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"For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild beasts may eat. ... on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and the ass may have the rest...." Exodus (23:10-12)
| Downer Cattle | Downer Citizens |
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| Many farm cattle raised by money-machines collapse and die since their legs cannot support their bodies that have become huge due to the administration of growth hormones and dried waste meat. Their meat is used for pet-food. Cruelty to animals do not apply to farm animals. - source a 1997 Harpers Magazine article | Many citizens who eat the meat of animals infested with growth-hormones and fed with meat by the heartless money-machines walk like walruses. This is not cruelty to people under the Traders' Laws |
All living forms have become objects of trade due to the usurpation of the power of the governments by the traders. The government that is the custodian of the nation has become a mere book keeper. Even genetics, the gift of God to the system of life are getting rewritten by their mercenaries. Plants, birds, and animals have begun to show the symptoms of collapse under this commercialization of life. Now they are going to peddle human genes by rewriting God's law. They have already rewritten many nations' laws. Who will show them the way out? Think of a human mass (the shape has already evolved due to the administration growth hormones to farm animals) moving to a vending machine to purchase seed for the next generation (applicator included) by pressing buttons of options (white, yellow, black, tall, short, boxer, bowler, soccer, software... ). Oh God! The greatest threat to life comes from governments that have become book-keepers. "When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border, neither you shall gather the gleanings after the harvest.... you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner." Leviticus (19:9)
The new economics developed by the world money lenders and traders deny livelihood and other basic necessities to poor people. Their economics work on the basis on taking and not giving. In the corporate milieu the consumer has no right. The consumer is a mass of flesh without any personality and morality. And if their managers have to commit suicide if they fail to make the people eat 10% more of hamburgers every year.
"Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness." Leviticus (19:29)
When sex becomes an industry, family becomes a 'meat industry'. All that culture detested is brought to your house by the people who say it is their right of freedom of expression.
"When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself...." (Leviticus (19:33-34)
See the confrontation between Israel and Palestine. In Kashmir, India, degraders of religious consciousness are exterminating people who do not belong to their religion. Some others are toppling peace by converting others to their religion with money collected from elsewhere. No religion is the custodian of God and spirituality.
"Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment."- Christ [Matthew 5:21]
Now, when the killer's life is protected, we get more and more killers. Punishment should be for protecting the sanctity of life, and for preventing the recurrence of killing. This is basic to the humanization of the society, and this effort is found in the Old Testament.
"Your God is one God. There is no god but Him. He is the Compassionate, the Merciful." ('The Koran' 2:163)
The followers of this Compassionate and Merciful God have no mercy and compassion for those who do not use their word for 'one God'.
As civilizations progress many reason-based systems that constitute the objects of civilizations try to control the consciousness of people. If any society gives importance to systems under Z without accommodating the expressions of reality given under A in the table below, the result will be disastrous to everyone.
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| God-made System | man-made systems |
| Morality | immorality |
| Culture | civilization |
| Pure Reason | reason |
| Nature (God's Art) | arts of culture |
| The Laws | man-made laws |
| Holistic Rationalism | reductionistic rationalism |
| Upgradation of Consciousness | degradation of consciousness |
| Timeless Expression | timebound products |
| Spirituality | the structure of religions |
| Kingdom of God | man-made empires |
| Objects of Culture | objects of civilization |
| Nature | man-made objects |
| Love for God-made Objects | love for man-made objects |
| Humanization | dehumanization |
| God | gods, devils |
| civilizations accommodating Culture
religions expressing Spirituality |
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When religions start killing others for their faiths, and give importance to their structures with no expression of culture in their dealings, the religions move towards Z. Satan is quoted in 'The Koran'(4:118) as saying: "I shall entice a number of your servants and lead them astray. I shall order them to tamper with God's creation." Some religions must be saved from their priests and pundits.
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