RE: From theist to agnostic to atheist to agnostic to freethinker and...
August 18, 2013 at 3:18 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2013 at 3:24 am by old man.)
(August 7, 2013 at 4:20 am)old man Wrote: We're all in the process of 'biting the dust' friend, it's just that some of us have found way out of this insane world hell bent on destroying itself and the least we can do is to try and share it with others. If others truly prefer the way of the world, so be it, I will do my best not to bother them again.
(August 7, 2013 at 5:11 am)pocaracas Wrote: What other way is there?
In order to see and follow the way of truth we must first be prepared to face up to the truth about ourselves.
Pride has the ability to convince a man he is the better man when he compares himself to certain others. This pride allows him and causes him at times to regard those others with disrespect, even contempt. From such a mindset it becomes easy to dismiss the true word of others as being irrelevant, unimportant or untrue whenever their statements are seen to conflict with any of his own selfish or self-important desires and plans. Whilst his pride is in control it becomes easy for him to cheat on and lie to anyone who he does not care for, especially those who he assesses as being less important or inferior to himself. As much as he is ready to ignore the truth and deceive others for his own gain, so he becomes equally ready to ignore the truth and deceive himself into thinking how good and right he is. The half-truths and lies of others are then easily welcomed by him as absolute truth whenever they feed and reinforce his feeling of superiority and pleasure. For as much as his self first desires become his needs, so also does his cravings for more leave him more vulnerable and subject to the temptations and corruption of those most crafty and evil. Their lies become more easily accepted by him as truth and therefore become more easily woven into his memory as truth.
From such lie infested memories are man's decisions and judgements too often formed. Whatever is being reasoned and perceived as truth and reality to all who have been corrupted by pride then is all too often an illusion. This state of mind is to some degree the inherited scourge of us all, breeding contempt and hatred for the truth along with paranoia, conflict, killing and destruction, just as the history of man will clearly testify.
