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%BELIEF VS COLLUSIONS 840418
Collusions undermine belief. That which is true,
may not be believed, due to the operation of
collusions. Escaping from collusions is the process
of acquiring honest belief, the process of taking
colluded "truth" seriously and acknowledging its lack of
integrity. The trick is to distinguish between escaping
collusions and becoming the victim of new collusions
whereby that which is false is believed to be true.
Through cooperative desires, that which is unbelievable
may become believable, and so true and credible.
When many people agree with us that what we desire is
desirable and possible, we tend to work together to
make that real, by whatever means we have available. When
what we desire and believe to be possible flies in the
face of immutable reality, we may cooperate in
convincing each other that what we desire is realized,
ignoring evidence to the contrary. While we may not be
able to eliminate the evidence to the contrary, we can
regard other foci of attention as so much more important,
that we become unaware of the evidence to the contrary.
The process of creating a collusion is the process of
setting priorities in such a way that undesired
evidence is ignored, and ultimately reality is denied.
In such cooperative efforts we can come to believe that
which is impossible, and be none-the-wiser as to what we
have accomplished.
When people's desires lack integrity people are
prone to develop beliefs which further undermine
their personal integrity. People who lack integrity do
not cohere, do not cooperate, do not hang together.
When people's circumstances lead them to be collusively
dependent upon each other, they do not survive---because
they do not cohere, do not cooperate, do not hang
together.
People who are members of one ecosystem are
interdependent even though they may not desire to be
interdependent. Some may desire to be superior, and so
believe that they are superior to others who are members
of their common ecosystem. Such desires and beliefs
undermine the possibility of such members of a common
ecosystem to cohere, to cooperate; so they get hung
separately by the immutable forces of nature which their
priorities lead them to ignore. Human beings are
members of one common ecosystem that supports all alike,
the blue planet which is third from a star of spectral
class G3.
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