--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:11 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > The "grain of the evolution of the Kosmos" sounds an > > awful lot like a "standard," then. > > > > It also sounds a lot like action in accord with the laws > > of nature. > > Well not really because people at different stages of development > will experience and act that out differently. > > An extreme example might be the ethnocentric or religio-centric > stance which easily says "these people don't believe as I do, > therefore I can set off a bomb, kill the heathens and I will go to > heaven and screw virgins." Or the more western stance "abortion is > evil, therefore it's OK to bomb abortion clinics and the baby > killers within them." > > People at a more global-centric Ethos which is beyond religion > will find this Ethos entirely unacceptable.
But again, this implies a standard of some kind whose values are "better than" those of conventional morality. People often confuse ethics > with the 2000+ year old lists that major religions provided--no you > can't just go out and kill someone (or can, with certain God- allowed > "loopholes") and it's a bad karmic action to be screwing your > neighbors wife or husband. These are systems of morality for the > primary evolutionary pattern of several thousand years ago. As > people's ability to embrace widening levels of Eros/Universal Love/ > Compassion occurs, the Ethos will change. This will especially become > noticeable as more and more people become capable of experiencing > Universal values at a deeper level. It's more difficult to lash out > at the world when you realize as part of your experience that this is > all part of your Big Dream. Why lash out at your own Self? > > Think of it as the sliding scale of the Kosmos. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
