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> The freedom of thought is the most fundamental of human liberties.
> It is likewise the root of all innovation, which means that it is at
> the root of all that exists in the world, and without it people
> would still live in caves and hitting each other with stones.
> To those who would attack people's freedom of thought, we say, We've
> had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> An action that is uninformed is an action for whose results one
> cannot be responsible, as it leads to all kinds of unanticipated
> consequences. Knowledge is a prerequisite for responsibility, and
> freedom of thought and of exploration is a prerequisite for
> knowledge that is not contextually determined. To those who use the
> concept of responsibility to attack experience and exploration and
> freedom of thought that is a prerequisite for knowledge that is a
> prerequisite for responsibility, we say, we've had enough. We are
> throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> It is meaningless to demand of people to take responsibility for
> their lives when they have no meaningful choice over what life to
> have. And finding out what life to have can be only result of
> profound exploration, including leaving behind the familiar. People
> rarely know what they want until they have found it or until it
> finds them, and to trap people into lives that are uninformed under
> the pretext of responsibility is to deny knowledge and meaningful
> choice that are prerequisite for responsibility as well as
> responsibility over one's life. To the entrappers and life-stealers
> of the world, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your
> yoke of oppression.
>
> An action can have natural consequences, as integrative function of
> its inherent character and the world in which it exists. It can also
> have artificial consequences, designed deliberately by people in
> service of one or another agenda. The mindset conditioned through
> cultivation of false artificial consequences is disconnected from
> life and creates a false understanding of the world. The people,
> driven by this false understanding, create societies that are
> reifications of this false understanding. Driven by this false
> undrestanding, they commit hideous errors of judgment pertaining the
> world and act in a manner destructive to the world as well as to
> people within it. Driven by false understanding, the people create
> societies that not only are fallacy-driven but, depending upon
> unconditional embrace of the fallacy for their claims of validity
> and righteousness and realism and ethics, cannot allow for insight
> that would lead to understanding of true character of the world
> to exist. They seek to stomp out such insight wherever it may
> appear. What should be encouraged, appreciated and given a way to
> expression instead becomes criminalized and pathologized, in order
> that it not be threat to the false artificial worldview and the
> false artificial world created in service thereof. All that has way
> to the truth is assaulted. To the big-lie societies driven by false
> reinforcement and implementation of psycholinguistic lies in service
> thereto, we say, we have had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
> of oppression.
>
> >From every situation it is possible to learn the right lesson, a
> wrong lesson, or no lessons at all. It is better to learn no lesson
> than to learn a wrong one. The "lessons" forced down people's
> throats through manipulation of social climate to make it reflect
> one or another interest or ideology are false and do not reflect the
> true character of the world. To the manipulators of social climate,
> we say, we have had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
> oppression.
>
> The universe is not made of brick, and neither is the human mind.
> The materialist fundamentalist mindset creates a more profound
> oppression than one caused by Islam, Con****ianism, Hinduism or
> Christianity. All thoughts and feelings are controlled and driven
> into representation of a worldview that claims rationality or
> intelligence for itself while being bigoted, dogmatic, prosecutorial
> and intolerant. Lacking the concept of soul or forgiveness or
> deliberate choice or even individuality that its theory of evolution
> necessitates as the mechanism by which life has come from bacteria
> to humanity, the materialist fundamentalist creates a
> totalitarianism of the mind, which leads to totalitarianism of
> conduct. By its own mechanisms - the mechanisms that see universe as
> being made of brick and cannot allow for anything more intricate or
> more profound than a brick - this mindset seeks to entrap what it
> can and destroy what it cannot. To the materialist fundamentalists,
> we way, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
> oppression.
>
> Throughout human history there have been thousands of normative
> systems and thousand of cultural commonsenses, most of them mutually
> exclusive of one another. Even if one of those norms or commonsenses
> is true, it means that all others are false, and that throughout
> human history most people were wrong, insane and abnormal. To the
> pushers of context totalitarianism masquerading as norms, sanity or
> commonsense, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
> of oppression.
>
> All good that we have in the world comes from people doing things
> their own way. It is the original in humanity that is at the root of
> all that we have here. To the people who bludgeon others into doing
> things according to one or another norm or tradition, which itself
> is different from other traditions and normative systems, we say,
> we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> Nobody speaks for everyone, for reality, for sanity or for
> commonsense. There are six billion people in the world who practice
> different modes of thought, and for communities and societies to
> claim to speak for such things is the height of collective
> arrogance. To the people who claim people arrogant for thinking for
> themselves while assuming the monumental arrogance of claiming to
> speak for everyone, the bulk of which believe nothing similar to
> themselves, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
> of oppression.
