596. The Pollution of Faith and the Poison of Incense
Hua Zhenxing asked rhetorically, "What do I have to be disappointed in?" His tone was unfazed.
Jogaul raised his voice exaggeratedly: "Even I, an outsider, know what you have been doing and what you have done all these years!" That Zeng Huaiying was an early cadre of the New Alliance, the first generation of disciples cultivated by Yangyuan Valley.
A lot of ordinary people haven't heard of your name, but not her. The new alliance gave their family a beautiful new life, and Yangyuan Valley gave her everything she never dreamed of.
But how did she repay you? stealing the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill is blocking your way; Destroying the Nine Turns Purple Gold Furnace Great Array is also destroying the inheritance of the sect. Obstructing the path of humanity and destroying people's inheritance, this is an enmity that does not share the heavens!
Is this the kind of person you have put your heart and soul into saving and giving to all the people who have created a better world for you? β
Hua Zhenxing raised his eyes and said, "Do you know her well?" β
Jo Gaole: "I don't know each other very well, but I just came back from the investigation of the Wago Mining and I know some things, and this person or this kind of person is actually not uncommon in the world.
She was originally an administrator employed by Wage Mining, and she was one of the few so-called white-collar workers in that dilapidated country.
In her heart, she looked down on the local natives and thought they were barbaric and ignorant...... Well, that's also a fact. She also looked down on the workers at the bottom, believing that she was different from them and belonged to a more noble class.
She lives in the so-called middle-class illusion, but she does not realize that she is also just an oppression...... There weren't many such people in the country at the beginning, and she happened to be one of them.
They don't care about history, they averse grand narratives, and occasionally they are interested in historical stories, but they only substitute for the so-called noble lives of some characters.
They do not seek to change the world, but they want to change themselves. You changed the world and made her see an opportunity to change herself.
Her husband used to be just an ordinary worker, a person she absolutely didn't look down on, but later became the backbone of the new alliance and the focus of training, so she married him......"
Hua Zhenxing couldn't help but interrupt: "Mr. Yue, are you making up for it, what are you going to investigate this time?" β
Jogale smiled: "Since I have made a trip, in addition to the help you asked me for, I will also investigate everything that interests me." With my cultivation, even if it is a brain supplement, it is also due to the law of cause and effect. β
Hua Zhenxing: "I admit that what you said may be good, but you don't know it completely, at least not as well as me." You only see Zeng Huaiying, and that's where I grew up.
Many of Zeng's actions may inadvertently fit your description, but she's not an opportunist, she's not that sophisticated.
You reminded me last time not to forget how you grew up, but why did you forget it this time?
Since I was a child, I have seen too many people like this, and there are also people who are stupider and worse than her. Speaking of stealing, there were thieves everywhere back then, and theft was a skill education that most children received from an early age.
They may not have the opportunity to learn how to behave in school, but they can observe and learn about theft at their doorstep. When they grow up and are able to use violence, they will rob in addition to stealing, robbing others or being robbed.
For example, if you are dressed up now, and walk on the streets of the former non-Sogang Harbor, the next second you will be surrounded by a group of children who are reaching out for money, as long as one of them is not careful, the wallet will be gone.
It's still in a safe neighborhood, and if you go into gang-controlled territory or a secluded area, you'll be greeted with a knife, a gun, or a syringe with an unknown liquid.
Some teenagers break into someone's house and kill another person, just to grab a nice new pair of shoes, put on the shoes and walk away as if nothing happened, and I've seen similar things happen more than once.
They disregard life because they themselves are not really alive, they are not real people, they are just ghosts in purgatory.
I said that I lived in purgatory back then, and this is not an exaggerated description or literary embellishment, but a proper fact. Neither the so-called upper nor lower class can change the fact that they live in the same purgatory.
Although Zeng Huaiying has Dongguo Chinese ancestry, she grew up in the city of Wage and has been used to seeing these since she was a child. Just for one's own selfishness, acting recklessly, this mentality may have been cultivated in the bones.
The world has changed, circumstances have changed, and of course people need to change, but some people have not kept up. β
Jo Gaole was silent for a few seconds before he spoke: "Director Hua really has a life, is this the reason why you are not disappointed?" β
Hua Zhenxing: "In the past, there were such people everywhere in the country of several miles, and I have been thinking about a question since I was a child, why is this place a purgatory, and can this purgatory be changed?"
