And Diasporic Africans are suffering from Stockholm's Syndrome.



I'm about to piss some of you off. But the truth is the truth, and I challenge anyone to a debate. No matter your degree, theology, or doctrinal beliefs, if you believe you are sane and functioning normally as a human being, ! challenge you to prove it.

For you are sorely mistaken.

A psychosis is defined as, simply, a break from 'reality'. Reality, however, is defined in multiple ways. But dictionary dot com says it is 'the totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence'.

Ok then. Now that the battle grounds are settled, these are the rules: Civil discussion only. We are trying to arrive at an understanding. That is the nature of debate. Not to see who wins, but to determine what 'reality' is.

For me, my statement is 'reality' For others it may be blasphemy or insulting. Once you get over your anger, use that energy to defend yourselves and your reality. Or, do what you normally do, ignore it. Ignore me. Act out your psychosis. Ignore reality.

Bury your face in your bibles and Qur'ans. Turn away from the light of Truth, and embrace the darkness of ignorance. Hide from yourselves.

Religion is a psychosis because all those who partake of it take themselves out of the equation of 'everyone else'. They are no longer 'the same' as the neighbor, and so their neighbor is 'not' their neighbor. Because he is Lutheran, or Mormon, or 7th Day Adventist, and you are Baptist or Catholic or Hindi.

See? Psychosis. As soon as you take on the mantle of your religious beliefs, you disassociate yourselves from everyone else except for those who think like you do. Who believes what you do. Unless of course you don't discuss religion, like one doesn't discuss politics. Which is another example of psychosis.

They believe their 'bible' is the 'word' of God. They believe it is divinely inspired. They believe this despite all evidence-or even the appearance of evidence-to the contrary. They believe it despite the fact that their neighbor believes the same thing about his 'qur'an'.

How, then, can one expect to function normally, when, by virtue of your very belief, you do not associate with 'infidels' or 'heathens'? When, not by example of what is 'real', but because of what you think?

Does a brother become not a brother because he chose to murder? Because he chooses to drink to excess? Because he is violent? Because he prefers men instead of women? Does he become not a human being because he is or does something you cannot agree with?

Does the lady next door, never known or met before marring into your family now become your sister/mother/daughter? Is she now more than she was before because of what marital traditions says? Because of what you, she, and everyone else now thinks? Does the ring make it 'real' or the paperwork?

Do you see? How the mind changes and ones boundaries change with it? Hate is a thin line so subtle as to not even seem real at times. It is called patriotism. Or 'race', which in reality is cultural distinction, and not genetics. See? even science suffers from a psychosis, and as a result, all those who trust in it absolutely, suffer as well.

Every thing that defines, separates, or segregates one person from another, for one reason or another, based upon one's mental impression or thinking is the very definition of a psychosis: a (mental) break from (physical) reality. The only race on earth is the human race. There are no genetically distinct 'humanlike' animals that humans cannot mate with.

Neither does Arabian 'muslim' or 'submission' to Islam separate Arabs from Americans or Christians as humans. Neither does a Jewish state of Israel in the cultural home of the Palestinians make 'real' the prophecy of Judah and the Lost Tribes of Israel returning home.

These are all examples of psychoses. Common psychoses suffered by common people. Resulting in war, slavery, and both economic and social stratifications or 'classes'.

Simply put, the state of the world is the result of a massive world wide psychosis.
Yes, in a sense, this world wide psychosis a good thing. Necessary even. Otherwise the world would be a very different place.

If, all of a sudden, the veil was dropped, and all individuals of the human race knew the nature of their relationship to each other, their would likely be chaos.

The homeless man would know he was denied his home because of another's greed. Not because, as he as so long thought, he is a social and economic failure.

The poor man would know that he suffered his poverty, that his family suffered poverty because of the oversight of others. Mainly the leaders and formers of his government.

The rich man would know that he has made others to starve, to go without so he could have more than he needed. How another suffered for want of a drink, or a meal, or a safe place to sleep. The guilt would burn alive his soul.

The guilt would burn alive the souls of many. Simply to know exactly what the consequences of their actions were. This is the main reason why we suffer this world wide generic psychosis. We hide our faces from the fact that while we eat, others do not.

This is why we get so angry at God when such times fall upon us as individuals. The world seems so indifferent. Family and friends are all too busy or too broke to come to your aid and assistance. So you plead with God, and when God doesn't seem to respond, we despair.

It is then that we are forced to sit and think on our situation and circumstances. Why is this happening to ME?! Why, Lord, why?

Why indeed. It is because when the world calls for help, you did not respond. When you see a homeless man, and you know his 'reality': No food, no money, no means. Save for the kindness of a stranger. And still, you pass him by, thinking he's at fault.

When you see a single mother of many, standing in a grocery line, counting pennies and which items she can afford to buy, and you can see her 'realty'. How she struggles to keep the bills paid, the family fed, her mind, and her job. With or without a husband. And yet, you let her walk away without a word.

Is it your duty to help those you know stand in need? Yes. For this is your reality. You desperately wish someone would come to your aid, every time you need it. You pray for it. You hope for it. You trust God for it. You cling to it like it is your sanity, and sometimes it is. Yet, no one comes to assist you.

How else is God to deal with people who do not think they need anything? That they are better than, more important, more special than the next person? How else should God deal with the financial wealth of televangelists except to let the world see their weaknesses? The flaws they claim to not halve? To enable them to see the flaws in themselves?

And even then, sometimes, it does not work. They blame it on the 'devil', instead of taking responsibility for their activities. Seeking the forgiveness of a God whom they know sees and hears all. A God who knows they lie. Yet and still, you hide from reality. From the fact that you are responsible for what you say and do. Your love of self or hate of another will be what proves you as worth or unworthy.

Religion is like a psychosis because it provides individuals with a means to escape their fears. To escape the 'reality' of this world and its conditions, and the conditions of the people within in. Themselves included.

They seek God, not in wisdom, but in the interest of self-preservation, as is often the case. It is usually when the stresses of their environment are nearly getting to them. When the structure and form of their sanity starts to crack under the pressure.

They seek an outlet for this pressure. Their worry. Their fear. Their guilt. They seek to hide from the ugliness that surrounds them, the hopelessness they feel, their despair in order to find a reason to keep going. TO keep living. Or to not eat themselves alive with questions they cannot possibly get the answers to. So they turn to a trusted source-religion (usually not specifically God but a doctrine about God)-and abdicate all personal responsibility for self and neighbor.

They disassociate-or mentally break away-from reality, in order to allow themselves to function in it. And as such, embrace psychosis. So if you've ever wondered what what wrong with the world, there you have it.

Any takers? Anyone up to the challenge? Be sure you read this carefully. Find the flaws and expose them, or establish the foundation of your own position. This is more than a battle of wits. It is a test of sanity. Your sanity. Or, if you prefer, mine.

I can take it. But can you bring it? Rise to the challenge. Defend yourselves. Prove me wrong. Or right, as the case may be.

Part two: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome or the Black Stockholm's Syndrome.

Stay tuned.

soul