Our Responsibility and Duty to Truth

in #philosophy6 years ago (edited)

No matter what our individual lives are like, we all have a universal duty and responsibility to truth and morality. Failure to do so leads to negative consequences as a sort-of self-imposed punishment brought about through ignorance. Aligning with these responsibilities will provide us with the privileges and rewards that comes with living the right way.

Try to deny and violate a truth in reality like gravity, or the moral truth of people's right to self-defense, and sooner or later you will find yourself facing the consequences of that denial through your own actions that violate such a reality. See how long you can simply do whatever you want by ignoring reality.


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Terms are symbols and images to help elucidate an understanding. I'll have to do a post or more to explain it all sometime :)

Ignorance is not bliss. Truth will set you free. Increasing awareness of truth and moral truth/law benefits ourselves and everyone. Moral truth determines the quality and condition of our lives.

Causal Reciprocal Bypass

Various systems of controlling our way of living are fabricated and provide directed avenues -- preselected and predetermined paths of life choice and economic survivability -- for us to "choose" from.

The natural causal rewards and privileges of living in the way and path of what is right, good and true can be supplanted and deflected. The consequences and punishment of violating the way and path of optimized living can also be bypassed.

Limiting Response-Ability

When something happens, there are supposed to be causal reciprocal forces if everything is able to respond normally. In human systems, we alter the responsive capacity of many things, including ourselves. The ability to respond in humans is also called response-ability, i.e. responsibility. Our responsibility in life can be modified. We can be made less responsible beings, less capable, less dealing with our own affairs and our own "shit", giving away our responsibilities to others, and in effect becoming powerless.

In our human system of police, courts, and government, many countries don't allow self-defense, or the use of a knife or gun in your home to defend yourself, or to carry a knife in public for defense. You have to abdicate and give away your ability to respond in life to causal stimulus, and become inept, learning to be helpless.

Insulated Bubble of Reality

The causal reciprocal forces that would normally affect us or others, are supplanted through the insulated bubbles of reality that we have created in our human world. Man’s system of rewards/privileges and consequences/punishments (the "legal" system) are what become the way of living within that attempt at an isolated and temporarily insulated system.


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The Natural World of the Universe has Natural Laws in operation. Humbling ourselves under them allows us to operate within the boundaries of existence. The man made "laws" and systems are often delusional and out-of-whack with reality and moral ideals. They are supplanting the natural process of our development to be able to align with those natural moral laws based on our behavioral understanding throughout life. We can't response to causal forces, we can't reciprocate, we are made stagnant and helpless to prevent us from learning how to be more moral.

Human Sickness and Insanity

This applies to the overall behavior of humanity, as we aren't facing the causal reciprocal forces of how we pollute ourselves into sickness, and many other factors of natural laws of causality. We live in a sick society, create more of a sick society, because we were born into a sick society.

"Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well."
-Vernon Howard

Copies of the Social Program


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We copy each other and what is around us to form our identity, usually in some mold of conformity in order to increase our acceptability into the normalization of society, i.e. to be an insider rather than be an outsider.

Instead of learning through a natural behavioral development in reality through the Reciprocal Feedback System that moral law is a part of, the man made legal system is encapsulating our behavior, sense and experience of reality in a way that has also supplanted the natural behavioral learning system of learning from our behavior and mistakes. Certainly at the larger scale as a species, we are having a hard time learning from our collective mistakes.

We copy someone's "law" system where humans arbitrarily decide what is "right" and "wrong" with no real foundational principles based in truth. They decide what rewards and privileges get given to those who comply with their "laws", and what consequences and punishments are given to those who defy their dictates. Again, none of this is none on an objective basis of moral understanding of behavior.

Instead of learning from an environment of people who learned and lived under moral truth/law more fully, we learn form the pre-existing, conditioned, altered state of living that has pervaded humanity for millennia.

We are not learning objectively from observation, thinking, feeling, contemplation, reflection, etc. We do not learn about moral consequences to our behavior as fully as we should.

The co-dependence in the system has us in isolated, insulated, encapsulated, compartmentalized interaction and understanding with the overall functionality and truth of the system we live in. We don't see the reality of the way of life we are living, at least most of us don't. We are also insulated from the functionality and Reciprocal Feedback System of our behavior.

Duty, Privilege and Responsibility

In our reversal of acceptance of the establishment, when we go against the status quo normalized accepted concepts, we can end up "throwing the baby out with the bathwater", in a sense. Duty and privilege can be such casualties.

Duties are not to be upheld in the falsified construct of deluded "laws" based on whims, wants, desires, power, etc. that some person invents. That creates a continuation of the insane mindsets that created those false "laws" in the first place, which is chaos and slavery.

Our duties are to truth and morality, not to the whims of someone else's mind, like obeying orders or the chain of obedience. Right and wrong can be objectively known by each of us ourselves.

