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Chapter 12
The terrestrial human being prefers taking to giving
Does one not believe that victory, won with the atom bomb or other machines for murder or mutilation, to an even greater degree gives its source such agonizing pangs of conscience as to make it cry out to the heavens, "The good I would, I do not but the evil I would not, that I do"? But can that help those one has mutilated or killed? Can one with this cry give back the parentless children their parents and the parents their children whom one has perhaps murdered through higher death-technology? And can one get peace of mind, be free of the pangs of conscience by means of even more death-technology? Does one believe that suicide is the meaning of life or the road to happiness? Is not the suicide the most pitiable and submissive being in the world? Can a being make a greater attempt at shrinking from his responsibility and overburdening others with it? Not even the animals attempt so to evade their responsibility and fate. Does one believe that this is the kind of mentality intended for the beautiful, upright "human" physical organism terrestrial mankind has acquired, and through which his eyes can be permanently turned towards the stars, the sun and the Godhead? No, the terrestrial human being is tied and bound by his own "animal" ideas based on his selfish, egoistic desires. These desires and ideas create his true picture of life, his world view. In this picture of life or world picture he himself constitutes in reality the principal character. And as such he places rather extensive demands on the beings around him, demands that as a rule bear no reasonable relation to what he himself thinks he should give these beings. He thus demands more from the beings around him than he himself wants to grant in return. He will thus "rather take than give". And where this desire or wish is not fulfilled he feels wronged by life and those around him.


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