With enough support you can be as ignorant as you want
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In today__ society, the animals known as Homo sapiens have become conditioned to elicit the same kind of fearful response whenever the bell of Islam is rung.
Get rid of your useless ceremonials and be educated like your ancient ancestors _ Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta, Susruta and others. Make education your purpose of life and spread it among the masses.
The mystical non-sense of afterlife indeed gives solace to the mind in times of weakness, but why should the mind let its weakness be the fuel for primitiveness in the first place!
In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust.
The human has not one but two births _ first, when a person is born from the mother__ womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.
Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business _ all these fall into the same category of psychological reinforcement. Hence, emerged the blood-sucking professions of astrology, palmistry, vastushastra, numerology etc. The very existence of these fraudulent professions is predicated on the fear and anxiety of vulnerable masses. Thus, a person__ superstitious beliefs become the tool of exploitation in the hands of ruthless fraudsters.
A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot card readers.
It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others).
Common people tend to term any kind of bizarre phenomenon as __aranormal_ or __upernatural_. They often exaggerate it as the work of the Gods. Behind this belief is nothing but primitive ignorance. Social progress means that people must (a necessity, not a luxury) align their beliefs and behavior to new knowledge and understanding of nature.
Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.
Every single creature on earth manages to survive one way or another, but not every creature truly lives.
All the terrorism in the world that fester in the name of religion, are in fact not religious in nature, rather they are socio-political. Their roots are not religion, but socio-political condition. Religion is only used as a divine tool of authoritative justification in the search of absolution.
English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I flirt with my species. English is the language through which I make my species think.
Education means breaking free from the manacles of limitations put forward by primitive ignorance.
The craving for security has conditioned the society to perceive education not as an endeavor of the mind, rather as a preprogrammed task created by some sophisticated, illusory structure known as the __ystem of education_. Education means breaking free from the manacles of limitations put forward by primitive ignorance. Yet today__ fake education is gloriously founded upon the primordial element of __imitation_. And the authorities of this so-called education often take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins.
The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins.
Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created by the self-proclaimed authority figures of the system. And this very fundamentalism is the cause of all the growing conflicts between the student-body of the education society and the teachers running that society. These conflicts further become tools of exploitation in the hands of a handful of war-mongering, authoritarian, blood-sucking politicians.