Planet X: Your OWN Mind

To those who would say these postings comes from a cult leader, I will
post a long-standing ZetaTalk writing, done in the early days of
sci.astro debates, 1997, on thinking for oneself, allowing autonomy in
others, empowering autonomy in others, granting information so that
others can do their own thinking, etc.  Something cults and the
Shepherds of Sheep of sci.astro do NOT want you to do, but ZetaTalk has
always treated as a prime directive.  Self autonomy.  Self choice.  Free
thinking.  Right to know.  Free choice.  

    Students who think for themselves are on the right 
    track, when they grope into areas that are not 
    discussed or presented in school as they sense that 
    they are only being given part of the picture, when 
    they reject rigid explanations they have been given 
    of how things work, or explanations that were based 
    on only part of the puzzle and not the whole.  This 
    can never be wrong, but they are treated otherwise.  
    The student is expected to accept the rigid 
    explanation and toss away any new pieces of the 
    puzzle they discover because it upsets the rigid 
    explanation.  Thus the anger of professors when they 
    are asked questions that seem to counter or contradict 
    the going theory.  In truth, more bright students, the 
    thinking type, leave school than stay in, and those 
    that stay in are in pain.  

    Where most humans like to think of themselves as 
    intelligent creatures, and even the only such creature 
    so gifted in God's creation, they are more often 
    willing to accept the conclusions of others than to 
    think for themselves.  This is because emotionally
    they are children.  Look to the discussion on why 
    the planets continue to revolve as an example.  It's 
    Newton's law.  Once motion starts it continues 
    unless stopped.  When there is obvious 
    contradiction to this so-called law, which in fact is 
    not law but only describes behavior, the children 
    are discombobulated.  It is not that Newton cannot 
    be challenged, it's that the children cannot think
    for themselves.  

    Look about you, at how small children deal with 
    the complexities of life.  They ask their parents to 
    explain, and whatever reason is given out becomes 
    the answer, is repeated to other children, and is 
    angrily defended.  The child needs the parent there 
    to explain matters, and the emotional overtone of 
    desperation overrides any capacity for logical 
    thought the child may possess.  Having been raised
    to the level of gods, the parents can do no wrong, 
    until adolescence arrives and new gods are clung to 
    with the same desperation - gang leaders, movie 
    stars, athletes.  Most adult humans, grownup on the
    outside only, are still children on the inside, 
    clinging to whomever acts like a self-proclaimed 
    god by either claiming to take care of the adult 
    child or claiming to have the answers.  

    Scientific principles, once stated by such a god, 
    are not allowed to be challenged unless this is 
    done by another god.  No matter how illogical 
    the scientific principle becomes, the precepts of 
    the religion are repeated mindlessly, and any 
    challenge to this devotion meets hostility.  How 
    dare you challenge the god's laws!  This tendency
    to behave as a mindless child is most dramatized 
    in scientific communities, where logic and the 
    ability to think matters through is assumed.  In 
    stark contrast to what humans expect from their 
    scientists, the adult child prates the laws of their 
    gods and refuses to put obvious contradictions 
    alongside of these laws.  They look the other way.
    They throw insults.  They walk off in a huff.  
    Anything but be forced to grow up and think for 
    themselves!
        ZetaTalk™, Independent Thinking
            (http://www.zetatalk.com/beinghum/b68.htm)