Believe Nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it; not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense! BUDDAH
considering how often Yarugu has lied to me, and how much they have twisted what is the real world. I can believe only what I have seen and felt for myself. If people throw away most of the books they read away, they may be better off.
This level of free thinking is raw power in its purest form. How many of us were taught to think like this? Governments and their institutions need people to believe what they are told; to be accepting of the beliefs of the masses. And, there are people who accept this way of thinking easily because they don't want to be independent thinkers; to them it's far more comfortable to "go along" than stand out from the crowd because of what they believe. How do the sayings go? Ignorance is bliss and knowledge is power.
peace True indeed! "it's always dangerous to be right, when the system is so wrong" This is why government's and their systems are set up to seek out & destroy any and all people who dare excercise free thought. This is why most free thinkers have faded from the scene. They would rather talk to themselves, than to try and continue to show the 'ignorant' that they are not free and have them try to prove that they are free by quoting someone else's words from some book that someone else gave them to make them believe they are free, by just believing they in their freedom if they adhere to codes of conduct within said book.