Atheist Bangladeshi Blogger Hacked To Death
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PATTERNS AND LABELS….13 NATIONS WANT ME DEAD! We are human, like it or not our brain creates thousands of movement and thought patterns that fix into place and we end up being ‘us’ with a lot of repeating of the automatic after the brain confirms to itself particular patterns are safe, comfortable and appropriate…
Mindfulness, is accessing the part of our mind that can take a good look, observe and challenge those thousands of automatic processes…It’s not easy to access that space, as it’s very new in evolutionary terms, still very much the young child area part of the brain in comparison, however, we are able to access. Other areas of mind that do not want patterns to change no matter what will constantly fight that mindfulness area potential of the mind, an argument inside ones own head. Lower areas of the brain that are millions of years old in evolutionary terms find it easy to beat out the inexperienced mindfulness potential…… Mindfulness activated for example will suggest to eat the apple with skin on for extra fiber and vitamins, whereas the automatic pattern formed mind which is very powerful in its defense will want that TRIPLE CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH CREAM instead 😮 …. (I’ll be back shortly, just popping to the fridge!) :p
Ok, I’m back… 😉 ….Thousands of patterns, many of them trivial, who cares what soccer team we support and stick with for life or how we brush our teeth, or how we hold a fork, however, automatic patterns they are, that just happened to us, developed and adapted from a young age and repeated over and over and over in the same or similar way each and every day…. We do not remember why those patterns developed the way they did but they did nonetheless and they had very little to do with rational contemplation and well trained decision making upon selection. The brain has no time for that, literally thousands of patterns to create for us, it quickly finds in a hazy manner a way of selecting and once it feels something is good enough, then away we go. The pattern forming mind as a navigator finds copying the majority around it as a good guide..The more people doing the same / similar, the more chance of being accepted as part of the tribe, the more chance of a smoother journey through life…. PATTERN FORMED AND MADE STRONGER WHEN REPEATED AND SMALL INCREMENTS OF ADAPTATION ALLOWED INLINE WITH COMFORT ZONES OVER TIME…
Along with the thousands of trivial patterns our mind flows with, we also have significant patterns in our life, that unfortunately can potentially damage in various ways…. Religiosity, politics, various world views that if looked at carefully had very little to do with the individual selecting in a careful, rational manner but like trivial patterns just happened to us, with solid foundations laid from a young age, culturally influenced by what is happening directly around us…. As the mind becomes more and more comfortable with those patterns as part of our survival plan through life we are then left without realizing, justifications we go on to verbalize and share proudly in conversation and occasional debate when challenged, blinded and unaware that our view is an accident of sorts…. Just appropriate patterns that fell into place…..
People can go a lifetime assuming they are democrat or republican, conservative or labour… communist or libertarian, Muslim or Chrisitan, Jew or Atheist but not once be able to see they didn’t choose from the very core, but more than likely from a foundation already laid beyond their awareness because the human brain is like a puppeteer in many ways and has no interest in the identifying owner of it… THE BRAIN AUTOMATICALLY ALSO CONTROLS YOUR HEART BEAT, YOUR BREATHING, BLOOD PRESSURE, SLEEP CYCLES, SWEAT AND MUCH MORE…. It does not wait for the so called owner of it to switch the heart on and off as they wish… ….
Many, many subliminal influences pulled the strings initially to thought patterns created… Once significant pattern is formed, listening to an opposing view that makes so much sense will more than likely be rejected as the observer will know very little how their own brain loves patterns already set and will do almost anything to hold onto existing ones…. The person who ‘rejects’ is left with the assumption that they chose…
The general theme in former Soviet nations for example for a vast majority is to observe gay people as wrong, sick or bad. I have spoken to many Russians in Cyprus, after finding this out. Smart and friendly people but who reject gay people and place them in a negative category…. They are unaware that their individual mindset is simply part of a cultural mindset that was very much part of their continuous indoctrinated solidification of ideas…. No matter how smart they become, teachers, doctors, engineers, will keep justifying the ‘bad’ and ‘wrong’ of being gay…. Their pattern forming brain created that mindset, they will not be able to view the scientific research on homosexuality and open their minds so easily….
Whereas in the UK, who incidentally had the same mindset as former Soviet nations 20 years ago towards gay people but new cultural patterns formed, so easier for the individual to follow suit…. Does that make people in UK better in this respect? Or are they just puppets who coincidentally are part of a culture that changed perception on this issue… an accidental progress… Do the Brits really care? or just followed whatever appropriate and comfortable pattern they found themselves placed in front of them at that time? Getting rid of one prejudice, did that have a knock on effect to get rid of multiple other prejudices? Not so I would argue.
Moving on but on the same theme of ‘appropriate patterns’ There are way too many nations who want to punish me for being an Atheist and for my TMV project…. I also have a feeling that I am being stalked as I do get many strange messages from Bangladesh, Nigeria, Pakistan etc…. I do wonder if I’m on some kind of hit list at times, spooked as I’m invited to these nations as a welcome guest on occasion by very polite men who then rant on why Allah and Islam is the only way…. By law these nations would punish me by death for being a non-believer…
1. Afghanistan
2. Iran
3. Malaysia
4. Maldives
5. Mauritania
6. Nigeria
7. Pakistan
8. Qatar
9. Saudi Arabia
10. Somalia
11. Sudan
12. United Arab Emirates
13. Yemen
The sad thing is, Cyprus where I live, hold just as proud ideas on religion (Christian Orthodox), however, thankfully, the norm here due to heavy influence from modern Europe and especially the Brits, there is no mentality to execute people like me for not following their faith, although I’m sure there’s plenty of ridicule within discussions behind my back…. This is not because Cyprus is a ‘good’ country…. Just like the comparison of gay acceptance before, Cyprus generally is still very ignorant, minimal mindfulness to challenge their own views but the cultural pattern formed means I am safe from execution…. This little nation so close to the Islamic world on the geographic map , many similarities in its lack of scientific awareness and acceptance, thankfully it was just the right side of the European border to form cultural mind patterns that keeps me safe despite Cyprus having many of the ingredients to sway that way of the 13 nations above if political circumstances were tweaked here and there…
The west is not perfect, not by far, however, thankfully it is far more scientifically literate and able to slowly but surely drop the egotistical and way too proud nonsense that too many nations still carry with them…. Reason, evidence and progress no nation can escape…. Older generations die off, the generation below them able to access more of an open mind….. Islamic nations who gladly kill now will have a very different view 5 generations down the line I’m sure…
It can happen much sooner, but the brain is designed to keep hold of patterns…. Thankfully most patterns are trivial….. Time for some more cake I think …. Woops, I meant apple… :p
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