Wednesday, July 21, 2010
There are no Authorities
Nothing that I write is ever meant to be authoritative. In fact I would warn anyone to beware of anything written (or stated otherwise) that claims to be the authority on any subject. I freely admit that what I write is nonsense. But it is my nonsense and it makes perfect sense to me. My goal in writing is not to instruct, but only to inform. I do not inform of the truth, only my view of the truth. What I write is not the truth, but it is honest (by „honest” I mean that it is the best representation of my views as I am capable of rendering. Or, put another way, it does not attempt to convince the reader of anything I believe to not be true.) Authority claims to be able to tell you the truth. By this definition it is not possible for authority to be honest. Therefore, all authority is „evil” (deception based). (Except perhaps the One True Authority, whose name can not be represented in any form, and it can never tell us the Truth, but it can share it with us!)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Witches and Psychopaths
Some people might think that by comparing early modern civilization witch hunts to contemporary psychopath hysteria I am ignoring the fact that witches were not real and psychopaths are. But even though witches are known today to be fictitious figments of societies imagination in general, in history witches were as real as rain to most people, even the educated elite. Of course there were plenty of people then who realized the insanity of believing in witches, just as there are plenty of people today (respected proffesionals) who assert the insanity of believing in psychopaths. And then, as today, witches (in lieu of psychopaths) were catalogued and defined in the most respected and official publications. One of the most influential treatises on how to identify and prosecute witches was the Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum). In it the authors asserted: „Who is so stupid that he would affirm on that account that all their bewitchments (i. e. injuries) and magically inspired harms are fantastic and imaginary when the contrary is apparent to everybody's senses?” In other words, if everyone believes in witches, then there must in fact be witches. This is exactly the same logic we use to support social belief in psychopaths, even though no scientific study has ever been able to define such a class of people.
It is also interesting to note that witches were identified and classified according to the witches themselves, under torture or threat of torture. And so the analysis of psychopath (or „antisocial personality disorder”) is today acheived once more primarily on self reporting by the alleged psychopath, under confinement or threat of confinement.
Supposedly, a psychopath is a person who lacks the ability to form deep emotional bonds, and thus is emotionally not human, and hense okay to dehumanize. (Never mind that the so-called sociopath himself uses the same mental trick to justify dehumanizing his victims as well!) Psychologists claim to objectively identify this disorder according to behavior observations. Basically the behaviors they use to identify them is any behavior considered „anti-social”. This is exactly the kind of behavior that was used to identify and condemn witches!
I'm not saying there is no such thing as people who hurt other people with callous disregard. Every living human is guilty of this to all extremes. As Americans we consume a grossly disproportionate amount of the worlds resources, for mere pleasure not necessity, while children starve to death by the thousands every day! And it has been demonstrated repeatedly that we depend on the vulnerability of the countries where children are starving in order to satisfy our pleasures. Yet we allow this? It is socially acceptable callousness, so it is not „anti-social”, just as Christian rituals were socially accepted forms of superstition that were therefore not maleficium (witchcraft).
It's all the same thing, and it still prevents us now from learning and advancing to a better world because we place all the blame for our problems on an arbitrarily defined class of people instead of taking responsibilityfor and addressing those problems directly.
This was a hard lesson learned for me as I once blamed society for all my problems (who in turn blamed people like me – psychopaths – for all of their problems). But then one day, by watching how a young child delt with very serious problems of her own, I saw that blaming anyone was pointless and only made things worse. That little girl showed me the folly of the blame game in a way I never thought possible. She herself took all responsibility for all the terrible things I was doing to her. I realize now that children (and unconditioned people in general) will instinctively take responsibility, not place blame. Placing blame is something we must learn to do. Unfortunately in our society we teach our children literally from infancy to place blame on others. For some reason the little girl I intended to blame for all my problems did not blame me. So how could I blame her?
We tell rape victims, „It's not your fault” because they instinctively want to take the responsibility. Unfortunately, responsibility turns to self blame, which is another pointless and self destructive lie. We should tell them instead, „This is what you can do to stop it from happening ever again!” (And there is always a way to stop rape from happening – which I know from personal experience after being raped several times in prison, until I learned to stop it from happening. If someone had told me how to not be raped in the first place I never would have been, but instead I was told I would get raped no matter what I did – the same kind of lie the authorities like to tell people and themselves in order to justify their authority!)
