Quote from Mathletic:
You are saying that the sense of right and wrong is false? This is what i see as a fundementaly dangerous aspect of religion. In many religions, Catholicism in particular there is a sense of you aren't held accountable for your actions. That you can walk into a little wooden box a horrible person and tell this man everything youve done, knowing full well he cant tell anyone. And walk out a figure of truth and guiding light. And at the same time invent this idea of hell to punish people that do the exact same wrong doings as catholics, the only difference being non-catholics don't ride the pine with padre.
Yes. The sense of right and wrong is false...completely false. It is a concept introduced into a mind that knows only truth because truth is all there is, truly. Is the truth "good"? Relative to what? If you let go of all concepts, what is left? Only truth. It is what it is.
The confessional is a parody. It is not helpful unless it is understood. Perhaps the silliness of it will help you understand: Right and wrong is rediculous. Can you walk into a pine box a dreadful sinner, and walk out a figure of truth and guiding light? This is a parable. The pine box is the world of right and wrong...a place of death. When it is seen as false, yes, you can walk out a figure of truth and guiding light. If you "confess" that you are the maker of the world, as I have confessed, then God is faithful and just to "forgive" you your sin. Consequently, I have the reputation that I am "sinless"...ie. the sinless Son of God. This is only possible if the world of right and wrong is completely false...which it is. What is left after the false is gone? The sinless Son of God.
So I would challenge you to go to confession, and tell the priest that you are the maker of the world.
He might say, "Oh, you've been reading that 'I am' character on ET again", and then absolve you. On the other hand, he may not "absolve" you of anything because he may consider the maker of the world to be a sinner. Oops. :eek: That is, he may consider what you say to be blasphemy. Oops. :eek: If you did make the world, it would be blasphemy. But if you say, "I think I may have made the world", then he can absolve you for what you think you did on the grounds that you may have slipped into temporary insanity. And this would be a parody which points toward the truth. The world is something you - the Son of God - think you made/did. So long as you think you did, you must be a sinner. And so, you have denied making it, and covered your tracks. You have been denying it, have you not? But if you only think you have made it, that is something else. Now the world is no longer the "truth"...no longer "reality". And when you let it go as false, what is left standing is YOU...the sinless Son of God...the truth...reality itself. As you can see, absolution is a psychological remedy involving a paradigm shift amid a paradox. Did you, or did you not make the world? If you did, run like hell and die. Because the world is the ultimate blasphemy, telling reality to shove it up...whatever. :eek: Die, so life can't get a grip on you for your insult. The mind that makes the world is running like hell, in denial, using death as a pre-emptive strike to deny life the satisfaction of triumph. You, a self-concept, are part of this mind. Holographically, you are the entire mind. When you "confess", all you are really doing is admitting that you - this self-concept - may be wrong on account of temporary insanity. Maybe the world is not real...not true. If that is the case, then you did not really "make" anything...at least not in terms of true creation. It must then be a fantasy. Now there is room for truth to come and heal your mind, where before there was no room for the truth of reality. Now, there is a chance that you may not be insane after all.
Trust me. The world is not real. Possibly, the priest will not agree, being in denial himself. If you assert your innocence, he may suggest you shove it up...whatever. He may tell you to go to hell...by telling you you are going to hell. He may be diplomatic about it...or not.
If you, too, believe the world is real, you will fall in with the false priests, and resort to fearful myth in order to enforce behavioral modification. "Dangerous"? What do mean, pray tell?
Jesus