>
> Liberty does not mean controlling one's family with a gun. If the
> official organs of power are held inherently evil, then unofficial
> organs of power, lacking the checks and balances and principles that
> apply to the official organs of power, will be more so. To the
> communitarians, the survivalists and the uninformed libertarians who
> seek to replace checked-and-balanced organs of power with
> unofficial and uninformed tyranny of good-ole-boy networks, we say,
> we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> All power, official or unofficial, must be balanced and checked. The
> power to control people's minds, feelings and personalities is the
> greatest power possible and requires balances and checks on itself
> and its totality. As democracy demands human rights and civil rights
> to ensure that government acts in an ethical way, same moral
> judgments must be applied on society as it attempts to impose its
> own, contradictory all the time, mentality and set of ethics. Social
> tyranny and context totalitarianism must be exposed and seen for
> abuses of power when it leads to witch hunts, hysterias, thought
> policing, psychological terror, destruction of minds and lives, and
> persecution of freedom of thought and feeling. To the social
> bludgeoners and normative bullies, we say, we've had enough. We are
> throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> Social interaction does not require thought-controlling social
> totalitarianism any more than economy requires strangulating
> bureaucracy. As people figure things out for themselves, they will
> add to the knowledge, vibrancy and greatness of the civilization. In
> allowing the freedom of thought, feeling, experience and exploration
> and cultural choice in the same way as market allows the freedom of
> property, is created greater and more informed thought that builds
> on itself and adds to the world's wisdom. To those who believe that
> the world needs similitude of thought and perception, we say, we've
> had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> It makes no sense to create governments designed to be free of
> official tyranny in order that unofficial tyranny take its place,
> masquerading as reality, or commonsense, or normality, or sanity, or
> any other things that it is not. Democracy demands all forms of
> authority to be balanced and checked and accountable to the public;
> which means that it must be official. To the social totalitarianism
> in all its aspects, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off
> your yoke of oppression.
>
> Reality is the sun, the universe, all living things on planet earth,
> and the potentials and the actions of those who exist on it. To
> equate reality with a mindset and an adaptation, is to usurp reality
> from the universe and appropriate it for that adaptation. Pursuant
> this fallacy, it is to commit a hideous error of destruction of all
> that is not part of this adaptation, for which it does not see a
> purpose or which it does not comprehend. To the supposed realists of
> the world, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
> of oppression.
>
> Sprirituality, empathy and goodness of mind and heart is not about
> perpetuating bad scripts, hideous cultural patterns, or ill-fitting
> adaptations, but about rising above them and benefitting humanity.
> To use spiritual feelings or human values to perpetuate family-
> transmitted or culturally-transmitted forms of wrong, is to usurp
> the good in humanity and use it in service of one or another form of
> wrong. To the pushers of omnipotent-family or omnipotent-community
> structures, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
> of oppression.
>
> Success is about meeting one's goals, and not goals that someone has
> for oneself. Winning is about doing one's own will, and not about
> playing one or another social game relating to which the people have
> been defined as winners and losers. To those who subvert the concept
> of success or the concept of winning and losing for purpose of
> controlling people into perpetuation of one or another game, we say,
> we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> The concept of adequacy does not apply to humankind. No human being
> is a match for a tiger; he uses better technology to outsmart him,
> and in the process to benefit fellow man. To the monkey-brain
> dogmatists, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
> of oppression.
>
> There are men who think women are evil or exist to serve man, and
> women who think men are pigs and must be castrated. To believe such
> a thing is to assay the original in terms of one or another
> misconceived usurpatory interest or fallacious system of thought and
> judgment, and to commit the monumental hubris of judging half of the
> world's population according to an ideology or an interest - while
> according to that interest or ideology assigning to them an inferior
> role. To Augustine, Luther, Dworkin, Mohammed and similar
> scoundrels, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
> of oppression.
>
> There are people who see art and beauty and creative intelligence as
> useless or friviolous. The world does not exist for the sake of one
> or another form of utility, and neither do genius and passion. Some
> things are good in and of themselves, and for this deserve love,
> respect and protection. To the art-haters and creativity-haters and
> beauty-haters, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your
> yoke of oppression.
>
> Beauty, intelligence, skill and inner development are all forms of
> excellence. To claim to value the last two without valuing the
> first two, is hypocrisy and falsehood. To the haters of beauty, we
> say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> Each human mind is different, and contains in it an inherent potency
> and methodology. To rightly develop a mind, is to help it to
> make the most of the mechanisms that are in it encoded and guide
> them into mature unfoldment. To the pushers of thought similitude in
> education, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
> of oppression.
>
> The relativist and postmodernist is of the belief that there are no
> absolutes. Thus the absolutes of passion, beauty, genius,
> originality, excellence and goodwill are seen as a threat and
> attacked in order that they not be refutation to this worldview by
> counterexample. To the relativists and postmodernists, we say, we've
> had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> The original mind or a passionate soul, when placed in a context of
> mental oppression, will develop problems of one or another kind.
