Quote: (04-23-2018 02:45 PM)SlickyBoy Wrote:
Quote: (04-23-2018 02:27 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
The simple ideas of hell/negative karma/shame to family and ancestors aid in suppressing the most negative actions. That is why we don't follow our instincts, don't rape all women we find hot, don't bash someone's head in just because he pissed us off in traffic or at work. Our animal instincts are telling us all of that. Our higher nature is speaking something else, but in between the realm of the mind and emotions is dominated by ideologies, by religion or by the wisdom of wiser men that is either helping us making better choices or the wisdom is just designed to make worse beings out of us (Islam).
Very odd that when it comes to not raping women, the place which invented the entire concept of karma seems the worst at it.
And those shit-bathing pics of India posted earlier are not far from the truth for much of the region. As much of a shit show that modern Christianity is nowadays, at least it isn't an actual shit show.
Simple:
1) Caste system is shit - far more negative than it seems
2) Dowry system and devaluation of women - also highly negative
3) Add to it average IQ of 81 while all the high-IQ ones leave (average Indian immigrant to the US has reportedly an IQ of around 110)
The teachings of karma barely registers in such an environment.
Though some of the reports are overblown. It's a country of 1.4 billion with shit infrastructure and a still large Muslim minority. My guess is that the place would be far worse with a different mindset. Though all three aspects mentioned by me will have to change if India intends to surpass a country like China. In my opinion that will happen, just in a few centuries.
Oh - and another thing - most Indians are far more materialistic than Westerners. Many spiritual people report all the same being absolutely dumbfounded by the rampant materialism thinking that they would enter some kind of enlightened place while everyone thinks about money and social advancement.