THE LAW of HUMAN NATURE
Through scientific method we have discovered laws that govern all aspects of natural activity. It seems the existence of these laws is generally accepted without much discussion about their source beyond describing on going research as an effort to discover the "God Law", the unifying law that ties all the others together. Standing on our acceptance there are laws governing the entire complex array of natural activity we should be encouraged to expect there are also from this same source "principles governing human behaviour" which can also be discovered through scientific method. Once discovered, in the light of this "Law of Human Nature" we will be able to explain every activity and life circumstance; and predict where on what appears to be a continuum between complete self-destruction and complete self-realization the outcome of our activity will be.
We can only hope we discover the "Law of Human Nature" soon because our present haphazard experiments continue to be increasingly self-destructive. It can be found in the last why: the poem; the last why: the precis; the last why: the essay
Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 10:34PM
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If anybody were really looking for answers, they'd be asking the correct questions. Nobody wants to know about natural law and our personal participation and responsibility where she's concerned. It's too much for most people to accept natural law because that means consequences and the end of functioning primarily on the pleasure principle. Enlightenment is a long and painful process and we are conditioned from birth not to seek it by the few who believe they and only they are entitled. Who knows, maybe "they", the keepers of the truth, were chosen and we (the human race) aren't ready for the responsibility and power that comes with total knowledge.
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All questions are correct and all except "the last why" have answers. Behind "the last why" is "the void" and nobody is "really looking for" that 'answer' so no one wants to ask "(that) correct question." We are indeed discouraged from asking. To keep from asking we create answers and become more or less, not "keepers of the truth" but rather keepers of the answers that prevent us from arriving at the truth.
We do not choose to accept or reject the "Law of Human Nature". It is and we all live within its scope of influence. It makes or breaks us but we determine the degree to which we are made or broken. If we choose to live more by answers and the activity they dictate than by the activity that makes us, we will be broken to the extent we choose.
Seeking pleasure can be an "answer" and as we can see by our present activities "the pleasure principle" is destroying us and our home. However, if we choose to live more by the activity that makes us, to the extent we choose we will experience the pleasure of becoming what we are capable of being, in harmony with "Nature". The "law of human nature" lists them but the responsibility for the consequences is ours.
In choosing answers we make them "knowledge" and to those we perceive to be the best "keepers" of the knowledge we give the most power; and so we give power to the Pope. In choosing to become what we are capable of being we feel the "power that comes with (truth)"; and thus we give "power to the people", our only hope. Doug.E.Barr