— But Nobody Understands What Morality Is…

“This intriguing exploration takes readers through the depths of morality, its impact on civilizations throughout history, and its role in human existence, choice, and societal evolution.”

Guess who understands least about what morality is?

Theologians, religious scholars, and those religious and patriotic people of all stripes understand morality the least.

But how can that be? Aren’t they the keepers?

No, there are no keepers. First clue.

Then what are they?

They are the “authorities,” whom people have anointed and appointed to tell them what to do. Why they do so is a complex issue. Which comes first is not so important. What’s important is that all humans innately sense morality—just as surely as migratory birds know to fly south in the fall and return in the spring…or a sea turtle knows how to navigate 2,000 miles to lay her eggs on the exact same beach from where she herself hatched years prior.

… And it’s not that humans need external authorities…it’s that they can default to laziness and stupidity; then they can have someone tell them what to do and—continuing in laziness and stupidity—also someone on which and upon whom, to blame for their failures.

But it’s even deeper than that. It’s also beyond the scope, here. It’s all covered exhaustively in The 114 No-Pill Advantages, but I sense that most are either scared shitless of those, or think they know it all, already.

… But ignorant people do that all the time. Ignorance so profound they’re unaware of the depths of it. How could they know?

I’m sayin’…because it’s the plain truth.

For the purposes here, what you need to know is that morality is intertwined with all existence, throughout the whole universe, in all dimensions. It’s metaphysical. Everything that is, is an expression of morality or immorality, when expressed in human terms (and only humans are capable of immorality). That is, strictly speaking, the universe…existence itself…is amoral. I’m anthropomorphizing just a bit, for the sake of illustration. At the same time, existence itself…metaphysical reality…is the standard of human morality. Call that “God” if you want; that is, if you want to acknowledge that “God” has no will, can make no choices, so is “himself” an amoral “being.” What “God” “wants” is for all the physical laws of all of natural existence to keep doing their thing as they always have done and will always do.

And the evidence is in, and it’s that all of these laws are knowable and understandable (it’s a moral pursuit…second clue). Thus, there is no need for any authorities, interpreters, or anything else of the sort. We already know enough about “God” and are learning more every day. We know what “he” “wants” us to do (practice the morality of obedience to and sound use of our growing knowledge of nature to benefit ourselves, others, and societies of humans…third and final clue).

… It’s not that the various and sundry “God” concepts that permeate the planet are wrong (they are, but it’s not the point, nor is it that important in the “grand scheme”).

The fact of the existence of “God” concepts everyplace you find human beings, in one form or another, is plain and stark evidence of this metaphysical morality. Step back and take a look at the forest. Forget about your own seedling, tree, or grove (your sects, denominations, branches, conventions, et al.) for a minute.

Because, what you have at this stage of human evolution on planet earth is all these people all over the face of it looking over at their tree or grove of trees, shouting to anyone who can hear…“LOOK, I FOUND THE FOREST! IT’S THE ONE TRUE FOREST!!!”

And it’s silly and ignorant, and it’s a disease of mysticism that infects all but a few on this entire planet…and those who profess none of that belief…the so-called atheists…they’re even worse.

They deny that there’s any forest at all.

Where we are is…well…take the Santa Claus story, for instance. For many years—when I fancied myself an “atheist” but hadn’t yet realized that I’m just a non-believer in literal trees and groves representing the whole nature of the forest—I used to call Santa “God Light” (1/3rd less malevolent than your regular God).

Once they get old enough, the kids will find out that’s not true at all.

… It’s much worse.

… But taken as metaphor, simile, parable, allegory, and narrative, we can come to an understanding.

It was and still is the means by which humans convey their innate sense of morality in social settings, as social beings. It was the best they could do…still do. Except that now, the materialists (atheists), scoffing at all that fairy-tale mystical stuff, think they have “science” on their side. But they can’t escape a sense of morality…of understanding right from wrong, and choosing accordingly.

… Only, not having the fundamental grounding that religious people do, where the nature of “God” never changes, materialism is highly subject to corruption from every special, perverted, depraved, and rotting out-of-ass notion on the planet, so long as it’s backed by some weird fucks with money.

So once again, it’s the old-time religions, that are far more sensible, in which to take some refuge and get some relief. For that, I salute them and try to shut up about it unless pushed (as recently happened with a long-time member whom I had to cancel and refund…first ever).

