Haroutioun Bochnakian

Violence is formed by the scarcity of nature, and will stay with us as long as we live in scarcity.

Monotheism and an absolute God define one another.The absolute is a mental construct, an abstract mental model.The absolute, whether it is a purest abstract essence or an extreme abstract measure, only exists in our minds as an abstraction.Furthermore, the absolute will only lead to the abandon of all measure and blind us to the relative interdependence of all things.The measure of knowledge of life is the knowledge of the measure of this relative interdependence.

The core issue in monotheism is righteousness/wickedness. Righteous/wicked qualifies a person acting or being Good/bad.In an environment of scarcity, man__ vital strategy for collective survival hinges on being good to his clan and bad to rival clans to acquire or defend resources.So the creation/elaboration/nurture of both good and bad can only be the consequence of a primary cause: scarcity.Monotheism __evealing_ such a mental disadvantage in a Creator as to confuse consequences for causes is _ revelatory.

DIVINE NECESSITY creates __thers_ even among family members who become good to be killed by family members_HUMAN NECESSITY commands man to resurrect the supposed reason for which God supposedly shattered humanity in Babylon:The __ovenant_ among men.

I have yet to understand the ritual of sacrifice in monotheism; to a supposed Creator who has supposedly given us what we will be eventually sacrificing.If I take a small mirror and reflect sunlight back to the sun, am I sacrificing to the sun?

Individual free choices_ can only be the expression of an __ndividual free will_.The notion of an __ndividual free will_ generating __ndividual free choices_ creates a much needed consequence: personal accountability.Personal accountability is vital for a primitive, immature human organization based on reprehension or praise.The permanent interaction of a unique inherited Nature (and maybe a unique __oul_) with a unique nurture (environment), will always determine all our __ndividual free choices_, from cradle to grave. It is impossible for the individual to be sentient before birth and choose these two or three unique factors.The logic of holding someone personally accountable for a __on-chosen_ choice eludes me.The notion of individual free will can at best be a __ut felt_ illusion, but can never have logical relevance.What sort of human (and divine!) organization can be based on the consequence of a __ut felt_ illusion?-Our current one; primitive, illogical, unstable and permanently conflictual.Be it for all individual choices or all differences, the definitive ban of the illusionary notion of personal accountability is the missing step that will lead to human maturity.How__ your __ut_ now?

In the perspective of our species, life has favored humanity as a whole by promoting as much wealth of variety and options as possible, and has distributed everything using the four winds. Life has given mankind everything it has, without segregation and without consideration of which characteristic or quality best suits the situations or the periods. Only by having the totality of human characteristics and options can we hope to deal with all periods to come.Our collective is our key to survival and well-being.

All life-forms are innocent, but man is the greatest innocent life-form that the universe has ever produced. Man is never created bad, as some primitive __evelations_ claim. Man is both all-capable, and innocent; Man cannot have better attributes than the ones he already has. Once we defeat scarcity, the factor that has forced all our negative attributes into existence will be no more. Man__ nature is forged by scarcity. Man is a child of scarcity. Some men may currently live in abundance, even obscene abundance, but they still are the children of scarcity. We all are.

What we call __igher_ behavior is elaborated by our abstract mind to ensure survival by an efficient cohesion of our clan.What we call __ower_ behavior is to ensure survival at the expense of a rival, or to prevent the survival of a rival to be at our expense.So,Be they our __igher_ and __ower_ behavior/selves, our humanity and inhumanity, our __ivine_ and __iabolic_ trends, or any aspect of our Human Nature,All are created by our abstract mind to ensure survival in an environment of scarcity.But of course you can always choose to adopt __evelations_ which present human nature as: A messed up image of a messed up supernatural coexistence between two messed up opposite supernatural entities with a messed up relation.Ultimately, we all think we choose by what we think we know.

Greatness should have no victimsGreatness should need no victims.

I think the need to believe in religion is and always was a need to know.Satisfying the NEED TO KNOW, be it by really knowing, by thinking we know or by believing we know, is very comforting for man.Be it by __irect_ knowledge,Be it by __motional_ knowledge,Be it by __ut-felt_ knowledge,Be it by __piritual_ knowledge,Be it by __ranscendental_ knowledge,Be it by __editative_ knowledge,Be it by __nspiration_,Be it by __evelation_,Be it knowing by faith orBe it by understanding,We definitely are one humanity under __eed to know_.