POEM_: The Four Ignoble Untruths

POEM_:  The Four Ignoble Untruths

The Four Ignoble Untruths:

Dogma, Unreality, Suffering, Bondage

Why mustI

oppose dogma,

religious,

or secular?

Primarily, because

it opposes truth.

Does it?

How?

Merely,

by considering itself

inviolable. 

Irrespective, of whether

the evidence

– our only

arbiter of truth-content –

supports it,

or opposes it.

Or, currently,

is unavailable.

Dogma,

must always pretend

to stand tall.

And why

is truthimportant?

Because,

it represents reality.

And unless

we are rooted

in reality,

we suffer.

For reality,

happens anyway.

Irrespective of whether

we, and our dogma

want it to happen,

or not.

And if,

we realize that

we can work towards

correctives,

or palliatives.

Before-hand,

or after-the-fact.

Dogma,

rejecting evidence,

disempowering us,

leads us to untruth,

unreality,

suffering.

Suffering,

like most

Terrorism, War, Violence

Racism, Jingoism, Fascism, Nazism, Anti-Semitism

Misogyny, Homophobia

and even, the Ecological Imperative.

How can I not

oppose dogma:

the promoter,

numero uno,

of untruth,

of the unreal?

The root

of most human suffering?

I may still

desire the unreal:

like I may want

my dead mother back,

my lost youth regifted,

love from all

those that I loved,

who never loved me back. 

At least, not in a measure

I found acceptable.

There is no harm

in desiring all that. 

So long as I know

it is all my desire,

not reality.  For then,

the absence does not

morph into suffering.

If Hitler had known

that Aryans are no master-race,

but on the contrary

his mere belief;

and if his followers had known

or believed that –

we wouldn’t quite have needed

the word, ‘holocaust’.

If Christians had believed

that God is a mere figment

of their imagination,

they would have yet

respected the Earth, and not converted

to the new religion

of freemarketism, with its clergy

of noble-ordained economists

who, with their dogma of interminable growth

have brought us past

the point-of-no-return

to the Ecological Imperative.

And if this realization had visited

the minions of Muhammad,

they may have bestowed, some

peace upon us.

Religious, or secular,

how canI not

oppose dogma?

And how can I not

demand the freedom of expression

to uncover the evils of dogma,

the only real devil,

for that freedom is of nothing

but to pursue the truth,

the reality,

the end to most

human suffering?

How can I accept the bondage

that takes me

and myhumen

to suffering, unreality, dogma?

-

owais

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