So what I've been looking for is hope, because I live in this world as well. What you just said is based on the premise that I think I've done enough, good enough.
The incident of Zeng Huaiying shows that there are still such people in the world, and it is possible to appear in Yangyuan Valley. It's not my fault, it's her fault, it's exactly what we want to change.
Since she was wrong, it just proves that we are right, but we are not good enough, and we need to continue to work hard. I didn't lose hope back then, how can I be disappointed because of her today? β
Jo Gaole said quickly: "Xiaohua, your brain circuit is indeed strange enough, and you are still energetic, isn't it?" β
Hua Zhenxing: "Mr. Yue, do you know why I wasn't disappointed back then?" Thieves and robbers everywhere, but people can't survive by stealing alone, otherwise who will steal and rob?
If no one in the world has refined the Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill, where will Zeng Huaiying steal it? Even in purgatory, the human race here is not extinct, why?
There are many more people who don't take knives against you, and you often can't see them because you can't tell.
There are thousands of people in a block, even if there are only a few dozen of them who will take knives to rob you at any time, and the gangsters are entrenched, you don't dare to enter at will. Not only do you not dare, but if you have to pass by there, you will be afraid of everyone you see.
I've walked through neighborhoods like this, and I've killed them all.
That's what I'm supposed to do, and I don't have to ask for thanks. But doing so alone does not change the world, nor does it bring real hope.
How do I know if someone who doesn't do it is a good person? It didn't matter, at least they didn't do it at the time.
Some people have created everything that everyone depends on for survival, and have created those things that are worthy of being stolen and robbed, so the robbers have only stolen and robbed.
Plantation slave laborers like Aden, for example, are not only Aden, but even the Shire. The head of state, Shire, was also a gangster back then, but he didn't make a living by blackmail.
Charles and a group of his men grow bananas in the suburbs, and he has a workshop to make banana wine. He would even ask me, a kid, for help, to look up information on the Internet and get testing equipment through the grocery store.
Because of the Shire, at least there is wine in Filso, even if it is only the lowest kind of bad wine. He also tried his best to improve quality management, and actually learned to control alcohol, body, and sweetness.
In the sparse school, he was a rare good student, not only learned to read and write conversationally, but also learned to calculate accounts. He joined the gang just to protect his business and not to steal his alcohol.
In the local gang, when he was a child, he could only join the Big Head Gang, and there was no other choice. Because he was born in that neighborhood, he is also a descendant of the members of the Big Heads Gang.
This is the local rule, a kind of identity politics, the identity politics that gangster society labels people.
Charles joined the Big Heads to protect himself, but there were still people who wanted to plunder his brewing workshop, and that was the Golden Big Head. Therefore, Charles's former ideal in life was to replace Jin Datou and become the head of the Datou Gang.
It wasn't a lofty ideal, it wasn't really a way out, it was just a choice he could see at the time. And what I have seen, Charles is so tossing and trying, and what he wants to find is hope.
Later, he realized that the real hope is not to become a golden head, but to completely change the whole world, and there will be no more gold heads.
Let everything that the Aden have created no longer be stolen and plundered, and we and our descendants will no longer be oppressed and no longer live in fear.
The Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pill can help me practice, and without the Nine-Turn Purple Gold Pill, it can't stop my path. Mr. Yoo, I know exactly what you want to say.
What really stood in my way was that I felt doubts, disappointed in what I had done, unworthy, denied the hope I had been looking for, and changed my heart. β
Jo Gaole nodded slowly and said, "Yes, if the Dao heart is shaken, it is impossible to break through the barrier and improve. If someone really is secretly pushing for this, this is a killer move against you. β
Hua Zhenxing nodded and said, "I know very well, but thank you for reminding me." My belief will not be shaken because of Jin Datou at the beginning, and it will not be shaken today because of Zeng Huaiying. β
The power of this kind of killing move, it is almost a kind of yang conspiracy, even if you know the purpose of the other party, you will be uneasy, not claiming that your Dao heart is stable, you can do it without breaking the defense.
Jogole: "It's good that you know what to do." But Xiaohua, there is another question, you just said that there were people like that everywhere here, and you gave such people everything they wanted, have you ever thought that people's desires are endless?
For example, Zeng Huaiying, you gave her the opportunity to become a Five Realms cultivator, and then she stole your Nine Turns Purple Gold Pill. The more you can get, the more you want, and you can't satisfy them forever.
