Hardly the "DEVIL", but in body, HAS, several times LIVED.
Swami: Real, symbolic myth or psychological bugaboo?
Jellric: "The devil made me do it."
I suppose that I'll start from the end and work my way towards the beginning..
At our relative present, methinks the perception is more like psycological bugaboo.
The writings that have come to be known by the masses such as History, Scriptures, etc.., have largely, if not totally, been written by those in control of the area in which they have been written.
As demonstrated by many 'indiciduals' , being "spoon-fed" and "swallowing" information without looking into it, is quite common place. Just look around. Many out there are synonymous to sheep.
There are, however, even times when looking into some sort of given information is rather difficult.. Look at today's News Casts, for example: the recipients of the news are given "vital info" that the givers of the information want to make known.
Is one really going to travel the globe to confirm, what, they've been told, has happened on the other side of the planet?
The general public cannot do that.
They [the public] put their trust into the 'powers that be', and soak in the info that they are given.
The mind is like a sponge: you can be made to believe anything, provided that you possess a certain level of ignorance.
Ignorance of the masses, is not a new conept. It's been around for quite some time. And that is when the potential to take advantage of, presents itself.
Taking advantage of, in alot of cases, but obviously not all, comes in the form of psychological. It is a form of control, such as the use of fear tactics.
Going forward in reverse, we get to Symbolic Myth..
When the use of tactics, such as fear generation, is implemented - like execution in the "lesser civilized times" as we presently like to say - the grip of control is strong!
If open discussion yields itself to physical danger, alternate methods to convey information are, quite obviously, necessary.
If a picture can tell a thousand words, which can be interpreted by the beholder in a finite, yet, potentially diverse manner, then a form of 'encryption' has been employed.
Symbolism is a wonderful encryption tool!
Even if seen out in the open, the only ones who really get the message, are those who know the real meaning.
Since the writings were written by those who didn't know the real meaning, the original message began to fade from the minds of the masses as 'metronone time' ticked on.. This fading/ distorting phenomenon is indicative of the "spoon-fed" characteristic portrayed by 'the general public'.
It is also possible, I would wager very likely, for the purpose of clarifying the symbols, that 'stories' were used to convey the symbol's meaning, also, in encrypted format. This encrypted format, is MYTH.
[[[ Aside- For clarification, the dictionary says the following of Myth:
1- A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society.
2- A popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence, especially one considered to illustrate a cultural ideal.
3- A fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology. ]]]
As the general public grew in density, the sample size of 'story-tellers' diminished in proportion... Especially back then, when mass communication was not a 'taken-for-granted' comodity as it sometimes is at present.
The result was a controlled, unbalanced, proportionnal differentiation; such that: the rate of increase of 'story-tellers' grew slower than the rate of 'sheep'.
It is obvious, hopefully to all of you as much as it is to me, how such an equation has high potential to hide- or I suppose, using Star Trek lingo, "cloak" -the truth.
Surely, everyone here is aware that they were VERY familiar with equations back in the "lesser developed" times.
Science, these days, shows how we use equations to make things happen and predict outcomes.
Using symbolic logic and "new/ old mathematical-esque equations" the information was "delivered" to our relative present in a manner that they [the ones who encrypted the information in the first place] were confident would reach here.
Consequently, psychological bugaboo, is a mistrepresentation, of what is REAL... Thanx to the predictable "sheep phenomenon". [Bah bah...]
The way it has been put by Swami [ ie- Real, symbolic myth or psychological bugaboo ], is the illustrative gradient of as one goes from what is real to what is encrypted: It's actually Calculus! A transformation [rate of change] with respect to time.
This is math at its best ladies and gentlemen!
Math [the new/old -esque kind] is a language that, predictably, translates what is real. For some, however, even if you spell it out, it is still rather encrypted information.
All that is required now, is simply to find the one who can faithfully translate the encryption.
Simple... No?
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Dei Gratia de integro,
Veni Vidi Vici:
In Nomine Domini..
Edited by Deiymiyan (07/18/04 12:40 PM)
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