The Nature of Progress

Simply put: cultivating what is desirable and good, and eliminating what is undesirable and problematic.

Evolution, innovation, exploration, etc. That’s basically what those are all about.

Now, consider something like circumcision. Many people invent numerous ways to justify its continue practice to themselves and these reasons are not new, ingenious, or relevant to the age we live in. They are the same reasons that have been invented over the course of time again and again by people who do so in the privacy of their own mind. We all do that— give ourselves reasons for what we do and believe that we do not necessarily need to tell others. Those reasons for circumcision are quite simple and easily examined by an inquisitive mind and it does not take much intelligence or knowledge to understand them thoroughly. That’s why it is so easy to convince children of them.

One of the popular reasons is that the pain and suffering it causes results in a kind of resilience and determination to excel and go beyond the normal limitations of men. Those two things are not related, first of all, because it is human nature to excel and go beyond the normal limitations of oneself. That is evident in the very fact that we exist as human beings, with even the most ancient being vastly different from any other lifeform on the planet because of how we achieve progress.

However, consider this from the point of view of the nature of progress. What is it we want to cultivate? The motivation, drive, and determination to go beyond limitations of human nature to achieve a greater goodness for ourselves and others. What is the problem if that is what circumcision achieves? Pain, disregard for human rights, violence, unjustified pseudoscientific claims, false mysticism born of ignorance of religious doctrine, and general elitism and desire for tyranny over others. How do we remove the problem, and keep the goodness? That is if that goodness was indeed the desired result of the physical trauma that knowingly causes an artificial limitation on the human body without a person’s consent which is irrevocable, and thus needs to be overcome if that person will live life at all.

Let’s examine the desirable and undesirable a little bit more. The desirable is inferred to be a direct result of removing a particular part of flesh that is believed to be undesirable for aesthetic reasons that lead to non-bodily spiritual results that negate bodily importance. There is no conclusive scientific justification whatsoever for any health concerns people have been led to believe. There are lots of studies were people try to infer something, but the conclusion is always that circumcision is unnecessary and does more harm than good. There does not exist a logical correlation for any perceived good and the cosmetic surgery itself. Fact.

Prove me wrong by writing your own statement if you think so and see if it holds any water. I probably won’t read it because the facts already prove otherwise and science is not a matter of subjective opinion. I have studied this topic well enough to know what is going on in the scientific and political community and nobody is going to convince of anything different using “charisma” or fancy jargon thinking I don’t understand what they are saying. Ironically I find such attempts of psychological manipulation absolutely distasteful and repulsive, since what they think is persuasive and appealing appears to me as the most hideous, evil creature possible.

So if the perceived good is non-bodily and results in a total detachment of bodily nature by embracing an existence that is non-bodily in nature, then the bodily intervention is entirely unnecessary. The bodily act totally negates any claim to a non-bodily existence because it is entirely dependent on bodily form. In other words, the non-bodily existence can be taught with human communication and use of rational thinking without any need for bodily alterations, substances, or actions. You can simply think your way to that conclusion of wisdom and don’t even have to move your body from where you started to do a ritual sign of prayer or sit in a particular way.

Because that logical connection is true, then the only course of action that is acceptable is to pursue methods that make learning such truths efficient, easy, and reliable. That means that unnecessary surgery must be rejected because it only reinforces what is false and precisely what we want to eliminate from human nature by being a physical bodily act. Why do those circumcised people believing that they are driven to achieve more even feel that way in the first place? Because they believe themselves to be inadequate because of circumcision.

If those people are the ones with the most power in society, they have proven themselves to be entirely inadequate because the state of human civilization is a disaster. Humanity at present is imperiled with extinction because of the world leadership’s irresponsible behavior, foolish decisions, shortsightedness, arrogance, and general stupidity. So they believe they are inadequate, which I imagine is not a good feeling because I certainly don’t feel that way, and they have proven themselves inadequate with action and lack of results. Even worse they are embarrassed by how capable I am in relation to them and don’t want people to realize that I am not circumcised because then my presence alone defies irrefutably their claims of bodily dependence for superiority.

