There is in each age a particular test. This is the Age of Disappointment. People were promised big things from different kinds of idolatry-promises that never came to pass. This along with clear ethical violations in each system gave rise to people leaving and then wondering where they went wrong.
Some examples would be obviously Communism, Socialism that held great promises of workers paradise and the New Man. Other things were in the social pseudo sciences of the mind [in universities] that promised cures. Instead they cause great agony and insanity. In Hinduism, there was a fellow called Adi Da who was a good example of this kind of idolatry.
Some made it a point to expose the idols, [often at great risk] Others tried simply to get away and go back to semi normal lives.
So this kind of disappointment seems the biggest test today. --that is how to deal with it. And also in fact how to heal from the scars?
There do not seem to be easy answers, but rather lessons that one can learn from previous generations from how they dealt with the particular kinds of tests that they faced.
Clear guidelines seem hard to find since the problem is almost universally ignored.
Some examples would be obviously Communism, Socialism that held great promises of workers paradise and the New Man. Other things were in the social pseudo sciences of the mind [in universities] that promised cures. Instead they cause great agony and insanity. In Hinduism, there was a fellow called Adi Da who was a good example of this kind of idolatry.
Some made it a point to expose the idols, [often at great risk] Others tried simply to get away and go back to semi normal lives.
So this kind of disappointment seems the biggest test today. --that is how to deal with it. And also in fact how to heal from the scars?
There do not seem to be easy answers, but rather lessons that one can learn from previous generations from how they dealt with the particular kinds of tests that they faced.
Clear guidelines seem hard to find since the problem is almost universally ignored.
