MACRO BELIEF SYSTEMS
Up to this point, we have
looked at beliefs from the perspective of the individual.
Let us now examine groups of individual belief systems
and the way we are subject to and/or master of the
prevailing, or overriding, composite belief system.
The big picture is made up of little pictures of the big
picture, and so on. Each cell in ones body contains the
DNA blueprint of ones entire body. And just as ones body
is made up of various organs each which perform a
specific function, groups of people work together to
become a single organ of the body of society.
A school of fish swims like a single fish- a single fish
with one mind. If any one fish in the school jumps, the
whole school jumps. If the threat is real, this cohesion
could save the entire school, if however, the threat is
not real, it causes the entire school to become stressed
without reason. We can learn allot about the behavior of
a mob, or controlling belief system, by looking at the
behavior of the individual and vice versa.
Cohesion is good within like groups. It means that all
components of a system are working together for the good
of the system. The alternative is chaos. For example, if
there are six people in a rowboat headed for a deadly
waterfall and half row for the left shore and the other
half row for the right shore, then it almost guarantees
that the rowboat will go straight over the falls and kill
everyone in the boat! Had the group been able to come to
some decision on which way to go, all would be saved.
Even if a majority wanted to go one direction then they
might be saved because the effort exerted by four people
rowing one way would more than offset the effort exerted
by two people rowing the other way. The beliefs of the
four (majority), overrides the beliefs of the two
(minority). We can say then, that if all six people row
one way, the belief system of the boat is highly
cohesive. If three people row one way and three row the
other way then the boat system is not cohesive.
Cohesion is an important factor in how quickly the
rowboat gets to shore. The more cohesive the people
rowing, the quicker the boat will get to shore. Cohesion
becomes increasingly important the closer the rowboat
gets to the waterfall. There may not be enough time to
get to shore if four people are rowing one way and two
people are rowing the other way.
But wait! Just because everyone agrees doesn't mean that
the decision is correct. Often, the many are less correct
than the few. When thousands of lemmings run off a cliff
together, they may be cohesive, but it certainly doesn't
mean they came to the best decision. "Group
Think" is the word given to the process by which a
group together is more in error than any one person alone
would be. It is this type of mob mentality that is a
cause of much error. It happens by compromising against
one's own better judgement in order to enable the system.
If one is in a group seeking enlightenment, compromising
to the weakest link in the chain, how can anyone find the
truth? The compromising of members of a group will cause
error unless each member is accountable, held
responsible, and given authority over, themselves, and
their particular expertise.
It is important for those who operate within a component
to be of like mind, however all organs and all components
of a system should not and do not perform the same
function. Some people are bakers and some people are
candlestick makers. One doesn't need candlestick makers
in the bakery or bakers in the candle shop.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, as the case may be, in a
democracy, the controlling belief and needs of the many
overrides the beliefs and needs of the one or the few.
(Unless the system requires unanimity before making a
decision.) This means that if you have your own unique
belief system, or are a member of a minority belief
system, then you are at the mercy of the prevailing
system, regardless of the truth of your belief.
FOLLOWERS
Following is believing. A follower is only as good as the
one he or she follows. If one follows a sick lemming off
the edge of a cliff, then one is no better off than that
particular lemming and will meet the same fate. However,
if one follows perfection, one gains the benefit of
perfection without being perfect oneself. Despite what
one may have found, believing in others will not always
lead one astray. If you were in a herd of lemmings headed
for a cliff, but changed your mind when you heard a lamb
at the edge of the cliff instructing you to turn away and
rest, you would not meet the same fate as the others.
IDENTITY
Whatever you believe in, you have identity in. Following
is identity. Whenever two or more people have a single
common belief, they have identity in that belief. If you
and your friend could ski, then you both certainly
believe in skiing, and you both could be considered
"skiers". You would share in the identity of
being "a skier". Any belief that can be held by
more than one person is a macro belief. If only one
person in the world could ski, that person would not be
"a skier", he or she would be "the
skier", and skiing would not be a macro belief. The
more beliefs we share with someone, the more we are like
them, the more we are likely to do what they do, the more
we are likely to group ourselves with them, and the more
we are likely to be grouped with them.
