Right, here goes my lessons learned article… I have come to the conclusion that the American God varies largely from the German God. Let me explain how I have arrived at this point. Before I came to this group here I have always thought that God was sort of a universal concept for anything that was not something. Here I became introduced to the idea that everything had to be determined and defined properly to be valid and to become accessible for an argumentative exchange. Those who could or would not operate on this basis got banned or when in doubt they get ridiculed, bullied ,and ignored. The representatives of this system and how they themselves have defined their role as group moderators has ever since reminded me of the God of the Old Testament in my children's bible. Non-transparent execution of power over childlike members.
I soon began to draw connections from the strange habitus of the performers in power to the belief systems under discussion here. Except for the two eccentric British "cousins" all power performers and performers in power were Americans from what I remember. No matter what kind of God concept they proposed, they all had this transcending notion in their appeal . It felt like the American myth is in constant need of feeding itself with a self-perpetuating self-pride through a permanent celebration of liberating one's own liberty from any sort of dependency. Fighting everything that does not fit in that frame. I felt no responsibility, no remorse, no historical conscience for their genocide of their First Nations and for their Slave history, no awareness for possibly having been a thorn in the flesh of somebody else. Nada. Not meant to be there. Hypocrisy instead. I think and hope that I have more or less made my peace with God's imprint on the Americans. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." I take it the pursuit of Happiness was the first indicator for transcendental sunshine demand when declaring one's independence from the old continent. So, yes, the time is now. Peace. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
