
Being Wrong, Being Right
"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know." — Michel de Montaigne
The ego is unwilling to ever admit to being wrong; it makes you "right" in your mind by feeding your illusions, disconnecting you from Reality, and denying Truth. Ego can make a person ignorant and gung-ho, thinking that he or she can do no wrong — a dangerous combination.
When you become wrong, you defend what is wrong in you as if it were right. You do not wish to see that you are wrong, and avoid being corrected by the Truth. This is how any ego investment in "being right" — intellectually, emotionally, or wilfully — blocks true awareness within your self. You may have the tendency to not only accept whatever you are told in the propaganda of government, religion, the media, science, economics, business, academia, or your culture — over time, you develop a certain kind of loyalty to your indoctrination and programming. You defend it as if it were right, good, and true. When it is not.
There is a strange phenomenon in which people who are totally wrong can convey the most astonishing assurance in their ideas and themselves, and make those who know the truth begin to doubt themselves. This trick has been mastered by politicians, religious leaders, businessmen, con men, the media, the wrong and self-righteous.
People imagine that if they absolutely hold on to any belief as true then it must be true, even when they are absolutely wrong. Social media creates an echo chamber of the mind in which any and all false beliefs are reinforced by people of like mind. Any contrary perspective — or truth — finds absolutely no place there. And so they all reinforce their illusions with the misinformation and disinformation that the mainstream media fills their minds with, 24/7.
It feels great to be so sure you are right when you are wrong, that you have the truth while you are promoting the Lie, that you are a shining light when you are lost in darkness.
It's ego, a creation of Satan, that blinds people to all wrong, reverses meaning and perception, and attacks the truth, the light, and the Way of God.
The most egotistical people have no awareness and often no true conscience. Though they preach morality, they are historically the first to lynch (or crucify) those whom they righteously judge as having the wrong attitude. They find "truth" by silencing, censoring, and canceling those who can see they are wrong. This makes them "right." Wokeness is a kind of religious fanaticism, today, though it is not of God, but Satan, the deceiver. It is a lesser truth which denies a greater Truth. And no one has greater ego than Satan and his sociopathic demons who somehow become our leaders, authorities, and experts.
Those who are most wrong, deluded, and evil have the greatest investment in labeling you wrong — socially, politically, religiously, racially, morally, etc. — especially if you can see what is wrong with them, if you have any ability to think for yourself, if you refuse to comply. They fear and loathe true awareness and the power it gives you, so you need to be labeled evil and banned from society.
Think for a moment: how do you know when you are right?
People assume that they are right, even when they are not, out of habit or force of ego. There is, of course, a huge difference between being right versus being wrong — thinking you are right. Do not assume you are right just because:
- you believe or adopt the popular opinion about something
- you let more "important," knowledgeable, or powerful people think for you, act through you, or make your decisions for you, and don't care to think for your self
- you are an authority or in a position of influence or power
- you believe that your group has the only truth
- you feel a sense of superiority, pride, or arrogance
- your choices or actions lead to more money, pride, glory, or "security"
- you surround your self with those who have the same point of view
- you rationalize or justify what is wrong and make it appear "right"; you have situational "morality"
- you give up responsibility, let the world make your choices for you, or conform, so you never have to feel that you are wrong or made a wrong choice
- you listen to media propaganda, "hype," advertising, or false claims, and become indoctrinated because of your impressionability
- you trust the government to tell you the truth about everything
- you are closed-minded, skeptical, or "logical," and refuse to consider or even imagine the possibility of anything being true if you have not already "seen it with your own eyes," or if it does not agree with what you already believe
- you already feel you know everything, and prefer to disallow anyone from having any beliefs other than the ones you have made up your mind to be "true."
Think about it: do you believe this world, and its illusions?
Have you bought into the Illusion, such that you are faithful to it, committed to it, to the exclusion of the "unusual" Truth? Or to the exclusion of God and Spirit. Someone once said that we don't know more than a millionth of a percent about anything — do you think you know more? Is your mind closed or is it open?
Most people are unfamiliar with the experience of having an open mind, receptive to new, creative ideas. They feel discomfort or anxiety when asked to truly open their minds — to break the habit (or apparent security) of relying upon the same old thoughts, or thinking in the same narrow context. Try telling someone what they do not want to hear, or what they do not want to believe. You will see — if you quietly observe — a shadow of denial, resistance, and doubt in them, born of the ego.
Study this phenomenon well; it is the basis of how we form, define, protect, and operate within our own very limited "realities" or illusions. This is how thoughts tend to agree with past experience, due to inertia, conditioning, and ego. Your thoughts, feelings, and desires tend to "prove" or validate your own perceptions. What happens is that you bring up old thoughts, old feelings, and old desires — to interpret your present experience, to "confirm" your beliefs. It is called "confirmation bias." To complete the closed cycle, conditioned perceptions generate thoughts that conform to your old beliefs and override the truth. Contrast this with the more creative experience of detaching from programming, and letting a bit of Light and Truth in.
Jesus is waiting for you to do this
To listen to him rather than only the world. There is the way of the world and the Way of Spirit, and they have nothing in common.
Excuses are egotistical ways in which we avoid doing what is right or good for us — and yet feel justified in some way.
Around the world, life is a struggle against the pervasive forces of wrong, deception, exploitation, oppression, and evil. And the question is: Why? Why is what is wrong so deeply ingrained in every society? Why is what is right so hard to accomplish, individually and collectively? Why is humankind so often divided, conflicted, and decimated by wars, diseases, hunger, poverty, and hateful intolerance bred by religion, cultural tradition, and so on? In this world, things are often the opposite to what they seem.
We go through life as if in a dream, mistaking illusions for reality, lies for truths, wrongs for right; accepting aberrations as normal, busyness as progress, authority as benevolent, ignorance as educational, and suffering as necessary. Mistaking our ego for our true self, and the false "god" of this world for the True God.