> This may lead many to believe that such things are wrong, when any
> true examination of inherent dynamics lead one to dig deeper and see
> the true causes. As the original mind or the passionate soul is
> assayed in reference to a dogmative function that fails to value
> such things, it will be confounded and find it difficult to have
> self-esteem or self-confidence. And yet it is the original minds
> that have the most to offer the humankind, and it is the passionate
> souls that have the most to offer in relation****ps. To the pushers
> of dogma that see self-esteem or personality psychology as a measure
> of all things without seeing the natural causes underlying these
> things, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
> oppression.
>
> If human desire nature is held to be evil, then so must be the human
> desire for control over anyone else. To use religion for purpose of
> control over one's family, one's community or one's civilization, is
> to use and abuse the religion in service of a purpose that the
> religious ideology itself condemns. To the religious fundamentalists
> of the world, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your
> yoke of oppression.
>
> It is the purpose of mind to make the best of all possible worlds.
> It is to integrate the good that exists in the world and also to
> create its own. Integrating valuable things from other cultures does
> not make one a poser or a traitor, but rather someone who enriches
> one's civilization with wisdom from other worlds in areas where they
> are an improvement upon the ways of one's civilization. To those
> who would attack people who have appreciation for ways other than
> those of the hometown, and seek to integrate them in their
> existence, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
> of oppression.
>
> Pluralism means bringing the wisdom of different worlds together and
> using it
> to correct the errors in all the cultures and build likewise upon
> their strength. And taking the best of competing ideologies and
> putting them together, instead of blindly mouthing an ideological
> line, is making the most wise and most complete of the thought
> present in civilization. To the cultural purists and party-line
> ideologues all over the world, we say, we've had enough. We are
> throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> To feed in order to choke, or to serve and protect in order to
> control, is to be running a racket and to be doing more harm than
> good. While government, business and military are a necessity at
> this time, they cannot be allowed to abuse their power and control
> everyone's existence. Instead - drawing upon the concept of market
> competition and the concept of checks-and-balances working
> together - they must be made to compete in a fair sphere and through
> competition and checks-and-balances and accountability be made to
> become the best they can be, while being checked in their potential
> for oppression and usurpation. To the feeding-rackets,
> service-rackets and protection-rackets in all their forms, we say,
> we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> To assay the intrinsic in reference to the canonical, or to see the
> world in reference to one's standpoint and cognitive methodology, is
> to make a method for apprehending reality a reality, and its
> incomplete judgments more potent in people's minds than reality. To
> do this is to usurp formative power from the universe and to impart
> it to one or another cognitive method. To those who would judge the
> innate logic of things for difference from the logic by which they
> are being dissected, or to attack them for being made of a
> different logic without bothering to find out the logic by which
> they intrinsically operate or claim them irrational when they
> practice a more inclusive rationality and one that the observer
> cannot comprehend, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off
> your yoke of oppression.
>
> The *****c is blood of life, and the reason for all of life. Any
> attempt to control or usurp or traumatize it is to do violence
> against life as such. To the religious or ideological perversions
> that criminalize the passionate and the *****c, we say, we've had
> enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> To claim that a feeling is based in an earlier ego state, and
> then to adjudicate it as infantile, is again to commit the error of
> presenting the intrinsic in reference to the fallacious canonical
> ideology, and then to make a still more grievous error of judging
> it according to the false values contained in the culture. This is
> neither scientific nor rational, nor is it ethically right. There
> is potentiality in all ego states, and living fully is about giving
> them all a way to complete fruition. To those who attack the
> romantic passion according to Freudian or Adlerian or any other
> degenerate models, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off
> your yoke of oppression.
