In our culture, admitting that you are wrong about something and that your beliefs are not backed up by facts is one of the most difficult tasks for an individual. The fear of changing one's mind is very powerful. And it is natural to experience fear about some things. I experience fear on a social level, but intellectually I can contemplate any idea. So we all have different fears, and all of us can learn from each other by discussing our fears freely.
Overcoming the fear of speaking one's mind requires constant work. The most important thing to admit is that the fear of sounding crazy is stupid, and a mentally free individual should not be consumed by this fear.
It takes a strong will to reject consensus thinking, especially in the age of mass media. In our time it is easy to get wooed by the agents of hell and darkness who wish to enslave the human spirit. Modern totalitarian cult leaders like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Barack Obama are able to woo the people and con them into believing lies because they are well versed in the techniques of mass hypnosis and mass brainwashing. They masterfully put their blind followers in a state of total subservience, and then dictate to them what is real and what is fake, what is good and what is bad...read more>>>...
