ecraser l’infame…
with these words, Voltaire ended every letter… for over 30 years…
it is estimated that Voltaire wrote over 20,000 letter over 60 years…
and what does ecraser l’infame mean?
end the infamy… and this means what? end the church and all its
superstitions and incredulous beliefs in miracles, all meant to allow
the church control over human beings minds…
Voltaire believed, as did almost all enlightenment figures, in god, but
wanted an end to the superstitious, ignorant and irrational beliefs that
existed in his day…beliefs that the church used to maintain control over
people…
ecraser l’infame… end the infamy…
in Buddhism, one of the three poisons is ignorance…which is delusion and
confusion…
the enlightenment was all about the development of thoughts and
idea’s that were true representations of the world…
the medieval world was about faith and reason was in the service of
faith… searching for god meant faith and using reason to find god…
with the new science of Kepler and Galileo and especially, especially
Newton… we find that the new science described the world better then
the old vision of the church and Aristotle… and this was important…
human beings found that they could explain “Nature” in terms that
didn’t include god and this was the basis of the enlightenment…
freeing people from superstition and belief in miracles…
and as it was for Buddhism… finding oneself in a world with
superstition and miracles meant the world was unpredictable
and random… living with delusions meant you were living a false
life because you did not have the “right” beliefs that are so important
in Buddhist thought…holding beliefs, not because they are correct or
right, but holding beliefs even, EVEN if the evidence is against that belief…
modern examples exists today… the belief in Chemtrails and vaccines that
cause autism and Jewish domination of the world and cabals that run the
world… false and phony beliefs that prevent one from seeing or
understanding the world as it really is…the enlightenment was
all about freeing people from these superstitious beliefs…
what other phony and superstitious beliefs do modern people have?
the belief in god…there is absolutely no evidence for the existence
of god and yet people still insist on believing, why?
because it makes people feel better about themselves…
and it shift the burden of life onto god instead of where
it belongs, on people… we must accept responsibility
for our own existence and our own life…
this is the point of the enlightenment… to free people from
superstitions and beliefs that take them away from
accepting the burdens of life… for make no mistake…
life is a burden, a very tough load to handle…
to hold a belief in god is no different then any modern
superstition like chemtrails and Jewish cabals and vaccines…
they stem from the same place which is to avoid responsibility
for one’s own life…for example, if there were some massive
Jewish cabal dominating everything, then I am not responsible
for what has happened to me… the Jewish cabal has
keep me down and away from what is rightfully mine…
conspiracy theorist use those conspiracies the same way
Christians use god, as an excuse…instead of living
in ignorance like conspiracy theorists and Christians…
live in the harsh reality of life, not in superstition and ignorance…
if you have a shitty life… it is on you, not on god or chemtrails
or Jewish cabals… you… and that is a hard reality… to accept
responsibility for our own lives…and that is the meaning of
the enlightenment… become aware of the reality of life…
and therein lies much… becoming aware…
many religions and meditations, practice becoming aware…
become aware and discovering who you are is the same
as many religions practice, such as Buddhism…
people use such ignorant beliefs as belief in god to hide their
becoming aware of who they are… it is easier to
do as one is told then to learn who you are…
becoming aware is hard work
and that is the true message of the enlightenment…
become aware… learn what it means to be human in
this current existence…practicing mindfulness
as is preached really means becoming aware…
learning a truth about oneself is much harder
and more painful then learning the truth about another…
people hang on every word about the foibles of celebrities because
it allows those people to avoid becoming aware of who they are…
it is a means of avoiding to, become aware…
religions are a means of avoiding mindfulness, avoiding knowing
who you are… avoiding the act of, becoming aware…
modern superstitions like chemtrails are a means of avoiding knowing
who you are and becoming aware…
today, modern society has a malaise that is far and wide, over
the entire society… we are avoiding the act of becoming aware…
and we are suffering from it…outward actions without understanding
who we are, are doomed to failure because they suffer from the lack
of knowledge of who we are… become aware…
Kropotkin