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Hello my friend,

Welcome to the 29th installment of The Creative Journey, the experience of one Charles Yerkes, Eadarian Poet, perpetuator, and otherwise mildly creative and excessively modest personage.

Being intellectually honest. One of the biggest challenges facing us in America today, indeed, this may be so for the whole world.

Last time we chatted about double standards as an example of this. This time I want to touch base on our propensity to simply ignore the facts in preference for what we feel, what we desire.

One very wise man once said, “Temptation yielded to is lust deified.” I have observed this principle at work in almost every other walk of life as well. Facts denied is desire deified.

This is where, no matter what the facts are – we will hold to our chosen ideas and beliefs, refusing to amend, change, or even discard them as needs be. In religion this leads to blind dogmatism and so to legalism. In politics it leads to control and manipulation, and even suppression. In science it leads falsities being taught as fact thereby limiting us to only what we feel is possible (in the areas so held). For as long as we hold to what cannot be, we are not truly free to pursue truth and understanding because we will always over look answers that do not fit the frame work of our rigid beliefs. And so we prefer to be ignorant rather than challenged by the other possibilities that exist.

I bet you have already had many examples for each come to mind. If not look around a little and I am sure one or two will reveal themselves to you rather quickly.

Now, here is the challenge. You have seen this at work in others, evaluate your ideas, beliefs, and actions. Which ones fit in to the above discriptions? Which ones are supported by facts? Which are supported by feelings alone, or in direct opposition to the facts?

Are you noble enough to let them go? To amend as they need to be amended?

To change ideas and beliefs as needed is the only way to keep growing, to keep your life fresh, vital, and invigorating for others.

This is not easy. Pride encourages us to refuse to let go of something held dear. Good intentions encourage us to refuse to change, when we perceive the reason to hold these ideas is from a desire that sounds good.

But what is that saying? The one that has almost become trite from over use?

Oh, yes, cowboy up. Be completely honest with your self. Doing so is a very freeing experience.

Live Nobly, Live Well

Charles Yerkes
Eadarian Poet, Perpetuator, Photographer, and Fiddle Player

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