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Perspective
Blind Faith
by
Michael Levy
How many people ruin their
lives by blind faith in one way or another. It could be blind faith in a
financial adviser or manager who has a super track record. The Madoff
ponzi scam fooled many clever rich people who never questioned how their
money was invested. They were attracted to regular high interest gains
and never questioned how it was achieved.
Another example of blind faith is allowing the medical processionals
take full responsibility for an individuals health. The third leading
cause of death in the USA is staff infections in hospitals, therefore
taking charge for ones own health and well being seems the most sensible
approach.
 Having blind faith means not questioning why you believe something is
true. It means relying on what you are told by other people or ancient
holy books written by folks who thought they had a handle on true facts.
Maybe some of what is told by past generations is true and then again
maybe most of it is fallacies posing as truthfulness. Some of the most
likable and credible people turn out be the biggest scoundrels and
swindlers because the more believable they seem, the more people they
can cheat. If it is only money the swindles take then it is just a hard
lesson leant.
Unfortunately, when people are indoctrinated at an early age with blind
faith, their whole lives can be ruined by the fear of rebelling against
the erroneous reference point built up in their minds. The suicide
bombers in the Middle East are a prime example of how blind faith can be
the cause of death and destruction. However, that is only the tip of a
much larger iceberg of unquestionable trust people practice to delude
themselves.
Delusions start early in life with parental guidance that has been
handed down from generation to generation. Once born into a religious
belief system or a non-religious belief system the conditioning of the
brain is seldom challenged. As a person extends their convictions the
more entrenched they become.
The educations system in the main helps to dumb down the human brain by
limiting the way students are taught. Most schools and universities do
not appreciate free thought that questions the judgments of those who
hold the power to formulate the curriculums. The few teachers who do
question the system are quickly dispatched outside of it. A few do try
and bring some kind of meaningfulness into the classroom however, most
students minds contain conditioned thinking so the authentic teachers
role is limited for fear of going too far in an valid direction.
When fresh truthfulness occasionally tries to apply itself to the
education system, greater resistance will formulate from people in
power, who cannot grasp how the delusions of their brain are holding the
keys to their thinking functions. It becomes a catch 22 situation where
the blind lead the blind into deeper recess of blind faith in every area
of human existence.
So much so, the mainstream media, the financial markets, and large
corporations are all being brought to heel by their own deluded
intellectual understanding of how to think in a truthful manner.
Truthful thoughts bring genuine results whereas delusory thoughts induce
the results we read in our daily newspapers. The word delusion means
something that is believed to be true or real but that is actually false
or unreal. So, how real or true is the belief systems of most people? If
anyone say�s that they hold the truth then at best it is just one
persons perspective of what they believe truth to be. However, in the
final analysis, truth will always speak for itself and the results will
also follow.
Good, bad or indifferent, a persons life can be summed up on their
deathbed and they will know then if blind faith has lead them on a merry
or miserable path. A few people will question how their mind absorbs
information and the wise ones will work out the answers that very few
others will accept ... The question yet to be answered is how much
longer can humanity survive in a world of blind faith filled with so
many intellectual experts?
January 11, 2009
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