Man and thy self Destructive Self

You shall not covet your neighbour’s house. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or his manservant, maidservant, or his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbour.

There goes the last of our saints, straight to hell. How do you make such a commandment, have it parallel to the evolutionary drive that is genetically set in our DNA, and expect survivors? How do we justify life outside the monastery or nunnery? How do you justify capitalism?

I am an optimist and will find positives in almost anything, hell included. No worries about ever freezing to death. The human brain is plastic but is made to be selfish in nature. One learns altruistic character from some of the harshest of conditions, eg 27 years in a cell owning nothing other than the air you just inhaled, just for a minute at the very least. The Tibetan Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Gandhi just to mention a few of the living memory club are acquired traits stretched and ironed out by doom and gloom. A baby only learns to let one hand wash another as a survival strategy, selfish to the core. It takes time to get them to even come close to one another. 

The discovery that the happiest of subjectively confirmed PECT scans come from the monks bears testimony to the commandment though. There is not much depression amongst the deeply religious let alone monks. Monks shine the brightest nuclei accumbens beacons, irrespective of their expressionless exterior. How could they beat post orgasmic men on our Hollywood screens? How could they beat the lotto winner on the way to that Ferrari dealership? How could they beat a breast suckling baby or man for during interval period?

Could it possibly have more to do with inner peace that we were asked not to want? How could we spread to be as many as sand grains if the monasteries were promoted to even half the proportion of the population at any given time? How could Roman Catholics and their bedevilled priesthood be right? How could the altar boy chasing priests be closer to heaven than the rest of us? Is the bible misunderstood by the very people trying to lead us out of temptation? Could science do any better?

Whatever the answer is for even half the above questions, nobody should tell the monks what they are missing. We might suddenly be overcrowded by hungry and ravenous men to the detriment of all onboard.

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