The Most Dan­ger­ous Super­sti­tion

The Most Dan­ger­ous Superstition

What you read in this book will, in all like­li­hood, go directly against what you have been taught by your par­ents and your teach­ers, what you have been told by the churches, the media and the gov­ern­ment, and much of what you, your fam­ily and your friends have always believed. Nonethe­less, it is the truth, as you will see if you allow your­self to con­sider the issue objec­tively. Not only is it the truth, it also may be the most impor­tant truth you will ever hear. More and more peo­ple are dis­cov­er­ing this truth, but to do so, it is nec­es­sary to look past many pre­con­ceived assump­tions and deeply ingrained super­sti­tions, to set aside one’s life-​long indoc­tri­na­tion, and to exam­ine some new ideas fairly and hon­estly. If you do this, you will expe­ri­ence a dra­matic change in how you view the world. It will almost cer­tainly feel uncom­fort­able at first, but in the long run it will be well worth the effort. And if enough peo­ple choose to see this truth, and embrace it, not only will it dras­ti­cally change the way those peo­ple see the world; it will dras­ti­cally change the world itself, for the bet­ter. But if such a sim­ple truth could change the world, wouldn’t we all already know about it, and wouldn’t we have put it into prac­tice long ago? If humans were purely a race of think­ing, objec­tive beings, yes. But his­tory shows that most human beings would lit­er­ally rather die than objec­tively recon­sider the belief sys­tems they were brought up in. The aver­age man who reads in the news­pa­per about war, oppres­sion and injus­tice will won­der why such pain and suf­fer­ing exists, and will wish for it to end. How­ever, if it is sug­gested to him that his own beliefs are con­tribut­ing to the mis­ery, he will almost cer­tainly dis­miss such a sug­ges­tion with­out a sec­ond thought, and may even attack the one mak­ing the sug­ges­tion. So, reader, if your beliefs and super­sti­tions – many of which you did not choose for your­self, but merely inher­ited as unques­tioned “hand-​me-​down” beliefs – mat­ter to you more than truth and jus­tice, then please stop read­ing now and give this book to some­one else. If, on the other hand, you are will­ing to ques­tion some of your long-​held, pre­con­ceived notions if doing so might reduce the suf­fer­ing of oth­ers, then read this book. And then give it to some­one else.

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