White Sail, p. 41 But abandoning God is only the subject creator betraying the object creator.  There is no proof of who has betrayed whom, and these people just continuously circle between betrayals with nihilist and eternalist habits that lead to each other with ominous monotony.

The same goes for just about everyone.  Jumping back and forth between happiness and despair, wondering why life never really makes any sense.  Individuals just keep doing this until exhaustion brings on death. Then start the whole thing over again, endlessly, never reaching enlightenment because they are looking for it in the wrong place. They are lost in the arrogance of false knowledge, either as a religious zealot (eternalist) or scientifically or empirically oriented idiot (nihilist).  This blind arrogance prevents any arising of true faith, which would lead to a practice that would lead to enlightenment.

It’s a repetitive pattern and brings on suffering upon suffering. Trying to make sense out of that which cannot provide sense, individuals are caught up in phenomena.

As Norbu says, the monotony of all this is truly ominous, because pain really hurts.  And, it is totally predictable. By not turning from ignorance to the path mandala of vajrayana, we are murderers, usurpers, users, whores, pathetic idiots, causing ourselves as well as everyone we care about inconceivable eons of suffering.