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F.: (Continued from yesterday) Here are some additional examples of reasoning fallacies that generate the “relative dilemmas” that result from the masses being programmed and conditioned and domesticated and enculturated in ways that leave them handicapped with no ability to reason logically.
First, examples dealing with persons' “phenomenal issues”:
“Either you believe what I believe or you are not good enough to be in relationship with me.”
“Either you join with our country to attack others or you will be considered an enemy that can be attacked by us.”
“Either you allow our group to stay in power or our enemies will be successful at killing all of you.”
“Either you become an exact replica of me—reflecting my thoughts and words and deeds—or you need to admit that you obviously do not love me.”
Next, examples dealing with persons “philosophical issues”:
“Either you are ‘pro’ my ideas or you are ‘con’…you cannot function from a position of neutrality.”
“Either you believe one thing or you believe another…you can’t have ‘no beliefs’.”
“Either you think one set of beliefs and concepts are prized or you must replace those with another set of beliefs and concepts that you would be willing to fight for or even die for.”
“You must accept as truth either the concepts taught by one group or the concepts taught by another group. You cannot cast aside all concepts and function as a no-concept reality.”
“Either you believe that one specific event can be identified as the single cause for each thing that happens or you are mistaken.”
Next, examples dealing with what persons take to be their “religious or ideological or spiritual issues”:
“Either you define god the way I do are you are a heathen.”
“Either you eat what we tell you to eat or you are not spiritual.”
“Either you adhere to the principles of my dogma or you will burn forever in hell.”
“Either you give up your current beliefs and learn the new beliefs that we teach or you will ____ (fill-in-the-blank: “die,” “go to hell,” “be punished,” “suffer,” etc.)
“Either you adhere to the principles of my dogma or I have the right to kill you.”
“Members of our group can guide you and can tell you unequivocally what is either right or wrong.”
“Either you believe that everyone in
“Someday you will go either to heaven or to hell.”
“Either you believe with unquestioning faith that there is one god who is an all-powerful, all-knowing male or you will die and suffer.”
Either you are sinful or virtuous…you cannot be ‘neither’.”
Note: For those who would realize, it must be understood that (a) “either-or” always involves duality and hence untruths; that (b) the “either-or” message is unnatural but is inherent, archetypally; and that (c) all “dilemmas” involve duality and are therefore based in delusion and nonsense.
It must also be understood that neti-neti (not "either-or") points toward the truth…toward the unicity. Once all former ideas and beliefs and concepts have dissolved after the manifestation of the neti-neti awareness, then only can one enter into an understanding of the no-concept, non-dual Reality. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
