great reply and I am glad you are asking from your perspective .... I will never claim I have answers , I have experienced something that has shifted my perception on reality so when I try to communicate my opinions they come from a place of experience on the non believer side of god (which was most of my life , to the belief of that which connects us all )
your first question is , why do we have to to agree .... you do not have to agree to anything , you do not have to pull your hand away from a fire .... you make a choice to do so . This is a little more complex because what drives you away from your connection to Being , god , universe ...whatever incomplete term we use. ..... is your mind , and it's belief that it is YOU .
it isn't , its a tool .... much more powerful than a hand or a foot , but it is a tool nevertheless .... unfortunately because it has the ability to create a self ...an ego .... it also has the ability to assume control of your actions , if you are not present and grounded in the only reality that ever is , the present moment.... which is eternal by nature.
as far as your story about the worker that gives away everything ...... you have to take into consideration that for humanity to return to a state of grace , where our actions are one with natures law , it would take thousands of years of de training our minds to stop using money , manipulation , deceit , violence ....and all those things that separate and diminish us as an ethical species ....
now if i may , i will address the ego experiencing life .
this is my belief based on my experiences , .... your ego , identity ... it is simply an accumulation of memories and reactions , those memories are what you assemble into a story and you call it you . Fir example , my name is Rodrigo ... and according to what almost all humans believe I am a 45 year old man , that went a german private school , came to the US at age 13 , .... has always liked cars , has a charming personality and loves animals and kids. ... i can add a few more years and decades of info but you get the point .... that is the conventional way we describe who I am
but that is not who you are , those are simply your experiences .... and they are memories and memories only allow you to live under the interpretation of those experiences , which are ALWAYS a limited perspective on the entire event you are judging and storing into your memory.
So this entity , we call Rodrigo ... starts to believe the world around him is the fraction of what he saw , his vantage point of life .... the problem is if you now add 7 billion people to the equation , now you have those with other experiences and their perceptions of the SAME circumstances will be completely different . does the ego experience the life ..... no
and i can tell you this with 100% certainty , because there may be a point when you will realize that the mind can actually be observed as it thinks , and if the mind can be observed ....if you can put space between YOU and your thoughts , you will notice one very peculiar thing ..... the mind is its own entity ....and if you are present , you can observe its incessant nature to overthing , plot and repeat the mental babel that most humans play over and over in their head
your final question ...why should we serve the collective ...... when you strip the ego , what remains is pure peace and joy and THAT version of you will experience life in a manner that the very fragile and insecure ego cannot .... and you are not serving any collective , you are not being mandated by god ..... those are illusions of men that hide behind god to push their own ego
last thing i will say ..... there is not one thing I can share with you , that you do not already know within your core.... the only difference is that the mental noise in your head , has severed this connection , which when regained , you will not ask people questions because you will feel them as truth ....and I mean old truth .
thanks for taking the time to discuss , I only say what I believe in my soul (and I am not a religious person at all , religion is .... another subject .... but the internal connection to all , that I feel and I don't need an equation or theorem to know it is more real than anything that is in form thought.
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