The Insanity of Prejudice

Most people, including me, have a learned tendency to fall back on old judgements when they encounter situations that demand to evaluated. We do so instead of actually taking the time to reconsider and reevaluate the situation as we should. It saves time, work, and effort, but unfortunately this habit also prevents us from considering new information when it becomes available, and ends up trapping us in a self imposed web of erroneous information and deception.

I'm talking about the age old problem of prejudice, of course. It has been recognized as the primary source of all human suffering for all of recorded history, and no doubt long before that. Many men have tried to "open our eyes" to the insanity of prejudice, and even promise a glorious new world where freedom from all judgement brings profound peace and eternal bliss for all who find their way (by ceasing to judge themselves).

Christ called it Heaven, that can be entered by "forgiveness", which is the opposite of judgement. The Buddha calls it Nirvana, and tells us that an "empty mind", free from all judgement, is the key that opens its door. Even Mohammad promised his followers a "land of milk and honey" if they would only "submit" to the Will of Allah, which really means trusting devine judgement, not your own (if the so-called "juhadists" understood this correctly they wouldn't be so ready to judge us "infidels" for themselves and they'd let Allah do it instead; but then most Christians make the same mistake; believing that their God has given them the power to judge, which is not only depicted as causing the "fall of man" in Genisis' Garden of Eden story, it is also the exact opposite of what Christ tried to teach!).

Maybe someday we will learn. I believe it is possible - I leaned, from watching the example of a child - and if I can learn this secret to eternal bliss then anyone can. I'm just not so sure if it is likely.

(J.D. November 22, 2014)

Happy eighteenth, "Girl"! I pray that you are as free today as you were the day you showed me the way "home".