God Made Us Struggle

 

God created humans basically evil (All animals are basically evil, so if octopuses or squids became the new rulers of our planet if humans are wiped out in nuclear holocaust or due to universal death due to a contagious, superbug, they would then have free will and would have to curb and sublimate their wicked natures too.) because it was necessary to do so.

 

God creates free-willed species, but, if they were not born mostly evil, then their free willing struggle to become good and worship God would not be a real test.

 

If humans were born neutral or basically good, then their free will would not be authentic or actual, because there was really no struggle, no literal fight to will to be free and good. If born neutral or basically good, humans would just easily will to be good, because that is what they actually were anyway, so the moral struggle would not be real, and the choosing would be not real—they would be choosing to be good because that is what they already were all along.

 

My empirical evidence that we are born sinners is that there is so much obvious, omnipresent violence, corruption, war, injustice, malevolence, and needless, pointless suffering in the world. If we were born good, that would not be so universal, so eagerly resorted to by billions and billions of people generation after generation, for thousands of years.

 

It is laughable that Rousseau saw people as born good but corrupted by society. That does not account for the human craving to be evil, to hurt others, and being addicted to being hurt by others. Humans have a bottomless attraction to and fondness for wallowing in such moral cesspits.

 

In summary, God made us sinners so that our free-willing journey along the road to becoming a mature adult of goodness, virtue and piety, would be a hard, occurring ontological struggle and main event in each human’s life.

Benevolence & Objectivism

 

The Atlas Society intellectuals introduce the virtue of benevolence to soften the hard-core self-interest espoused and promoted by the ARI branch of Objectivism.

 

I have no problem with their adding kindness to their list of ethical virtues, but seems to be their view, not one championed by Ayn Rand herself.

 

Okay, Atlas Society thinkers, let us include benevolence as among our salient virtues to practice all the time. To do so consistently is necessary. Be kind to all: God, the self, pets, others, and nature itself.

Is God That Way?

 

Some have argued that the Creator (Creator Couple, I believe and suggest, the Mother and the Father.) must be a cruel deity if He made people basically evil.

 

Well, the Creators did make humans basically evil, but not because They are sadistic or anti-humanistic.

 

The Creators also endowed humans with free will, and with a trace of intrinsic, basic goodness, so, if a human really, really wanted to improve herself, she could become habitually virtuous enough that her long, habituated virtuous lifestyle, in effect, transmutes her natural, bad will into an acquired, good will.

 

If she makes this tremendous self-transformation, and many do, it signifies that her victory is very impressive because she had so much to overcome, including a sinful disposition.

 

When the Creators made humans with evil wills, they also gave them free will, knowing full well that the agent who really applies herself to improving is a person who can morally excel.

 

And overcoming her evil nature is a naturally high standard instilled in her by her Creators, so this makes her victory all the more glorious and worth celebrating. She can justly be proud of her merited improvement. This momentous victory is followed by Creators that are proud of her and her achievement.

Sadomasochistic Games

 

 

 

One is soaked with sanity, virtuousness and with a spiritually wholesome aura to the degree and extent that one forgoes engaging in sadomasochistic game-playing with others in a group setting, the prominent, intact, social, and institutional, hierarchical arrangement.

 

To the extent that one moves over into self-realizing as an egoistic individualist, in that arena, liberty, justice, rough equality among people fair play, and a lack of in-network game-playing with other insiders for power, rank and status, in that arena happiness and emotional well-being become popularized, wide-spread, and normalized.

 

The self becomes more healthy, self-loving, and self-esteeming. Now the inner storm, anger and resentment is abated, and the person feels good and at peace; now that grateful agent need dominate no other and will insist upon being dominated by no other.

 

This is the most effective way to make earth a better world.

 

Egoistic Individualism

 

Self-love or egoistic individualism is much more about self-discipline and high self-expectations of upper level performing to perfect one’s talents and predilections, than it is about shortsighted, hedonistic self-indulgence and active pursuit of one’s immediate, base whims and desires.

Potential Tyrant

 

You are a tyrant, not strong, if your feeling secure is predicated on keeping those around you down and dependent on you.

 

You are strong only if you set free the people around you

To Do Philosophy

 

First, conceive of a future generation where most American adults are individualists and self-realizers.

 

Second, imagine them as very knowledgeable, skilled, subtle if amateur philosophers. That will culturally revolutionary. If the little people did philosophy a lot, all the time, productively, can you imagine the political discourse. What an exciting trend that will prove the be when most of the little people do philosophy, do it well, and without too much mental exertion.