FAITH

There is not a whole lot that can be said about faith. Faith is kind of an air-ish concept; not much to it. Faith is built primarily of "gut feelings" or, more properly, of the sum of propaganda and experiences absorbed by an individual throughout his life. We suffer "faith" every time a bunch of eager believers listen to a prosecutor's speculations couched in phony certainty and vote their faith in his spiel by declaring someone guilty. Their conscious minds don't realize this, but they have faith that the cop/prosecutor/judge/media team is honest and competent. If the team has managed to let a ringer or other type of copcoddler secret himself aboard the jury, the jurors are influenced from amongst themselves. This is outlawed, yet common: Prosecutors brag amongst themselves and with their judge pals when they are able to torpedo a fair jury with this technique. Gullible, ignorant jurors do not realize that only 5% of cop's targets ever go to trial. This means that the very fact that the target forces the cop/lawyer/prosecutor/judge crowd to deliver a trial speaks volumes to his innocence. This is knowledge that seldom evokes faith because this and similar information about the lawyer's system is actively suppressed by the cops, lawyers, prosecutors, judges and media.

I cover this in detail on my site www.jamesbauhaus.org but the bottom line is simply this: There are people who have faith, and there are the people behind the opulent, locked door with the knowledge, information and the playbook. They push the pedals, flip the switches, man the bullhoms and produce the videos. They retouch images, they put fig leaves on statues, they bum books and rewrite history, all from the privacy of their ivory towers. They write the book that the faithful revere. Faith is easy, like a shortcut, which is why the planet is pestilential with the faithful. Knowledge is hard, which is why we see so little of it in the media and in everyday life.

So, which do you prefer? Fast, easy, positive thinking faith, or hard-won knowledge and competence?