“The history of philosophy is the story of a secret and mad hatred of the prerequisites of life.” (Nietzsche)
Who or what is blocking our evolution?
Nietzsche thought that our needs interpret the world, our instincts and impulses are for or against. We often error in interpreting our needs and therefore error in for-and-against judgments. Our species has a grasp of reality at a level related to our minds/brains/senses ability to grasp reality. As we evolve higher intelligence and higher consciousness it seems likely that we will grasp more of reality than we do now, just as we grasp more of reality than, say, Chimpanzees, who are only about one percent different than we are. Deeper truths about reality therefore seem to depend on continued evolution.
We are material, biological, and the data received from our senses cannot legitimately claim that we are seeing or thinking beyond the senses. Why have we preferred to define an abstract, spiritual world unconnected to living objects? Why have we hated real life? We have defined our God as opposite the animal rather than at the zenith of biological/material/supermaterial evolution, which is where real Godhood can be attained. Getting back to knowledge of who we really are, back to real life, is the best way to begin to evolve beyond what we are. Our survival may depend on higher knowledge that comes from our future evolution. We have to first survive before we can continue our central purpose of evolving toward Godhood.
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