What Is Stupidity?
1. Ongoing stupid behavior after becoming fully able to choose what is learned.2. Closed-mindedness.
3. Refusing to change when change is what is needed.
Causes Of Stupidity
Being uneducated and/or miseducated contributes to both stupid behavior and stupidity. One person will go from stupid behavior to an improvement in knowledge of self by taking steps to change for the better. Another person will go from stupid behavior to the verge of stupidity and beyond for the following reasons: 1. Self-deception - Because the mind has been deceived, what the mind thinks and decides is based on misconceptions. Thus, self-deception thinks there is no reason for self-correction. 2. Uncorrected ignorance - A by-product of #1. Uncorrected ignorance is like living without an interchange of fresh air, thus it stagnates and mutates into stupidity. It infects the entire thinking process.Uncorrected ignorance usually starts at the top, in the most important area of a person's life. For some, this is religion, for others, it is romantic relationships. For many, it is national identity. The list goes on. Thus, even if the person has true information in other areas, the top influencing belief carries so much weight, it skews the thinking in these areas. It screws up thinking and behavior. It causes the person to deny truths and deny facts to protect false notions connected to sense of self. What is known to be true and the right thing to do are sacrificed for the higher cause of holding on to corrupted information that has hijacked consciousness. This is accentuated by sadness, emptiness, loneliness, guilt, fear and anger.Some who do this believe they are of higher value than all other humans and all other aspects of creation. The only way to be higher than all is to be higher than the Supreme Being Creator God. Thus, this behavior is anti-God behavior.How can this be true?If a person's topmost belief was as it should be, it would be in line with a harmonious philosophy. All creation would be considered and treated as equals. The person would not mistreat creation or allow others to mistreat creation. The person would not accept mistreatment from another human.This is why romantic relationships are included in this section. Many relationships are held together by false notions. False relationship/marriage notions often cause a person to devalue themselves and sacrifice children, family and self, in order to have someone in their life. What is greater than self is the person and notions they desire.There are those who feel of higher value than others and then there are those who feel of less value. Some may feel of no value or a combination between high value and low value of self. No matter the case, they have not found the balancing point of equal value. 3. Sadness - The person has hurt and pain and doesn't know how to deal with it or refuses to. The person uses religion, relationships and/or national identity to replace the identity lost. It is often lost due to childhood trauma. This trauma can be one significant event. It can also be two or more related or unrelated events. Often this is molestation. The trauma is replaced by something of value that keeps the focus off self. It helps the person survive and get through the times. In the absence of proper assistance, this is understandable. The person gets older but remains stuck developmentally in a immature stage that is still unable to face the core problem. Assistance is available and there is no longer need to live without the fullness of the true self. Please follow the advice in the articles mentioned.It is understandable to not want to make another major change, use energy, rearrange and confess to yourself you still need to make some different choices. The alternative to remain the same couldn't possibly be better than refreshing truthful life and existence.Even so, some will choose to continue to allow this sadness to cloud thinking and cause the extreme form of stupidity – purposefully mean and cruel behavior. This is active aggression and it takes many forms, including open forms and subtle forms.This behavior becomes so twisted, it can't separate and see itself as a separate being that is part of a larger being, therefore, only itself exists. The twisting gets ever tighter. This continues to choke off purifying spiritual streams trying to reach consciousness. Without this energy, there is a greater loss of individual power. The person, now totally starved for power, looks outside self to compensate for what they have shut down, blocked out and choked off inside. Behavior becomes more and more sadistic. 4. Emptiness, Loneliness, Guilt, Fear & Anger - need no further explanation here.
