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[Dtris]

And with no reference to Ra or the LOO, still, humanity is like a bully in this world, because we can be due to our developed brains and neocortex. We endeavor to control and manipulate the environment and the life on it for our own purposes. The other life forms on this planet are literally our victims and have no say in the matter. And just look where that control and manipulation have gotten us to at this point. We have nearly destroyed the very planet we live on in our stupidity.

I quoted this part because I believe this exemplifies a common theme in many spiritual circles. This theme is basically viewing humanity as some sort of evil as a whole. I completely disagree with this. Leaving out anything else, if you view humanity as a whole as evil, you view yourself and all your family and friends as evil by extension. This is just another version of original sin, just with an environmentalist or conservationist garb.

I never said I view humanity as evil. And I am not any other label either. Nor do I single out myself, friends, family and people I know as more worthy of consideration than anyone or anything else, so the argument that I might inadvertently lump them in as evil too would hold no sway with me, even if humanity being evil in nature was what I meant. I just observe and make conclusions or suppositions. If you don't think we have made bad choices as a species regarding the stewardship of our environments then we have no common ground from which to converse. Certainly the 2D life forms on this planet aren't responsible.

You was being used in the universal sense. I meant to add that to the post but was at work and got distracted.

However, with that caveat, your language indicates that you view yourself, and everyone else, as being just as culpable for whatever shortcoming you are assigning to something as nebulous as humanity. The portions which lead me to that conclusion are bolded.

As a rule I try not to post things that are targeted at individual posters and was not attempting to do so before. I have indicated your own language as this is an example of the type of language that is used in many spiritual circles which can be hard to notice but subtly influence your belief structure . Your view is of the same type as the one I was referring to, individual nuances aside. I am in no position to say your beliefs are accurate or inaccurate. It is obvious we disagree on this, but if we all agreed on everything life would be very boring.

If you think we have no common ground to converse, we are on a forum with a very specific focus after all, there is at least some common ground to work with.