Post #130 "Violence, Death "

(continued from Post #129)

Two nations claim the same identity and the same inheritance. Israel/Palestine. It all comes down to the Land, the same land. Really, the same people, who became a divided people   And because the people divided, the Land also divided. Identities were and are lost. Who are the true heirs of Abraham...a first-born slave made prince or the second-born son of tribal kinship? So, to whom did Yahweh give the Promised Land, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey? Seems a shame these two divisions cannot come together to make the whole-the whole of Israel or is it Palestine? ..confused identity.

From these, division, then loss of identity, comes violence. Logically then, does it not seem that if violence is not to be tolerated, the first step would be to eliminate division. But is this possible? This whole blog (Beier Unfolds Reality) is on Reality and the reality of non-reality. Non-reality is the state of Nothingness because creation is a process of division. Division divides down to nothing. We are people of division. We are people of violence. It is who we are. We do not know how to stop dividing. We don't see how our lives are all about division. Every time we form a group, a tribe, a team...any kind of union, between two or many, the reality is that these are all break-aways from the world at large. We break away to reform into a smaller more personal unit. We are competitive. What is competition but division? We compete to show we are better than someone else. This is not forming a whole but forming a part against another part. We strive to look better....better than others  We strive to have more money and better possessions....better and more than our neighbors. We strive to have the most productive and flourising businesses, make more profit than anyone else... more competitiveness. We even strive to collect people...like who's on our side.Who supports us? We are teaching our children to be the best, against the others, to be winners against the others, to make us proud for standing above the others. What is this but division? If some of us cannot keep up with this challenging standards, that person is separated out of the group and looses identity. Violence follows. We think its all games and even funny. We even think this to be healthy.

It is all so much who we are we cannot comprehend a different world of wholistic values. It's because we all have the same divisive goal......to become Perfect, to become God. What happens when everyone strives for prefection and godliness is that perfection and godliness become redefined. The attributes of God are the attributes we need to become Perfect. We put human values on something we call God so that we can be unaware of the Reality which we shut out behind the walls of creation. What does this make us then? We are God-makers and we are God destroyers. We will destroy anyone who competes with us for this is our nature.  

How achievable is our goal? Can I achieve thi goal? Who can hope to achieve Perfection? Can anyone hope to become God? What do we do when the goal seems allusive and we fear that we may not be able to attain it? What can we do ? What do we do? When the goal of 'who I will become' is looking unachievable what else can we do in great frustration but look for a new beginning? And then another beginning. And another beginning...over and over again. Creating an end, creating endings, to allow for new beginnings. Creating death to bring about new beginnings. Creating death to bring about new life. And so the cycles of Time begin, each a new layer growing to its death, over and over again.