Updated: 04/20/08
THE WRONG THING
HOW NOT TO HAVE PEACE
IN THE WORLD
What is wrong in Littleton,
Yugoslavia, Iraq, Palestine, Ireland, China, Russia, India, Congo, Pakistan, Indonesia,
Philippines, Columbia, Somalia, USA, Israel, Iran, - (add your own here)?
With our world in such
disarray and at war with itself, we must ask ourselves the big question, WHY?
Why is the United States of America looked upon with such distain and even
hatred by so much of the rest of the world? Even our allies (for whom we have
bought and paid) do not trust us, nor do they trust our policies through out
the world? Why does the world look upon our declared altruistic motives as
simply a smoke screen (Trojan Horse) to cover our greed and power expansion?
Why has the world at large condemned us for our use of modern terror weapons of
war? Why does the rest of the world not understand that collateral damage
happens in war? Why does our wars kill thousands of innocent citizens while
killing only a very few of the enemy soldiers? Add your own whys.
If you want peace in the
world and in your own life, you must eliminate those things that bring
confusion, hostility, turmoil and trouble to the earth. You must learn to
listen to reason. You must learn to accept evidence that is provable and reject
those things which are untrue and which are against our own humanity. You must
learn to use the mind and brain with which nature has so graciously endowed
you. You must learn to compromise.
The major portion of ALL our
troubles rest in our stupid herding instincts (following the leader) and in our
quest to obtain Something for Nothing!
We wish to be knowledgeable
and intelligent without studying. We wish to be wise and educated without
learning how to think clearly and honestly. We wish to be rich without working
and planning for it. We wish to be healthy without practicing the healthy life.
We wish to be happy without doing those things, which produce happiness in our
own life, our neighbor's life and in the life of our nation and world. We wish
to live forever without endowing our science with the tools it needs to
increase our own life span. We wish for a world with plenty of room for
everyone, but we over populate like a bunch of rabbits and rats. We wish to
enjoy nature, but we pollute it, cut it down, bulldoze it away and pave it
over. I hope you see the point without more examples.
Now, look at the one THING,
which teaches us all these negative and destructive attitudes listed above.
Look at the only THING that is destroying our world and our civilization. Let
us analyze this THING that is destroying both our personal lives and the peace
and tranquility that our world so desperately wants and needs.
This THING teaches us we can
be intelligent and knowledgeable without studying the facts. It teaches us we
can be rich without working for it. It teaches us how to be healthy without
doing the healthy things. This THING teaches us that happiness is not dependent
on our doing those things that will bring happiness to us and others. This
cursed THING tells us we can live forever without any science involved what so
ever. It tells us we need to populate the earth, as rapidly as rats and
rabbits. This destroyer of happiness and good teaches us that we are to use
nature as we see fit and if we mess up, something will come along and make
everything ok again. This terribly destructive THING teaches us that we
are better than everybody else. This terrible THING teaches us we can have
Something for Nothing! And there you have it!
Have you guessed what this
terrible THING is yet? Here are some more hints. It makes a person believe he
is always right in his own conclusions. It makes a person think he is better
than anyone who doesn't agree with him and his opinion. This terrible THING
divides the world up into hundreds and even thousands of parts. Each part
believes only its part is the right part of the world and all the rest of the
parts are badly in error and at the least should be isolated into some small
corner of the world. At the most, this THING teaches us that the other parts
should be eliminated from the face of the earth.
Are you still trying to
identify this THING? Here are some more clues. This THING tells you it is more
important for you to believe correctly than it is for you to DO correctly. This
destructive THING tells you IT is the most important THING in the world. In
fact, this THING tells you the whole world and universe is made and run for
its own sport and pleasure. This THING tells you that you are only here for
its own fun and joy. Have you gotten it yet?
Of all the things in the
world that gives us trouble and disrupts our tranquility and peace, this THING
is the worst. This THING is invisible. It is untouchable. IT cannot be proven.
It cannot be studied. This terrible THING cannot be justified. This THING does
not have one single fact or truth to verify it. This THING breaks up into
thousands of parts with each part hostile and at war with all the other parts.
This THING manufactures and makes up its own morality, concepts, histories and
stories.
Those people who point out
how terrible this THING is are looked down on, and in many instants are put in
prison for having spoken out against this THING. Those people who cry out for
relief from this THING are judged to be bad and are not worthy of civil
justice. These victims are looked upon as second-class citizens. This THING
classifies all the bad things it teach us, as GOOD, and this THING calls the
good things of society, BAD.
This THING has wormed itself
into your government, into your business, into your homes and worst of all,
into your minds. This THING is a slave master that enslaves your mind and makes
you think you are the only one with a sense of justice, harmony and peace. This
THING teaches you that you are always right and all others are always wrong.
This Slave Master insists that you go out into the world and intimidate,
threaten, brow beat and persuade others that you are right and they are wrong.
And guess what? People fall
for these false teachings because this THING has manufactured and developed
books, schools and a philosophy that teaches people that knowledge doesn't come
from finding and studying the facts. Rather, people have been taught, by this THING
that you can know the truth by simply accepting what this THING says is true.
This THING teaches you that you can get Something for Nothing by begging for
it. So, this terrible THING has scrambled your mind to the point where you Cannot
think logically and honestly.
This THING is beginning to
sound like the worst idea ever fostered upon the human race. What must we do to
send this THING back to the ancient, dark, barbarian past from which it sprang?
