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This is a google translate of an article originally in French. I will likely have a real translation of this someday but this will have to do for now, since this information is CRITICAL given the current state of mankind. Either way, the translation is decent. Some sentences are strangely worded, but the meaning remains.

The disappearance of safeguards against toxic thoughts

June 11, 2020 Posted by C. Patrick

In the past, humans have always resorted to thought systems, ideologies and religions that provided safeguards to protect them from toxic thoughts. Christian religions, for example, spoke of thoughts "inspired by Satan" or other demons, or simply "evil". One way or another, the believer could count on a point of reference allowing him to dismiss certain thoughts, identified by their obvious toxicity. These could take on all kinds of characters, such as sexual perversions, violence, jealousy or even, in the worst cases, psychosis wanting to make the individual believe that he is not what he is.

In Buddhist religions, it is the knowledge of the three (or five, according to) poisons of the mind that constitute the safeguard: greed, anger, ignorance, jealousy and pride. Obviously, a thought including or involving any of these poisons is perceived by practitioners to be rejected and banished.

Other true religions also include prescriptions and commandments relating to behavior judged to be good or bad. Although this does not directly concern thought, if a thought directs the individual towards a gesture prohibited by the religion in question, it comes to the same thing: the thought tempts towards sin. As for the Muslim religions, which represent the delirium of one possessed by anti-human forces, they are not included in this. Their practitioners have no safeguards either.

Since the 17th century

Since the arrival of René Descartes and his incitement to disproportionate pride included in the “I think, therefore I am,” things have changed. Since that time, a rationalist, arrogant and excessively intellectual current declares itself the only creator of thought, without any proof existing allowing to affirm such a thing.

Thus armed with pride, the rationalist intellectual - declaring himself the sole author and creator of his thought - has no other choice but to identify with it. Apart from the logical and rational rigor of the intellectual, there is then no safeguard left to protect him from particularly toxic thoughts. For decades, only intellectuals of a certain level adopted this system, without causing too many problems.

However, as this prerogative of the rationalist intellectual spreads in society, going so far as to invade the interior mores of the superstitious masses, believers and religious, the situation has changed. Indeed, we are no longer talking here of intellectuals endowed with a certain mental rigor, but of ordinary people, without great intellectual ambition. They lack the logical and rational rigor serving as a safeguard against toxic thoughts. Children are particularly vulnerable to this phenomenon, as they would need to be guided, rather than being taught implicitly that they should identify with any thought that crosses their mind.

The implicit which accompanies "I think" is that there is no distrust to maintain with regard to thought, since it is an integral part of oneself. Thus, this apparently innocent "I think" directly causes the individual to accept thoughts, however derailed, as their own. In an adult whose psychic fabric is already formed, this phenomenon creates tension and stress, since every thinking being is subject to completely unreasonable, even crazy thoughts.

In the twentieth century

When I was a teenager, one of my teachers used to walk between the aisles of the classroom ringing the coins in his pants pocket. One day, I had a very excited thought saying to me, “He's going to give me money! ". I observed the thought in bewilderment then, answering it, "No, he can't. First, he has no reason to give me money, and if he does, he will have to give some to everyone. This is a completely absurd thought! ". This is an example of unreasonable thinking well countered by a critical mind.

Here's another example when I was a young adult: I sit in the passenger seat of a friend's car. He tries to start the car, which hesitates; he has to do it several times. I then have a thought that the car is going to explode, because I saw a movie in which a car exploded when starting off. Obviously, I'm surprised that such a thought crosses my mind, but I dismiss it right away, making the ridiculous leap between fact and fiction that is offered to me.

Now imagine a being who fully identifies with the thoughts in his head and receives such a thought. He would experience strong emotions at any time and for no reason. It's not that bad, although in the long run these emotional ups and downs for no reason would certainly cause her significant stress. But now imagine that a being without a mental guardrail, as we describe, receives a thought signaling to him that his body is not of the correct sex. That he should be female, or that she should be male. Or even "non-binary", that is to say without gender. Such a being would quickly fall prey to a transsexual psychosis.

In the 21st century

This is precisely what is happening today. The disappearance of the safeguard provided by religions and other traditions leads us directly to an era of raging madness spreading like bushfire. In addition, lunatics without psychic protection who have succeeded in obtaining a status of "full person and able to participate in the normal activities of society" easily reach positions of influence or authority, such as school teachers. with children.

