Janthopoyism: Scripture: If I Am Divinity and Evolution Thrives on Conflict, Is It Ok to Be a Selfish Antagonistic Asshole?

If I Am Divinity and Evolution Thrives on Conflict, Is It Ok to Be a Selfish Antagonistic Asshole?

Book 2: The Internal Universe | Chapter 2.5 | 30 September 2020

Brief recap.

The Universal Energy wants only one thing: to evolve. It achieves this perpetual motion by creating and then resolving conflict.

Meanwhile, the Internal Universe within you only wants one thing: to live in happiness. Happiness feels good because it is an indicator that you are closer to providing the Universal Energy with what it asks of you.

It can seem unsettling when one realises that Janthopoyism is not a philosophy that directly preaches peace and serenity. But how could it? We understand conflict to be the primary proponent of evolution. Our job is to guide people towards the path most faithful to themselves, whatever that may be. We are not in the game of ever telling you what to do. The closest we come to that practice is to encourage you to not tell anyone else what to do because their business is none of your business. Focus on your joy, and leave everyone out of it.

Some have expressed concern with this stance. Does this mean Janthopoyism is a religion that encourages self-centeredness? If we are to follow our bliss, will that not lead to excess, materialism, or the detriment of our environment?

Let us address this question by inviting you to try that out for yourself. Chase the money and disrespect your fellow humans. See if that makes you happy, and then we'll talk.

We are teaching you to trail what you love. You can only find joy in yourself. The closer you can get to loving the gift of Life, the better your person will be. If you believe that caring for people is the highest virtue, is it not best to pursue that from your strongest platform? There is little use in assisting others when you are the one in need of assistance.

While pursuing genuine delight, most of us will discover that selfishness fosters the opposite: it widens the emptiness. Happiness is often easiest found by generating happiness inside of others which is a discipline so fundamental to Janthopoyism that we will revisit it many times throughout our scripture.

To emphasise our point above, please take a moment to consider the Golden Rule, a principle that guides us to treat others as we wish to be treated. There are few codes that every major religion agrees upon with as much certainty as this one, and here are some examples:

"Now this is the command: Do to the doer to make him do." — Ancient Egyptian (The Eloquent Peasant)
"May I be of a sound mind, and do to others as I would that they should do to me." — Ancient Greek (Plato's Laws, Book XI)
"Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself." — Baháʼí Faith (Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh)
"Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful." — Buddhism (Udana-Varga, 5.18)
"And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." — Christianity (Matthew, 22:39-40)
"Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you." — Confucianism (Analects, 15.23)
"This is the sum of all duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you." — Hinduism (Mahabharata, 5:1517)
"None of you will believe until you love for your brother what you love for yourself." — Islam (Hadith, 13)
"In happiness and sorrow, in joy and in pain, we should consider every creature as we consider ourselves" — Jainism (Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara)
"That which is hateful to you do not do to another; that is the entire Torah, and the rest is its interpretation. Go study." — Judaism (Shabbat, 31a)
"Do not wrong or hate your neighbour. For it is not he whom you wrong, but yourself." — Native American (Pima proverb)
"Be charitable to all beings, love is the representation of God." — Shintoism (Ko-ji-ki Hachiman Kasuga)
"I am a stranger to no one, and no one is a stranger to me. Indeed, I am a friend to all." — Sikhism (Guru Granth Sahib)
"The sage does not hoard. The more he does for others, the more he has. The more he thereby gives to others, the ever more he gets." — Taoism (Tao Te Ching, Chapter 81)
"Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfil, An it harm none do what ye will." — Wiccanism (Wiccan Rede)
"Do not do unto others whatever is injurious to yourself." — Zoroastrianism (Shāyast ne-Shāyast, 13.29)
“Be excellent to each other.” — Bill & Ted (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure)

There you have it. According to the most powerful and influential teachers in history, a morally aligned life starts with how well you treat others.

However, if you are an inescapably selfish person, behaving as a friend to everyone is still advantageous to your self-centred cause. For what will assist your evolution faster than an army of allies?

With a quick sidestep, let's examine those compulsive egocentric vices to the likes of drugs, alcohol, promiscuity, gambling, over-eating, or any other such addictions. These temporary surges of instant gratification also contradict the teachings of Janthopoyism. These habitual routes occur when your Inner Universe suffers so intensely that your brain looks to shut off your emotions by any means possible. Your spirit is trying to escape your mind! But unless you die, the two will converse soon after the escapism, and the conversation will be worse in the morning.

