Theos-Talk Archives (March 1995 Message tl00398)

>> ... what is the _evidence_
>> for laws of nature being benign in intent, aiming at the utopian
>> outcome posited by such a view?

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> What kind of evidence would you accept? If
> was said that we no longer throw christians to the lions for
> entertainment, being satisfied to dress men in shoulder pads and
> helments and send them into the arena to bang away at each other,
> would you consider that evidence of moral development in
> civilization?
>
> Lewis

No. Humanity has invented and used the means to nuke each other.
Here in the UK we are hearing of arms deals by UK companies with
Iraq, which then used the arms to kill and maim UK and US
soldiers, plus not a few dissident Iraqis and Kuwaitis.  Some of
these it also seems to have murdered with nerve gases invented in
the "civilized" and "morally developed" West.  Our Beloved
Leaders give us rousing speeches about these things while doing
nothing to prevent them.

The Brit government has recently devised a new way of removing
any social security whatever from those unemployed for more than
six months - another way of throwing people to the lions?  They
don't have to be christians, even.  They might just help to
increase the crime rate, but the establishment statisticians keep
moving the goal posts, so it will probably appear to be going
down.

We are told "the economy is improving" while we see high street
stores closing every week, and long-established concerns going
bankrupt.

In South America police are shooting children as vermin.

Some moral progress!  Humanity, from the evidence offered, seems
to be behaving much the same as it has always done.  It's main
"progress" seems to have been in finding more and more evil ways
of doing it.

In Theosophical terms, we are right in the Sh__ of Kali Yuga.