The Paradox of Human Contradictions
Part I
Was Truth told from the beginning but chose to be misrepresented as a matter of complicated understanding or patched contradictions? Why should contradictions be – for gain, ignorance or for what purpose? Was truth misled or misrepresented for humans own good, for the betterment of human construct engineering, or for some leadership cohesion, or for the fear of fragmentation of the versions of truth of the beginning; or for the conflicts and contradictions of the impositions of Religion over science, culture and tradition over knowledge of truth, or for the sake of authority and cohesion in an uncertain world? Why is truth being misled, or misrepresented or why is fact most presented as authentic to truth? Is truth to the benefit of the people as facts are to the benefit of the system or vice versa? Can education, religion, culture, tradition, or politics be used to teach and spread or propagandize misleading truths? Should education be about truth or facts or both? But what is Truth if human subjectivity has precedence over human objectivity? Isn’t it true that some unfortunately misuse religion to represent God and God’s favored people; that some misused Darwin to misrepresent the naturality of things; that some misused Socrates to misrepresent the philosophy of mind or psychology of thought; that some misuse Plato to misrepresent democracy by taking power away from the people; that some misused Adam Smith to misrepresent Capitalism; that some misused the Founding Fathers to misrepresent the Constitution; that some misused the Words of Jesus to misrepresent the Good News; that some misused the Bible to perpetuate cruelties and atrocities; that some misused Einstein to misrepresent Science or impose their version of his theories; that some misused Science to misrepresent facts in the name of a gendered science or pseudoscience, or by using pseudoscience to authenticate artificial facts over natural truth? Can’t it be said that contradiction is actually the governing philosophy of systems that are? Isn’t it true that human self-imposed contradictions careless about defying truth, fairness, knowledge of right and wrong, or goodness, but the pursuit of Constructive Intellectual Understanding (CIU) instead of Positive Intelligent Understanding (PIU) of humans living in harmonious respect for human dignity and the sanctity of life? The contradiction of being is the being itself.
Part II
Born of contradictions or archetypes of contradiction? Can’t it be said that humans are educated to obfuscate the truth and paid to conceive and deceive fellow humans not for the pleasure, entertainment, or awards of titles, for wealth, power, affluence, and influence but for the good of the functionality and continuity of the system or the Order that be? Would it be wrong to say humans live in the falsity of working against its self-interest – pretending to be happy but unable to live a beauty, satisfaction, inner peace, or truth that hopes and prays to live for? Can it not be said that most humans are not enlightened to seek the truth but to complicate or make simple entities complex or challenging for common understanding? Why will medicine, finance, accounting, resolving disputes, or nutrition be so complicated, complex, and confusingly boring when it was supposed to be that simple and simplified fir human understanding for its basic necessity for human good? Isn’t it paradoxical that simple things are made complicated and complicated things are made more complex to promote specialty or expertise for a marginal few? Isn’t motives itself primordial, relative, subjective but must face the scrutiny of judgment, questioning, and reckoning? If questions are not asked and answers are not sought, then how can complex or complicated ideas or things become simple, absorbable or consumable? Can it be said that some humans are not responsible or accountable to the people that elected them but coerce the people beyond their liking or will to obedience – for the fear of rejection, exile, punishment, retaliation, or cancellation? Isn’t it debatable that Humans soon become the slaves of the very system that they pretend to love, respect or are called upon to protect, preserve, and defend? Isn’t it paradoxical that unlike the system, humans will thank God when life is in their favor but praise (rather than condemn) God when life is sad, unpleasant, cruel, brutal, unfair or harsh? Humans find no fault in God but every fault in the System. God can be forgiven, but humans find it difficult to forgive, to let, and move on. The contradiction of being is the being itself.
