The Crutch of Faith

Lending from the words of Dmitry Glukhovsky, 'A dogma or belief is a crutch that facilitates human will to trudge on'. Obsession with 'a purpose' is rife at every instant in the history of mankind. Indoctrinated at a young age most humans believe that the belief imparted to them at childhood  is the one and only structure and source of support  that will let them fulfill their 'purpose' in life. To deviate from the structure is a death sentence. Words have a great power to manipulate and control people. The basis of most faiths and beliefs is the power of the 'eternal word'  , often offering no other proof or tangibility other than it's own mysterious aura. Like a primordial instinct built into the species we are drawn into this aura like flies to a lamp. An instinct to latch onto a 'reason' or a structure, however absurd, and blindly believe it to ensure the survival of the kind. The strangeness of such a structure when analysed in a less reverential manner gives rise to many humorous theories abounding in popular imagination that man is nothing but an intermediate step in the life cycle of a sperm or that humans are livestock reared for the benefit of mosquitoes. Recent findings from the world of science (a surprisingly orderly and well reasoned set of beliefs based on the very existence of the universe) that indicates the universe in which we exist  may not even exist at all, is quite remarkable considering that if this hypothesis is indeed true, it may well undermine the millenniums worth of human observation, quantification and reason explaining the very universe that holds him captive. 

The Universe might be a hologram

Emotional Mithridatism : A Note

However psychopathic or sociopathic a movie's villain (or hero) seems to be, there is bound to be at least an inkling of emotion in him that may influence his robotic decisions to freeze and his cold logic to decompose. Akin to the breakdown voltage of a zener diode, man is hardwired to breakdown emotionally once he crosses a definite tipping point. Once the stress becomes too huge, man ceases to exist as the person he was once known to be. This process often creates new entrants into the realm of the mentally disabled. The key is however to stretch your mind little by little, making a bit more space each time to accommodate future upheavals. Bit by bit the mind stretches big enough and regressive emotions cease to play a part in the logical existence of the brain. It may seem crazily villainous or even diabolic to cut off a part of your emotions from the intellectual plane,but it is to be noted that most of our lower emotions are a vestige of our ancient mammalian ancestry. A form of mithridatism even, making the fragile human mind immune to the poisonous effects of sudden emotional trauma by slowly administering diluted volumes of  trauma to the mind on a periodic basis.

The above points made are not vilifying the nature of emotions but just proposes a form of emotional exercise for the mind to be undertaken in controlled amounts. This will not only help the mind to be emotionally strong and mature but also lets it to be in control of anything and everything.

Mithridatism by Roxanne Palmer