X-Ftn-To: Adam Meadows 

Adam Meadows  wrote:

>> This would mean that
>> you're so far gone, that you didn't even have enough touch with God to
>> feel sorry for losing it. So, it's much better to feel guilt, because
>> it means that you are essentially good.
>
>Hmmmm.  The idea of God building in morals to every human seems fishy.

Naaah, God didn't do it. It's merely a result of our contact with the
supreme reality. If we're in touch with it, we are fulfilled. If we
lose that touch, we feel inner emptiness and wrongness. Guilt is just
a word that describes a small part of that.

>Especially when you consider that all feelings originate at the neuronal
>level and any random mutation in DNA or unique up-bringing could create a
>very unusual moral system.

Actually, human consciousness is a result of bi-directional link of
the soul and the body; if you disturb the link on either side, you'll
get strange results, usually negative. The body is an equivalent of a
radio - if the receiver malfunctions, or if there is a distortion of
the radio waves themselves, you will get less than perfect
manifestation of the radio waves. Now make that bi-directional like a
modem, and you'll understand how body and soul mix.

This all means that you can at one hand have absolute moral
principles, and that people can have distorted perceptions of morality
caused by education and upbringing. So, the right upbringing would be
the one that helps people develop moral concepts that perfectly
reflect their inner sense of rightness. Otherwise you'll have terrible
problems - for instance, if you're taught that some wrong thing is
right, and you happen to do it, you will not understand why you
suffer, and you'll try to rationalize it in some way.
The other form of distortion is also common, when people have guilt
about things that make them feel good, because they were taught that
some good thing is actually bad.
In spiritual practice, people very soon get in touch with the absolute
morality, and they come to see that it has very little to do with
human concepts of it, but is nevertheless very real.

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