Secrets from the Ages

Chapter 15

Love

This chapter comes following the chapter concerning religion because Love seems to be the biggest single item in religions. Love is touted as being the greatest of all emotions and all of the major religions of Earth spout Love in one way or another. It is stated that we must love God and that God loves us. Very few other philosophies or psychology theories do not rate Love as the greatest thing that exists. It is stated in thousands of books and preached on thousands of pulpits that love is our only chance of creating peace on Earth. Love is considered to be the answer for practically everything that plagues mankind.

Love has been around every since mankind has existed on Earth. So if love is the answer to all that plagues mankind and the answer to peace on Earth, why do we not have peace? Anything dissolves in its solution. If love is the solution, why has it not solved all of our problems. There is a possibility that love is not exactly what we have always been made to believe that it is. Now is the time to keep an open mind as the fate of the human race is at stake as you read these lines.

The fact is, the entire human race and all of the religions, philosophies, and psychiatrists have the functions of love exactly backwards. It isn't that if we love that we will stop the killing and torture. The way it really is, if we stop the killing and torture we will then be able to love. If the husband stops beating his wife, they might get to the point where they will love one another. But you won't stop the beating by having the husband love his wife. It simply don't work that way. It was said of the worst torturers of the inquisition that they loved those who they tortured because they thought that what they were doing would insure that their victims would go to heaven. Mankind has been taught love for thousands of years and it has never resulted in peace. The teaching of the Bible resulted in the Crusades among many other wars. After several hundred years of missionaries to Africa, there are no Africans who have not heard of Christ and the message of love. The leader of the Rebels in Uganda wants to start a country that is based on Christianity. He was raised as a Christian and now he kills daily. He often goes into the villages and forces sons to rape their mothers or sisters, or even kill them. All the people of Africa have heard the Christian story. There are more Christians in Africa than in the USA. All those in Africa that are killing one another are either Christians or Moslims and both religions teach love.

Love is an invention of nature to ensure the continuation of the race. It is triggered by natural occurrences, the first of which, is sex. Very few people consider themselves "in love" until after they have had sex one or more times, and if they don't have sex, it is the consideration of having sex that triggers the love. Other love such as love for children is also an invention of nature. This love is what guarantees the survival of the race. It is simply a mechanism of nature to obtain survival of our race. Except in extremely rare incidents, love of any kind seldom lasts more than a few years. It is extremely fleeting. It lasts long enough to see siblings grown enough to fend for themselves. The idea that people who love do not kill has never proven out in life.

Love seldom lasts long enough to bring about a happy life for any one individual, yet it is always touted as the answer for happiness. The major religions of mankind including Christianity were all started by men who touted love as the most important aspect of the religion. When this man passed on, these religions all continued to teach love, of course among many other things. All these religions have brought mankind only suffering and death. While their followers all have done what they could to practice the various religions to the best of their knowledge, the result has been war, suffering, death, bigotry, and all the other evil things that have continued to exist through the centuries.

Sorry, but treating people good, helping people, being nice, furnishing the suffering people with medicine, helping people find new lives and making children safe should not be done out of love. Doing all these things should be done because one knows it is right. Doing these things should be done because one knows that they bring about a greater survival of our race. They should be done because of ones integrity, and ones understanding that our race needs to survive.

We don't know how long your love will last in any one area, but the one thing that is constant is your knowledge of right and wrong. In the long run, the only thing you can depend upon is yourself. Its not you love, not your faith, not your belief. In the long run, the only thing that you can depend upon for sure, is yourself and what you know, not what you believe. You are the only one that can be certain that you will always do what is right and that you will always have the necessary compassion to treat people correctly. The religious people have always been taught to rely on love to keep them doing right and treating people right, but what happens when you find that you are human and the emotion of love has been replaced with some lessor emotion, such as anger. Well, what has happened through the centuries is death and destruction and love didn't stop it. When it is stopped it is because the people there did what was right, not because they loved.

Your love may be long gone, but you will still know right from wrong. It is then up to you to know that you will continue to do what is right. Thousands of people have found themselves in the position where a loved one has become a spy or an enemy or a killer or a thief. Sometimes because of love they continue to allow that loved one to do wrong things. The point being, acting out of love is not the appropriate way to act. Or the opposite, when love leaves, most past lovers begin to at as criminals towards one another. Because they were acting out of love, they no longer know how to treat one another when love leaves. Look at the fighting that those people do who are getting divorces.

We must always act upon what we know is right, not what love or any other emotion tells us to do. All emotions are useful at certain times. Love is no less useful than any of the other emotions. However, one must never allow himself to be ruled by his emotions. He must always look at exactly what is right and wrong. No emotion will give you that answer. You and only you know that answer. When you depend on any emotion to give such an answer you will eventually lose and you will know and assume the guilt of your wrong choice. This is, of course, especially true of the emotion of love.

You are God playing out your particular viewpoint. You will always know what is right and what is wrong. You will never need an emotion to drive you, or tell you how to treat other people. You will always be able to control your destiny. Do not allow yourself to be driven by anger, or hate or envy, or any other emotion including love. Do not feel guilty because you do not love someone or some group or even some race. Realize that you will always treat them right regardless of how you feel, because you will always know right from wrong.

Normally, love is not something that is totally under your command. You may try to love everyone the same, but you will seldom do that. You will even love your children differently than other people and each child differently. Let's be practical about this, you may find one group that is trying to help you is a very nice group, and another group that is trying to attack you not very nice. Face facts, you are not going to have undying love that is the same for both groups. If you do, I suppose that is great, but you might find logical thinking to be easier to come by if you do not love the bad group to death. You may find it easier to protect yourself or kill the bad guys by not forcing love. As long as you are you, you can determine the right action without loving the bad guys. You don't have to feel bad because you don't love the bad guys. It's not necessary in order to do the right thing.

To insist on loving the bad guys against all logic is a belief or consideration of various religions and practices of paths to enlightenment. Such practices are mostly to impress ones fellows on how wonderful one is. The good that comes from such practices is seldom of any value and has gotten thousands murdered. For example, the millions that were killed in Tibet by the Chinese. The Tibetans loved the Chinese and the Chinese killed them all. This one incident that resulted in the death of millions of good people, should be a good enough lesson for anyone. The Tibetans loved everybody and it worked ok for a hundred years, and then along came the Chinese and it didn't work any more. The fact is, you have the ability to do what is right without misplacing your love. So don't misplace your love. It is too valuable.

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