If you were a deer?

Imagine you were a deer. 

Gentle in nature and social in manner, You pass your days in this vast world in idlic peace, eating, playing and mating. The only worry are predators.

You see a tigress swiftly attack and violently kill a fellow deer, tearing it into pieces. Then the tigress calls out to her cubs who join in and they feast on the deer,  she lovingly guards over the cubs and then gently grooms them clean after they have eaten. 

You the deer would be puzzled. Why do the tigers kill the deer?  How could a creature be so violent against the deer yet so tender with her own children? 

As hard as it may try, in its entire lifetime, the deer will never understand the nature of the tiger, it simply can't.  The tiger too will also never understand the timidity and fear that possesses the deer.

The same is with humans, we may be the born the same species but our natures are different, some are aggressive some passive, some clever others slow, some hard working some not as much. 

Each one of us is a different animal, with a differing natures. Humans want to control all they behold. The variety makes it difficult so they seek to make everyone identical. 

To make everyone think and act more or less identically  is called universalism. 

Yet the arrogance of each Man, to think that he alone knows what is right not only for himself or herself but also how the order of the universe should be. This is the root cause of all misery in the world.

So anyone with power to do so imposes his or her brand of universalism on everyone they can. To persuade others is time consuming and requires great resources. Force and fear are the preferred methods. Organised religion is the most prominent form of insanity. Educationists, politicians, social activists, economists, ideologists and even parents, sometimes children are generally afflicted with this insanity of imposing themselves and their ideas.

Universalism is stupid if not insane, it is unnatural, unsustainable and doomed to failure.  Everyone is trying you to buy into their brands of universalism. This makes people ugly because violence, not compassion, stupidity, not intelligence, ego not love seems to dominate. 

                                   

Imagine the world only full of tigers. No deer or any prey left. The tigers will maul themselves and starve to death.  Now imagine there are no tigers, then the deer would consume all the grass and greenery and they too would starve to death.  

This is why nature thrives because of ecological balance, a symbiosis, where both the tiger and the deer need each other to survive. Sometimes violent but mostly peaceful, this is creation.  Live and let live.

The greatest crimes against humanity are to try and make different individuals and people identical. To make people follow only one set of beliefs, to follow only their one chosen ideology,  to worship their God in that one way.  When one group of people feel they are superior not by any quality other than their Race, the colour of their skin, the land they inhabit, the book they follow, the belief they hold dear etc.

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People are getting turned off religion, they see religion not as a facilitator for better lives but as a barrier,  Is it surprising that the fastest growing 'religion' is Atheism, believing that there is no God. 

Mankind is increasingly turning away from established political, social, economical systems. That is why you see many strange developments in these areas, with the emergence of new and completely different breed of political, economical, social and religious leaders. 

It is impossible to dialogue with die hard believers of politics, economics, and religion even if they are intelligent people. 

Like a recorded disc, they are simply closed to any other thoughts than the ones they have been programmed with. Sadly many have very strong baseless beliefs, having no awakening nor wisdom, just programmed thoughts, emotions,noises and actions.

Any attempt at dialogue will lead to offensive reactions. So the best thing is to keep them at arms length.  Each one of us will not fully understand the other animal but there is no need to. 

I just have to explore and discover what sort of animal I am. If I am a tiger then be a very good tiger, for my survival depends on it. If I am a deer, then be the healthiest, fastest most vigilant deer I can be for my life too will depend on it. 

In the end, it does not matter what animal I am, I will soon returned to dust and ash. What will happen after that no one knows, and should not be my concern. 

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Worrying never robbed tomorrow of its sorrow, it simply ruins our today sapping us of our sanity and our vitality.