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The Unapologetic Elimination of Ignorance |
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The existence and maintenance of things that make absolutely no sense causes hindrances in every aspect of its interaction with the things around it. There is no possible positive effect brought upon by a contradictory piece of information that is communicated to anyone or anything where the nature of it being incorrect is not fully disclosed. Further to it being communicated, it being acted upon has even more grandiose repercussions. You might say, an action is an enforced communication, because any manipulation of the material world cannot be argued or ignored simply through thought - hence, if someone acts upon a contradictory piece of information, all those affected by that act will beyond their control be forced to receive that communication. If an action is taken because of any piece of information, contradictory or otherwise, it pushes upon all those affected that information. In cases where it is contradictory information, the action will therefore implant itself on all those affected. This is why action is much more potent as a suggestory form of communication, as compared to simply speaking.
Contradictory information takes the form most commonly as things people believe to be true even though in factual reality observations point to a logical alternative. This, at first instance, appears insane. It appears unrealistic that there would be widespread cases of people believing things when they can observatively see that these things are most likely untrue.
The understanding that this is not an insane concept and that it is extremely widespread is a necessary precursor to the elimination of ignorance. You might say, it is very important to acknowledge that the problem does indeed exist before the problem is rectified. Understanding that it does exist is an important step because going past our own inabilities to understand how contradictory information is accepted by an individual teaches us about the nature of such contradictory beliefs. Understanding its nature gives us an arsenal with which to eliminate it, for we then understand where it comes from, why, and this inevitably leads to solutions on rectification.
Most people who hold these beliefs, when entered into a discussion about them without threat, or on a good day, will in the end acknowledge that it appears likely that the information they believe is not true. However, this acknowledgement does not alter their devotion to this belief in a manner that we would expect; theoretically, if someone faces a truth, they would absorb it as truth, and the story would end there. However, if there are life choices, emotional upheavals, and relationships that depend on opposing information to this truth (a contradictory belief, for example) very quickly the person will resume their contradictory belief and the truth of it seems to slip away unnoticed.
This is a very common occurrence. Most people will identify with it as something they themselves have experienced. It is something common because we all have contradictory beliefs that our lives now depend on. Even our sanity, the idea, for example, that any abuses we suffered as children were our faults, gives us a level of control over our own lives. The job we have, the family we have, even the house we live in may rely on the idea that we have control over our own lives. Taking responsibility for past abuses gives us control. However, if as children it was beyond our control, then we see how a very contradictory piece of information is contained in ourselves.
Using the same above example, we can also try to explain the root of some of these contradictory beliefs. If a child is abused, and beyond his or her attempts to prevent this abuse from occurring through communication or action it still occurs, then the child is faced with the notion that something out of their control is happening. However, this is an unacceptable mentality in most cases - especially in regards to pain, we seek very strongly to retain control of our ability to prevent it. Feeling out of control necessitates the realization that we cannot stop it - by believing that we have control over it, we maintain the hope that we can do something about it, that something can be done about it. As children, this may be a necessary belief to adopt.
The problem is, after we are no longer in a position of threat, and we truly do have control over whether we are abused, we still have a sincere belief that we are incapable of protecting ourselves, and are therefore somehow failures as people. This is because since we incorrectly perceived that we had control over our abuses as children, we were conditioned to believe that even though we had control, we failed to adequately protect ourselves. As adults then, no matter how much control we assert over our environment, we perceive that we will inevitably fail at protecting ourselves.
This example asserts that all ignorance is generally the fallout from our attempts to cope with some abuse or another. During the abuse, we asserted to ourselves that it was under our control to prevent it, and therefore, our faults for failing to do so. The incorrect idea that we did have control is a form of repression and delusion - we repress the true hopelessness of our situation and delude ourselves into thinking that we can escape it tomorrow if we ourselves try harder to do whatever it is that we need to do to prevent it.
An adult who experiences the example above would pursue control over their lives in manners that would suggest contradictory beliefs. An observer may comment that they need not discipline their children so readily and that some level of independent mistakes and rebellion is normal for children - this adult, however, could illogically be controlling of their children in an effort to assert to themselves that they are able to protect themselves from abuses, even though there is no longer any threat.
Neurotic behavior such as washing one's hands over and over is another contradictory belief. It suggests that the person does not trust their immune system even though in reality they really should.
However, there are an innumerable different examples of these contradictory actions and beliefs. The reliance on organized religion is a large one. The idea that if we pray enough, or repent for our sins enough, we will be freed of our guilt and self-loathing is another attempt to retain control of our lives. In moments of absolute desperation, we are told that a level of control over our lives can be attained through this or that religion. Because most religions also provide some level of euphoria through their rituals, the mind becomes conditioned to perceive that it is because of our efforts through the religion that we have successfully found some control over our lives. These are all contradictory falsehoods - euphoria is a human state and can be brought about by human interaction, through very specific audio and visual stimulus - it has absolutely nothing to do with any specific religion. Nor does euphoria solve any repressions or delusions we were forced to accept during times without control over our pain.
The importance of removing contradictory information from our systems is as passionate a desire within each and every one of us as it is to protect a small girl from being viciously raped by her father. Any form of contradictory information sustenance is the necessary suggestion that, for example, this girl was at fault for allowing her father to rape her. The prevention of abuse is desirable albeit unrealistic. The next step is the reversal of such abuses, and such reversals cannot happen while contradictory information so readily floats about. All contradictory information is the result of repression and delusion specific to abuses beyond our control. Its sustenance is the unwieldy imposition that such abuses were and are the fault of the victims. This suggestion is reinforced within the person communicating it and is imposed on all those receiving that communication. It does not matter if the abuses are completely different. Any form of contradictory information exchange or imposition suggests the same exact thing to all people, even if both parties are arguing opposing contradictory information!
This is why the followers of any system of belief through imposition, be it religious or political, exhibit very similar psychological characteristics in their everyday lives, regardless of the system of beliefs dictates.
If the above is true of the sustenance of contradictory beliefs (things that don't make sense), then the elimination of these beliefs helps promote the opposite. Therefore, questioning, eliminating, and determining the nature of truth in as honest and logical a manner possible will always eventually lead to the removal of the effect of abuses on people. The only method for the girl mentioned in the example above to undo what her father has done to her is to pursue truth in as honest a manner possible. Any acceptance of, or pursuit of anything that does not make sense will serve to press unto her the idea that it was her fault. Since this is not true, she will never find a way to cope with what happened, because she will always look to the solution from herself instead of acknowledging that restraint and good parenting should have come from her father.
In fact, no matter how much she acknowledges that it was incorrect for him to abuse her, if she exhibits contradictory information within her life or beliefs, she necessarily is suggesting that she believes otherwise. That it is her fault, that she had control, that she could have been a better daughter, or a nicer person, or more worthy of not being abused. Falsely taking responsibility for things leads directly to depression and self-loathing because we then falsely believe we are failures for not being able to take control of the things that we believe we have control over.
The passionate removal of untruths from our lives and the lives around us is as integral and necessary an act of philanthropy as it is to protect a child from rape, for this child's burden of the abuse is carried within through these untruths. Removing them forces the child to free themselves of the abuse itself. |
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