Although each of us has a unique personality, it is
amazing how much of ones identity comes from ones
geographic environment. Ones environment plays the single
most important role in shaping ones personality. If one
is raised in a city, one is likely to be a "city
slicker". If one is raised in the country, one is
likely to be a "country bumpkin". Think of how
different people are that are raised in different parts
of this country. If you interview several people in a
room, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out
who is from the south, who is from the north, and who is
from California. The geographic origin of the people is
reflected in their accents and vernacular. Now, think of
how different people are who live in the heart of Africa,
Asia, Japan, and Russia. Ones environment imprints itself
upon ones belief system because one is the product of
ones observations.
ARE TWO HEADS BETTER THAN ONE?
In mythology there is a many headed dragon called the
"Hydra" which is the terror of any warrior who
should pass its lair. Can such a beast exist? In our
local zoo they have a two-headed snake. The zoo keeper
told me this snake could only exist in captivity because
they separate the heads with a partition to feed it and
keep it from attacking itself. The zoo keeper also said
that the snake fights with itself on which direction to
go- hardly proof that two heads are better than one.
Two heads are better than one only as long as both heads
are thinking and both heads are working together towards
a solution for the common good in a timely manner without
compromising on an essential. When any head of the
"Hydra" begins to exhibit self-interest, how
can a solution be reached for the common good? Since two
heads are not naturally better than one, a certain set of
rules has to be introduced in order to create
a system in which they are. These rules are what create
governments and laws, and enable a system to exist.
GOVERNMENT
Ultimately, there is only one true government. One true
law. One great crown we are all subject too. It does not
matter where you live, what your race is, or what
language you speak. One either stands beneath the one
great crown of God, or becomes an enemy to the crown.
Unfortunately, many people don't think of God when they
think of government. Many people don't even know God. As
Adolf Hitler once said, "What luck for rulers that
men don't think." America was originally designed to
be "One nation, under God, with liberty and justice
for all." Boy, have things changed for the worse!
Government, as practiced by mankind, seems to be a chain
for every citizen whose sole purpose is to limit freedom
for the good of the many. And truly, government cannot
give you anything it has not already taken away. The more
you are "given" by the government, the more
"taxes" are taken from you. What the government
is saying is that it knows how to spend your money better
than you do! A nation's government should be limited to
enforcing the laws and opinions of the citizens it
represents, not dictating them.
A government ruled by the majority belief invariably
denies any minority belief, and a government ruled by any
minority belief system invariably denies the majority
belief system. Although there is only one true belief
system, the one of God, it is unlikely that everyone will
follow any one belief system. Solution was thought to lie
in joint rule by all belief systems but in which the
essential interests of any one system are not
compromised. (This of course is impossible if there is no
agreement on essential interests.) Subsequently, our
nation which began as "One nation, under God",
has since been compromised into "Many nations under
anything but God" instead of "Many nations
under God".)
Solution truly lies only in the one true belief system of
God, if all sub-systems could agree upon it. Most
importantly, there must be equality in justice and
opportunity for all citizens of any composite belief
system. How long can a system stand where justice is
bought and sold and opportunity is dependent upon
inheritance? Ultimately, in the Universe, there will
remain only one belief system, the one which is true.
After all, God is ultimately in charge.
A country should not be identified by its geographical
borders. The borders drawn by mankind are hardly
recognized by God. It is belief systems which create
cohesion and define nations. Wherever there are people
with like beliefs, there is their nation. Thus, any
believer of any belief system is like a seed which can
germinate anywhere. History has shown us that the only
ways to destroy an aberrant belief system is to either
destroy or convert every believer in that system. Such
attempts have usually done more harm than good.
Unfortunately, though all that is truly necessary to lead
people to truth is to show love and lead people to God by
example, not force, there will always remain those
incorrigible people who despise God.
All countries will eventually come to an end
geographically, but the beliefs and ideas which created
that country in the first place will live on. For
instance, while the Roman empire has been dissolved, much
of the language, philosophy, architecture, and ideas of
that time remain. Rome is where the Romans are.
America was founded on the idea of freedom of religion,
regardless of Christian denomination. This was to allow
for tolerance of non-essential Christian beliefs.
