. They are forming a person who, because of his well-intended believing, is defending “faith, custom, homeland” against “wrong belief”, against bad habits which are strange customs, against pluralism which means different countries, cultures and homes.

Thus pacifism doesn’t claim any “multy-culty”, not any starry-eyed idealistic mixture of historic cultures that cannot peacefully coexist because of their fundamentalistic beliefs.

In the distance to daydreams, pacifism means awakening from old provincial convictions, it faces the need of a not yet reached new definition of a cosmopolitanism which does not deny its history (histories) but analyses it (them) for the benefit of a cosmonomic orientation.

Pacifism characterizes cosmonomic philosophy.

The human is not his enemy. His old-fashioned world views are outdated and irrelevant.

His peace is of this world, each reference to “kingdom-come” describes silly empty promises.

Thus pacifism is trying to gain ground by this clear commitment to the humane, not on the battlefield and not at all in the God’s acre, but, to take the metaphor further, in fields and farmlands, in parks and gardens, in cultural countryside.

Cultivating life and its space takes place as brainpower of undoubtedly higher value than martial capacities of destruction.

Nevertheless, the global situation suffers more frequently from destructive provincialism and is just showing to what extent only we are standing at the beginning of a humane evolution.

It is in the nature of developing processes that the still weaker and being fewer but higher differentiated organisms are threatened manifoldly and have to overcome teething problems.

Sincere and consequent pacifism is at such a stage by excluding war as a means of politics. The options therefor are lying in more honest and more intelligent politics, strengthening the efforts for human dignity and for less pretending diplomacy.

In democratic understanding pacifism is cross-party, notwithstanding that the majority of political parties not only agrees with war as always but is even creating it and stirring it up, being led by programmatic and naïve compulsiveness.

What we hastily call “enlightenment” is symbolizing some little plants, dominated by thistles, on a heap of debris of war and ruins.

We are still living in the pre-humane time of the “interim human”. 
But this insight is bearing already the character of awakening.

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