It is not necessarily concerned with religious issues, nor it is exclusively produced by Atheists.
Among the concerns I have in person is that “time is moving faster - so that a whole year passes like a month, a month passes like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour, and an hour like the amount of time it takes to light a fire.” Why so?
I believe that the perception of time moving faster is in consequence of the our inner knowledge departing from the heart, and a preoccupation with the worldly life taking exclusive possession of the heart.
The consequence of this inner-spiritual vacuum is that "we lose the identity of ourselves, and began imitating and stealing identities, like the mannerism to imitate a star or idol in a particular field be it music, attire, dancing, to the extent of personal-looks and behaviour : We suppress our original-self and wear a mask of being someone else."
These seem to be times of great betrayals in which “temptations are being presented to men’s hearts as a reed-mat is woven stick by stick, and any heart which is impregnated by them would have a black mark put in it. The result is that hearts are of two kinds, one, white like a white stone, which is not be harmed by temptation as long as the heavens and earth endure, and the other, black and dust-colored like a vessel which is upset, incapable of recognizing what is reputable, or rejecting what is disreputable, but being enveloped by its passions and desires.”
There can be no doubt whatsoever that this so-called age of ‘progress’ is, indeed, the age when these signs of the spiritual breakdown have appeared. This is the age of secularism. Even the state is secular, and so too politics, the economy, education, the market, the media, sports, sciences, entertainment, etc. The dining room and the bedroom are today also secularized.
Secularism begins by ‘excluding God’, and would likely culminate by ‘denying God’! How so? When knowledge is secularized it leads to the belief that knowledge comes from only one source, i.e., external observation and rational enquiry. The implication of the adoption of this epistemology is as follows: since this material world is the only world we can ever ‘know’ in this way, it follows that this is the only world that really ‘exists’.
Thus it is that secularism leads inevitably to materialism, i.e., the acceptance, for all practical purposes, that there is no reality beyond material reality. And materialism has led, naturally so, to a world of greed, lies, promiscuity, injustice, oppression, good-lessness, and great betrayals since the moral foundations of society cannot be sustained without the spiritual heart of goodness. And such a world is not bothered in the least with such things as the inner spiritual knowledge and guidance.
What is ‘remembrance’? When a man visits in his heart the woman that he loves, he shudders as an enchanting fragrance envelops his heart. It happens every time! When he hears her name mentioned, the same thing happens. That is ‘remembrance’! Clearly ‘remembrance’ is only possible when there is true love.
And so it is really when love and quest for spirituality departs from the heart that ‘time’ moves faster and yet faster.
Hence it follows that when sincere love for 'grandoise of universe, nature and spirituality' allows truth to enter and take possession of the heart, that ‘time’ would surely move slower and yet slower, until that truth transports us to a ‘timeless’ world.
People tend to forget the bigger question and concentrate on the little irrelavant details like I said - The question (which is irrelavant) but is still unanswered "Is the dot an ellipse or a polygon?" .....
~ It is evident that everything which does not exist at first and then exists, is determined by something other than itself.
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