Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Psalm 49--The Vanity Of Worldly Riches

One of my profound disagreements with Christianity, Judaism and almost all the world faiths is their false, mistaken contrast between world riches and otherworldly, holy poverty.

This violate my core spiritual and ethical beliefs in 3 important ways. How can these ancient world religions, each claiming to be the one true faith, while violating what is true and good under Mavellomialist principles?

The law of moderation informs us that a stance that is pure, extreme and all or none is wicked and from Satan.

Yahweh, Christ and probably Allah and Buddha all see being of the world and wealth accumulation as pure evil, and to be immaterial and other-worldly. But I teach that the good and holy person is a follower of rational religion, and is more otherworldly than worldly, and is more immaterial than material, while announcing that each child of light must  have plenty of money and things, and be savvy and competent in the world, navigating the ways of the world to keep the predators and the wicked at bay My recommendation is moderate and moral but it contradicts directly what the divine founders of the great traditional faiths preached. How is this to be resolved? They are great and good, but had to put ideas in more dumbed-down, extreme, primitive all or none, black or white terms to nudge a wicked, primitive, uneducated unwashed humanity to slowly attempt to progress and come up for air.

The second natural law that is flouted by traditional faiths is the emphasis on the superiority of collective economics, self-sacrifice and communal ownership of everything.

The second natural law of Mavellonialism is that traders, bankers, artisans, laborers should work for compensated wages and profits that generate wealth and a prosperous standard of living through out the community. Prosperous people are better behaved and now have some leisure time to ponder maverizing and leading the advanced life.

The third law of Mavellonialism that is dismisses outright under the great traditional faith is egoistic ethics. If people were not told that self-denial was a virtue, and that self-assertion is a sin, then individualism could be front and center, not group issues and collective decision-making.

Under Psalm 49, the Psalmist warns the rich and worldly that they will burn in hell, and that their weakth will not open the gates of heaven for them once they die: Psalm 49, 6-10: "Why should I fear in evil days when my wicked ensnarers ring me round? They trust in their wealth; the abundance of their riches is their boast.Yet in no way can a man redeem himself, or pay his own ransom to God. Too high is the price to redeem one's life; he would never have enough to remain alive always and not see destruction."

He cannot buy immortal live with his stash.

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