As a result, the transmission of their mechanisms of psychosis in children completely helpless in the face of these individuals erected in authority becomes assured, since they are told that all this is completely normal. Here is a recent example, told by the mother of a little girl. This one, who attends kindergarten, was served a speech of normalization of transsexuality by her teacher. One of the boys in his class then retired for a few minutes, then came back wearing a robe. The teacher then explained that this boy was now a girl.

For a child who has absolute confidence in the teacher, this news is enough to make the whole psyche waver: today you are a girl, maybe tomorrow you will be a boy? Any notion of identity is thus contested, if not entirely ruled out. Back home, this little girl looked at herself in the mirror and ran to her parents, weeping and terrified, asking if she was about to turn into a boy. The parents reassured her in vain, the child saw with his eyes a boy becoming a girl. She will doubt her own identity for a long time.

It must be clear to the being who questions himself somewhat about the psyche that identity is the most precious thing he can possess. I am, and in the name of what I am, I live this life. She is so because I am who I am! The other has his own life, because he is who he is! The establishment of currents favoring the questioning of identity in terms as fundamental as sex essentially constitutes total war against the individual; it is an attempt to rob him of his right to be what he is.

[–]WildApples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is interesting. Who is the original author? What is the source?

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[–]WildApples 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks!

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Thank you!

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks. So you think I should post more translations of the content on the original site?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I would like that, yes

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Thanks for the post Horrux,

This topic directly relates to Meme and memetics: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html

Thought contagions, repeating thought patterns directly resulting in behaviors are all around us. How to protect one's self.

vaccime (pron. vak-seem) Any meta-meme which confers resistance or immunity to one or more memes, allowing that person to be exposed without acquiring an active infection. Also called an `immuno-meme.' Common immune-conferring memes are "Faith", "Loyalty", "Skepticism", and "tolerance". (See: meme-allergy.) (GMG.) Every scheme includes a vaccime to protect against rival memes. For instance:

Conservatism: automatically resist all new memes. Orthodoxy: automatically reject all new memes. Science: test new memes for theoretical consistency and(where applicable) empirical repeatability; continually re-assess old memes; accept schemes only conditionally, pending future re:-assessment. Radicalism: embrace one new scheme, reject all others. Nihilism: reject all schemes, new and old. New Age: accept all esthetically-appealing memes, new and old, regardless of empirical (or even internal) consistency; reject others. (Note that this one doesn't provide much protection.) Japanese: adapt (parts of) new schemes to the old ones.

Tolerance A meta-meme which confers resistance to a wide variety of memes (and their sociotypes), without conferring meme-allergies. In its purest form, Tolerance allows its host to be repeatedly exposed to rival memes, even intolerant rivals, without active infection or meme-allergic reaction. Tolerance is a central co-meme in a wide variety of schemes, particularly "liberalism", and "democracy". Without it, a scheme will often become exo-toxic and confer meme-allergies on its hosts. Since schemes compete for finite belief-space, tolerance is not necessarily a virtue, but it has co-evolved in the ideosphere in much the same way as co-operation has evolved in biological ecosystems. (Henson.)

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That is interesting. Meme and memetics, first time I hear about that. Is this a sub-field part of a greater field of study?

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Oh, what a rabbit hole you are going to find...or so I hope so. I found meme some 20 years after Richard Dawkins wrote "The Selfish Gene". In his book he coins the word Meme and its definition. I have studied Meme and memetics for over 20 years. I found the lexicon based in the definitions of Meme and Memetics is more important than believing in Meme and it being a replicator like DNA.

Please, read as much as you can muster on the linked webpages about Meme. The lexicon gives us a new reference point from which to discuss all these thoughts we have shared today.

...create a great day...

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh no, I'm not reading any of that. "interesting" is not the same as "useful" or "needed".

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Just sharing things I found not only interesting...useful for self discover. Are you finished discovering? Am I being taught during this conversation? I am not here to TELL anyone how and what "IT ALL" is about. Simply sharing my thoughts of IT ALL and how I do it.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't think about "it all" and I have no wish to do so, nor to be "informed" how others do things. An individual is either in their experimental phase, of which spirituality is part, or in their evolutionary phase, which isn't founded so much on discovery than on destruction of all the enslaving and anti-evolutionary structures which together basically constitute the self.