everybody's got the right to their own delusions

the objection is when one person's delusion makes any attempt to negate another's delusion, or reality for that matter... it's the same for the physical life... everyone's got the right to live any way they please, except when one chooses to try to stop another from living their way... balance is the only way... natural balance can be quite cruel, but intelligent balance brings kindness and fairness and equity into the balance and hopefully human beings are developing into an intelligent species (there are way too many signs that it not happening, but there's always hope {i hope} and that must be the only reason i have for staying personally, individually, globally, and universally)... i suppose another term for delusion, in this context, is blind faith... those who believed the world was flat were wrong, but they were entitled to believe in a flat world unless they tried to stop others from believing different... unfortunately, human history is inundated with examples of intolerance of different beliefs and that is one of the saddest (and clearest) signs that intelligence has not quite become the dominant trait of humanity...

i wonder what other animals belief... or trees, for that matter... trees have been around a lot longer than humans, after all, so they might just know something about longevity we humans don't know... like maybe something like learn to be still, especially when conflict can be avoided by stillness... imagine if two armies poised for war would choose to meditate on peace instead, just pause and reflect on the bullets they are about to fire or bombs they are about to drop or the consequences of the buttons they are about to push... put faces on the buttons and intelligence just might happen... yes, i am a hopeful child... aren't you?...

my delusion is peace, love, and happiness... open minds, open hearts, and honest love... actualized... if i can live it, it just might become real...

and narf :)