Faith, reason, madness. what is what?
A.Introduction I think we all have had that certain individual, whom is more comfortable with mystery, is reckless, and likes to undermine perceptions. The psychology of modern day, would like to attribute to them the degrading term "sociopath," and philosophy could only expand this in a slightly more humanizing way as, one whom not "being for others," but is "being for their-self," in a possible extremest fashion, to the point of societies detriment. This essay is here to treat the issue of perception, why certain theologically a posteriori individuals may call these types of individuals "satanically corrupted," why they undermine other individuals perception, and how to strengthen your perception and the perception of others, so that other individuals are not defining your, or maybe your loved ones reality, and they or you can live life without being sucked into someones false reality that they are trying to weave for you, in the name of something as stupid, fruitless, and temporal as self-gratification and self-gain (quite embarrassing, on all accounts, if you ask anyone with knowledge of such things). The Perception: What Is It? It (the perception of an individual) is merely the integrated focal point of their experience, where various forms of consciousness, being, emotions, soul, body, and cognition are regulated and organized, unto the PPoI, or "perceptual point of interest." It, I think, is a bit more than what the mind is attentive towards, but rather the field of inter-locution, which is created from the complex synthesis of the above phenomena, and processes. Much of it is concrete, non-objectively true, and yet has psychical and emotional phenomena appropriated unto such things in which is presented into the individuals "PPoI." I will go ahead and do the dirty work, delay gratification, and list the phenomenology of perception, using my home grown knowledge theory, which is outlined briefly in the first "TTIS" (The Truth Is Simple) post on "How Secular Knowledge May Be Integrated With Christian Knowledge - A Primer," which once clicked will open a new window. Only the forms have extrinsic substance, which directly correlates with its counterpart in the mind, which is the re-creation of the form mentally, as an archetypal form. All the other faculties are parts of the image of God, God has bestowed upon man to use responsibly. Now we internalize the the syntax and logic, and forms of others, once they either have articulated such things, or we have comprehended by means of human empathy, without them directly expressing such things. The perception, is that field of mind, which may reflect both internally intrinsically in the human being, and explore and abstract within, or reflect outwards unto the Imagos (an idea which contains both the cosmos and the heavens) and explore and abstract such things and intra-trans-mutate such things into logical form, into syntactical (word or math form), phonetic form (verbal language, spoken, but not written), and may infinitely organize such things to create ones perception. Obviously, there can be bounds to this, or there can not be bounds to this, though other individuals may see you as a visionary, nut case, brilliant theologian, or even a schizophrenic. Of course, these views would be dependent on their concrete, and often valid states. This can create perfect individualism, or it can create perfect community (hopefully one day this will be present), it all depends on the heart, and how self-sacrificial such ones heart will will itself to be. The heart is mainly responsible for the general organizational tract that these things organize unto, and if it is a good heart, it will will the being to organize such things unto good behavior, and imagination that leads to altruism and such. A faithful heart in Jesus, organizes such things according to God's Word and Will, and not arbitrary, sterile, and often times unstable organizations the faithless heart might, in regards to the above phenomena. The will, thus, must be the general and foundational organizing functor of the being, which is mastered only by the heart itself, and if faithful to Jesus, conforms itself not to the will of the self, but to the Will of the Father in Heaven, as revealed by divine revelation in Christ. Thus, perception, could be boiled down to, as social creatures, the rendered field of consciousness, which is the result of a process in which ones heart has willed the being to internalize forms, values, logic, syntax, and the results thereof, into a transmogrifically organized state, which is an individuals perception. According to my subsidiary model, or rather borrowed subsidiary model from Polanyi, an individual who has faith, would eventually have it regulated by the Triune God, in accordance with existential, authoritative, and situation boundaries, conforming to the central integration known as the subsidiary focal integration, destroying hyper-individualism, and hyper-subjectivity at its core, and replacing the Western value of self-love, with the value of self-sacrifice for others, and becoming re-created by the Word of God. Of course, this would eventually morph into God's perception, or more humanly, Christs perception, and would thus allow the re-creation of the "mind of Christ," at the level in which Paul expressively stated that we would have it (1 Corinthians 2:16), as Christians. But this is good news, and yes, slavery to Jesus and to God, and His Will, but, we are His Creatures to begin with, not random endo-morphic images, which is the only true, realistic, and down-to-earth alternative to orthodox Christian theism (which is far more spiritually enlightening and comprehensive predicating genuine life on earth as it is in heaven, say