But it’s still a very poor and incorrect sense of morality. It’s the taking of the innate sense of right and wrong in all of us, and rather than explore it with our actual physical senses, feelings, and emotions, and integrated, honest thinking and rationality—to explain it to people, have them understand, and see them making the right choices because of that knowledge and understanding—we gin up a bunch of silly people doing silly things and write up stories, commandments, and teachings about all of it. We start simple with the kids (Santa Claus Is Coming; Jesus Loves Me).

Then they get the straight gin: “you’re goin’ to hell, mutherfucker!”

Wonderful. Well, at least life seemed magical…while it lasted.

It doesn’t need to be this way, and children can grow up to have perfectly—even better—lives with none of that children-to-adult fairy-tale to fire-&-brimstone stuff.

I know why it’s done, incidentally. It’s done because, by and large, people are lazy and stupid, and they never ever stop in their whole lives…being lazy and stupid. And that makes them susceptible to fear of hobgoblins everywhere!

I will try again to get to the core essence of what morality really is; that is, if you can set aside your various “bibles,” for just a bit.

This is a section from a recent post.

It’s kind of like…to understand metaphysics, you need epistemology…though in the hierarchical order of philosophical things, metaphysics comes first. You have to have existence (metaphysics) before any particular existent (knowledge).

So the universe is neither good nor bad, it just is, and we humans are a part of it, and we’re a part of it with a unique characteristic: will.

We make choices.

In fact, we have to make choices. The bid that flies south; the fish that swims up river; the turtle that paddles 2000 miles; the bear that eats thousands of calories per day, gets fat and diabetic, then sleeps it off for 5 months…none of them have any choice in the matter. They just do it.

They have no God, scriptures, or high priests telling them to, either.

… But if birds had the characteristic of will, like humans, you’d have a bunch of them going…“Fly south? Fuck that! I’m staying here this winter.”

Then you would have a moral bird (acting immorally, which is to say, acting toward harm and death rather than good and life, in accordance with its physical and mental nature).

… And that’s what I meant by theologians, et al. understanding morality the least. Up to that point, where morality hinges on the choices we make, we’re generally on the same page.

Then it diverges completely, because for the theologian, morality is defined and standardized by other humans (or their “God” concept imaginations and hallucinations) and not by looking at plain metaphysical reality, observing with our senses, and engaging with our minds in order to figure out what’s good for us vs. what’s bad for us.

Simple.

Too simple, in fact, and that’s the problem. No room for an authority when it’s so simple, anyone can do it with just a bit of being shown, along with touching hot stoves.

Rather, the charlatans play to our ignorance and fear…and being stupid and lazy as well, we’re perfect marks for their schemes…where we appoint them as authorities, exalt them, grant them unearned livelihoods, and lose a good chunk of our lives in devotion to nothing—that could have been better spent envisioning, pursuing, achieving, and celebrating our own chosen values, along with those we love.

Go ahead and tell me how religion is part of your whole family, and it’s a shared value and all is so generationally intertwined with the institution of the church. Yea, OK, I get it. But there are a lot of things in life that are less than optimal (drinking, drugs, promiscuity, etc.) and yet people live their whole lives ensnared by them, waste shit-tons of time and money managing them, and while many nonetheless end up sporting a reasonably fun and happy life…it’s simply not as good as it could have been.

Point-blank.

There’s one element left to address in order to have a 101 level understanding of morality, and that’s human fear. If you didn’t know it already, you should know that:

1. Fear is hands-down the biggest and most expedient motivator of human behavior.
2. All the worst, most nefarious, most evil ass-fucker vermin infesting planet earth know it.

And you better damn well recognize that the whole Covid scam and “vaccine” fraud was not only a stark example of this, but demonstrated that just about the whole planet is susceptible; and worse, the more advanced and modern the country, the worse the problem.

In some measure, it must be that our cultures have become so hyper-over-sensitized to “risk,” and so enamored with “safety,” that just about anything they’ve been “sheltered” and “protected” from their whole lives is become easy to scare the shit out of them with.

(Lazy and stupid, again.)

So just as with our default to laziness and stupidity with easy answers from “authorities” sets us up to be manipulated into following and deferring to the will of others, fear keeps us in line whenever we may get uppity and knocks us down a few pegs. Sets us back.

