Force and Belief...

...do not belong in the same phrase. A forced belief is to be categorically rejected due to its discordant premise. A forced belief is one that is imposed upon a select group based upon an inherent, immutable differences. How can anyone be made to believe anything? One believes what one believes; it cannot be any other way. Forcible belief is belief by design, whereas, true believers engage their belief to those experiences incorporate to, and decidedly representative of, their existence.

To dichotomize, some are susceptible to be forced to believe, while others are resistent to being forced to believe. There are those things which people know in fact. Experience underlies these beliefs and is the weighstation of perception. There are the things that one cannot help but believe, however, this is not the same as the imposition of belief upon a select group.

Belief is first based upon what we experience visually, the fastest facet of imagination. The second, being the aural experience. This makes all humans susceptible to the drone of AV media. These lead directly to third, the numerous and impossibly complex feels of the body. While sight and sound can be blocked only in sealing the stream of photoEM and interference waves that constitute those sensory experiences, feelings are the direct product of the mind attemping to make sense causal relations in the corpus. Smell and taste play roles in a secondary part, warning the body of toxicants and attracting us to nourishment, lending two further dimensions to physical experience. Sensory interaction as the sole basis with which to understand the world about us all does not grant us the absolution of total understanding. Instead, we create beliefs about the world, a multicultural means of projecting history into the future, a distinct nature -- as do all other species have their nature we have our human nature.


Religions are naught more than rigid, structured belief systems. They are designed to impose divinity as justification for a system of belief that is not one's own. This is not to denegrate the virtue of religion; history carries valuable lessons in the architecture of all of the world's religions. Whether or not an individual can incorporate the belief structure of a religion is often directly related to the fluidity or rigidity of that structure and its ability to explain the inexplicable. The highly fluid nature of science as a faith-in-numbers design is in stark contrast to the iron-wrought rigidity of Christian fundamentalism or orthodoxy. The conributions of Islamic Arabs to mathematics and science are a testament to admissions of the Muslim faith as to the importance of rational physical understanding within its system. Incorporation of the ideals of religious movement can fast-track human development and understanding; but, doing so without question is the adoption of an exterior belief strucutre denying choice. Imposition of said belief structure implies that choice has been removed -- force and belief.

"A battle for the minds and hearts of [insert "foreign" nation name here]" is a de facto imposition of structured belief, forced belief. That is, at its most basic level, forcing belief is to cause a person to live a lie. Whether in religious discourse or political discourse or international discourse, forced belief is dictum of the powerful.

Thus, the only justified war is a civil or revolutionary war. Wars from within pursue the interests of justice and cultural identity. In the current timeframe, however, exterior factors invariably play a role, influencing and polluting the process by which the desire for change is developped.