So as we speak of prioritising your joy, we are actually talking from a place that exists some steps ahead, living with your near future in consideration. Certainly, debauchery can provide thrills in the now. But what use are those thrills when the future becomes the now, and you've damaged it beyond immediate repair? On the flip side, tackling specific negative feelings now can blossom into the pleasure we seek only several breaths away. Making amends with a lost ally may provoke an uncomfortable sensation, or physical exercise might be the last thing your energy is requesting at this moment. But if you project your attention some hours in advance, these undertakings serve your happiness in far more rewarding ways than ignoring them. Think further than the wall of the now. If what's over there serves your wider timeline, then chew the bullet and smash on through.

Noting the above, we must passionately underline that what works for you might not work for others. Ethics is a subjective topic. Humans operate on a moral spectrum. As much as it is difficult to digest, many people have evolved to aggravate acute conflict in the world—sometimes in horrifically anti-social manners. Janthopoyism teaches that depraved behaviour is part of the package as everything extends from natural divine evolution. Good or bad, it's still nothing but the Universal Energy experiencing itself into progression. If you struggle to comprehend such a sentiment, we empathise, for this is arguably the most challenging aspect of Janthopoyism to accept. However, we hope the following reflections bring some comfort in this mindset.

Your simple policy should be to stand on the right side of evolution. If someone is resisting the times, then they are fighting a losing battle. Compare decade to decade and the patterns are easier to map out. All levels of injustice and intolerance (be it regarding race, gender, sexuality, age, environmental troubles, etc.) adhere to a definite course, particularly when analysing the political stances of our youth. By evaluating your opinions on social matters against the trends over the previous generations, you should have no problem calculating if you're pushing for evolution or devolution. Do you desire progressive all-inclusive change? Or do you wish things to go back to the way they were? That's your viewpoint to analyse, but please presume that if something is considered "progressive", there's a reliable chance Janthopoyism supports the plan. For what is progression if not synonymous with evolution?

On occasion, it may appear that regression is gaining the upper hand, but that is never the case. Periods of intense tension are commonly the dying heave of the falling body, and the pendulum will swing back to crush this wobble like it has so many times before. Don't be discouraged by what is happening right now because "right now" doesn't tend to hang around for too long. Gauge the graph from an expanded record, especially using the eyes of the younger ages, and you will uncover the current objectives.

If you find yourself on the crumbling team, rest easy that you are still playing an imperative role in providing conflict to sharpen the Universal Energy's trajectory. You are equally important in the equation. You are supplying the need for stronger momentum to continue the evolution. But know that you will lose no matter how long it takes. The ideas that move forward will always ultimately win because that is the very purpose of the Universal Energy. And the side on which you stand is the side where history will forever document you.

Conflict is the driving force behind evolution, but intentionally initiating this part of the process is ill-advised. The Universe will perpetually demand conflict on every level. Even your path will frequently generate conflict for someone else, whether you want it or not. It is inevitable and automated by order of the Cosmos. Hence, there is greater value in striving for harmony. If you commit to restoring balance, then you are answering questions that the Universal Energy has asked. It is a far more beneficial role for a human to assume, as it promotes evolution to locate the proceeding platform, introducing a higher grade of conflict, moving upwards thanks to you.

So, in summary, yes, Janthopoyism communicates that everything is divinity. This includes the "bad people" whom the Universe birthed to disrupt the evolution of others. And yet, once you properly click into the Jantho branch, you would never behave in such a mode. No person who grasps how Janthopoyism works would ever push against the evolution of a demographic or another individual or anything. Unless someone directly hinders your path, do not hinder theirs! Make peace and allow evolution to run free in every direction. Recognise each character as an element of the procedure, conflict or otherwise. Do so without judgement, privately utilising them as benchmarks of how (or how not) to live your life.

Please remember that the Universe is a singular functioning organism that celebrates diversity. To deliberately undertake the role of antagonist towards other cogs in the machine—be it human, animal, or the planet—shows a fierce misconception of what Janthopoyism teaches. By accepting everyone as an equal component, we achieve much more as a unit. All of Life is the same manifested material, and absolute mastery comes when we aim to become a higher power as a collective, albeit with mismatched parts.

Even easier to absorb is this: if you are concerned about what someone else is doing with their life (particularly when it has no unavoidable consequence in your life), then you could not be more out of sync with your True Path and, therefore, the Universe. And here the most painful of conflicts will occur inside of yourself.