In Search of God

Often times, we find ourselves immersed in deep philosophical questions, desperately searching for some answers, but mostly stimulated by the thoughts of those dressing up as philosophers whose purview is to advance a certain cause, and we are left defenseless as we gather the values we hold true until we are completely consumed by their lies and deceit.

It is within this context that we are haunted by our own beliefs, to try and defend it in futility, as arguments completely engulfed our reasoning in contradiction to what we consider as true and noble that create our own sacred reality. As our limitations are exploited by means of deception, a limited grasp of philosophy can manipulate our thoughts into abandoning ourselves, and subscribe to foolishness beyond disbelief.

But the basis of our reality is not just words or thoughts or reasoning alone. It is also augmented by our experiences derived from the world, the pain and the joy, the thoughts and behavior of others. To pierce the sacred veil of our belief system, we have to be sedated by reasons that support the elements of our very existence and our sources of truth. Our pain is exploited as senseless suffering, and our present economic status is dressed as a systemic crime.

In search of God, we stumble upon ourselves several contradictions that we do not understand. It is in this state of ignorance that we are persuaded so easily, that we become what we do not know. In the process, we simply lose ourselves into oblivion. Once that is done, when our values die and our minds poisoned, we become the slaves of a new ideology. It is a new premise that we are living for, but nothing has really changed. We are still slaves of a system, but this time, instead of working for capital.

So, now we are confronted by deceit, and deception is a very potent weapon of manipulation because it contains a certain truth that is so twisted that it reveals itself as an absolute truth. That while a person becomes insensitive to everything that makes us human, we destroy a certain part of ourselves as a willing slave for a cause that is full of error.

To commit an error, a person must have poor judgment. And that is why this predicament becomes an unseen battle that nobody seems to notice. Words are as deadly as weapons, and a poisoned mind is as dangerous as a committed felony. The subtle manipulative tendencies of our actions and the thought that goes with it, once justified as a necessary tool of a certain advancement of a belief, is the perilous end to the means.

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