Part III
How can that be, that the human being is happy in public while unhappy and hurt in private; that the human being is all smiling but hurt within? Isn’t it paradoxical that humans have the best good intentions but end up with bad results? What makes the human being that afraid to live with the guilt of pretense within itself – in reconciliation of the truth within while simultaneously practicing its old repugnancies of irreconcilable dogmas or orthodoxy? Contradiction is in nature for humans. Think of the woman. All men are born from the womb but thought by sexism to subordinate the bearer of the womb. Sometimes humans aren’t right or wrong but self-contradictory. Some humans really want to do the right thing but they can’t self-govern themselves to be disciplined. Is human contradiction biological and inherent, or innate? Is contradiction an intelligence or lack thereof? Why are humans so afraid to say to themselves that many teachings of the past were false and we can now forge a new? Isn’t it self-evident and paradoxical that each time an enlightenment comes to free humans from themselves, it hardly ends well for the Sage or Liberator – the wise one is either killed or exiled just to be worshiped or venerated, or used as authority later? Look at Socrates, or Jesus, or Paul, Galileo, Spinoza, or Martin Luther King, or Abraham Lincoln, or most of the Great Mind Changers (GMC) – it didn’t end well for them. Isn’t it true that humans love their ignorance just as they are addicted to the things of self-harm? When shall the fear of knowledge transition to the bravery of Right-Minded Action (RMA)? There’s no comfort in passivity, they say, but humans are passive participants to their fate in blaming or praising for or quick in crying victim or pointing fingers.
Part IV
The being of the being itself is a contradiction. Isn’t it self-contradictory that life and death are both beginnings of life lived in variant forms or verses; that your being here means not being and you’re not being here means being; that your presence is absence and your absences is presence in another realm or reality; that the being that has come to be shall be without being or shall live without living – for the fear of not being shall overshadows the being for living as a being that has the right of life rather than living as a being that has the threat or fear of death? If it’s said as was made evident in Genesis that let there be life, let out the counter positive of let there be no death. Wasn’t that a hidden contradiction – that the promise of life itself is the acknowledgement of death or the absence of life? How can there be life when the human being was not given the knowledge to the key of life but left to figure without by itself? You give the human being a life coded in ignorance of itself, ignorance of self-awareness, and ignorance of misunderstanding of life’s challenges, then life can hardly turn out well for the human being unless the human being seeks education, morality, and enlightenment. How can this life that humans live be void of the knowledge of its true beginnings and the understanding of its true end? How can humans born of the intellective of intelligence choose to live a life of ignorance or obliviousness to knowledge or unwillingness to know? How can the being be that mind-being but disinterested in the seeking knowledge of itself – its mind, body, soul, and ecology? How can a being if born of the divine choose to live in reckless and willful disrespect of life or in negligent disregard to what happens to that life itself? How can the being that is born to conquer its environment, nature, and universe live in the ignorance of the same? How come a human being made of divine conception, taught right and wrong, but can’t hold itself committing to right action, moral rectitude, or civilized conduct? Aren’t humans supposed to be the miniature of God?
Part V
Humans fought the wars, overcame tyranny, and fought for freedom, liberty, equality, equity, dignity, independence, and self-determination. They fought and won the battles of autonomy, agency, and control. Yet most humans live a life of dependency, self-subjugation or servitude to their Addictions, sloth, idleness, entitlement, and victimhood. Isn’t it a contradiction that humans talk of abstract freedom or independence but are literally Happy Dependable Beings (HDB)? How come the human being dude educate itself or failed to gain the skills needed to take care of itself and well-being or provide for itself without dependence on others? How come that the human being needs a doctor to know its body, a psychologist to know its mind, a priest to know its soul, a carpenter or architect to build its home, a nutritionist to prepare its diet, a chef to cook its food, an aid to help its needs, an accountant to manage its finances, a lawyer to take care of its legal matters, a barber to cut its hair, a technician to mend its cables, a teacher to educate itself, a parent or guardian to raise and nurture or a leader to lead on its behalf? Why must there be somebody or something to always help that humans if at all humans are free and independent agents? And if human dependency isn’t enough AI will help complete the task that humans refuse or can’t do for themselves. Humans claim to be powerful and sophisticated but vulnerable and dependent. Can’t it be said that humans are dependable beings pretending to have autonomy and agency? Is it cynical to say agency is only given to humans and freewill is given to humans so it can be used against them? If humans so-called freewill, independence, self-reliance, self-determination, or the audacity to self-govern is true, then why are the same humans refusing to attend to their personal responsibilities, expectations, commitments, obligations, and accountability? Isn’t it true that without contradictions the human being is nothing more than the falsity of itself? Born with intellect and an infinite mind, but chosen to live in ignorance, sloth, entitlement, and victimhood. Humans can be better, most are, but some choose not. Isn’t it ironic that humans hurt the neck that bears their heads, cherish the ones that despise them, and love the ones that hates them? Look at divorce, conflict, wars – more comes from previous allies, lovers, and friends, not foes. The human being is a being of contradictions living in experimental realities of trials and errors, or coincidence, luck, good fortune, or blessings – instead of their intellection and mindedness.
Written by Philosopher Prince Israel Zaar
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