Christianity doesn’t have a colour coded enlightenment graduation scale.
Okay, I know it’s probably too much to hope for at this point, but could somebody give a concise summary of whatever the heck the OP is talking about? It doesn’t have to lay out the entire cosmology of the religion, but I’d appreciate it if it defined enough terms that the OP would become vaguely comprehensible.
Here’s a simple graph that should answer all your questions.
The turquoise described on the chart doesn’t sound like the turquoise described in the op - in fact nothing in your picture suggests the world is perfect. It seems to be spiraling more towards “life sucks and everything you try will fail”.
True, but Candide is still an amusing read.
Well yeah, “life sucks and everything you try will fail” but once you get to Coral you’ll realize that’s ok because you’re good enough, smart enough and gosh darn it people like you.
But seriously, I think the OP has personally merged Spiral Dynamics with some other Eastern inspired new agey crap.
Orange you glad I didn’t say Banana?
Octarine and damned proud of it.
You mean that “solutions fail to meet the needs of individuals” Coral? That Coral?
I’d think you’d want to merge it with something, because based on that chart it’s damn depressing on its own.
So… don’t. If the outcome of such a thing is the conclusion that everything is the bleak and unpalatable notion that everything is pointless, then maybe just don’t choose to tread that path.
Retain a modicum of judgment, don’t attain perfect peace (I mean, honestly, peace sounds fucking boring the way you describe it), and preserve the capacity to make the world better.
There. Problem solved.
Now here’s real color commentary.
I hate you for beating me to this.
Oh, well…I’m still standing tall, on the wings of a dream.
That doesn’t really make sense. What about the part where all action is pointless?
I think he’s getting at that improvement is just in our heads because when we “improve” soemthing it’s more like a story we tell ourselves. In reality, objectively, we are just moving parts around and things happen. Improvement implies some objective scale of better or worse, which doesn’t exist.
Addendum: I don’t think the world is perfect. It merely is. Saying it is perfect would imply some criteria for perfection and therefor would be a value judgment. It would also imply some standard for imperfection which would violate his alleged claims of nonduality.
Would me saying that make the world a bit less perfect?
Would me refraining from saying that make the world a bit less perfect?
Is there, in your opinion, anything I can do to make the world less or more perfect? Prepare a meal for a hungry beggar? Prepare a meal and eat it in front of that beggar? Save an innocent? Murder an innocent? Set fire to a house full of innocents? Anything?
If this is true, it is also automatically false.
If there is no means by which you can judge anything good or bad, true or false, you also can’t judge the idea “there is no means by which you can judge anything”
Wow. The last time I read something like that it was, I think, 1972 and generated by someone with too much affection for LSD and MaryJane. Wow. Pass the cheese doodles while we sit here in the “safe space”. Dude is trippin’
So if an assailant were raping you and also planning to murder you, would you just chant/mumble “the world is perfect” over and over again during the process?
The last time I read something like this was pretty much the last time the OP started a thread.
They’re all one perfect thread. We’re just moving the parts around.