On condescension.
1. The man who knows the world is the middle east can't help but condescend to the man who thinks his cave is the whole world.
2. The man who knows the world is the Africa and the middle east can't help but condescend to the man who knows the world is the middle east.
3. The man who knows the world contains all of the continents can't help but condescend to the man who thinks the world is merely Africa and Asia.
4. The man who knows the world is the whole planet can't help but condescend to the man who thinks the world contains only the continents.
5. The man who knows the world is the Milky Way can't help but condescend to the man who thinks the world is just planet Earth.
6. The man who knows the world is the universe can't help but condescend to the man who thinks the world is only the Milky Way.
7. The man who who knows he does not know but can understand and use the concept of the possibility that the world contains the universe which may be part of a multiverse can't help but condescend to the man who thinks he knows absolutely that the world contains only the universe.
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1. The man who knows he does not know of the existence of gods and other unseen religious entities can't help but condescend to the man who thinks he knows his god created and rules the universe. His understanding contains the knowledge or the primitive religious mind and much more, while the man with the primitive religious mind cannot comprehend the mind of the wiser man.
For example, the wise, open-minded man, without beliefs of any kind, can easily predict the beliefs of the primitive religious mind. All he has to do is check the man's religious text and he can tell him what he believes better than the primitive religious man can, whose false sense of confidence often causes him to have not well studied his own beliefs. However, the primitive religious mind cannot predict or contain the non-believing thinking of the wise man.
Therefore, the man who can use information without belief can't help but condescend to the believer, just as an adult can't help but condescend to a child.
The non-believing wise man can't help but condescend to the Christian, the Muslim, the radical vegan, and the atheist. He knows what they believe because they have dedicated themselves to absolute belief in an easily accessible book or ideology and the public rhetoric and commentary of religious authorities. The absolute 'knowledge' of the believer cannot help but create conflict between believing groups and within the individual, who is told to have absolute belief in oppressive practices and practices of self-denial fit for a time period several centuries ago but preposterous in present times. The believer does not have his own beliefs, his own thinking, but is filled with the thinking of warring tribes in the Middle East. He emulates that violence.
How do we release ourselves from the shackles of absolute belief?
