Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
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Solipsism
In philosophy, solipsism is the theory that only the self exists because one's self is the only thing that can be proved by one to exist.
As the notion of pareidolia may be ranked as one of the most important notions in psychology, the idea of solipsism may be equally ranked in philosophy because solipsism may be the single cause of social strife and violence since civilization began.
Axiomatic to solipsism is every self'aware cognitive entity in the universe is the center of the universe since one's self is the only thing that can be verified to be true. Therefore, does this philosophical theory of solipsism, that the self is all that one knows to exist account for the perception that "my God is the true one and only"?..in that, if the self or congregation of selves united by their conception of the universe is all that one knows to be surely true, the only thing that truly exists, then that self becomes profoundly exclusive from all else in existence. Is religious dogma intolerant to anything else but itself, evidence that the theory of solipsism is true?
The most powerful word in the world is 'love.' The second most powerful word is 'God' because it invokes the awakening of the infant in all of us. It was us as infants who originally in our beginning perceived our protectors as 'all powerful,' 'all knowing,' and 'all present,' and what they said and did was the first imprint on our earthly soul, what God first imprinted on us.
Every time a spiritual leader uses the word, God, they are using the power of this word as it relates to an infant's perception of its mother and father, its progenitors, its primordial benefactors, providers, and protectors. A perception of God at the core of every person's earthly soul. A perception lost with maturity yet still there, unattached, isolated until a charismatic evangelist perhaps, or any spiritual dominant captivates it and makes its world views the one and only. Spiritual dominants know. They sense a lost earthly soul and lay siege to it so that the infant within comes alive again. With the prospect of unconditional love, compliance in one form or another is almost a certainty.
Solipsism...only the self is true. One or one of a group with the same world view..the evolution of human consciousness will inevitably proceed violently until tolerance of other world views become appealing, for what is one going to do their whole life?..battle everyone in the universe different than one's self? For those intolerant, thuswise has the history of human societies proceeded, from intolerance to intolerance, violence to violence.