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"If God had meant us to blah blah" is a can of worms.
If God is Meaning then aligning in and extending that meaning (in whatever you choose to do or accept as true and act so) will be truly meaningful as an integrative communication.
If our mind aligns in making up its own meanings as a private bias on Meaning, then an adulteration of true and false replaces a whole or unconflicted appreciation with some kind of struggle to make true at expense of simply true. A sense of oppositional will then seems to hold a meaning IN and OF itself - and defends this as its 'self' or meaning. Part of its defence is to remake God in image as a cover story for whatever role the mind plays out.
Perhaps I am foolish to even attempt this communication, because what is likely meant by humourous resort to "If God had meant us to", is some appeal to a god of evolution - that existence has to conform to, in order to find acceptance. In other words another version of a cover story.
Perhaps what God Means is exactly You (Us) - as the freedom to live along the line of y/our own acceptance and be that, live that, grow or awaken in that, and share that as y/our gift to the whole. A unique contribution or integrality within a unique moment.
Appeals to 'higher power' as a prop for a lack of substance seeking certitude, are like assuming God Means to prop up y/our private agenda, by hiding while we behaving lovelessly.
I'd say we have grown expert at this. So much so as to believe the hiding place is more real than what is hidden. The mask stuck on.
As for living any one else's life - you cant and the belief you can and should is your back door for being manipulated in like kind.
I understand that 'vegan' or veganism is being used as another kind of 'rainbow revolution' in the breakdown of traditional structures of identity. Not least because the hatred of victimiser lends itself to the deification of victims and their victimhood or wounded-ness, as a source of hate seen as power to set the world right. Perhaps we find it hard to accept or embrace a killer within because we see life exclusively in terms of the body and in separated and conflicted parts.
There may be some who have no problem living from the sickness, misery and death of other humans, because 'God meant the powerful to prevail over the weak minded and be healthy'. Or 'God provided the weak minded for the chosen ones to survive by using and exploiting them'.
Its all down to the image of self that we make our God or Evolution or 'Cause' from.
Or of course to release self-image as our predicate and be curious to uncover and recognise truly.
Existence is aware of Itself in all that it is. Man is generally aware only of what his thoughts picture. These are mutually exclusive. But of course we can let our thoughts be aligned by a deeper recognition than the support or reinforcement of a private agenda.
I don't sense that love means to get locked in or lost to a private isolated sense of powerlessness as more than a point of reference from which to waken new perspective. But while we actively want to send anyone to hell, we obviously remain invested in 'hell' as meaningful at some level of our psyche. And what seemed out there or well lidded over, can so easily break in or rise up.
I sense victim and victimiser are both within us, and that the releasing of investment in that way of seeing, is freedom shared.
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