Trending Wall bed death proves sloth deadly sin is sacrificial worship to A.I.
For thousands of years, humans globally have sacrificed to gods and deities. Whether it is food, material possessions, loved ones, or yourself we sacrificed to prove our devotion to our god. Why do we sacrifice though? Prayer is instinctual only when we want something or need protection. We believe the God we sacrificed to can ease our troubles, improve our finances, and smooth out our relationships. This transactional relationship with GOD places unrealistic expectations that create black and white thinking. If something bad happens God is punishing us and if something good happens were in good favor with God. But we know this not to be true. Where and how do we draw the line between pleasing a god you can’t see and taking accountability in your life? The recent trending wall bed death continues to prove that the sloth’s deadly sin is sacrificial worship to A.I.
12Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12″21
“Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health”
Dali lama
When we hear about the infamous biblical stories of sacrifice, we often respond in shock and disbelief that humans could be so gullible. For instance; how could Abraham sacrifice his only son Isaac, to whom he waited decades for his barren wife to birth? Just to please a GOD he can’t see? Or Why did the Mayans worship a rain deity by sacrificing boys and throwing them into pits? It is with this level of ignorance and 21st-century arrogance that we impulsively ask these very questions. Prior to the industrial period, sacrifice meant something. Imagine a world without grocery stores, gallons of water, or rain barrels. Most likely if you’re reading this article you’ve never depended on actual rain from the sky to grow crops. Imagine No uber eats, no groceries delivered, no milkman, no stoves, refrigerators, nothing.
Would you sacrifice your son to a rain diety if it would feed an entire village? We also have to keep in mind that, our individual capitalistic mindset is new. Communal ways of living are how we’re weird, whether right or wrong. We hunted and shared food in groups. Even if you killed the animal oftentimes you got less because you had to share. Sure it’s extremely difficult to not see history through a modern lens but we can only learn from history if we widen our perspective of it. Sacrificing for comfort is nothing new and is encoded in our genetic survival. However, It wasn’t until the teaching of the buddha that we were taught not to sacrifice humans and animals.
“Whenever you feel that you should be doing something to get yourself together, there is at the same time a defense mechanism, a quality of uneasiness. In Shamatha, the idea is to go along with the uneasiness instead of trying to make everything smooth and ideal. You could use the uneasiness and irritation as part of the practice.”
Chogyam Trungpa- Author of The path of individual liberation
We tend to think that all religions or spiritual systems have nothing in common but that couldn’t be further from the truth. The quote above from Chogyam Trungpa applies to the deadly sin sloth. For instance, we use sloth as a defense mechanism in many forms. Examples include; victimhood mentality as excuses to not become financially stable in life, constantly blaming others for your failures. Also self-sabotaging can be a form of sloth as well. Sloth being used as a defensive mechanism takes us out of the present moment, it is an enemy of mindfulness. We want to wait till we feel like doing it, or use paralysis analysis to remain stagnant on an issue. Life isn’t meant to be smooth and ideal 24/7, that’s unrealistic. And this is why Sloth is such a difficult yet trendy sin in today’s digital dictatorship age.
“Sleep is a criminal waste of time, a heritage from our cave days”
Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb
The idea of a light bulb going off in one’s head is generally a symbol of a good idea suddenly appearing. The irony to this is that many sleep experts agree that the invention of the light bulb was the beginning of our sleep disturbances. In our sleeping your way to the top book review, experts debunked popular hustle culture myths that promoted unhealthy lifestyles. After losing over $138 billion dollars to insomnia the Japanese ministry of health encouraged employees to take 30-minute naps during their work breaks. Is it a coincidence that Japan is the most technologically advanced society in the world also? I think not.
However, to what extent should we go to improve our sleep? How much should we integrate innovative ways of technology into our sleep routines? The recent wall bed death in which a customer’s spine was crushed from her bed fell on her reminds us to proceed with caution. Sure we want comfortable lives, not kill ourselves working a job but we shouldn’t use these as excuses to embrace the deadly sin sloth. At the present moment, we are bouncing between two extremes rather than being mindful and moderate.
Wall beds sold by Costco and Amazon are recalled after 1 death and dozens of injuries
This isn’t an isolated incident, nearly a year ago we reported that Telsa thinks people are crash test dummies. There are way too many malfunctioning self-driving vehicles that are killing people in autopilot mode. These vehicles shouldn’t be on the road at all until they can provide safety. As if walking, riding a horse, catching a train or boat was too taxing for our bodies. So we invented automobiles because we apparently couldn’t get to where we needed to go to build the country fast enough. Now we’re too mentally taxed to drive so now we’re anxious about not driving while sitting in a car that’s, driving. But I digress.
Sedentary living, why doing nothing is killing you, thanks to technology.
Newspapers, circuses, and theaters weren’t enough so we invented movie theaters and t.v.’s. Once we got bored with those we invented arcades and later video games, then handheld videos games. Then computers, then cell phones, then cell phones with the internet which is basically a handheld computer. When do we stop, why do we hate the present moment? why do we hate silence? When will we learn that the more we try to obsessively make things better the worse life becomes? We went from hunter-gathers walking all day, to sitting becoming hoarders of entertainment. Often times being busy is the biggest form of the deadly sin sloth. We distract ourselves from important things or things that matter just to create ease and comfort. We’re still sacrificing ourselves not on an altar in a temple but spiritually and mentally via the engaged web of online. Our GOD is a technology and its diety is artificial intelligence whom we sacrifice ourselves in exchange for comfort aka sloth..
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In conclusion, we should humble ourselves and not let our consumption of technology make us prideful against our ancestors. Let us not become narcissists because we think that technology has made us more powerful than the history that we stand on. Too often the road to hell is paved with good intentions. One solution seems to create a million other problems. Wall beds may not be the solution to a sleep epidemic but a healthy sleep routine is, and it’s free. Let us not become sacrificial lambs for the innovation of technology. Independent thought and mindfulness will protect us from becoming a causality or at least lessen our chances. Learn to embrace discomfort, and be still and true to ourselves. Thousands of yogis, monks, and other spiritual masters have died of cancer, and various other diseases, just like a “normal” person. However, they embraced their mortality and continued their spiritual practice. What we can learn from this is that being more comfortable doesn’t lead to a better life. If anything, it makes it more difficult.
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