BAD PEOPLE There is no such thing as bad (or good) people. It's not like this stuff is growing on trees. There are only people, period. And they say things. People, after all, are talking animals. Whatever they say is bad is bad. If all the people said that adultery was a good thing, it would be just that, a good thing. If they said it was bad (which they do), it would be bad (and it is, but only because they say it is). There is no such thing as badness just sitting out there, somewhere in the wilderness, which we just happen to come across and recognize as bad. It is nothing but an idea produced inside the group mind (produced as the result of using words). Badness is not a natural thing. It is a social thing. All groups have a mind of their own. As a matter of fact, an argument could be made that the group mind is really the only mind. Mind emerges, or emanates, from the use of language, and language is social. Do you think you have your own mind? If so, how? Whatever words you might use to describe your mind would be words you received from the group you came from, the family you were born into. You learned how to use words because that family gave them to you. And all the members of that family received them in the same way. There is no such thing as a personal language. They are all purely social dynamics. Words are things you exchange with someone else, things that you volley back and forth with other people. It's true, you may talk to yourself if you wish, but not unless someone else (someone not you) had previously given you the words. It is very likely that the group will describe anyone who is outside its boundaries (like a maverick or loner) as a bad person. This does not mean that the outsider truly is the thing that the group is calling him (or her). You see, the group makes up its own definitions. The group says what a bad person (or anything) is. The group thereby implies that it has knowledge of these things. But it doesn't. The group has no knowledge at all. It only has feelings. And the feelings have a way of descending upon the members like a miasmic gas, making the members think that the feelings are theirs (as individuals). One of the feelings it has is that of dying, of being somehow destroyed. It feels threatened by anything that is outside of itself. Sometimes it feels so threatened that it puts the outsiders in a box to make sure they can't harm the group. The group creates all the definitions that support its actions. It believes very strongly in itself and all that it does. It believes in its contrived definitions, and seems totally oblivious to the fact that it is only speaking of its own feelings whenever it creates them. It has no idea of how meaningless self referencing is. The group is saying (making an irrational claim) that it (the group) is a good and worthy thing and the rightful judge of what is right and wrong. It believes so deeply that its ideas are right that it has concocted the notion that they came from a powerful inexorable force acting outside itself, an invisible force that no one has ever seen. They refer to the imaginary force as God. They claim that God instructed certain of its ancient members to write the rules down so that future groups could always have them for guidance. The group is highly delusional. It even goes so far as to claim that it has some sort of meaning. It is only the group of course saying this (apparently oblivious to the fact that it made up the word meaning too), yet again referring to itself. It does not seem capable of seeing through the fog of self referencing. The group refuses to believe, and is therefore in complete denial over the fact, that if it were to completely disappear no one would miss it. The group is a blind force, filled with its own ideas, which it fiercely, and irrationally, believes in. Its blindness prevents it from seeing that the outsiders have been created by its own blindness. The outsiders are outsiders because the group, in the madness of its blind groping and insensitive maneuvering, has somehow forced them outside.
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