However, the liberty did not extend to religions outside
the orthodoxy of Christianity. Today it is taught that
this country was founded on the idea of "separation
between church and state" yet there is no such
mention in the Constitution. It would seem that the idea
of "freedom of religion" has somehow evolved
into "freedom from religion." The problem
arising here is that it is impossible really to separate
the Church entirely from the state. After all, if you
separate the state from the Church, then the state
becomes tolerant of non-Christian beliefs, or sin,
something that is not acceptable to the Church.
Christians cannot live in Babylon. To tolerate sin is to
sin. The truth one lives by in the spirit must be in
alignment with the truth one lives by in the flesh.
Citizens of a nation are willing to submit to the
authority of their government only in as far as it is in
alignment with their beliefs. If the government tells a
citizen to murder, but he or she believes murder is
wrong, he or she will not murder. The more offensive the
government belief system is to the individual belief
system, the less cohesive and less likely the individual
or people will act according to their government's
demands. All of the great sins perpetuated by mankind are
the result of putting the authority of a person,
position, or government, above the authority of God. In a
world where all are equal, what room is there for ranks
and royalty?
REPRESENTATION
If the "ruling class" is not the "working
class", then the working class must have
representation or they will not work. A system in which
the working class has no vote will invariably become a
system in which they do. History has shown us time and
time again that the oppressed shall rise up to take
control from their oppressors. But today the castle walls
are becoming stronger and stronger with the latest high
tech defenses. Today control can be maintained from
castles which cannot be found. How then to overthrow the
controlling belief system? Has history been beaten, or is
it still compelled to repeat itself? Can a government
with no fear of being overthrown resist the urge to
oppress its citizens? When machines become the working
class, what need of a working class?
A working class made up of members of many different
belief systems is not cohesive and is difficult to
represent. Such difficulties in representing everyone can
result in legislation that makes the chain only as strong
as the weakest link until equality can be reached.
Equality can only be reached with increased communication
amongst components of the system. There exist religious,
cultural, geographical, economic, and linguistic
barriers, to name a few, which keep members of one belief
system from communicating with members of another belief
system. Without communication there is no understanding
or representation. Without communication there exists
only miscommunication.
But what good is democracy when every decision decided by
a simple majority vote brings unique benefit to a group
other than the majority of individuals voting? What good
is our so-called "democracy" when lobbyist's
are allowed to pay our elected officials the price
required to turn their heads from the truth and their
hearts from the citizens they represent. It would seem
that the leaders of democracy are the only real
beneficiaries of democracy. Only leaders, and perhaps the
majority itself are ever represented, never any minority
group regardless of its need and regardless of the truth
they may hold. Unfortunately, it also appears that
leaders of minority groups may actually benefit
personally by maintaining a certain level of fear and
hatred towards the majority group even if it is
unwarranted. After all, if one is selling cures to the
sickness the majority is causing, one stays in business
by making sure people know they are sick.
Ones God is a God one may oneself elect. It might be the
only real vote that each of us may cast which counts.
There are many concepts running for this high office. For
it is an office above all others. Money is running for
God, and sadly, has been elected by many. I am
campaigning for Christ. Jesus for God. I have cast my
vote, and so I have elected my God.
DEFENSE
Defending truth is the only worthwhile defense. When I
say defending truth, I mean the way to truth, the needs
of truth, the fruits of truth, etc. Defending truth does
not mean keeping people from it, but keeping people from
destroying it. In other words, defending the holiness of
truth.
However, what good is defense if one allows everything to
be stolen away and/or trampled upon? Why guard the doors
and leave the windows unlocked? There is no price too
great to pay including ones life to defend the truth. One
may loose one's life to save the truth and yet retain
one's spirit, but to let the truth be destroyed to save
one's life is to loose one's spirit, and thus, have no
life at all. As Patrick Henry said, "Give me
liberty, or give me death!"
Even though one may guard the doors and windows, one may
be pillaged from within ones own foundations. Roaches and
termites may be eating at the backbone of ones system and
carrying it off while one watches in disbelief. Do not
let anyone turn the well one drinks from into a latrine.
Though sheep are welcome into the fold, the fold must be
closely guarded against wolves, especially wolves in
sheep's clothing.
