The Guardians of Freedom - Part 3 (standard:other, 9953 words) [3/7] show all parts
Author: Dan Tana	Added: Feb 03 2011	Views/Reads: 2147/1599	Part vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Teddy transmits a tale of how it made some new friends and helped save the world from religious fanaticism.

This is a transmission of thoughts from Teddy, the toy who got dropped
by my clumsy Goo friend and fell to this planet from the dimension 
where I was constructed. 

Since my arrival here I have seen many of you human beings free your
minds from the ideologies and beliefs that oppress the people of this 
world.  More of you than ever before have chosen to question and reject 
those ideas that are constantly being invented and accepted by some 
human minds in order to encourage and excuse the subjugation, 
exploitation, and harm of certain people for the benefit of others. 

But, sadly, these hurtful ideologies are still quite prevalent in this
world today.  Often cloaked in notions of religion, tradition, 
morality, or propriety, or else simple pragmatism, such ideas continue 
to deceive and placate the consciences of countless people, allowing 
them to actually feel proud of themselves, rather than guilty, as they 
do things that bring incalculable amounts of unnecessary unhappiness to 
vast numbers of people. 

As someone who cares about the well-being of the people who inhabit this
planet I vehemently oppose such beliefs, and will do what I can to 
eliminate them, in order to spare you all the harm that they cause.  
But I cannot rid this world of such ideas, and their unpleasant 
consequences, as long as you human beings continue to believe in, 
promote, and empower them.  So I am making this transmission in the 
hope that it will reach some of you, helping you to better understand 
the nature of these ideas so that you will then make the choice to 
discard and oppose them. 

The easiest thing to understand about these ideas that justify the
physical or psychological harm of other people for your own material 
benefit or mental gratification is why most of you human beings want to 
believe in them.  Obviously, it is because you were not created with 
the simple, altruistic desires of a toy like me, and so you care about 
yourself more than those other people. 

Somewhat less obvious is the reason why most of you who accept these
beliefs also embrace certain other ideas that allow you to think that 
you have a more substantial, less selfish, entirely objective and 
rational reason for believing such things.  You do that because you 
find it uncomfortable to acknowledge how superficial and self-serving 
you are in what you choose to believe, and prefer to think that you 
accept these beliefs only because they reflect some kind of universal 
truth. 

You who think this way choose to overlook, ignore, and deny the
fundamental limitation of any finite mind, which is that it knows only 
what it experiences.  You refuse to admit that all of your complex, 
abstract thoughts and beliefs are based upon certain assumptions that 
you have drawn from your experiences – or your imagination - which you 
cannot actually prove to be correct. 

Of course I cannot objectively prove that nobody can ever prove that its
beliefs are objectively true.  But I accept this idea as a most 
probable truth because I have seen no other belief in any of the minds 
that I have scanned that is not in some way predicated upon certain 
unproven assumptions. 

Most of you understand the logic of this perspective.  But many do not
like to think about it too much, because the empty, endless abyss of 
uncertainty that a mind must face when it acknowledges its inability to 
really know the ultimate truths of its own existence can be rather 
disturbing.  So many of you hide from that unpleasant, desolate feeling 
by clinging to the illusion of certain knowledge, and refusing to 
consider the innately questionable nature of all those beliefs that you 
use to make some sense of your existence. 

But some of you are brave enough to renounce the comforting delusion of
this false certainty, like my friend Liam Carter, who, with my help, 
found the courage to face the reality of his own overwhelming 
ignorance.  This made it possible for him to honestly evaluate and 
ultimately reject the troublesome ideologies that he had been taught to 
believe.  By doing so Liam freed himself, and all the people of this 
world, from the clutches of the miserable, closed-minded person who he 
had been. 


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