What primarily instills the faithful belief in altruism, kindness, and other "humane" practices of the world? Is there true honesty and full life in the majority of believers' actions? What do these beliefs show us about the view of death in the world?

There are many people whom assume the guise of kindness. There are many people whom practice the art of self deception. The believers of such faiths, all faiths that portray loving innocence and unquestioned kindness, deny themselves truth.

The Vegan who cannot kill a dog to eat its flesh, or pick the apple to eat its flesh to carry on their life does not do so for kindness, nor by the grace of bliss, but for fear of pain, death, and so the fear of life. The believer projects their fears of pain and death upon other living things. They incorporate a reality that exists solely from themselves onto all that surrounds them because they will not face nor accept the truths of life and death. The Vegan is the first example, but so is true within all faiths. One cannot kill because they fear pain themselves. One cannot rape because they fear pain themselves. They are attached to the world. They have given the world a series of rules that make it appear good and kind through their eyes because they cannot handle the reality of living. They cling to an illusion just as any capitalist or authoritarian has. The illusion of control and comfort. When what must be done is the surpassing of these limits and all other limits on life. And what must not be done is the clinging to of comfort and lies that dilute the experience and joy of life.

It is not up to one person to inflict kindness on another. It is not. It is up to the individual person to achieve non-attachment and inner peace so that no matter what is inflicted upon that owned self, be it kindness or rage, truth is always known in the depths of existence. Be there Heaven or Hell around the individual, joy and happiness and all other techniques of existence may be used freely, without fear and hindrance, or even concern for those that have achieved peace, or those that have not. A master was once asked, "Is it possible for an enlightened person to hurt another?" The master answered, "Yes. But he wouldn’t know it." Or, though he might know it, he would not be burdened with it. The master, as all masters, understood the irrelevancy in the infliction of pain on another, for he understood the concept of eternity and life and death, and pain. Besides, aren’t all paths to god, or bliss, or truth…in time? Wouldn’t one merely hinder another by creating another illusion to cling to? For example: If someone were to approach me and cut off my ear, I would let my ego react to this brutal attack by cutting of the attackers hold on his life (if possible). But I would hold no grudge. I would hold no grudge if the attacker killed me. I would fly onward. But I would not be afraid to live in the moment. However, in all randomness, I may choose to laugh and walk away, holding my severed ear. It is my choice, because I know truth. I am not ruled by either action. I know that there is no truth, but one. Existence. In all purity. Let me lay forth another example of the human lie.

The Guillotine. A device that severed the heads of those whom the "authority" at the time randomly decreed wrong doers. A large blade weighing 88 pounds, with a 45 degree angle, for maximum penetration, was raised fifteen feet into the air and dropped upon the neck of the suspecting condemned, flinging the head into a shoddily made basket in less than a thirtieth of a second. It is quick and it is bloody. It has been halted because it was thought to be "inhumane." But it was not halted because of the blood. No. No. Many died on the Guillotine for centuries and centuries by merely walking up to the device and having there heads sharply severed. Many people came to see it. Many people accepted their fate and/or the fate of whom they came to watch. At the time, it was thought to be the most "humane" way of killing someone. But the debate of it’s humanity rose up from time to time. The debate arose once with kicks, and screams, and the surfacing of all the great fears in one woman, one of Henry’s naughty wives, I think. The crowds came out that day. They came out to see the show. But they didn’t like what they saw. They didn’t like all that fear they saw. They hated it. Because of this event, because of the terrified blood curdling screams of the woman, the Guillotine was not used quite so often anymore. Not because of the blood, but because the crowd could only condone the peaceful death of someone. Hell, it was family event. They could not face the non-peaceful death of someone. It began a great deal of debate about the death penalty in general in France. The "humanity" randomly stuck to the Guillotine is still debated, since its use was effective up to 1971, but the debate was on how long the person retained conciousness after the severing. Again, the watchers didn’t want to stared at by the newly dead, with their condemning, bulging eyes of twitching doubt. Today, the US kills with lethal injection. Very clean. No screaming. Very easy to watch. It is considered the most "humane" way to kill another person, or a puppy for that matter. There is little debate on the method, at least for supporters of the death penalty. It is all considered very humane, but it is not for the person who is dying, the humanity is for the people that are watching. The pain, the doubt, the fear, the terrible war that rages in the mind and heart of that condemned body is Hell itself (for most men, being unenlightened. Even Jesus wanted to know why his father condemned him.). But once that person dies, that ego that found all that Hell, dies too. It’s all quiet on the egoic front. And, most importantly, it offers nice clean-up for the watchers, in the death room and in their minds. Regardless of the cause of death, to kill someone or to die yourself, is always humane. It may be painful, but all humans die, making it humane. All acts committed by the human on Earth are humane, for they come from humans. Though the two examples given are drastically different, and one portrays the sparing of life, and the other the taking of life, the point is the same. The illusion of humanity is a shroud, a belief, that creates the guise of comfort and righteousness, both nasty diseases to truth. Again, although in a much different thought of light, we see the lie, the fear, the illusion of kindness or humanity, keeping people from facing themselves and keeping people from living in the joys of Heavenly things and Hellish things.

We are human. We are human so we kill. We are human so we die. We are human so we war. We also love. We also save. We also set free and imprison ourselves and others. Can we live at peace? Not as one commonly thinks peace is. There is no physical peace, nor is there mental peace. There can be non-movement and there can be silence, but there is always action, and so we are always of war, death and rebirth. But we can be deeply and concretely of peace in our true existence. Well, we always are, but rather, we can realize it, and so we can truly live, and truly die, and just as importantly we can let others live and let others die, without the illusionary burden of worry or sadness that comes as natural reflex in acting "humane" and "kind". Death and consumption are as positive as birth and creation in the system, we only put the illusion of "good" and "evil" to them and to all other things. The existence, the final concrete thing, is the only thing that cannot die. Knowing this we can live, and most importantly in this statement we can let others live, even if their way might impose on us physically (killing) or mentally (a far worse type of death for people). It is right and it is pure and it is all too natural to live and to effect and change all life and living that is around us. That is the most intriguing and stimulating part of life. The trick of life is to find the knowledge of peace in yourself, so that you don’t need to take life so personally. It all exists, and not for you or against you, it just exists. All will always die, and all will always be in a type of pain. It would not be joyous without the experience of pleasure or pain. It was never designed to be taken personally. That is the illusion of humankind. A lie. A great lie.