Ones system may have the greatest military, but the worst
defense. How can one allow ones resources to be taken,
ones technology to be stolen, ones borders to be usurped,
ones financial base to be mismanaged, and ones beliefs to
be condemned from within. Ones only hope is that the
termites and roaches within ones borders may bite off
more than they can chew. What is one defending oneself
from? Defend only truth from evil, all other defense
makes oneself the evil. There is no defense against God.
LIQUID EXCHANGE
The easier the means of exchange, the more efficient
trade becomes and the quicker things change. The word
"exchange" has the word "change"
right in it. The means of exchange must be agreed upon by
all systems so that trade is fluid. However, what is
value based upon? Too often, perceived value becomes
valueless quickly by changes in the observation of its
worth. The means of exchange have become so efficient
today that it could be said to have metaphorically moved
from liquid to gaseous form.
COMMUNICATION
Cohesive communication may be a system's greatest
strength. After all, information is everything. From any
phone one may call anyone else in ones country and
communicate observations and ideas. Should news break
out, ones system may be quickest to capture and
communicate any news to a large audience. Thus, ones
system has the means to be very cohesive. There are so
many belief systems in any one nation, however, that the
system may be losing cohesion while the sub-systems fight
for equality and equilibrium. When there is bickering in
ones belief system, ones system may come to the best
overall decision eventually, but by the time one comes up
with it, much global opportunity may be foregone. The
"information super-highway" of global computer
networks in the hands of private citizens is sure to be a
factor in the future of communication.
RESOURCES-NATURAL AND HUMAN
Resources are potential wealth. There is not a fixed
amount of wealth in the world. Wealth is being created
all the time as resources are turned into finished goods
and services. When evil belief systems are seeking new
resources or to regain lost resources, and they cannot or
will not come to a peaceful agreement, they find that
next to war, fear is the best way to drive off the
controlling belief system.
By converting, driving out, or eliminating minority
belief systems which exist within the controlling system,
the controlling belief system finds itself more cohesive
and gains the resources lost by the minority system. Just
as the Nazis drove out the Jewish belief system from
Germany during World War II, this same fear tactic is
used today by taggers and gangs promoting fear to drive
out the controlling belief system. Slavery and prison
labor are two examples of how a controlling belief system
exploits minority systems for its own gain.
God owns everything including all the land and all
resources that come from the land. No race, religious
group, people, corporation, or government owns anything
in God's eyes. The land was here before anyone. This in
mind, be careful what you take from the land and/or call
your own.
TRANSPORTATION
In order to move resources to manufacturing or market, a
transportation base is necessary. Ones nation already may
have a great transportation base, or infrastructure,
within its own boundaries. This is great for
manufacturing and trade within ones country, but it is
through transportation and trade with other countries
that wealth comes to a nation. The control of
transportation is a resources itself. For example, look
at the fighting over the Panama and Suez canals. Look at
the tolls collected on some turnpikes. Today, even flight
routes are bought and sold.
Transportation methods have changed greatly over the last
century. From stagecoach, to train, to auto, to plane,
resources are moved from place to place across the Earth.
In the same way that hermit crabs have adopted shells,
humans have adapted their environments to suit their
needs for transportation and protection. Until this
century, resources were moved slowly across the face of
the Earth. Now, resources are moved at high speeds not
only over the face of the Earth, but over the air in
planes and underneath the Earth in elaborate tunnels and
submarines.
The speed of the transfer of information on Earth, just
in the last hundred years, has moved from the speed that
a horse could run, to the speed of light. Information is
sent out in radio waves and moved across telephone lines
at nearly the speed of light. Communication forms are
being integrated rapidly. TV, radio, telephone, and
computer Internet activity are being merged into one
tool. Already, on the Internet, one may send and access
information all over the world almost instantly, at the
touch of a button. The Earth is turning on.
MANUFACTURING
A system should have control over its own manufacturing.
The quest for cheaper labor has caused some systems to
move their manufacturing base out of their geographic
control. Although "controlled" from within ones
geographic boundaries, these manufacturing facilities
will soon learn to manage things themselves and learn to
despise the foreign owners and managers who brought
manufacturing and jobs in the first place.
