cognitive dissonance

I have a confession to make.

And it has to do with a video link that my friend Gil Magno has just sent me…

His email read:

"How cometh then that thou art not in hell?"

"Why… this is hell." Dante
How can man/woman say that s/he is made in the image of God,
(all that is good), when s/he commits the atrocities seen through
the link below.
Watch the whole thing, then let me know if you are still eating the
dead bodies of animals.
So I watched the video, as I suggest you do.
And I was horrified and disgusted.
But not just at the contents of what the video revealed… but also about what it reveals about me.
I know that my mind was working to rationalise the consumption of those foods, those animals.
I know that a big part of the reason I will cut down eating them is for my own health benefits, and only partly because of the pain caused to the animals.
I also know that indeed it will only be a 'cut down' and not a total abstinence of eating those foods.
By what mechanism is it that I can accept such clearly hideous behaviour even of myself?
How can I come to understand the cognitive dissonance that will allow me to blind myself from the sickening truth?
And by what process can I lift myself above these things, along with helping the world to grow with me?

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Originally posted 2008-05-24 20:52:43. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Perhaps you have noticed?
The maze-trap that binds people…

You are walking, now, inside that maze…

Looking for the exit just like the other people. But you feel curious. Looking at the walls that form the maze you wonder if there is no official exit at all…

Imagine stepping into your shower in the morning and instead of it being refreshing and cleansing as you exected until now, slimey gunge drips on you from the shower, and almost as if you are in a dream world you reluctantly yet deliberately rub that stuff all over you as if in a mindless hypnotized stupor.

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Originally posted 2009-08-27 20:04:34. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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