Where you go to get the
answer depends on who thinks for you.
Once you think for
yourself regardless of outside influences, you will research many sources and
take notes to see the bigger picture. Do you take the time to listen and read
multiple sources even if you think you disagree at first glance? Do you
accept the easy answer so you can tuck that question away and get back to
your regular programming?
When anyone disagrees
with you, do you want to MAKE them do as you dictate, or do you embrace
diversity and independent thinking? Your answer to this question reveals your hunger
for power over everyone.
My life has many
questions, and I do not have the time to research all my questions, so I focus
on the things that concern me personally. When a question affects me deeply, I
examine closer until I get to the bottom of my confusion. I find this rarely
involves anyone's opinion; the research will influence my decision. To live
with such continual negativity under the surface of my conscious mind of anger
is emotionally exhausting. This inability to admit "I could be
wrong" creates a hostile attitude towards opposing opinions. I used to be
afraid to admit I was wrong, not so much anymore. I know better. I do not
want to be the fool in the room that thinks "I know it all."
"Ignorance is NOT
bliss!" Ignorance is a pandora's box of weapons to be deceptively used
against the unaware when specific forces of power are in play.
To make the questions
dissipate, if I go to the regular programming, the familiar, I don't have to
take action. Most people placate these confused feelings with any defense, such
as arguing, silent obedience, exercise, food, alcohol, drugs, violence,
spending money, etc. Any of these are more accessible than seeking
an answer that may require me to change.
And if I have academic
or material wealth, I may tell myself "I" don't need to
change. THE uneducated do!" My
academic degrees and peers with wealth agree I'm right! I'll MAKE EVERYONE ELSE
CHANGE to suit my answers. After all, it is for their own good. Now I can
eliminate any debate to my authoritarian thinking by manipulating monetary
influence, forcing "others" to obey me!
Except... "the
others" have questions.
Money and power to
influence laws and confuse people with convoluted rhetoric will not work long
term for freedom thinking people worldwide, like me. We all have intelligence,
and we are free to think. It costs nothing to use the intelligence you are born with.
Individual independent
ability to think can only be eroded little by little when we fear speaking up
to question anyone. When we give up and give in, we allow others to control our
lives. If we disagree inside but do as told outside, we go back to our regular
programming. How to respond positively takes quiet contemplation before
action.
To live free is a
responsibility to have all information available to decide the decisions we
make. We can take a chance and let others think and answer for us, and we might
be OK for a while if we are lucky. However 'My" life is not yours to rule;
it is mine.
And, if I choose to
investigate any issue myself, it costs you nothing; it costs me, my time. Can I
do that? Yes.
I can honestly tell you
some answers I sought took decades for me to find the truth of it, but if we
are willing to question and stick to it, the puzzle pieces eventually come
together. You will say, "I see the answer now. What took me so
long?" Ignorance of how the world works is a big one.
Sometimes "I"
was wrong. I had to change or remain angry for no reason. I found I was
programmed not to question authority figures as a child, especially male
authority figures. Then, as an adult, I began to read books and experience life. I found that
society has programmed me to believe things that are not true. It was not until
I stepped away from traditional expectations that I trained myself to be free
to think differently.
I do this through daily
personal research of every topic that interests me.
Therefore, for those who
prefer knowing the truth that brings clarity of thought to have confidence and
peace of mind, we must be brave enough to ask the right questions to clarify
the confusion and remain stubborn enough to educate ourselves through research
until we have the answers we seek.
I am grateful to now have
the patience to listen calmly to others and then research to answer my
questions. It will be harder for anyone to lead you down a primrose path that
benefits them more than you when you learn to think for yourself.
It is a beautiful thing to be alive, enjoy your life. Your ability to think is legal.
