I just saw a French Facebook group called:Invitation à l'ouverture de notre Conscience
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Invitation to the opening or our conscience
For one thing there is no such thing as
OUR conscience
when someone says OUR conscience
he is trying to impose to you HIS conscience
as twisted as it can be.
it makes me shiver to think of all the horrors and innuendos that could go on there.
It has ALL the hallmarks of a horrible cult.
When you decide to call someone or something toxic
(a popular word these days so is detox which is often nothing short of a snake oil scam)
You establish yourself as the image of purity as your own little god
to be worshipped and more importantly OBEYED.
The site goes on about what to do with your house what to keep what to throw away etc etc
The beginning of conscience / consciousness has always been nothing but trouble where everyone established himself as the final authority on right or wrong as the moral standard to be followed by all.
A conscience at its best is but extremely unreliable and totally corrupted by one's environment and geography.
Conscience: a person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour.
next I might rant on so-called free will LOL
another concept that is not ageing very well either.
Humans aren't survivors because of our ability to develop morality on a continuum where we reach an apex of moral development. We are survivors because of our flexible use of morality. The 'right' or 'wrong' is not about good and evil, it's about what is conducive to survival in a particular context. For example, Murdering 'witches' was morally appropriate at one tiny prick point in time, possibly to protect the men in the town whom had been mating with them and wanted them quiet and gone....but whatever the reason, it was morally acceptable at the time.
ReplyDeleteMorality is fluid and flexible :) and can be used for a number of purposes.