The more you do, the higher people's expectations will be for you, and even the more demands they will make, and this will be the consequence of joining the WTO too deeply, and it will also shake your Dao heart...... Have you ever heard of faith pollution? β
The concept of contamination of faith, in a broad sense, is addressed both to the believed, and also to the believer, and is also related to the so-called priestly dilemma, in short, it is more complex.
The reason why people believe in gods is because they want to have such gods and be able to fulfill their wishes, and then they believe that gods really exist.
There was a very high mathematician and philosopher who argued that people should believe in God? Through a very simple analysis, he deduced four situations -
First, God exists, I believe in God, and I have the opportunity to go to heaven, which is beneficial.
Second, God exists, and if I don't believe in God, I'm going to hell, which is harmful.
Third, God does not exist, and I believe in God, which is neither good nor bad.
Fourth, God doesn't exist, I don't believe in God, and there is neither good nor harm.
Combining these four situations, if you believe in God, it will either be good or indifferent. If you don't believe in God, it's either bad or it doesn't matter. Then a rational person, of course, chooses to believe in gods.
Just looking at the method of argumentation, the logic is actually valid!
So what's the problem? Of course, it is the premise of his argument, who told him that if gods exist, there are benefits to believing in God, and there are disadvantages to not believing in God?
Did he prove it? Not really! He just defined the gods in this way and made a deduction based on that, so any conclusion deduced was meaningless, because the definition itself was already a conclusion.
Can God be defined by Him? And according to his definition, what is the difference between his so-called gods and gangsters who collect protection money?
How could one of the brightest brains in the world make such a low-level mistake? For this is not his definition, but according to the definition of the doctrinal scriptures, which is claimed to be self-evident, in other words, unproven.
All the so-called self-evident preconceived ideas are actually a kind of pollution of knowledge, and it is related to and different from the pollution of faith.
So why is there such a doctrinal scripture, the question goes back to the original source -
Whether or not a real god exists, when people begin to define and worship a god, at least in the sense of philosophical concepts, it already exists, such as in the dictionary.
There is an interesting view that the so-called gods were created by man, that they were born from people's prayers, and that they were a collection of beliefs, not a definition of priesthood.
But people's prayers can be imagined how complicated they are, and what kind of stitching monster will this god be?
The pollution of faith in the narrow sense is directed against the gods.
Assuming that the god really exists, whether it is omniscient or omnipotent, at least it can hear the prayers of the believers. But it is an obvious fact that the more optimistic, positive and happy people are, the less they pray to the gods.
So what is the most common prayer that the gods hear? There is also a deeper question, why should a particular person expect to be satisfied by the gods?
Dissatisfaction with the world can be the driving force to change reality, but when it is appealed to the gods, it often contains helplessness about reality, curses on others, greed for unearned gains, and a desire to escape responsibility.
People's prayers to the gods must also contain many good wishes, but what the gods hear is more of a dirty desireβthis is precisely the voice of the believer.
If the gods exist because of the belief in them, is the divinity that the belief builds up also full of filth?
Some theologians have patched up on this, first defining the supreme goodness of the divine nature and self-evident, and then giving these filths another place to go, creating another issue - the birth of Satan.
Whether or not the gods exist because of belief is impossible to prove. But priests and believers must exist because of their beliefs, and whether they are true or false, they may be polluted by their beliefs.
Whether God will break the defenses is unknown, but priests are human beings. When the priests wrote the doctrinal scriptures, they consciously or unconsciously left traces such as the great flood that God unleashed to destroy the world.
God really can't stand the sin all over the world, forget it, tired, destroy!
The destruction of the world is the greatest evil that mankind has ever thought of. Even if there are evil deeds in the world, those flowers and plants that were destroyed in the flood will not all be guilty, right?
What caused God to decide to destroy the world, to delete the number and retrain, and can human sin determine God's behavior? The concept of contamination of faith has now surfaced and loomed.
Jogale was undoubtedly a believer in the gods, a leader of the priesthood, a theologian, and a great sorcerer at the pinnacle. He mentions this concept, of course, not to discuss theological issues, but to remind Hua Zhenxing of his own situation.
Hua Zhenxing is not a god, he is just an ordinary person with cultivation, ideals, and willingness to practice, and he is also a college student. But at least in the country of a few miles, his achievements surpassed those of the gods.
