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Individualists Tending to Think (ITT)
« on: February 09, 2019, 07:52:03 pm »
 They don't seem to be fighting against anything coherent.

If I were a wolf or a river or a mountain, I would not want them fighting for me.

Surely this civilization will face serious bottlenecks in the near future concerning resources, over population, the "cost of living," etc.   I am of the feeling that it is best to let Nature take its course, even if this means mass starvation and a growing reluctance to reproduce. 


I'm sorry, the glorification of violence in the name of "going wild" just doesn't seem coherent to me.   Maybe I'm just getting too old for that shiit.   I prefer fighting the enemy from within, because the environment inside my head is the only environment I have left to defend.  The clear and coherent use of our intelligence is a far more dangerous threat to the predatory energy than random attacks on mall-rats and the poor denizens of industrial civilization.  Encouraging the use of guns and bombs only feeds into the energy of chaos and incoherence.



"Every time you say 'I believe,' I want you to think the thought, 'I don't know'." 

"The dangerous thing about 'judging' is that we will always judge ourselves the harshest."

"You can't judge and RECOGNIZE simultaneously.  It's one or the other.  If you're using your intelligence to judge, the the ability to use your intelligence to recognize is hampered by the judgments, the limitations of the judgments.  Your ability to think is hampered by the fears of the belief.  We're confronted with a predatory energy that eats our spirits.   Our protection and our self-defense is in our intelligence, in how clearly and coherently we use it."

"If there is anything this predatory energy fears, it is a clear thinking, coherent human being."

~ John Trudell

The problem I see with ITS is the one-dimensional definition of what a human being is.



It is easy enough to sit around and make ourselves miserable.  Part of the 'power' of developing a kind of devotion to a practice, whether it be mathematics or music or whatever, is that it seems to allow for a slight shift in our perception of reality.  Such a shift may be enough to alleviate the misery and wretchedness of 'our being,' and we might be lifted from the pits of despair, if even for only the briefest of intervals.   In this way we may introduce coherency into the reality of energy, as John Trudell says.

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