What LIES Do You Beleive About Yourself?

Thaddeus Blackshear
4 min readDec 11, 2020

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How Heroes Can Easily Be “Tricked” Into Becoming The Villain.

Is this saying really true?

Just as it is impossible to go through life without being hurt or hurting others for so is the purposeful, perfectly, imperfect condition of human nature.

It is just as impossible to go through life without making enemies. For all things are spiritual and even to the initiated your enemy often doesn’t come at you in easily discernable ways.

And in most cases will come at you through the very people you encounter in your day-to-day lives.

People who are friends or loved ones can easily be seduced into hating you or secretly wishing your failure and ruin while smiling in your face.

But It is my firm belief that we only ever have one singular enemy.

And he is crafty and deceitful, he is the negative voice that chips away at your self-esteem little by little day after day.

It is the voice of endless contradictions, hyperbole, guilt, and irrational fears.

The same voice that tells you to believe a thing is true and later comes back and tells you not to believe it.

It’s the voice that convinces you that certain weapons of warfare spiritual or otherwise are evil, while actively sharpening and using those very same weapons against you every single day of your life. Including the very books, you’ve been told to read and have blind faith in without question.

But all learning, correction, and growth start with a question don’t they? So then how can seeking to understand what you can’t comprehend now or currently see no reason in, be incorrect?

If you’re Christian you’ve literally been taught not to fight fire with fire and turn the other cheek. The misnomer is to believe this applies in every circumstance because it doesn’t.

There is a time to turn the other cheek and a time to pick up your sword, if for no other reason than to defend yourself against an enemy whose voice has the ability to deceive, infect, and influence so many.

It’s the same voice of discontentment, depression, and sadness. The voice of arrogance and narcissism that leads you to believe you are better than everybody else and deserve more. While being the same voice in the minds of others that tell you to hate those who have more when you have so little.

And through cognitive dissonance plies you with Fear (False Evidence, Appearing, Real) to serve as proof of the lies he himself told you.

Why? So that you come to a false conclusion and believe the lies he told about you.

Simply put, you don’t convince someone of a thing by telling them to believe it. You convince them by exploiting their wants, needs, and fears while giving them enough pseudo-evidence so that they come to the conclusion you want them to have.

Always remember people may doubt what they hear but it’s almost impossible to get them to doubt what they conclude on their own.

Even if what they conclude is a complete lie.

But to what end does convincing you to have wrong thoughts about yourself serve?

Why does it seem like there is so much evil in the world? Why is it you hear the good guys don’t always win or the nice guys seem to finish last more than anything?

It’s simple, the easiest way to stop any would-be hero or heroine from disrupting the status quo is the turn them into the very villainy they were born to oppose in the first place.

Your true enemy essentially makes any potential dissenters impotent and ineffective through the simple use of installing false beliefs in your mind.

There are things that are incontrovertibly wrong just as there are things that are incontrovertibly right or axiomatic. And everything else is left to interpretation.

And if you don’t have a well-defined interpretation of the things you believe about any subject including the subject of yourself. Then you are open to believing whatever you are told.

Discernment means following logic and reason to its most obvious conclusion. And if logic and reason can’t support a thing you believe then it is your job to question it and ask why.

Forget the lies you’ve been told and begin remembering who you are. The only thing you ever could be. A living embodiment of life itself, you are a miracle… if you believe nothing else, BELIEVE THAT!

The bad guys don’t always have to win, the nice guys don’t always have to finish last, and you don’t need to become a martyr to remain a hero.

Because in truth the only way to ever truly ever become the Villain, is to be convinced that you have no other choice. This in and of itself is a contradiction, because the truth is we always have a choice.

We can believe the truth or we can believe the lie. Either way, the choice is always yours.

Expressed Soliloquy # I’m just tired of all the hypocrisy and fighting over lies, specious narratives, and conspiracy theories. This piece is my retort.

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Thaddeus Blackshear
Thaddeus Blackshear

Written by Thaddeus Blackshear

Copywriter since 2009, eternal pragmatist, and instinctive natural observer of this thing we call life.

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