Freud said:
"If it were really a matter of indifference what we belive, then we might just as well build our bridges of cardboard as of stone, or inject a tenth of a gram of morphine into a patient instead of a hundredth, or take teargas as a narcotic instead of Ether; but the intellectual anarchists themselves would strongly repudiate any such practical applications of their theory."
Intellectual honesty requires a match between the real world, the practical world where things either WORK or do not work at all.....and the state of mind inside your head.
If there is any mismatch at all the blurred line fuzzes out into failure to recognize what is real and what isn't.
Jehovah's Witnesses replace the real world with an artificially constructed one. They build an illicit intellect for themselves with the help of the Watchtower and meeting attendance.
They carry this intellectual destruction to households and practice it on their own children!
The ability to think clearly is gradually replaced by an induced blindness to clarity.
A special-effects team goes to work in the brain and uses CGI to erect facades of phony "reality" replacing the accurate one inside.
Soon, the actual human intellect has been dismantled:
When a JW looks at their next door neighbor--what do they "see"?
They now see a worldly goat marked for destruction who must be avoided lest bad association taint them with polluted false worship of a satanic empire.
We who have formerly been these meta-humans know this process well.
Many of us have had to rebuild our intellect from the crumbling state of near destruction into what we need to function in a hand's on real world of cause and effect.
What is the best test for NON-contradiction between what is inside your mind and your world view and actual reality? Just this: SUCCESS!
HOW SUCCESSFUL has your life been so far?
I don't mean "rich"--I mean having a life that works! Do you have true friends? Have you planned for the future?
Do you have a five year plan, for instance? Or, do you bounce about day to day always facing the same old problems over and over again? Are you generally a happy person? Or, are you disgruntled and bitter?
Do find time to express a positive mental outlook or do you complain?
Are you yet intellectually honest?
Or, do you carry some semblance of ___blank out__into your daily life from the habit you learned as a JW drone-clone?
Do you often find yourself slipping into the ___alternate universe__of the world you "prefer" rather than the one that "is"?
Do you accept your responsibility in building your own life with your own choices?
Or, do you live in a kind of daydream expectation that "things will all work out somehow"?
Do you cling to a belief system constructed for the purpose of "feeling good"?
Can you tolerate skepticism or do you seek solace in cherished mental constructs ?
Remember, the BEST that a JW can hope for is the End of the World and the slaughter of their fellow man!!
Do you find yourself saying "I HOPE SO" ?
Do you rely on what you call "gut feeling" rather than rational data or demonstrable information in the form of evidence?
When you explain your views do you find they are vague?
Or, are they connected to actual definable definitions that can be written down and explained from premise to conclusion?
Do you find conversation about facts and evidence to be irritating and does it make you uncomfortable to have to explain yo urself? Can you be at ease with NOT knowing something? Or, do you always choose to "believe" what makes something ___seem___sensible?
ARE THERE STILL CONTRADICTIONS in your life between what you believe and what actually happens?
Watch for this RED FLAG!