In this way, human advancement isn’t only dampened through the extreme wastefulness of parasitism permeating the most advanced societies the widest and deepest…

…it’s largely following the agendas of the very few, rather than each individual’s own envisioned values, and to top it all off, all escape routes are land-mined with “watch-out!” fear bombs.

Listen to the messaging everywhere. Underlying everything is the implicit message, “watch out, listen to us, be careful, don’t go astray, follow the main route, or you’ll be sorry.”

Fuck the whole lot of them.

… Just one final identification of the worst misunderstanding of morality, and it’s one of the most effective ever conceived. It’s also unique amongst the world’s religions/”God” concepts. Ask most theologians what the fundamental basis of morality is, and you’ll get something akin to what’s outlined above. God, his word, commandments, laws, etc.

There’s one exception, and that’s Christian theologians. The cleverest will give you a 2-word answer: “Original Sin.”

“Original sin is the Christian doctrine which says that because of the sin of Adam and Eve, original innocence is lost, and all subsequent human beings are born into a state of sinfulness. The doctrine states that human beings do not commit this sin, but rather contract it from the Fall of Adam and Eve.” (various sources)

But here’s the thing. Through sleight of hand it’s touted as something to do with morality when it’s plain to see that is has nothing whatever to do with morality.

It is a metaphysical doctrine, at least in terms of the existential status of human beings since the Fall of Adam and Eve, when they ceased to be perfect automatons and developed a will and “knowledge of good and evil”—they became moral beings.

It turns philosophical hierarchy on its head, since first comes existence (metaphysics), then human knowledge of reality (epistemology), and only then (once we exist and know something about it) do we have moral choices over good or bad things to do (ethics).

It’s fucking stupid.

Or, as they say: it’s more wrong than a very wrong thing.

It’s an abject contradiction in terms: if you’re guilty and condemned by birth through no knowledge, choice, fault, or act of your own, it’s simply not in the province of morality whatsoever and so has no business being bandied about in any measure over how humans ought to best conduct their affairs.

(Born-agains, perhaps the nicest, but also the dumbest Christians, believe they have Original Sin all figured out and consistent, but that too (saying magic words and willfully believing in your heart) is a contradiction-in-terms, since those are acts; i.e., works.

Their whole shtick is a bait-and-switch illusion based on a logical impossibility (if words mean anything).

… Anyway…

All that to get to this.

For all its faults, Western religious civilization has been the most moral throughout history, and it requires but a passing familiarity to know and understand it.

I want you to understand history through the lens of morality, but morality as I hold it to be: choosing acts more in accordance with the observed natures—physical, mental, social, sexual, reproductive, offspring rearing—of human beings (good) than in detriment and opposition to the harmonious natures of those human beings.

So whether, or not, what the “God” concepts rendered were good, bad, or indifferent at any particular time or in any particular circumstance, on the large, those civilizations that got it the closest to right more often than others, eventually prevailed.

The most “moral” always wins…eventually (or we all die). And history is a recounting of the willful moral and immoral acts by humans and though results vary by chapter and even volume, the encyclopedic whole will always bear the final stamp of morally approved.

So, there’s that.

… Which means that America’s and indeed all of Western civilization’s problem now is squarely a moral crisis. It’s not so obvious that either of them are acting more morally than immorally, anymore. You must take seriously what I say about Russia. The rhetoric coming from them is that they understand they are in a moral war, and it’s against America and the West, and what they are saying is the truth.

And this.

When what’s being said by the former “Evil Empire” about you rings true, isn’t it time to stop and take a listen? … Rather than booking tickets for the next Sean Hannity road show to have smoke blown up your ass about being a “proud American who at least knows he’s free” putrid [and false] bullshit for the consumption of a bunch of clueless & cloistered, lazy-ass, flag-waving, bible-thumping wankers?

You will never vote your way out of this.

This is a moral battle for hearts and minds, and that’s all. Go ahead and have your elections; you will anyway.

But you’d better understand where your bread is buttered, and that’s in your understanding of reality, human nature, what’s good, better, and best for you and yours, and bust ass to get there and hold onto it, no matter what.

Nothing else matters.

(The foregoing is but a slight whisper of what The 114 No-Pill Advantages is all about.)