Sunday, August 9, 2020

Folly To Believe. & Jesus, Santa & The Postman!

As a little child he noticed that there was a metal flap covering a hole in the front door of their house. On most days there would be letters on the floor below this slot. He wondered about this and became quite curious, so he asked “Mom, where do those letters come from that I see by the door on most mornings?” ” Oh you mean the mail, they come from the Post Man” He never once saw this Post Man, but he believed his mother. Around Christmas a similar occurrence took place though certainly not a frequent event. However this mysterious visitor was purposely introduced to him. He did not have to inquire, it was Santa Claus and he brought presents to all good girls and boys. He never saw this Santa Claus but he believed his mother.

His curiosity increased with time over these mystery visitors, until one day he saw a soldier on the front porch, a man in uniform, like he’d seen in some movies. The man was carrying a brown sack and holding envelopes like the ones that appeared on their floor by the door. Suddenly he realized that it wasn’t a soldier, it was the Post Man. He no longer believed in the Post Man, because now he knew. Unfortunately the figure of Santa Claus did not share the same fate. He simply matured and realized the impossibility of Santa, strange though he yearned for the day’s of innocent belief and all the wonderful fantasy associated with this fairy tale.  He learned that when you “know” there is no reason to believe, but an even greater lesson was that when you don’t know, then you cannot know that what you chose to believe, is true. The reason for your choice is "not knowing" What is true is based on factual evidence and belief only applies to fairy tales, wishful thinking, or desire, all of which arise from the state of not knowing.

                                                         Why it is Folly to believe!
If we understood life, then we would have no questions, there would be no confusion. We would know, therefor, belief would serve no purpose. We have no need to believe that there is a sun and it shines, we know it. We only believe, when we don’t know. Therefor, we can see quite clearly that if we don’t know, then how can we possibly know, that what we choose to believe is true. Another way to look at this is that, we have chosen (what we believe in), in a state that lacks understanding and clarity, in other words confusion.  Therefor we are really saying, that you believe because you are confused, then you say that you are no longer confused because what you’ve chosen out of confusion, has ended your confusion, this is confusion in perpetuity. In short we’ve made a decision to believe and what to believe, from a state of not knowing, nothing has changed. You’ve gone from a state of knowing you don’t know, to a state of just thinking that, now you know. This is a perpetual state of confusion. Understanding negates the need to believe, you may not as of yet understand life, but now you can understand why, to believe is folly.

Can you see the point? If you knew what life was, how it came about and its purpose you would not have to “believe”. Of course you don’t know any of this so you believe what someone else has told you or written down in a book. Also you have not researched your belief, you have not researched what others believe and you have not considered that you are unaware of all there is to believe in. If you took a logical approach eventually you would have to admit that you cannot possibly make an informed decision. (One), there is no way to know that what you choose to believe is true.(TWO) Understand there is no need to believe when you now something is true. (THREE), You can’t know what you believe is true because the reason you believe is because you don’t know. Believing is an act of self contradiction, you are simultaneously stating that you know and don’t know. And as further proof of your confusion, you will ignore what is logical and continue on with what is illogical, further verifying your confusion.  Further adding to the abstraction of belief is this fact, you are not even believing in an actual deity, what your believing in is your own concepts of the deity, this is really a form self worship.

Let's see the incoherence involved in belief. I believe because I do not know. Then I forget that I don't know and say what I chose to believe in - is true. How can you say what you believe is true when the reason you believe is because you don't know? This is why as a global species we've reduced our existence to sex, greed (stuff) and violence and in the process destroyed our environment. We've instead of knowing, invented what we know. Yes we are morons with some meager talents thrown in. Sorry to be so blunt however we are running out of time. We are a dreary little species fighting among ourselves over what basically amounts to shallow, myopic gratifications. Billions dead from wars, starvation and pollution demonstrating to the Universe that we are not a viable species. Even if there isn't a hidden truth that we should awaken too, it is still no reason to do what we've done, what we are doing. Wake up at least to the fact that we are not awake and we do not know.

Bill Rogan AKA DT  

PS: Ask yourself if we should be reproducing, bring more people into this unstable environment, in the long run making it more unstable.