Emancipation or Enlightenment or Purulent Dogma?

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Emancipation or Enlightenment or Purulent Dogma?

This piece is the result of a good night sleep without mosquito menace and optimum blood sugar level (hypoglycemia) in between.

Adequately compensated with feel good factors (hormones) from chocolates made of only chocolate butter (free of milk and extra sugar).

No tea or coffee for almost 24 hours.

Warning here, nobody with diabetes or low thyroxine with high TSH levels should try any of the schemes mentioned.

No rice for eleven years on the trot (except string hoppers and hoppers) was my single health discovery (worse grain on this planet).

With Coronavirus Lock-Down,Block-Down (Shutdown) not even hoppers and string hoppers.

No alcohol for little over three years.

I was a guinea pig on alcohol as a student experiment (talks eloquently after the correct amount and win billiards or snooker game by the smallest of a margin) and I did my own experiment on sleep deprivation.

Did not sleep for 48 hours to overcome a bet and slept three days afterward.

Worse experiment unlike the alcohol experiment.

I pity the astronauts in space.

Sleep deprivation is bad enough but overcoming one atmospheric pressure is a strain on every organ and the skeletal system.

Never think of becoming an astronaut for fun.

It is no fun at all, bordering one’s stupidity and pure subject of brain washing.

Regarding sleep, never drive on coffee after an overnight sleep deprivation.

Sure recipe for accidents.

If you are feeling sleepy, pull the car to a side and have a deserving snooze.

Alcohol affects your snooze and the need for it at the correct time.

One need 8 hours of sleep, in my case bit more than that, now.

Not necessarily in one go but ideally in two breaks.

The preamble has no relevance the what I am going to say.

I watched a few Youtube presentations (religion, rational thinking, science and cosmos) and come to few conclusions.

I admire a few (not many) but hate many who propagate illogical dogmas.

They use the Nazi Gobble method.

Repeat the same thing over and over again, thousand times with some variation.

Only a few of these predators focus on reasoning and logic.

Rest are all rigid dogmas, be that it may be, religion, agnosticism or communism or socialism or any political or social validity of those dogmas except perhaps moral validity (depending on the cultural set up).

This is why I say come out of the dogmatism.

It leads to emancipation of some sort.

But there is a trap in it.

One tries to fill the void with one’s own dogma.

That is a dangerous expression of freedom to think and express (terrorism and anti-terrorism polarity) ones own innate desires.

The way to handle is to keep the void as it is.

This is what the meditation teachers teach you but very difficult to practise.

Emancipation and renunciation are OK for me but what about the enlightenment?

That is a dicey question.

Nobody knows anything about it.

Perhaps self hallucination (drugs and alcohol are known to get one there) and I do not want that ill defined entity entrapping my mind.

I stop at healthy emancipation.

Both Revelation and Enlightenment are two "High Five" Biblical words without any meaning.

There is nothing revealed that we already know.

There is nobody who is really enlightened to know the real human predicament with the existing tensions in the world.
Is it Donald Trump, Putin, Rusputin, Ayatulla or Kim Jon un’s North Korea?

Perhaps I may go for “thinking to think freely” and “the beautiful mind (Somanassa state in Buddhist psychology)” of Professor De Bono strategy.

A closing remark on science.

We are one atmosphere, three dimensional thinkers in the material world of less than 5%.

The rest of the 95% or more is dark energy and dark matter we know nothing about except its accelerating expansion and we are heading for, in eons for nullity or void.

What we see in the sky is yesterday and never today due to speed of light's limitation.

Until we find a method faster than speed of light we will never see the event horizon, except dark bodies or dark matter.

What we have is "now, now” of the present limited to our own sphere of activity.

So make best of what is now.

 

Unfortunately Ceylonese politics and its headlong strategy for Totalitarian Mantra is the worse antidote to real emancipation in this world!

 

One has to kick the bucket to achieve it in another “World System” without Global Warming and Coronavirus!