I could go on and on about how the blame game (even blaming yourself) only makes things worse. I am after a fashion an expert at placing blame. But I don't blame society any more, or my mother, or father, or older sisters, or teachers, or even the men who raped me in prison. In nature there is no blame. Blame is one of the many purely human inventions we foolishly turn to again and again because of the quick relief from suffering it deceptively promises. And so we create witches and psychopaths just to have someone to blame. Terrorists, sex offenders, gang bangers... jews, niggers... witches. How long until we take responsibility for who and what we are? How long until we stop allowing children to starve in other countries, and get raped in our own country? How long until we stop blaming someone else and start taking responsibility for what happens to us?
P.S.: The logic behind executing witches was that a dead witch couldn't hurt anyone anymore. Sound familiar?
It is also interesting to note that witches were identified and classified according to the witches themselves, under torture or threat of torture. And so the analysis of psychopath (or „antisocial personality disorder”) is today acheived once more primarily on self reporting by the alleged psychopath, under confinement or threat of confinement.
Supposedly, a psychopath is a person who lacks the ability to form deep emotional bonds, and thus is emotionally not human, and hense okay to dehumanize. (Never mind that the so-called sociopath himself uses the same mental trick to justify dehumanizing his victims as well!) Psychologists claim to objectively identify this disorder according to behavior observations. Basically the behaviors they use to identify them is any behavior considered „anti-social”. This is exactly the kind of behavior that was used to identify and condemn witches!
I'm not saying there is no such thing as people who hurt other people with callous disregard. Every living human is guilty of this to all extremes. As Americans we consume a grossly disproportionate amount of the worlds resources, for mere pleasure not necessity, while children starve to death by the thousands every day! And it has been demonstrated repeatedly that we depend on the vulnerability of the countries where children are starving in order to satisfy our pleasures. Yet we allow this? It is socially acceptable callousness, so it is not „anti-social”, just as Christian rituals were socially accepted forms of superstition that were therefore not maleficium (witchcraft).
It's all the same thing, and it still prevents us now from learning and advancing to a better world because we place all the blame for our problems on an arbitrarily defined class of people instead of taking responsibilityfor and addressing those problems directly.
This was a hard lesson learned for me as I once blamed society for all my problems (who in turn blamed people like me – psychopaths – for all of their problems). But then one day, by watching how a young child delt with very serious problems of her own, I saw that blaming anyone was pointless and only made things worse. That little girl showed me the folly of the blame game in a way I never thought possible. She herself took all responsibility for all the terrible things I was doing to her. I realize now that children (and unconditioned people in general) will instinctively take responsibility, not place blame. Placing blame is something we must learn to do. Unfortunately in our society we teach our children literally from infancy to place blame on others. For some reason the little girl I intended to blame for all my problems did not blame me. So how could I blame her?
We tell rape victims, „It's not your fault” because they instinctively want to take the responsibility. Unfortunately, responsibility turns to self blame, which is another pointless and self destructive lie. We should tell them instead, „This is what you can do to stop it from happening ever again!” (And there is always a way to stop rape from happening – which I know from personal experience after being raped several times in prison, until I learned to stop it from happening. If someone had told me how to not be raped in the first place I never would have been, but instead I was told I would get raped no matter what I did – the same kind of lie the authorities like to tell people and themselves in order to justify their authority!)
I could go on and on about how the blame game (even blaming yourself) only makes things worse. I am after a fashion an expert at placing blame. But I don't blame society any more, or my mother, or father, or older sisters, or teachers, or even the men who raped me in prison. In nature there is no blame. Blame is one of the many purely human inventions we foolishly turn to again and again because of the quick relief from suffering it deceptively promises. And so we create witches and psychopaths just to have someone to blame. Terrorists, sex offenders, gang bangers... jews, niggers... witches. How long until we take responsibility for who and what we are? How long until we stop allowing children to starve in other countries, and get raped in our own country? How long until we stop blaming someone else and start taking responsibility for what happens to us?
P.S.: The logic behind executing witches was that a dead witch couldn't hurt anyone anymore. Sound familiar?
Welcome to the Club
I have said that if the County of riverside California decides to return me to the Feds so I can be executed before California completes its process of justice then I will happily welcome them to the club... of murderers.
I say this because you do not need to be directly involved with the physical act of killing someone to be a murderer. The Nurenburg trials pretty much established that. Murder is a state of mind. It is a callous disregard for human life. You become a murderer not by killing someone, but by merely demonstrating said disregard.