In the original kingdom of a few miles, various tribes spread various witch religions, as well as religions spread by foreign forces, and everyone believed in various gods, but these gods did not help them get out of purgatory.
For example, the Seagod Clan from Manman originally believed in the Seagod, but later found that worshipping the Seagod was unreliable, and if he wanted to change his fate, he still had to join the new alliance to make a revolution, even if he was pursuing the realm of cultivation, it was a better choice to worship Yangyuan Valley.
When a person does something that even a god can't do, it is inevitable that he will be regarded as a god, and then expect him like a god and demand him like a god. Even if he himself doesn't want to, some people will put it on the altar with various purposes.
Hua Zhenxing never wanted to ascend to the altar, and even tried to avoid this from the beginning.
For example, most ordinary people have never heard his name and don't know what he has done. Another example is that he fictionalized the identity of Feng Zibin as a symbol of the ultimate form of capital monopoly.
Some decisions seem to have been made by Hua Zhenxing himself, and I am afraid that they also came from the orders of a few old people.
Hua Zhenxing just didn't want to show off, not did anything unseemly. A disciple of Yangyuan Valley like Zeng Huaiying, of course, can still understand his achievements and achievements.
There is a fact that many people are not aware of, but Jogale pointed it out: Zeng Huaiying's behavior stems from the selfishness of human nature, but at the same time, she requires Hua Zhenxing to have the supreme goodness of divinity.
What she said on the occasion of the sect's adjudication was not an ordinary moral kidnapping, and she used completely different moral standards for Hua Zhenxing and herself.
When a person makes a request of God to another person, and asks the other person to treat herself with the supreme goodness of divinity, it also means that she is treating the other person with the selfishness of human nature, and she is polluting the divinity, even if the other person is really God.
These are two inseparable sides of the same coin.
This distortion can often be seen in the Hollywood-style superhero movies of the United States. For example, there is a famous saying, "With great power comes great responsibility".
The word power has a double meaning in the context of the Yin language, the former is the power possessed by the possession of economic and political resources, and the latter is the ability possessed by the individual's talent and physique.
In the story template they created, the two were consciously or unconsciously confused and replaced. With great power comes great responsibility, which was originally supposed to be aimed at the former, but in the narrative logic, it became aimed at the latter.
The plot of the actual demonstration became "the greater the ability, the first death of the whole family".
The more people can help people, the more they have to pay a greater price, and they have to pay everything for nothing.
So we see that Superman, who can smash the planet with one punch, can defeat the alien invasion and save the world, but he can't prevent his parents' house from being taken away by the bank, and finally he has to rely on the banker's "friend" to buy the bank and "give it back".
Does this fit even the slightest bit of realistic logic? Without a cerebral thrombosis for hundreds of years, I am afraid that this kind of plot would not have been conceived, but it was spread to the whole world in such a grand manner.
Even if he is a superman, he must abide by the perfect logic of capital and class order, just like a docile sheep after domestication, otherwise he is a blackened villain.
The power that Superman has should only be the power that some people expect, and it is also the power that serves them after all.
The other side of this narrative mode, the collective and the masses, the most ordinary people, are often ignored and dissolved, becoming all kinds of so-called "group unconscious" noises, making the audience only excited about the show-off of individuals and small groups.
Another example is that a child has a smart and studious mind, has been bitten by an insect and has powerful superpowers, but still has to live honestly at the bottom of society, not only killing the whole family, but also often delaying work by fighting criminals and being abused by the boss.
The portrayal of positive characters is accompanied by moral shaping, what kind of moral implication is this? Implicit damning malice, polluting beliefs that truly give people hope.
About Gaole's words made Hua Zhenxing's eyes squint for a long time. He ate several bites of food before replying, "Although I am not a ghost cultivator, I have also heard of the poison of incense, and I can understand what you said about the pollution of faith.
I never intended to give everyone everything they wanted, it was simply impossible, and it was not my desire. All I want is fairness, so that everyone has the opportunity to change and improve through hard work.
I'm not making promises as God, I'm just pursuing as man. Today's Jili Country was jointly created by all the people of the country, and in the Yangyuan Valley, cultivation is everyone's own realm.
So what I said is true, it's not just an attitude, I understand this method, and I can feel malice, but it really hasn't shaken my Dao heart. β