Introduction

After living a good many years of my life, I have repeatedly found that a lot of people cannot face the truth. Whether it is supposedly too harsh or a barrage of other silly excuses, people have a tendency to hide from honesty.
            But why? Why would anybody want to run away from what is true? Ah, because it is comfortable being ignorant, it is just ‘good’ not to know…however, this could not be any further from the truth.
            What is true, is that the more we know, the greater our potential becomes for creating a satisfying existence. When we learn more, we have the capability to make less mistakes, to improve, and free ourselves from the detriments of ignorance.
            In order to progress, we need to educate ourselves and rid our minds of preconceived notions. Granted, I know this will not be easy, but rather, more so excruciating – however, our suffering through effort will be far less than what is bound to be produced by allowing our problems to accumulate.

Or, in more simple terms:
                      Knowledge is the only defense we have against ourselves.

            “…and if you don’t question what has been,
                        does it mean that you don’t care what’s coming next?”
                                    -Tina Dico “No Time To Sleep”

 

*DISCLAIMER* 

            I DO NOT claim that the following topics are not real. Please do not become defensive and attempt to argue that everything I have written about is real so there is no denying its existence. That is not what I am after, at all.
            What I will press upon you is that these are all ill fated illusions, deceptive mind traps set up by society. Be aware that a lot of what I have written is most likely going to go against what you were born, taught and brought up to be.
That is fine.
            For example, we have all been taught through Geography about locations; continents, countries, states, counties, cities, towns, streets. We are taught to follow lines on a map, to label outlined chunks with a fancy name and then mindlessly spout them off as a test of our supposed intellect.
            Now, what I want you to do is picture yourself where you are. Zoom out as if your body were rising in a hot air balloon. Take yourself farther and farther up, over the buildings, the trees, the fluffy clouds, out of Earth’s atmosphere, into the position of an orbiting satellite, and then fix your gaze on our planet.
            Tell me, what do you see? A rugged landscape surrounded by vast expanses of ocean, correct? There are not any lines, there are not any names, there is not anything labeling anything at all. America? Canada? Mexico? Argentina? Chile? Antarctica? Russia? Australia? China? Korea? Japan? India? Egypt? Iraq? Iran? Thailand? Vietnam? Italy? France? Spain? Germany? Morocco? South Africa? etc. etc...No.
These places are simply land formations on an orbiting sphere that is held together by gravity.
            None of these supposed countries exist; they are all a silly idea, a figment of the human imagination. These ‘places’ are only thumb tacks on a map, thumb tacks piercing a piece of paper, but containing nothing in reality.
            There are no ‘places,’ there are no ‘borders;’ there is only a piece of paper overlaid upon a sphere of terrain. These ‘places’ are merely arbitrary reference points with artificial labels, for ease of human traveling and congregation.
            There is nothing separating us from each other, aside from the boundaries we make for ourselves. This includes not only the walls we touch, but also – and primarily – the walls in our minds. And once we rid ourselves of these walls, or at least stop patrolling them, something extraordinary happens: everything connects together and becomes one; one civilization, one world, one universe.
            And so, if you can,
           
                        “Remind me if you will exactly what we’re fighting for…”
                                   -Anthony Kiedis “Easily”


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