As a child for reasons I don't really understand I was offended by evil in the world and all the suffering wars and misery it brings to innocent people. So I set out to prove once and for all that to know the truth would make people good. What I discovered instead was the behind every belief that I examined in the hope of finding proof was an emotional need to believe just like my own with the only strength behind it just that same ego need. Proof that the good exists didn't exist anywhere. Quite depressing really, that is, as long as there exists that need to believe.
But if one is hell bent on knowing the truth whatever it may be and the truth happens to be the truth that differentiates good and evil does not exist, then the result is that one knows at a deep level that one actually knows nothing except for this need to believe and in that state of mind something magical can happen, the realization that the need to believe really isn't a need but an unconscious assumption. And when you realize that everything changes. When you lose everything you can lose in the way of belief, what is left is the real which cannot be taken. And what is that you may ask?
Well, the important thing for this thread and the reason I mention any of this at all, is in relation to cable or any other source of input, even this thread itself. The effect of watching, listening, or reading is complete and total indifference. The hopes, the desires the feelings and passions of others, their needs for me to believe, their infinite sacred cows are but cabbages growing on the ground, food for sheep who feed wolves.
The raindrop that falls in the mountain wends its way to the sea.
It isn't the objectivity of the source of the news one watches that will make you sane, but the utter indifference to the influence it intends to bring. Only grace can bring about the death of the ego. Seek and you will find because to seek is to put yourself in the road where Grace can run you down. The ego will not die by it's own hand.
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