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But what does feeling things actually mean? What organs do we have to feel things? If we are supposedly so good at feeling things why can we not take an examination and feel the right answers, or go to a foreign country and let our feelings help us understand the foreign language? The answer is perfectly simple and yet counter-intuitive, we feel nothing. We have no ability to feel whether or not a statement is true or whether or not a voice in our head is coming from our own brain or from a demon, an angel, the FBI mind-rays, aliens from Pluto or The One True God Himself. That is the alpha and omega of the hold that religion has on us. They want you to think that you can feel. You cannot feel truth. It is not a human capacity, nobody has such an ability.

The whole edifice of all religions comes down to this belief in human feelings. The prophets felt they were telling the word of God as they heard it inside. They were not lunatics, they felt the real thing. To prove it look at this book which has been attested to by people who believe in the power of feeling the truth for hundreds of generations. Generations of lemmings can't be wrong. Does that sentiment feel true? Who cares? Do you think it is true, and have you any evidence?

Feelings are inadmissible evidence.

How many thousands of TV and film scenarios have you been fed in which the players go with their hunches and the hunches pay off? An obscene amount of supernaturalist propaganda which would seem designed to make you feel rather than think. Thinking is dangerous. If people think they may come up with different ideas. That will never do. The purpose of freedom is to encourage people to want to do what the manipulators want them to do. The last thing they want you to do with your freedom is to make your own decisions and make up your own mind. Your mind is not for you to use, it is for them to use, after all, they paid for it. Do you own your mind? Have you got a receipt to prove it? The corporations, governments, religions, political parties and charities can prove that they have bought and paid for your mind.

Almost everybody you meet is in on the conspiracy to make you feel rather than think. You might think evil corporations are the big players in this game but they are just one part of it. At every turn people are making efforts to by-pass your logic and get you to emote directly and unthinkingly. Forces of capitalism are personified as evil wife raping hard drinking Canadian rednecks clubbing seals for pleasure. People who think guns are dangerous are shown to be spineless dupes of the Communist menace wanting to disarm the US of A so that child rapists can ban country music and spit on Jesus.

Thinking is dangerous. If people are allowed to think for themselves they will develop their own minds, which might be different and harder to control than the mindless state that modern society prefers.

Put down that beer and that cigarette, switch off that dance music and instead open your mind and think. Stop trying to have fun their way by destroying your mind. You are your thoughts, your ideas, your memories, your theories. You are your mind. Enjoy your mind, be yourself don't destroy your mind by dissolving it in solvents or suspending it in anonymous crowds.

How can that be fun? Mindless and fun are not synonyms. Nobody likes to tell you that, because everybody else is in on the conspiracy, they don't want you to think, because you might think for yourself.

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