I and Christ). It does have an interpersonal aspect, which if not abused, which it almost always is nowadays, in which the "PPoI" field becomes appropriated by the being, body, emotions, values, logic, and syntax (both written and phonetic of others) of other individuals, however, the heart chooses what is internalized and what is not. This comes in handy with deceitful individuals, as one who has mastered their heart, may choose not to internalize their deceit, and may live a better and more wise life. Why and How Do Other Individuals Undermine It? The most common means of undermining other individuals perceptions, is what is called in psychology, "gas lighting." It is a form of mental abuse, in which information is spinned or selectively omitted, in order to favor the abuser. It causes the victim to depend on the abuser whom is gas lighting, for their definition of reality, giving the abuser enormous levels of control over the victim. Now satan is the father of lies and half-truths, and this phenomena could be theologically abstracted to say, that those whom gas-light are satanically corrupted, and are serving satan, in that, they are reflecting his image and character perfectly by doing such things, and thus such individuals could be said to be "servants of satan," or the humanistic approach would say "satanically corrupted." The truth is, this phenomena is really just satan clawing and creating lies through his minions so that one turns away from Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the truth and Word Incarnate. Once one has been gas lighted for long enough, all of their perceptual faculties and the fruits there of, such as self esteem and all individuative structures, become annihilated. It causes a form of death, of the internal world of the victim, and the only things which survive after "perfect gas lighting," are the soul, a broken down heart, and the body. Basic instinct becomes damaged, and the individual must now crawl to survive, as much of human existence, requires the faculties of the mind, to be functioning at a high level, arbitrarily organizing much phenomena. The why is answered by the who, and their spiritual state, which if they are actually gas lighting purposely, means that they have willfully submitted to satan, in some manner, and may develop a malignant personality structure or such, and thus their spiritual state is likely, devil-centric, and dead, raised back to life only by strong Christians, and the Word and Grace of God, breaking the demons and devils hold on that individual, and destroying that individuals will to willfully serve satan. I mean 'breaking' their will. Refusing to trust other individuals, presenting false information, lying, and generally using information to negate the informational structure of other individuals (information being defined as syntax, external or intrinsic forms, logic, etc, and the organization thereof) are all forms of gas lighting, and just trying to create doubt, where none is necessary. It is systematically destroying and exploiting the psyche and mental faculties of others, or basically hacking their internal higher process based nervous system states. Much like the Flood (to use a Halo parallel, a perfect one I like to call a "Christian Archetypal Parallel") in Halo, which hacks the nervous system of its prey, to the Flood's will as a whole (which is to dominate and assimilate all life, capturing the broader meta-physical aspects of sin in relation to the devil, and humans individually and collectively, in a perfect manner mind you), which is no bueno, nichts gut, or if you are Italian, no bono, if you ask me. How to Strengthen It Since faith does not guide, but merely asserts in a teleologically conducive manner to the Will of God, I must say that reading a book by a Prophet is always the best way to build any form of mental, psychical, moral, or spiritual integrity. Thus I will compile a short list of all the Prophets I know off of the top of my head, so that, if you the reader were interested, you could buy any one of their books, and feel what I am feeling, and build that comprehensive internal integrity which I so joyfully asserted. Otherwise, reading in general, depending on the person that the author was, will help you strengthen your perception in regards to their specific area of skill, be it linguistics, psychology, spirituality, morality, and etc. Faith in Jesus will allow you to be nourished by the Word, and if you read the Bible, the divine to individual structural integrity of the internal world will have extremely high levels of internal integrity, which will over flow into your external life of sociability to help build the Kingdom of God, because it is so divinely inspired. Also, the process of logical clarification may help, the love of others, the love for others, being in responsible community, going to a responsible Church, reading some more, playing an instrument you have mastered, and can play off muscle memory (if your perception is down, this may be a useless activity, and you will probably be struggling to organize your mind to play or think about chords). Validating emotions may help, as well as responsibly working and working to succeed in completing basic, and normative tasks as to build confidence and ego integrity. The List of Prophets Are as Follows: G. K. Chesterton J. R. R. Tolkien C. S. Lewis George MacDonald Dietrich Bonhoeffer Karl Barth St. Augustine St. Francis Athanasius of Alexandria Fyodor Dostevesky Stanley Hauerwas Martin Luther Jonathan Edwards Soren Kiekergaard John Calvin Martin Luther King Jr. Ellen G. White Alasdair MacIntyre? A.W. Tozer Thomas Merton Leo Tolstoy Fuller Sheen Oswald Chambers Comments are closed.
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