The fact that they have antagonized me for helping people and solving problems that make everybodi’s lives easier in ways that have nothng to do with circumcision, only reinforces the inadequacy, inferiority, and undesirable persons they are becayse of how evil they look in the simple light of a purely good truth that I uplift. That truth is: good is good and evil is bad. Evil is never good, even if bad can at times be good. Good is never bad. It only appears bad when something bad is revealed to be in the place of good having been using a deceptive appearance. A domestic terrorist and traitor who hates freedom and democracy above all else in the place of a US president, for example.

The US president should appear good and does under normal circumstances because freedom and democracy are good and desirable in the USA and the president is supposed to uplift that truth and ensure it is protected. However, now the president looks horribly evil because of what was revealed to have been using its appearance. That does not mean that it was always evil or that it always will be evil. What it does mean is that we know there is something undesirable and bad there because now it looks, feels, and behaves in totally evil ways while the truth we believe it should be remains good, true, and attainable.

Therefore, we need to use the nature of progress to cultivate, safeguard, and secure what is good and elimate what is undesirable about the situation. It’s not even that hard since upholding basic law and order is a universal practice for leaders since the dawn of human civilization and that is all that is required. If a common person like me interprets the law and judges a situation correctly when the highest judges of the land fail to do so, it is a symptom of a much more deadly problem for a nation. If that symptom is not addressed, there is going to a catastophe that will end in total destruction not only of the USA, but all places that the USA has integrated itself over the centuries.

That integration was not bad. What was bad was treacherous evil unlawfully corrupting that integration for inapropriate and abusive purposes. So, just examine the facts, identify what was good and bad about them, separate those qualities, understand their cause, and then see what can be eliminated and how to remove the bad without affecting the good.

How does circumcision play into that? It doesn’t. Those are just two examples of the greatest barriers to human progress that are oppressing humanity, and ways to overcome them as a species. Circumcision is simple: find a nonbodily way to initiate the pain and suffering of an inadequate existence that compels a person to be better and at the same time encourages them and helps them to do so. Circumcision does not do that because it only oppresses, puts down, and harms others to make itself feel better, which doesn’t even work in the long term and always ends in the destruction of those who do that.

Is there a healthy way to initiate that process? Yes. The way of the artist does that. For an example to follow, but not the only example, just one that I am certain of. You can follow my example of life and experience that non-bodily existential suffering that transcends nature by ascending to the highest divine, realizing one’s own inadequacy in comparison to the highest divine, and then being encouraged to continue ascending even knowing that they will never reach that.

Doing true art is like that and it doesn’t matter whether or not there are facts to support that claim because it is true regardless. Creating true art requires a total selflessness that cannot ever achieve what it wants to do without divine inspiration. That doesn’t mean it needs to be religious, but the goodness and creativity of entertainment, even that of frightening horror and depressing tragedy, is a work of the divine for all of creation which the divine experiences through all of creation.

Thus, to achieve the highest quality of artistic expression, one must be familiar with spiritual reality and know how to work with those energies. That road, the road of spiritual mastery, is one that inflicts the greatest possible suffering a human being can experience. Infinitely more pain and trauma than what can possibly be done physically to a person’s body. “There is no greater pain than that of separation from the highest divine,” to paraphrase a quote I read in a book I don’t remember the title or author of. So you see, there is another reason to not alter a human’s body with unnecessary surgery that is intended to cause suffering by imposing an artificial limitation and unnecessary burden on a person.

Last thing is the shortest explanation: the sexual preference some people claim circumcision is about. It is inapropriate to decide for your children what their sexual preferences will be, especially when it is something as superficial as requiring cosmetic surgery. Deciding that for a child is using that as a sexual object to justify the parents own perverse desires for altered flesh since those desires only serve a physical and bodily experience at the cost of a good that is infinitely more important and pleasurable than anything a bodily can physically experience as pleasure.

That is perverse and wrong, and it should not be happening. It is only okay when an adult decides to do that for their own happiness and identity, because a person’s sexual consent is for them alone to give and requires minimum maturity to be able to do so. Children do not have that maturity at least until puberty happens.

