The Gods Of Our Fathers

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I started this entry with something I wrote about somewhere else, and I didn't make my point in the earlier writing as clearly as I wanted, but rather than to try to right my wrong there, I decided to extend the point here to see if it has legs and can go bipedal.

I don't know what you read into what I wrote about rules of conscience. My point is about becoming consciously aware of and learning to know what one's own rules of conscience are. Since humans can only perceive what they generate and project from their own set and setting, nobody else but the inwardly turned seeker can know what they decided to adopt as a rule in the past. Even then it's a crapshoot.

The difficulty for many curious people, as I see it, is discovering for sure what their own personal rules of conscience are in the first place. You know, the "let your conscience be your guide" conscience. It's the difficulty of letting that specific conscience we've been advised forever and a day to let it guide us when we're confronted with a dilemma, is the one I'm writing about. You've heard of it?

This ancient adage directly challenges the rules of conscience we each adopt in order to direct us in our mimicry of what we desire to become like. Those rules of conscience we adopt early on, even in the cradle, become the drummer we march to instead of yielding to our true inner nature, whatever that may be, if any.

The personality we compose by imitating people who have a personality we are attracted to, comes together over time because we have to remember in real time to perform an action differently than we've been doing it, in order to do it more like the person whose personality traits we admire. In my opinion, that's why we adopt certain rules of behavior to remind us that we're trying to change horses in midstream.

It's been a long time since I actively studied neurolinguistic programming. Neurolinguistic programming or generative linguistics or any of the other sciences of cognition that study this sort of thing, but as far as I can tell it resolves to modeling or mimicry or imitation (the highest form of flattery).

Some think that a child learning it's native language is the epitome of modeling the other. Even before children enter a formal education program and well before they can read or write their native language, they can correct the usage of the language if its used erroneously. They don't know the formal rules of the language yet, but they comprehend the mistakes in rhythm when it isn't used correctly. All to no good end if they wanna be like a docetic Christos. Conversion means abandonment of all you thought you knew.

Conversion literally transforms the rules of conscience we adopt to become like others, this startling and unpredictable experience automatically removes the problem of mistakenly expecting other people to obey the rules of conscience we individually adopted instead of obeying their own conscience.

Quite naturally, our selfish motives becomes problematic if we demand that the other obey our rules, especially if they don't know what rules we adopted. More especially if we ourselves don't know what our own rules of conscience are either, and haven't a clue why we're pissed off at them, and for disobedience of all things.

I've written a lot about how to discover what your own rules of conscience are. They're what you expect the other to obey. They're what makes you accuse the other of acting like you wouldn't for their reasons. Thats the "ears to hear" thats brought up in conversations about Christianity and the Jesus stories.

Its the same principle as the one about removing the splinter from your own eye before you remove the mote from another's eye. We accuse others of breaking our own rules of conscience, and those accusations are how you find out what your own rules of conscience are. Having "the ears to hear" or "the eyes to see" means that we explore our accusations specifically for learning about what we expect of ourselves through others.
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