Why the masks, ladies?

If you are that convinced of your strongly-held beliefs then wouldn't you want the world to know how invested you are in your cause? If you are truly proud of what you stand for, then why do you need to hide your face?

Is it because you secretly do not believe in what you are willing to kill over. Are you in fact willing to die over it? Hiding behind a mask makes it easier to run away later on...


It might be that you think there is more mystique and production value pretending to be one of countless masses that walk like you, talk like you, think like you. But even the Slim Shady army that represents masses of like-minded people would hold their heads high and without a mask.

So even your masked masses hide from society. Is that really brave?

If you want to show how proud you are of your beliefs, then why can't you be as openly proud of what you believe as these people?

For the little weasel that can't make an actual point about my post but feels I've enacted a double standard, I'm in this photo below standing up for what I believe. Call me when you've done something meaningful with your life.

Stop telling people they are perfect

One of the great fallacies of the Western world is the foolish belief that anything, anyone can be perfect.

There is no such thing as perfection, therefore to claim to have acheived it is always false. To delude someone into thinking that being perfect is possible makes them expect more of themselves than is humanly possible.

By goading people to work at perfection is to make them think that if they aren't ideal, then they are not worthy. That is the start on the path to unhappiness.

Perfection is a big lie. It is a well-intensioned lie but a lie nonetheless. A lie told to try to motivate people to keep trying without the contentment of satisfaction at anything less than a missing end goal.

Saying "You are perfect as you are," is to say that somehow yesterday or at some other arbitrary time you were not perfect. Nonsensical. Then what happens tomorrow when you aren't exactly as you are right now? Not perfect? Not as perfect? Close to perfect?

You eat a salad you are more perfect? You eat a burger you are less perfect?

Do you see the fallacy of arbitrary perfect "assignment"? You can't possibly pick a moment in another person's life that matches perfection in their eyes!
 
While the journey is noble, to want perfection,  the pursuit is itself the reward. The goal of perfection is unattainable. To make people, especially young people, think perfection is real is to doom them to unhappiness in the struggle. Without the delusion they could enjoy succeeding on the road to perfection.

This is the source of misery in many people that would otherwise be calm and satisfied.

Stop encouraging the self-deception, stop worrying about perfect. 

Temporal-spatial matters are not up to the Pope

I respect Pope Francis as a good person trying to do good for the Earth. I am not shocked he wrote a scathing encylical scourging (metaphorically ) enemies of the Church:

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

The problem is that while Pope Francis means well, it is never up to any religion to tell society what it must do. The Catholic Church has no moral high ground, no demonstrated moral track record above reproach for all to see, to dictate anything in the temporal-spatial realm- which means on Earth and in the Universe.

Here is a quote:

He is spirit and will, but also nature”.[12] With paternal concern, Benedict urged us to realize that creation is harmed “where we ourselves have the final word, where everything is simply our property and we use it for ourselves alone. The misuse of creation begins when we no longer recognize any higher instance than ourselves, when we see nothing else but ourselves”.[13]

The Pope is using old Pope Benedict's words blaming our behavior on turning away from religion and not respecting a higher power.

This is the arrogance of religion that presumes to know better because they get imaginary "OnStar" assistance over all matters. It was church doctrine to conquer the new world, to spread faith to heathens with a global pardon for evil so long as the flock grew. Companies were started to expand empire in the new world and bring back riches for Europe.  They, the church and European states,  started us on the road to globalization. The church is a co-conspirator with the companies that Western culture inspired. Their hands are bloody and unclean too.

Of course people with a vested interest in temporal-spatial matters prove how religious they actually are by ignoring what should be a command to do better:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/26/jon-stewart-pope-climate-change_n_7669362.html

That is that saving grace in all this: at least religious people don't actually follow what they preach.