The duty and responsibility to truth, good, right, and morality, will allow us to create the true freedom, peace and order we want and be privileged to live that way. Those are the rewards and privileges we can get with humility under truth, and specifically moral truth.

Duty to truth affords privilege because we align with reality, and the reality of optimized social cooperative living. Working against reality, truth, or moral truth, does not work out for our benefit in the long run.

Not convinced of how important truth is? Think about someone lying to you, being dishonest, or betraying you. How important is that in your life? Truth is what's in common between the three circumstances. Truth is the foundation for everything.


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this is a wonderful writeup. i will have to read it again just to understand the depth of intent.

truth has become relative. Mahatma Gandhi wrote about his battle with truth and exposed himself brutally. Even a single lie will prove costly as it needs an cavalcade of other lies to cover up. that is how we become sick.

our responsibility is to one another and that starts with truth not love.

really enjoyed reading it. do write more

Indeed, it all starts with truth, not love. Love comes after.

Totally agree with you mate!
Your post reminded me of this beautiful quote by Terence Mckenna,

The Cost Of Sanity In This Society, Is A Certain Level Of Alienation.

(P.S. I mentioned you and your post Emotions Often Win Over Reason in my most recent post and I think you'll really like to check it out :))

I must be really sane :P

Very educative post, I'll refer to this for my assignments.
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One of your best writings I have ever read from you. Keep on doing this work man.

If i had more SP I would drop it all in this post.

Excellent job.

I don't generally support absolutes because it has been my experience that they usually are illusions. However at this moment in time there is absolutely no way for me to agree more with you.

So I share some maxims of law and ask if you agree?

Maxims of law:

All men and women know that the foundation of law and commerce exist in the telling of the truth and nothing but the truth.

Truth as a valid statement of reality is sovereign in commerce.

I am impressed by your info graphics. Thi sis some deep analysis there that I had to look at a few times before it made sense. Very well done!

The consequences of this are being felt by the people who do not live in truth (most), wich brings bigger "bubbles" and insanity, and we can also feel the positives (good karma,etc) this is pretty actual as always krnel, thanks !

Very deep writing of your post @krnel. In a world disordered by doubt and confusion, we can find hope in the truth, it is the foundation of all understanding and able to free.

Will have to reread this again later!
Good stuff!!

Cheers.

It is important for us to know the basics of every thing we are going to do, and not just to follow what others say and do.

Every human being in this world is a creature who must have mistakes that sometimes we do not realize, so we are obliged to continue to learn not to fall into the error.

Try to do the truth. If we have not been able to do it, then at least we do not reject it, but put it in the heart that 'this is the most righteous, that will save me' and try as much as possible to learn to practice it little by little so there is no rejection in our hearts and we can lightly practice it.

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Responsibility is easy while saying in words and many will do that but when the turn of action comes then for sure many will stand apart from it because they are irresponsible and they can just pretend but they cannot adapt it.

We all know how important it is to know the truth and to speak the truth but we are using truth as an convenience means if we have some greed then possibly many will fall for greed and they will stop saying truth and possibly they will create chain of lies.

And it's everyone's duty to spread the truth and it should be integral part of our life because truth opens the gates of reality and we can enter into reality without any burden because truth makes you lite and lies makes you heavy with burden of lies.

So, we have to understand our true responsibilities and duties of life to create the true image of life otherwise our life will break one day if walked on the path of falsity and lies and it will push you towards failure.

Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂

It's definitely ideal to live in truth. However reality is what it is and you live in reality whether or not you accept it or consciously do.

That's true. 🙂

I devoted last fourteen years searching for truth and also, when the creation of false reality began. I read lots of books and took yoga training, but I am still not sure about the origin of the lies. One of the theories go back to Anunnaki and other extraterrestrial forces molding the human race in the past. Nevertheless, I know the past is not really important, but if you have anything to share on this topic, I would love to read it. Great article by the way, I really enjoyed it.

This post was upvoted and resteemed by @thethreehugs. Thank you for your support of @familyprotection.

The best way for me to discern Truth from falsehoods, is to live the most Truth. It is my favorite application of the Hermetic axiom 'As within, so without.'

Along the lines of what you say,

Terms are symbols and images to help elucidate an understanding

I would add that calling things by their proper names is indispensable to revealing and discovering truth.

Truth is the basis, you're absolutel right.
Nothing can be built on lie. Nothing good I mean.
You ask your readers how important truth is in their life... For me it's just everything. I can't move on if I feel false and lie. JUst can't. Maybe sometimes I should, or even I would like to, but I can't.
And I can't forgive people even small lie. Forgiveness is great thing, but I can't trust if I felt lie just once. That'w why I have just a couple of people with whom I can connect in offline life, people are used to lie...

Many countries forbid having weapon for self-protection? It was news for me..I thought it is normal and common for all people to have such a right.