California claims to be seeking „justice” for Anthony Martinez, his family, and for society in general. But in order for there to be justice there must be due process. Due process mediates callous disregard. To kill without due process is clearly murder. To abandon due process in favor of expidited death is a demonstration of no interest in due process, hense no interest in justice. The only justification for releasing me to the Federal authorities so I can be killed is revenge, not justice (since the transfer will be done with no due process, in other words, I will have no chance to defend myself in regards to the charges brought against me in California). So California authorities, and by extension every Californian who has knowledge of these events and does nothing, become murders by demonstrating their callous disregard for a human life.
To be sure, it is not my desire that they or anyone else should be a murderer as I have been. I only wish them to know that I accept and understand their choice. So I welcome them to the club.
I say this because you do not need to be directly involved with the physical act of killing someone to be a murderer. The Nurenburg trials pretty much established that. Murder is a state of mind. It is a callous disregard for human life. You become a murderer not by killing someone, but by merely demonstrating said disregard.
California claims to be seeking „justice” for Anthony Martinez, his family, and for society in general. But in order for there to be justice there must be due process. Due process mediates callous disregard. To kill without due process is clearly murder. To abandon due process in favor of expidited death is a demonstration of no interest in due process, hense no interest in justice. The only justification for releasing me to the Federal authorities so I can be killed is revenge, not justice (since the transfer will be done with no due process, in other words, I will have no chance to defend myself in regards to the charges brought against me in California). So California authorities, and by extension every Californian who has knowledge of these events and does nothing, become murders by demonstrating their callous disregard for a human life.
To be sure, it is not my desire that they or anyone else should be a murderer as I have been. I only wish them to know that I accept and understand their choice. So I welcome them to the club.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Fear is the real murderer!
When we condemn that which we have given the power to invoke fear in our lives we only cut off the only channel of communication available to us that can open up understanding that will in turn give us the ability to change our circumstances such that we no longer have anything to fear.
But, the change to our circumstances can take time. Fortunately, once we have opened the channel to understanding we immediately loose the need for fear. In fact, it is only without fear that meaningful change can ever come into this world, whether that change be to an individual's personal experience, or to an entire society's collective experience (e.g. world peace).
A person without fear can „hear” things that no human language could ever begin to convey. A society without fear will make the last two hundred years of scientific progress look like the last twenty thousand years. We will do in two years what once would have taken two thousand! We will fly without mechanical aid. We will communicate across galaxies by mere thought alone. We will manipulate energy and matter like plasmic playdo, creating art at will, and beauty will replace function as the measure of accomplishment. All this for the lack of fear. And all this lost to us because of fear.
But, the change to our circumstances can take time. Fortunately, once we have opened the channel to understanding we immediately loose the need for fear. In fact, it is only without fear that meaningful change can ever come into this world, whether that change be to an individual's personal experience, or to an entire society's collective experience (e.g. world peace).
A person without fear can „hear” things that no human language could ever begin to convey. A society without fear will make the last two hundred years of scientific progress look like the last twenty thousand years. We will do in two years what once would have taken two thousand! We will fly without mechanical aid. We will communicate across galaxies by mere thought alone. We will manipulate energy and matter like plasmic playdo, creating art at will, and beauty will replace function as the measure of accomplishment. All this for the lack of fear. And all this lost to us because of fear.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
It's not about us
One of the simplest and most apparent expressions of the realization I had that caused me to stop killing and turn myself in, was the realization that my experience (i. e. my life) is not about me. My life is all just an extremely limited (i. e. ignorant) view of an infinitely complex reality that has unity, purpose and a will of its own that I am somehow allowed to witness, but not interfere with.
As I carried that little girl in my arms back to the Jeep so I could drive her home I was crying profusely because of this realization and one of the things I kept repeating to her over and over was: „It's not about me anymore...”
I have since come to believe that my own awakening was a reflection of the great awakening that will someday overcome the entire world. On that day not only will individual men realize that their experiences are not about them, but as a planet unified all people will come to realize that its not about us (humans) either. It will be this realization that will desolve religious belief systems in the world (especially Western religions) since they make what we experience all about us (or „the choosen”). The world will awaken, and it too will cry profusely and say: „It's not about me anymore”, and then there will be peace at last.
As I carried that little girl in my arms back to the Jeep so I could drive her home I was crying profusely because of this realization and one of the things I kept repeating to her over and over was: „It's not about me anymore...”
I have since come to believe that my own awakening was a reflection of the great awakening that will someday overcome the entire world. On that day not only will individual men realize that their experiences are not about them, but as a planet unified all people will come to realize that its not about us (humans) either. It will be this realization that will desolve religious belief systems in the world (especially Western religions) since they make what we experience all about us (or „the choosen”). The world will awaken, and it too will cry profusely and say: „It's not about me anymore”, and then there will be peace at last.
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