So, there you go. Some productive reading material for the day that can make your life better.

Part 2

Jews have survived as a cultural identity of their own for thousands of years against some of the most tenacious attempts to eradicate them, not that I agree with any such attempts. Just because you can logically prove an idea evil, does not mean it is okay to accept evil yourself in order to confront it. More importantly than having a cultural identity that is uniquely their own, Jews are human beings underneath what makes them Jewish, just as I am underneath what makes me American, and anybody else is underneath how they express what they believe to be sacred. If there is any theme about the Story (the divine purpose of existence being expressed in real time with reality) which I intended to convey in StoryTeller, a modern origin story, and a theme which I am certain Jews can agree with me on is this: despite being ideologically different or biologically different or entirely inorganic in origin, people, as in individuals with personality (human nature not required), people will find a way to survive against any threat or obstacle to our collective survival if faced with such a rare situation.

If you think your ideological survival depends on my death as a person and denying me all of the rights of a human being you want yourself, you are mistaken. Eliminating me in such a way will also eliminate yourself. I identify more with what we are underneath our expression of sacred identity than I identify with any possible expression of sacred beliefs or faith. I identitfy with the wordless more than the Word. I’m not saying one way is better than the other, but my way of thinking suits me more than the alternatives because I found the expressions of identity about self in my time to be inadequate and offensive. Therefore, I have become familiar with the inexpressible nature of truth and reality and found it to be more reliable than anything people have to tell me.

I can don a new garment of belief, and accept new ideas on faith, just as I do so with the teachings about Story which I have shared from experience using it in such a way, but I will take that garment off before I give up what I am underneath it. I am an American, that is my cloak. You will take that away as a thief? Fine, have it. Because it is you who take that away from me, it no longer has any importance to me anyway. Oh this? This is my tunic. I made it on my own because I didn’t want to go about naked. I don’t know what you want me to say. It is my Story about who I am woven from real threads of truth and experience.

You don’t want that for yourself. Trust me. No really! I am not trying to trick you! If you are going to be like that, fine, take it. I will go about naked, and you’ll see soon enough why my life does not suit you nor is it anything you could possibly want. As a matter of fact, thank you, because you took that off my hands and now I have something better that I took from you when you looked at my naked body after robbing me. You cannot take that back without killing who you are at the same time. Besides I can make something new. It’s what I taught myself how to do because I thought it would be most useful in life to know how to clothe myself in such a way and not have to rely on others for something so personal.

Just as I did to give myself clothing out of thin air when my personal identity in real life was assaulted by the USA national authorities when they robbed me of my rags, leaving me naked while their gang of rich people paying them laughed and mocked my nakedness at being assaulted in such a way, we will adapt, innovate, invent, create, and do the impossible when necessary. We will even use magic from our wildest fantasies in real life and scare the world half to death because they’ve never seen anybody do such a thing and then teach them how to do it themselves before they kill you in a panic as they display the most shameful form of cowardice a human being can possibly have with such a response. Then use that teaching to turn them against the ones who manipulated them against me and turn the entire situation in our favor.

In short, Jews will find a way to adapt that is acceptable to them to accommodate this cultural paradigm shift of humanity or abandon Judaism altogether, and likewise, Christians and Muslims will do so as well. If I made it seem like the Bible is irrelevant by explaining how it doesn’t work now, when it obviously is so out of date that nobody even believes it used to work, all that you need to do to keep its Story alive is add a Story that adapts it to the times. If the Jews didn’t have the New Testament to carry them to the next level, they would not be able to create the next scripture which will return the favor to Christians.

Without explaining the full suggestion I offered before, I propose that the new circumcisers who are Christians make an addition to the Story with the authority of Esau as their link to Abraham and through Abraham, Jesus. For what it’s worth, Esau is one of my favorite Bible heroes up there with Nathan and Josiah. Did you not know that Esau displayed wisdom that Jacob was totally ignorant of when he was surprised by it? Esau received his rightful blessing in that moment and the evil villain, Jacob, was put to justice without it coming to violence or needing a judge to deliver it.