Ignorance

It is laziness. A sort of mental lethargy if you will. It is an unhealthiness of mind that not unlike unhealthiness of body, causes harm, decreases pleasure, and ultimately shortens life. It used to be the scourge of our world, the thing that all leaders were loathe to encourage or sustain in their areas of influence. The blight of ignorance, after the ambition of imperialism, is the reason that so much of the world has progressed. In fact, the desire to completely eradicate ignorance was, in the last millennium, the reason that we have the "information age" now. The knowledge we find to almost stifle us in its volume was directly caused by a desire to remove the heavy fog of ignorance; the weather of sleepiness, and apathy.

Action comes from motivation, motivation comes from purpose, and purpose comes from knowledge. I have discussed the idea of knowledge before, but this is a different side of the issue. The type of knowledge here is the knowledge for which Mathematics is so widely known; the knowledge of the "problem." This knowledge is often some of the first knowledge ever observed and experienced by any human being.

Problems, within a logical system of consideration, lead us to the more potent level of knowledge: possibility. It is within this area of possibility that we learn that while we cannot plausibly become rich by becoming a dinosaur breeder; there are other ways to get the things that we want. We begin to distinguish between possible and plausible; to see the wisdom in the delineation between probable and palpable. These are the areas of the "solution."

While the solution may be completely out of our sight, the possibility of a solution to those things which we find to be unsustainable, or uncomfortable is what gives us the drive of purpose, motivation, and finally the action to search for it. Without the recognition of a problem, no solution is needed, and logically, no action is begun.

Thus, ignorance is essentially laziness. First; mind, second; body. Those who are ignorant are inherently lazy. And while a simple man may not be highly intelligent, he can still act with purpose. And while action can be attributed to motivation and purpose (sprouting from knowledge), mere busyness is more a sign of a bankrupt intellect and weakened resolve (or ability to sustain a motivation) than of a healthy mind.

Yet while mental laziness may not be one's problem, it is no more commendable to let one's body waste away than it is to let one's mind. Don't tell me what you think, show me what you think...then give me a brief summary.

...Of This Idea."

"While never Rhematic
A definite Schematic
With potential Pedantic
And possible Sycophantic
                 ...Components

Continue through Time
An interesting Rhyme
With intricate Design
These thoughts Refine
                   ...Proponents..

Truth (pt 2)

"Intent is prior to content;
those things most vehemently suppressed are often closest to the truth."

Those who think it is easier to deceive than to speak and live truth are hopelessly confused. When a small child responsible for cleaning the family bathroom attempts to deceive a vigilant parent with a half-done job, the child soon realizes that faking certain jobs is harder than completing them. The classic idiom "to cover one's tracks" is a great example of this; for it is well known that it is easier never to go where you are not permitted, than it is to attempt to cover one's tracks in the snow after having trespassed.

Thus it is with Truth. Those who seek most vehemently to suppress and hide it, demonstrate their fear of it. Fear has been discussed, and when it is based upon an object of Truth, it is true wisdom, and becomes a tool of elucidation towards life. Yet, fear when based upon an object of truth is merely sagacity, and can still lead men to foolishness, which leads (as has been previously determined) to death. Fear of the truth cannot be rational, for if it was truth, there would be no need for fear; reality is not so fearful as mystery. Conversely, love of a lie cannot be rational, for since it is a lie, there can be no love; love must have an object. It is clear to all liars that their love of the lie is irrational; for it is merely a cover for a self-absorbed barathrum.

The object however, is to show that lies which are championed demonstrate the most prideful and arrogant works of fear are suppression and denial. Those who deny the presence of something with their very life -just as those we have discussed who hate another with their very life- are defined by that thing. Further, those who suppress something with their whole life, show their whole life to defined by the reality of such.

This does not mean that the man who lives his entire life under a wrong impression (that pigs can fly, for instance) is an exception to this reality; it merely means that he has believed a lie, and while not necessarily suppressing the truth, has stepped outside of reality's protective wall -reason- and has become susceptible to the many unreasonable and irrational beliefs which roam about outside that wall. Those who seek to suppress anything, no matter how ridiculous, remove the possibility for reason. When reason has been removed from an equation, it is easy to preclude the 'inconvenient' truth, and demonstrate one's predispositions and biases.

This should be applied in two areas:

Those who teach: Never avoid a question which seemingly has no answer. Answers are determined by the question; not the question by the answer. Any variable can change the answer, but the question will remain the same, regardless of the answer given. Further, never answer a question which has not been asked. Answers which are given before a question has asked only discourages the questioner's inquisitive growth, and precludes certain questions; destroying further creativity in learning.

Those who learn: Never ask a question simply because you have heard it before. Questions which are needlessly repeated are ignored and sometimes lost. A question can always have power, as long as its variables have been matched in application to the questioner and the answerer. Questions which have no application are 'academic' and by nature, do not increase knowledge, merely institutionalize it. Seek to ask questions for which you fear there is no answer. Those are the questions with power, and when asked can unleash a force of intellectual grandness which could only be matched by God's miraculous answer to Israel's cries for deliverance at the side of the Red Sea.

When recognized as a potential candidate for reality, any fact (in its fullest ability) will itself prove its relation to Truth. And, as we have already discovered; the relation to truth is determined in part by the perspective location of the fact. And thus, any perspective location which seeks to suppress another perspective location demonstrates itself as false; since Truth maintains within itself the power of reality. Only those things fearful of being discovered (of having their tracks uncovered) will suppress facts. Observe around you those things and people which seek to suppress facts; those are the lies and liars, for they are fearful of this fact: Truth Will Out.

Truth (pt 1)

"Guilty feet do have rhythm;

they just dance to the wrong theme music to amuse the villain."

Sickening thoughts do not retain their own placement within contextualization. They are kicked, like so many Latin American dogs feeding off their young to gain the energy needed to find another mongrel to produce more young with. And with poets sinking their feelings, so thoughts of a diseased nature finish far before they diminish in the great halls of humanity's proud insipid humor. The last vomited words of a great fool are still only disgusting thoughts from a diseased intellect. As all is known in Time, so it will be in eternity, shrouded in Mystery. For truth, in this found; Murder Will Out, carries itself to this: Truth Will Out.

Atonement

Seeking the peace which hearts so desire,
Why those things in gentle speech retained,
Do I only recover after I have lost,
Things through deep love maintained?
Or am I just lost in what I don't know,
And grasping at what shall never be gained?

I think the reason in purposefulness,
Misses the logic I hope to summon,
For when I strangle those things I love,
My grip only holds what is common.
And so in my deepening despair I do follow,
All of the lost whose hearts beat on.

Dangerous then, is this strangling love,
For when it has captured its purpose,
The only delineation is "those unacomplished",
And the goal is forever marked "hopeless."
For those things which are sought never relieve,
And peace through their capture is lost to us.

So hold on, my Lover, hold fast now,
And know that so too I hold tight,
For the danger of keeping is hurtful,
So let us, each other grasp light.
Or when time escapes from our fingers,
Our joy will be lost to our sight.