Ruphus -> A Word on Superstition (Feb. 27 2015 13:21:43)
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A grossly underrated phenomenon of evil. Initially, with the Johnny-Head-in-the-Air premise, superstition may appear as a matter floating within its discrete metaphysical realm, meaning no harm to physical reality and ranging just in the significance of everyone´s legitimate freedom of thought. When you are a bit more aware than that, then you may start realizing how actually superstition does effect reality outside of an believing individual´s imagination. How it creates precondition and prejudice. How categorizing by unrelated criteria, as with chronological data in astrology, or morphology in methods of characterization and similar lump sum (women that dress "provocative" are nymphomanias, those who smoke in the streets are indecent and thelike nonesense) leads to discrimination. Further up the road you start realizing how superstition is undermining the substantial human challenge of understanding reality, and how actually misunderstanding reality tends to produce mistreatment and injustice on principle. Figuring how harmful and destructive misunderstanding is, and how much worse even the willing arbitrariness of superstition. One more step ahead and you realize how trillions of humans and uncountable numbers of fellow creature have fallen victim to the reckless concept of superstition. How most cruel of crimes are conducted on the arbitrary altar of this archaic phenomenon. And when reached at the insight of this mental venom you look around and you see billions of children deprived of their natural right to gentleness and shelter, exposed to paradox irrationality and orthodoxy, made to become emotionally lost and self-righteous ogres themselves. Individuals who will live from bigotry, envy and hate. Venting inequity continuously throughout their failed existence. Some even so driven from irrationality that they be cowardly cutting off heads of pinioned fellow men, and at that even be proud of being such berserk. You see how fellow creatures being kept in agony and torture, all derived from the estranging principle of superstition. However, in case of having difficulties of making out the coherence between superstition and brute, more obvious examples might help you see the connection. Be it the Chinese medicines superstition that is currently causing decimation of wild-life world-wide, so that traditionally impotence dreading China men may find rare species limbs in their bowel. Or be it the example with human albinos in East Africa. Sometime in the very early new millennium some reckless African faith healer ( obviously inspired by Chinese methods) came up with the claim that consuming pulverized human albino bone would be helping prolonging life and against diverse diseases. That led to corresponding offerings in the market and sky rocketing prices. In Tansania families with albino members are since experiencing invasions in their homes by groups of men with machetes and axes who then for example will before their eyes either cut their father into pieces and drag away the limbs, or chop off children´s arms or legs alive. In the aftermath guarded schools have been opened for albino children in attempt to keep them from being attacked and amputated. People bring their albino kids to there either for to have them protected, or - much rather - to get rid of them for good / leaving them orphaned. Because of another version of local superstition claiming that albinos were to be ghosts and that they would be bringing misfortune over their surroundings. Superstition is no small deal, nor peripheral matter of individual choice. It is in fact among the main misfortune causing plagues on the planet. No matter what type of it, it deserves zero tolerance, as superstition on principle is sabotaging our attempts to understand the world and shifting us towards the bovine and crude end of intellect. It should be fought on any level on principle. Ruphus
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