I no longer believe in belief

[Dekalb_Blues]

The paradoxically self-invalidating self-reference is always a delightfully absurd treat to savour
from a safe distance -- especially when it reaches its malign terrestrial apotheosis in some
civilizational-level dysfunctional ideology of religion, philosophy, etc. capable of possibly conditioning
many millions into willingly suspending their commonsensical powers of disbelief in favour of some
bizarre jerry-rigged and utterly improbable fiction serving only some tricky faction's self-serving ends...


MULLA NASRUDIN PRESIDING AT THE BAR OF JUSTICE

The Mulla was made a magistrate. During his first case the plaintiff argued
so persuasively that he exclaimed:

"I believe that you are right!"

The clerk of the Court begged him to restrain himself, for the defendant had
not been heard yet.

Nasrudin was so carried away by the eloquence of the defendant that he cried
out as soon as the man had finished his evidence:

"I believe you are right!"

The clerk of the court could not allow this.

"Your honour, I must protest-- they cannot both be right..."

Nasruding pondered this unexpectedly weighty matter which seemed to strike  to
the very heart of jurisprudence, and  at length said with deep gravity:

‘You know... I believe you are right!’'








The Mulla and his stories appear in literature and oral traditions from the Middle East to Greece, Russia,
France--even China. Many nations claim Nasrudin as a native son, but nobody really knows who he was or
where he came from.

According to a legend dating from at least the 13th century, Nasrudin was snatched as a schoolboy
from the clutches of the "Old Villain"--the crude system of thought that ensnares man--to carry through
the ages the message of how to escape. He was chosen because he could make people laugh, and humor
has a way of slipping through the cracks of the most rigid thinking habits.

Acclaimed as humorous masterpieces, as collections of the finest jokes, as priceless gift books, and for
hundreds of "enchanted tales," this folklore figure's comical doings have also been divined as "mirroring the
antics  of the mind." The jokes are, as Idries Shah notes, "perfectly designed models for isolating and holding
distortions of the mind which so often pass for reasonable behavior." Therefore they have a double use:
when the jokes have been enjoyed, their psychological significance starts to sink in.

In fact, for many centuries they have been studied in Sufi circles for their hidden wisdom. They are used
as teaching exercises, in part to momentarily "freeze" situations in which states of mind can be recognized.
The key to the philosophic significance of the Nasrudin jokes is given in Idries Shah's book The Sufis and
a complete system of mystical training based upon them was described in the Hibbert Journal.

http://lucidity.com/nasrudin.shtml

 

23.1 Questioner: You were speaking yesterday of the first contact made by the Confederation which
occurred during our third major cycle. You stated that you appeared in the skies over Egypt at the same
time, approximately, aid was first given to Atlantis. Can you tell me why you went to Egypt and your,
shall we say, orientation of attitude and thinking when you first went to Egypt?

Ra: I am Ra. At the time of which you speak there were those who chose to worship the hawk-headed
sun god which you know as vibrational sound complex, “Horus.” This vibrational sound complex has taken
other vibrational sound complexes, the object of worship being the sun disc represented in some distortion.

We were drawn to spend some time, as you would call it, scanning the peoples for a serious interest
amounting to a seeking with which we might help without infringement. We found that at that time the
social complex was quite self-contradictory in its so-called religious beliefs and, therefore, there was not
an appropriate calling for our vibration. Thus, at that time, which you know of as approximately eighteen
thousand [18,000] of your years in your past, we departed without taking action.