THE MIND POLICE
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Basic Principle: [A man’s decisions end up as either successful or suicidal.]
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http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/concepts.html
Once upon a time, stupid people didn’t survive long enough to be a burden on the rest of society.
As scores of nitwits and knuckleheads brought about their own doom, the crowds of onlookers took note of an ever-growing list of “Things Not to Do if you wish to Survive.”
Stupid children ignored their wiser parent’s rules and met with disaster. Obedient children survived.
“Honor thy father and thy mother, that your days may prove to be long” means exactly that.
Survival requires practical choices of actions and decisions. Why? Because there is NO automatic knowledge for human beings. Homo Sapien is (acquired) knowledge driven.
Man has to live by his choices. Man first has to hold his life as a value—by choice; he has to learn to sustain his life—by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues—by choice. A working code of values accepted by choice is a Code of Morality.
Morality is choosing to do what preserves life.
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“Do not swim with sharks”, if ignored by a swimmer, became an object lesson when the swimmer vanished screaming and splashing in red water.
On the other hand, Religious Laws were not obvious Cause and Effect, however.
“Do not covet your neighbor’s wife,” was invisible; taking place only in the mind of the trespasser.
The only way for Moral Police (Priests) to enforce ritual rules was by using Psychology.
Fear and Guilt produced the “conscience.”
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What is a Conscience?
Trial and error in childhood rewards or punishes when children try certain things.
Each person, sooner or later, has to decide what rules he or she will live by.
AUTHORITY says:
“You must do as we say OR ELSE.”
Why?
“BECAUSE I SAID SO.”
Authority based rules require loyalty and obedience.
Children are made subservient to the WILL of OTHERS.
Doing what you are told becomes the only morality necessary to avoid conflict and punishment.
This is Altruism. (Putting others first and yourself last.)
Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. Altruism means “SELF-ishness” is evil but “SELF-sacrifice” is good.
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A Funny thing happened on the way to Selflessness
The only way to survive is to make life valuable enough to do what is necessary to preserve it. Without “life” there can be no values because you must be alive in order to practice values in the first place.
Contrarily, by becoming obedient to “others” and putting the“self” last, you destroy self-preservation and convert survival into self-sacrifice.
Practical choices are pro-survival--but-- Social (altruistic) choices create martyrs at worst and slaves at best.
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Conscience is the Moral Policeman
a Practical Guide:
There are 2 kinds of “conscience.”
The first is Altruistic and the second is Selfish.
Is “Selfishness” a true evil or has it falsely been defined in order to maintain slavery?
First, we must determine was a VALUE is and what it means.
Life itself is the greatest Value. (Without it, there can be no values.)
If you drown, you cannot save others from drowning. You must know how to swim to save yourself and others. Self comes first. Consequently, your own life is your greatest value.
Knowledge is the highest priority, practical knowledge is the most useful.
Doing what you are told is not practical knowledge once you reach the age of
Consent (Free Choice.)
What if you are instructed to refuse medical treatment based on a Religious Principle? Is this a moral value if it violates LIFE itself?
No!
Life is the highest moral choice because all values begin with life.
A Religious Conscience cannot be a Moral Conscience if your life is secondary.
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FREE WILL (How is it free?)
“Free will” is your mind’s freedom to think or not. It controls all the choices you make. The consequences become your fate.
To think is an act of choice.
Swimming lessons will save a man from drowning ONLY if he takes those lessons in the first place. Ignorance of practical skills is punished by natural consequences.
We are all free to be stupid and to fail.
Selfish choices (such as higher education instead of Pioneering) are condemned by the Altruism of Jehovah’s Witness policies. (Putting the values of the Org ahead of your own knowledge.) Your life is sacrificed to serve the “greater need” of the group. As a practical matter, this is suicidal.
If you are a slave, the life you could have led, might have led, should have led, would have been enabled and ennobled by knowledge and practical values instead of emptied out and tossed away serving your feckless Master.
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The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. You are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival—so that for you, who are a human being, the question “to be or not to be” is the question “to think or not to think.”
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A consciousness which is aware of reality and able to deal with it, is a consciousness able to direct the actions and provide for the survival of a human being—an unfocused mind is not conscious.Thinking is focusing and paying attention so as to make the best of all possible decisions to ACT.
If your conscience works for YOU rather than a slave master, your life is yours.
Freedom from coercion, manipulation, undue influence is the only freedom worth having.
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone’s opinions, threats, wishes, plans, or “welfare.”
The Watchtower Organization leaders know this. Their values are the opposite of moral for a very good reason.
Historically this has proved to be the MURDER of the INDIVIDUAL’s values, principles, and autonomy of will.
Note: Moral leaders use rational reasoning to gain cooperation rather than threats of Armageddon and shunning to coerce compliance through fear.
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“Things NOT to do if you wish to Survive”
Do not surrender your mind to the Watchtower Mind Police. These Puritanical slave masters are obsessed with purification fetish rituals such as these 141 arbitrary rules:
http://thejehovahswitnesses.org/things-jehovahs-witnesses-cant-do.php
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