Right this minute you ALREADY HAVE AN ANSWER in place inside your own head that you absolutely hold to be TRUE.
Because of your "invisible" Headscarf and Veil your actions, your acceptance, your loyalty is driven by your submission to UNchallenged ideas
Nature is filled with winners and losers .
Winners rule, dominate, lead, conquer, devour and hold sway.
Losers submit, obey, follow, surrender, die or knuckle under.
Animals establish territory and defend their turf. Within the pack, the herd, the group... dominance is immediately established from birth.
As it goes with animals...it goes with mankind.
Instincts play such a minor role with humanity that the superior rational mind can establish dominance through the power of IDEAS!
Imagine! Mere thoughts can wield a dominating force over others and empower or supress the most powerful among us.
Why? How?
With man's mind if you BELIEVE something to be real, if you believe something to be TRUE......it simply IS!
What animals seek to establish with fang and claw, muscle and agility, ferocity and terror...human leaders can achieve with...WORDS!
And so it goes...
The smallest unit of human co-operation is the family. Then, the tribe. Then, united tribes become a Society.
What UNITES them to achieve a common purpose? The LEADER must offer protection, hope and goals.
This automatically requires the individual members to KNOW THEIR PLACE in the order and arrangement of the society itself.
And this is where our discussion really begins!
Who is the head? Who leads? Who rules? Who dominates? And how, at any point, can this Authority be identified?
If you look within an Army there is order, discipline, fluidity and clearly established RANK. Uniform codes and Chain of Command are established and Enforced. The low ranks snap to attention when the higher ranks approach! Deference, obedience and strict compliance are...automatically established.
How is this established and achieved and maintained?
The answer is stunningly basic. NO INDIVIDUAL IS ALLOWED TO QUESTION AUTHORITY!
When an order is given....it is immediately carried out. No individual is allowed to QUESTION orders.
Let us back away for a moment and ask why any tribe, society or nation would willingly YIELD personal freedom to such summary Authority?
We already have our answer: IDEAS are in place which are accepted as TRUE.
Top Down leadership among animals is done by CONTEST of ACHIEVEMENT: contenders fight it out. Who wins is the Leader!
However, among humanity even the weakest and least physically impressive contender can establish the same dominance with IDEAS!
iT ALL STARTS WITH IDEAS ACCEPTED AS TRUTH.
Sort through the ideas in place throughout history and you discover the simplicity of this method of ruling people.
1.Men are not only physically Superior to women...they have the natural RIGHT to own, use and dominate them.
2.Women are inferior to men and must obey them. They must wear headscarf and veil to demonstrate their submission to headship.
3.Women are NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK, question or challenge the authority of their male leader.
The above are iron clad IDEAS implanted from birth into society even to this day among the MAJORITY of human societies.
It was "TRUE" among ancient Jews as it is among Muslims and, until recently, the majority of Christians.
The SYMBOL of implanted submission to "automatic" authority is the HEADSCARF and VEIL.
However, in western society, modernity has dealt a challenging blow!
The so-called Liberation of Women to vote, own property, control their reproductive destiny and achieve by merit equal pay for equal work
has met staunch resistance. IDEAS implanted by "religious TRUTH" cannot accept equality as "natural" or preferable.
Instead, an invisible HEADSCARF and VEIL have replaced the tangible ones.
Enlightened people with strong religious training have found a way to live in the Modern World and appear "normal".
But, internally, the same rigid chain of command thinking is still operating.
And this is not merely a Man VS Woman contest.
As former Jehovah's Witnesses we know that even the MEN must submit to the authority of Elders and the petty admonitions of published dictates through the Watchtower from "on High" as it were.
The Watchtower Society is just that: a SOCIETY with leaders and followers ruled by IDEAS accepted as "true".
As the wives, daughters and "Sisters" must yield to Men....the husbands, sons and "Brothers" must yield to what is termed "Theocratic arrangement".
Just a fancy word for Chain-of-Command.
Like the Wizard of Oz, the visible leaders puport and pretend to be empowered by fearsome and mysterious FORCES of reward and punishment. Those seeking favors must obey, listen and follow.
BUT, HOLD ON A MINUTE!!
Each of us--inside or OUTside the Watchtower Society still wear "invisible" Headscarf and Veil to a certain extent!
Can you believe that?
We do.
The ideas we DO NOT question, the beliefs we CAN NOT challenge, the authority we DARE NOT investigate is OUR INVISIBLE HEADSCARF and VEIL.
In Islam, the KORAN is the source of Divine Authority. But, it is the Suras and the interpretations by Ummas and other clerics which channel belief and control vast society at large.
In Christianity, the BIBLE is the source of Divine Authority. But, it is the actual surrogate writings, pastors, authorities, leaders who shape and INTERPRET doctrines for control.
What we do NOT QUESTION dominates us!
What you do NOT CHALLENGE owns you because it is your mind that creates your pesonal "reality".
Are White people superior to Blacks?
Are Women inferior to Men?
Is Conservative superior to Liberal?
Is Communism superior to Capitalism or Socialism?
Is Theocracy superior to Democracy?
Right this minute you ALREADY HAVE AN ANSWER in place inside your own head that you absolutely hold to be TRUE.
The above are IDEA DRIVEN concepts YOU ACCEPT or REJECT automatically right this MOMENT!
How? Why?
Because of your "invisible" Headscarf and Veil your actions, your acceptance, your loyalty is driven by your submission to UNchallenged ideas
You have submitted to an unquestioning authority as an established Truth and you give up your power to it.
In fact, you don't even have the mental Tools to do so. You never developed them!!
The LEADERs whom you submit to....... control your life because they control your thinking.
If you do not have the power to change your thinking you do not EXIST as an individual.
An individual is in control of their SELF.
Try this today: Challenge your own automatic response to what you disagree with.
Demand PROOF from yourself.
See what you instinctively turn to as "Authority" for proof.
Now: CHALLENGE even that!