Thursday's: Panentheism addressing social issues
Question
If the individual has no significant purpose for existence then just why do we exist?
Introduction
… Overcoming adversity is one of our great desires and one of our great sources of pride…. Nothing is to be earned, ‘welf-esteem’ is to be dispensed to …People are to be mixed and matched by race and sex and whatever else the anointed want to take into account to present whatever kind of picture… This is a vision of human beings as livestock fed by the government and herded and tended by the anointed. … The welfare state is not really about welfare on the masses. It is about the egos of the elites…. (Sowell, Thomas – senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Welfare state treats humans like livestock, April 2003, Detroit News Column.)
Analysis
The model of reality put forward by symbiotic panentheism completely agrees with the concept that humans are more than cattle and should be treated as significant entities within reality. (Shepard, Daniel J, The War and Peace of a New Metaphysical Perception, Vol. II, Tractate 12: Symbiotic Panentheism, Three ultimate paradoxes Global Academic Press, New York 2002.) Symbiotic panentheism rationalizes how it is that humans have significance to the overriding cosmic existence within which the physical universe itself is a part, and thus elevates each individual to a level above cattle.
The welfare state is one, which clearly degrades the individual rather than elevates the individual.
Concepts such as basic food, basic shelter, basic health care, and basic social protections against violence is not welfare but rather simply a recognition of the significance to the individual and acknowledgement of their purpose in reality as reinforced by Thomas Jefferson:
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, …’ (Jefferson, Thomas, Declaration of Independence.)
Life depends upon food, shelter, and medical treatment. The quality and quantity of the food, shelter, and medical treatment is defined by the word ‘basic’. The concept ‘basic’ acknowledges the pragmatic lesson of life, namely: Death is an absolute.
Society does not ‘owe’ any individual prime rib for dinner, a kidney transplant, air conditioning, trash pick-up, toys, beer, …
Society does, on the other hand, ‘owe’ the individual the ‘basics’ and the term ‘basics’ is in turn defined by the unique society within which the individuals find themselves to exist.
Remarks
Whatever society defines the term ‘basic’ to be, one thing basic cannot be is that which suppresses the individual sense of significance for their existence for all individuals have a reason for existing.
Question
If the individual has no significant purpose for existence then just why do we exist?
Introduction
… Overcoming adversity is one of our great desires and one of our great sources of pride…. Nothing is to be earned, ‘welf-esteem’ is to be dispensed to …People are to be mixed and matched by race and sex and whatever else the anointed want to take into account to present whatever kind of picture… This is a vision of human beings as livestock fed by the government and herded and tended by the anointed. … The welfare state is not really about welfare on the masses. It is about the egos of the elites…. (Sowell, Thomas – senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Welfare state treats humans like livestock, April 2003, Detroit News Column.)
Analysis
The model of reality put forward by symbiotic panentheism completely agrees with the concept that humans are more than cattle and should be treated as significant entities within reality. (Shepard, Daniel J, The War and Peace of a New Metaphysical Perception, Vol. II, Tractate 12: Symbiotic Panentheism, Three ultimate paradoxes Global Academic Press, New York 2002.) Symbiotic panentheism rationalizes how it is that humans have significance to the overriding cosmic existence within which the physical universe itself is a part, and thus elevates each individual to a level above cattle.
The welfare state is one, which clearly degrades the individual rather than elevates the individual.
Concepts such as basic food, basic shelter, basic health care, and basic social protections against violence is not welfare but rather simply a recognition of the significance to the individual and acknowledgement of their purpose in reality as reinforced by Thomas Jefferson:
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, …’ (Jefferson, Thomas, Declaration of Independence.)
Life depends upon food, shelter, and medical treatment. The quality and quantity of the food, shelter, and medical treatment is defined by the word ‘basic’. The concept ‘basic’ acknowledges the pragmatic lesson of life, namely: Death is an absolute.
Society does not ‘owe’ any individual prime rib for dinner, a kidney transplant, air conditioning, trash pick-up, toys, beer, …
Society does, on the other hand, ‘owe’ the individual the ‘basics’ and the term ‘basics’ is in turn defined by the unique society within which the individuals find themselves to exist.
Remarks
Whatever society defines the term ‘basic’ to be, one thing basic cannot be is that which suppresses the individual sense of significance for their existence for all individuals have a reason for existing.
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