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It Cannot Be Taught

I've a friend who says my blogs are good. Except they need to be dressed up a bit and so on. So that more people will read them.

I say "I cannot teach people about anything important. They have to want to know". And if someone really wants to know, they will immediately go and find out. Without needing outside help. 

For all other situations I will only be believing what someone else has told me to believe. It won't be knowing anything. It will be an appeal to beliefs and the masses fallacy.

So, if I really want to know, I will always find the answer. I have to really want to 'knock on the door' in myself with no outside persuasion or force. If I really want to know.

There is no one in the world who can teach me this. I have to want to know. In myself. No one can force me to do it either. Even under threat of death I can only know if I freely choose to look for it without outside help or force.

Others might say that if I am taught about things there's more chance I will start to know. This is just a more intense form of the same kind of mistake. The fallacy of making an appeal to authority.

Imagine I have a thousand ideas defining the same thing arrayed in front of me to choose from. All have been 'taught' to me. The choice I make from them is still not due to the excellence of the idea in itself or the vast number there are to choose from. That is known as the bandwagon fallacy or making an appeal to the masses. I will make my choice inspite of all that.

I'll talk about what that choice really is another time. It's enough to start thinking about how we never make choices about important things by observing the material world and what is taught.

People eventually ask me what's the point of posting blogs then if you cannot help other people to learn about your ideas? This question signals a continued lack of understanding. It's simple - I do it purely for me and my own development. And that I do not have the power to teach others about anything important. And knowing that is one of the first and best forms of knowledge. Which I taught myself.

All I can know about anything important is a matter of personal discovery. It cannot be taught.

As soon as I start believing I can teach people about anything important, my ego is now powering my actions in the material world. And we all know very well immediately where that goes.
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