I've been doing a whole lot of reading lately. I've been seeing/reading some things that quite frankly shock me. I thought from my pie in the sky ideals we as human beings had overcome such thoughts. Shocking to the point of where and how do people still believe such things. I've noted that lots of this reading comes from sheer hate. Revenge being the result and again it simply shocks the hell out me. So I thought I'd share some views on such hate and stupidity. My personal views of such is also an age old disease of the mind that hopefully someday we as a species will over come ...but I'm not holding my breath.
Allegiance to an external belief structure, one may go in several directions. Often groups or individuals will become very rigid in their allegiance to an organization or structure to which they have committed. This type of conformity can be seen through various forms of fundamentalism -- religious, political, psychological systems, etc.
Being committed to a belief systems or organization, one may comfortable bending the rules where it fits their desires. It becomes easy to bend the rules because they are not really committed to the underlying values system. However, when a person is deeply committed to authentic moral or value principles, they are less willing to act in ways which contradict these principles. The principles are authentic.
Avoiding responsibility through the belief that one is powerless often renders such hate. There can be many factors which are seen to render a person powerless. A person can perceive themselves as a victim of their environment, of various supernatural or spiritual forces, their unconscious, or a victim of their biology/genes. Recognizing that all of these factors may influence a person, none of them render a person powerless or completely control them.
Freedom and Responsibility
To know freedom..one must understand bondage. Because how active will you be coming from complacency?....Sitting in front of your computer..looking for the next new best thread. This is not to say you are not trying to do your part...however
Have you lost your home due to the economy? Lost your job?
Do you have it in you to stand up and say "I have had enough of the tyranny"?
With Freedom comes responsibility;
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility." -- Sigmund Freud
The worst predictions of those who say they "know" have nothing to do with Ultimate Reality.
Carl Jung on “Man’s Stupidity”
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Our striving focused on sagacity and intellectual superiority, and we hence developed all our cleverness.
But the extraordinary extent of stupidity inherent in all men was disregarded and denied.
If we accept the other in us, we also evoke the particular stupidity of our nature.
Stupidity is one of man's strange hobbyhorses.
There is something divine about it, and yet something of the megalomania of the world.
Which is why stupidity is really large.
It keeps away everything that could induce us to intelligence.
It leaves everything not understood which is not naturally supposed to demand understanding.
This particular stupidity occurs in thought and in life.
Somewhat deaf somewhat blind, it brings about necessary fate and keeps from us the virtuousness coupled with rationality.
It is what separates and isolates the mixed seeds of life, affording us thus with a clear view of good and evil, and of what is reasonable and what not.
But many people are logical in their lack of reason"
Page (P.487). ~Liber Novus, Page 316, Footnote 277.
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Footnote; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalomania
Megalomania is a psycho-pathological condition characterized by fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem. Historically it was used as a name for narcissistic personality disorder.
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meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a
ˌmeɡələˈmānēə/
noun
noun: megalomania
obsession with the exercise of power, especially in the domination of others.
synonyms: delusions of grandeur, folie de grandeur, thirst/lust for power; self-importance, egotism, conceit, conceitedness
"he's blinded by his own megalomania and quest for historic recognition at any cost"
delusion about one's own power or importance (typically as a symptom of manic or paranoid disorder).
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Recently I noted a distinct kind of hate and I remembered reading something a man wrote and I'm going to nick from his pdf his take on hate....Or to be more precise.....
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