Look at South Africa as an example. Exploitation breeds
contempt. Foreign investment can be observed as rape to
the native peoples, even if such investment improves life
for the natives. Should a war break out, countries who
are not self-sufficient for all their needs within their
own borders are at the mercy of those who control their
resources and/or manufacturing. If a country has its
manufacturing within its borders, it will be in a better
position to convert those factories to war purposes
should the need arise.
BALANCED TRADE OR SURPLUS TRADE
If there is a trade deficit, then ones nation is dying,
by losing wealth. Just as a person will bleed to death if
one doesn't bandage a wound, a country will bleed to
death if it is giving more blood than it is getting.
What's more, the illegal trade deficit is just as
dangerous as the regular trade deficit. A system may be
bleeding and not even know it! On the reverse, a nation
that is sucking the blood out of another nation like a
mosquito will one day be slapped. Trade agreements should
be balanced to be fair. In order to be balanced, they
must contain adjustments for the illegal trade of goods
and services.
COMPETITION
Competition is the struggle between like components for
position within the system. Fear of competition is just
an excuse. There is a new and better way to do almost
everything, or at least an improvement which can be made
to almost anything or any existing system. It is true
that cohesion creates competition amongst like
components. However, cohesion also decreases competition
in that there are fewer different needs when all
components are the same. Creating other nations like ones
own creates ones own competition, but decreases the needs
for differing products because others are becoming more
alike. Thus, what is called the imperialism of the world
by America is good for American business because it
creates new markets for American goods.
EDUCATION
What good is democracy if the majority are not educated
enough to cast an educated vote. Education creates a
talent resource, but if the cost of education is greater
than the benefits it was designed to provide, it is
fruitless. Education is the key to the door of belief and
success, but the key must fit the lock, and the lock must
open the door, and the door must exist!
The object of education is to provide truthful knowledge
which leads to truthful beliefs, thereby reducing
ignorance. Education is not enough, for what good is an
education if no one trusts the knowledge of the educated?
Society, or at least some portion of it, must believe in
those who are educated, if not, then they will still have
no opportunity. What good is an education if the educated
do not have access to the resources their education
demands.
Education itself must begin with the very young, before
they have accumulated too many aberrant beliefs. After
all, there is some truth to the expression, "you
can't teach an old dog new tricks." Truthful
education increases and corrects the information one
gathers. Education increases truthful knowledge which
eradicates misinformation and decreases doubt. Increases
in such knowledge, increases choices, which increases
opportunities to get one where one wants to go the way
one wants to get there.
A child is a "chip off the old block". If ones
parents are highly educated and successful members of
society, then one is oneself more likely to be highly
educated and successful. Sadly, however, if ones parents
are poorly educated, then one is also likely to be poorly
educated. Despite attempts by society at large to educate
these less fortunate children, they often wrongly learn
that education is fruitless from their poorly educated
parents and community. They learn to believe the excuses
of those within their environment and the coping
mechanisms which their environment provides rather than
the truth that education equals freedom. Thus, the
rejection of education results in the reinforcement of
aberrant beliefs and a self-fulfilling prophecy of
poverty and frustration. Poverty and frustration often
erupt into rioting and violence rather than in the
realization that education is the only way out.
MACRO ENABLING
One of the newest phenomenon gathering notice today could
be called macro enabling. It is perhaps even more
damaging then the type of enabling one sees between
individuals. Macro enabling is the type of enabling which
exists on the grand scale. Some social institutions, such
as "welfare", enable large groups of people to
continue doing nothing. Until one is hungry, one will not
learn to get food for oneself. Instead, one fights over
the scraps which society throws ones way. Give a person a
fish and you feed them for a day, teach a person to fish
and you feed them for a lifetime. Macro enabling prevents
large groups of people from learning to fish. Thus,
enabling is really disabling.
RELIGION
Ultimately, religions, which are macro belief systems,
are only as good as they are truthful. Governments are
macro belief systems, yet most governments are based on
religions. What good is a government if it does not agree
with the laws of the Ultimate Governor, God. What people
believe the truth to be dictates how they will behave.
Religions are sets of beliefs regarding what people
believe to be truth. The more people are in agreement
with a particular religion, the more predictable their
behavior.