>
> Growth is not expungement of the inherent, but growing into its
> mature embodiment. True growth is not about self-expungement, but
> about complete unfolment of the innate potential. To those who want
> people to "grow" out of warmth, passion, talent, inventiveness, joy,
> beauty, creativity and originality, we say, we've had enough. We are
> throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> The artificial sets of consequence and reinforcement are far
> removed from the natural ones and therefore do not reflect the
> innate logic of things. Instead of seeing the actions for their true
> character and true consequence, people see them for their assigned
> false and artificial consequence. This leads people to learn false
> lessons and to develop a skewed and fallacious worldview that is
> not based on inherent reality of things, which in turn blinds them
> to clarity and understanding. Ignorance builds on itself; so does
> desensitization and cruelty; so does disconnection from life. Man
> loses the wisdom of life and is not merely broken but through
> this manipulation is led ot make wrong and ignorant choices and
> perpetuates them onto the generations to come. To the formulators of
> all artificial and self-perpetuating commonsenses, we say, we've had
> enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> The human world consists of others and self, and benefitting the
> human world consists of benefitting both self and others. To deny
> people's self-interest as they define it themselves, or to keep
> people from doing good for one's fellow human beings, is to do
> violence against either side of the equation of doing good. To the
> service-racket and to the anti-altruist racket, we say, we've had
> enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> An injustice unredressed is an injustice systematized. The just-
> world hypothesis that is required for mental comfort leads people
> to justify whatever status quo may exist at the time, whatever the
> actual mechanisms that brought it about. This means that the moral-
> intellectual mind follows and perpetuates arrangements created by
> any dynamics that may exist; which makes the entire order
> unavoidably hypocritical. The people in tune with actual dynamics
> cannot take seriously the supposed ethics stated by such societies;
> they are then regarded immoral when they are the ones that in fact
> possess the most keen sense of justice. To the moral bludgeoners in
> service of societies created by cruelty and injustice, we say, we've
> had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> The earth is not as hard as it seems. There is fire under the earth,
> air around it and water upon its surface. The second and third are
> essential to life on earth; the first existed before the earth's
> crust came about, and of which the earth's crust is only a
> manifestation. To the people who only see value in earthy things,
> we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
> oppression.
>
> The adaptation is only this - adaptation. It is an integrative
> function of what is inside with social climate through which it
> manifests. To see people for their personal adaptations, is to
> commit the error of making the adaptation essential to perception
> and jugments while ignoring both the inherent truth of the human
> being and the truth of the world in which it exists. This leads to
> failure to compute inner worth, and failure also to call society of
> the time on the wrong in it. The result is failure to see either
> side of the integrative function for what it is, and failure not
> only to actualize inner worth but failure also to correct the wrong
> in any given society. This leads to both waste of potential and
> perpetuation of social abuses. To the personality psychologists who
> fail to see either side of what makes personality, we say, we've
> had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> The world does not exist in reference to a method or a perceptual
> mode. To define reality as what can be seen or verified or assayed,
> is to make the self and the perceptual modes contained within it -
> either inherent or socially transmitted or an integrative function
> of both - primary to reality. It is to create a self-centered,
> canon-centered, society-centered or dogma-centered worldview; worse,
> it is to set as center of perception and judgment the mind formed
> through manipulation of artificial consequences and to project upon
> the universe the modes of cognition that are untrue to it. It is
> to judge the universe according to its deviation from dogma created
> in pursuit of this canon-centered, society-centered or dogma-
> centered worldview, instead of assaying it and valuing it according
> to its inherent character. To call such a thing logical, when it is
> committing the fatal logical error of projecting upon something that
> runs by one method what runs by another and judging it in reference
> thereto, is to commit a fatal logical error according to one's own
> claims of logicality. And to call such a thing reliously righteous,
> when it is committing extreme hubris and immorality of judging the
> created universe for difference from interests forming one's moral
> worldview, is to betray any claims of righteousness contained in
> one's own religion. To the people guilty of either such error, we
> say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
>
> There are multiple ways by which the human being can apprehend the
> unverse. An apple brought Newton to develop theory of gravity;
> Einstein got his theory of relativity in a dream. Imagination and
> inspiration are not only valid modes of perception, but ones to
> which the world owes much of what it claims to be owed to logic. To
> The methodology bigots who see no value in other forms of cognition,
> we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
> oppression.
>
> The context attempts to engineer insight, passion and creativity out
> of existence in order that it not be there to see the actual
> character of the universe, and thus not be there to disrupt a
> fallacious worldview shoved down people's throats and an artificial
> big-lie of a world that is a result of social manipulation. The
> friction between the insightful (that sees actions for natural
> character) and the contextual (internalization of false worldview,
> created through cultivation of artificial consequences, that is the
> civilization at any given time) creates mental and interpersonal
> friction, which is the reason that creativity frequently
> correlates with mental or adaptational problems and is seen by many
> as symptomatic. By traumatizing or usurping the structures through
> which creativity or insight can manifest, grave damage is done. The
> insight and creativity is maliciously attacked, and blamed for the
> friction when the friction is a result of the clash between insight
> into the universe-as-is and the contextual fallacy. The assault
> persists until insight and creativity see the tools used to bludgeon
> it our of existence and use it rightfully for its manifestation -
> the genius, the true character of the universe, and the fire under
> the earth. The rationalism of one or another kind will always be
> followed by one or another form of romanticism, as a result of the
> mechanisms that are contained therein. To the world's context-
> shapers, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
> oppression.
>
> Ilya Shambat
> http://ibshambat.blogspot.com
well **** me this is a long post! i'll read it later. liked the
beginning about freedom of thought. exactly. we are punished for
thoughts now. orwell was right. (if he even said that, i dunno i never
read him, but it seems thats what people say) we're having our minds
cut out..."dont think that, avoid thinking this, if you see that in any
form cut it off...."
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