How may we free ourselves from this mental dungeon that is destroying
individuals and putting the peoples of the world at war with each other? How
can we help humanity survive this THING? The solution is very simple. It is
also very difficult. Because of your concern over the plight of this world, I
will tell you how to be personally free from this destructive THING, which
hangs over all of our heads. You can -
LEARN TO THINK!
Honest Doubting and Honest
Thinking are the answers and solutions to personally escape from this terrible
THING. There is only one method by which you can arrive at the truth of
any matter. That method is to find out the facts, study those facts and form a
conclusion that remains true to all the know facts. This is called the
scientific method of thinking. That is called using logic in your thinking. That
is called using Honesty in your research and thinking.
But wait! This correct
method of arriving at the facts of a matter has been bitterly disputed by the
followers of the THING. They have insisted on calling the followers of this
correct and logical method of correctly arriving at a fair and just conclusion
- Trouble Makers, trators, Heretics and AAtheists. That is, to follow the facts,
and to honestly think about those facts, and to honestly arrive at a
conclusion, which remains true to those facts, is to cause one to be classified
as an Atheist and Trouble Maker by the followers of this THING.
Instead of honestly
following the facts, the followers of this THING, tell us there is a second and
better method of arriving at the truth of a matter. The truth of a matter can
only be determined by one of the authorities of this THING. That is, if your
high authority (government, cooperation or religion) says that slavery is a
good thing, then beyond doubt, slavery is a good thing. Anyone who disputes
this truth is an enemy of the truth and must be dealt with in a most severe
manner. Thus, we fought our civil war. And guess what? The authority who
claimed in his book that slavery was a good thing, lost the conflict. Hum!
This claimed highest of all
authority tells us, if one of us is sick, we should not seek the wisdom of science
(our doctors). Rather we should beg this highest authority (who gave us our
sickness in the first place) to take our sickness away. But this same authority
also tells us if our enemies (those who have a different version of this THING)
distress us, we should stamp out the evils of these wrong people. These
soldiers of righteousness roam the world seeking to stamp out the errors of
those who do not recognize the authority and truth of their THING.
So, the Muslims, the
Christians, the Hindus, the Orthodox, the Jews and a multitude of other small
THINGS, are all roaming the world with arms, bombs, propaganda, tracts,
speeches, sermons and the printed word. And why are they doing this? They are
all trying to wipe out, or change the minds of those who disagree with their
THING. If everyone agreed with their version of the THING the world would be at
peace. Would it? What If that version were Hindu? Baptist? Catholic? Islam?
(insert yours here)?
Now the highest authority
for this THING demands that the followers of the THING must disregard their
humanity. They must throw aside their ability, to honestly and logically, think
with their brains, which hopefully they still have. These followers of this
THING must NOT think logically and honestly. Rather, they must BELIEVE what their
authority says is true. If there is a conflict between the facts of the matter
and their belief in their authority, they must throw away the facts, their
honesty thoughts and conclusions and accept as true what the authority of their
THING says is true.
You have a choice! You can
continue to believe in your THING, and if you do, your personal life and the
life of our world will continue on to self-destruction. Or, you can follow the
facts of the matter, learn to be honest in your thoughts, honest in your
conclusions and follow what you KNOW to be right in dealing with your fellow
men. Do that and you will know personal peace in your life. If enough of us do
that, then we can expect some solutions to the destructive events that are
happening in our world today.
This THING should be
outlawed all over the world. Let the non-thinkers, the wishful thinkers, the
dumb and the demented follow the THING if they wish to express their ignorance
that way. But, they should be halted from sending these life and world
destroying claims around the world by TV, radio, newsprint and other means of
mass dissemination. Let them say the truth and the facts any time and any
place. But, they should be halted from teaching the lie and claiming it is the
truth straight from the highest authority of their THING.
The problem of the world is,
we have to many opinions and versions of the THING foisted upon us by those who
cannot, or who do not think. The world does not listen to those who honestly
and logically gather the facts and who draw honest conclusions from those
facts. The world does not listen to those who have learned to think. The world,
controlled by this THING says, "Do not listen to those Trouble Makers,
those Atheists. They do not accept our THING. Therefore, they can not possibly
be correct."
And there, you have both the
problem and the solution to our problem in a nutshell.
BELIEF IS OUR THING.
Belief (our THING) is the
most destructive concept in our world today. The ONLY solution is to stop
believing and learn to honestly doubt the incredible and untrue claims
forced upon us by the followers of this THING.
HONEST DOUBT
IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM
(and peace).
Doubt is the beginning of
wisdom! Honest doubt is the first step on the road to logical and honest
thinking. The worst sin claimed by the followers of the THING is to honestly
doubt their claims. According to this THING, it is honest doubt that will keep
you from receiving all the good rewards in the present and the future, which
the followers of the THING claim. In other words, honest doubt is the WORST sin
that you can commit against the THING. To honestly doubt and think is to sin.
To not think (ignorance) is a divine command.
On the other hand, followers
of honest, logical thought say that Belief is the very worst sin
you can commit against yourself, your family, your community and against
humanity. Do you want peace in your own life and in the world? Then do the best
thing for everyone concerned. Learn to honestly doubt and to honestly think.
That is the first law of Atheism. The second law to which all thinking Atheists
subscribe is:
"Do not do to others
what you would not wish done
to you."
And do not forget:
HONEST DOUBT SAVES!
Thomas E. Blaylock Jr.
23 April 1999
Updated: 04/25/08