HUMAN DARKNESS POLICY
(Pain is Power Policy)
Only when we understand human darkness, will we resolve humanity.
It is a simple fact that if we are to resolve all the issues we have in the world, we will have to resolve all the darkest aspects of humanity that drive them. This leads to a fundamental question that is rarely posed, but is crucial to answer:
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We are taught that all the darkest aspects of humanity, such as murder, rape, torture, violence, psychopathy, and dictatorship, are bad and are to be eliminated in human behaviour. This view has been held by humanity for at least the entire 5000 years of its written history, yet in spite of having this view, throughout all of history, in every society, it has never been achieved, there has always been all forms of human violence and darkness. Human darkness is an omnipresent fact of humanity. Are we going to continue to hope for the next 5000 years, against overwhelming and categoric historical evidence, that we can eliminate these dark aspects of humanity from our basic human nature, or is there another way?
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We believe there is.....
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We want to be absolutely clear, as it is easy to confuse our message in the following discussion: Everyone is God wants to permanently resolve and end all of the violent and antisocial behaviour of humanity. However the way to achieve this can be counterintuitive. We would also like to make clear that when we use the word psychopathy, we mean this in the most general sense, i.e. any behaviour, large or small, where we ignore or fail to be empathetic to someone else's feelings and their position.
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The contradictions in our beliefs:
We are relentlessly taught that darkness is bad and needs to be eliminated, and light is good and we need to keep this, however closer examination will reveal many exceptions to this view, indeed extreme exceptions, we explain as follows:
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We say that violence and psychopathy is bad, however controlled violence and psychopathy is essential in the military. It is impossible for the military to carryout it's ultimate job of going to war to defend a country, without it using psychopathy and controlled violence. The military have had to carryout research in order to establish how to train people to become psychopathic, and be willing to kill others. When the military uses this training in defence and peace keeping, we naturally hold these brave people in high esteem, decorate them with medals, and regard them as heroes. Few say (in the case of defence and peacekeeping) that the violence and psychopathy they carried out was wrong and should be eliminated, on the contrary it is considered one of the highest acts a human can carry out. Does there seem to be a contradiction here between our views about psychopathy, and the functioning of the military?
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Psychopathy is the failure to consider or be empathetic to someone's feelings, and it might seem that it is always a bad thing therefore. However, many careers absolutely require psychopathy in order to function effectively. For example doctors and nurses have to be prepared to cause (minimised) pain to their patients, it is simply impossible for them to carryout their profession if they are not prepared to cause any pain, this requires a degree of psychopathy. Anyone who has any role of discipline, authority, or reprimand, again has to be prepared to cause discomfort or pain to others, this again requires a degree of psychopathy. For example nearly every society believes in and uses prison. So in all these cases, which are throughout all of society, psychopathy is functional, required, and therefore is it not a good thing?
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We say that dictatorship is a bad thing, but if we examine the way governance works, it extensively relies upon dictatorship, even in a liberal democracy. This may sound a contradiction, but what we mean is simply that in order for any individual or group to act as leader and govern, they must have power, and dictate what people do within the scope of that power. If they do not do this then they have no power, and cannot lead effectively. To be absolutely clear what we mean by dictatorship here is the process of telling others what they must do, and having the power to ensure that they do this whether they like it or not. This process is the basis of all systems of law and order in the running of any country, as it is unrealistic to expect that everyone will agree on everything, and that everyone will follow all the rules all the time. Therefore it becomes a simple fact that any form of government will, to a lesser or greater extent have to dictate, they will have to tell at least some people that they are going to have to do some things they do not want to do, and face the consequences if they do not. This is dictating, another name for it is authority, and it is absolutely necessary and unavoidable in any civilized society. We do wish to make it clear that the more effective a leader is, the less they will have to dictate, as they will have simple and correct policies and law, and will explain clearly why they are so, in such a way that people will understand, agree, and be happy to follow them. Clearly there is a difference between balanced dictating, when it is necessary for law and order as we have described here, and ruthless dictatorship, and we wish to stress it is the former in its minimised form that we strive for. A key point here, is that for any individual to be an effective and balanced leader, they will have to have dictatorship within their psychology, by this we mean that they will have to be comfortable with dictating, and be happy to do it in a appropriate way. If they do not have this aspect in their psychology, they will fail to keep law and order as a result. We see many examples in the news of the consequences of people being in positions of responsibility and failing to deal with unsociable or criminal behaviour, because they are not authoritative enough, and avoid confrontation.
We say that rape is bad and should be eliminated, we agree with this, however rape fantasy is common and many men and women act this out in their sexual practice to varying extremes, and find it enjoyable and fulfilling. When fantasies are carried out amongst consenting adults with correct and safe boundaries, they become functional expressions of human behaviour. For these people, not being able to carryout this practice would be detrimental to their well being. We believe this desire in humans is far more prevalent and much deeper than people think. Exactly the same is found with torture, and many people engage in torture, slavery, and humiliation in their sexual practice (BDSM). Again this goes to a full range of extremes.
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We say rape and murder are bad, yet we use these as standard and accepted techniques, on a mass scale, in our animal farming across the planet, where we force breed animals, and then slaughter them for food.
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We say violence is bad, but yet we play violent sports such as rugby, American football, and many combat sports, and we watch this as entertainment. We watch racing cars going round a track, and have the thrill of seeing them crash. Our films, television, and all media is dominated by all forms of violence and darkness, we have an obsession with it, and constantly use it for our entertainment and pleasure. How many films include some form of violence, and how many people like watching horror movies? Our news is dominated by bad news, good news is always a very small proportion of what we choose to watch.
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We say destructive behaviour is bad and should be eliminated, however it is a straightforward fact that before we are to create anything, destruction is required. Common widescale examples of this are eating which always requires the destruction of plants or animals, building and manufacturing, which requires some form of destruction of materials, and changes in consciousness and behaviour, which require the destruction of old ideas first. Destruction is usually considered dark or unwanted, but yet again it is an integral part of life that cannot be avoided.
It would seem that humanity has a fundamental attraction to all forms of darkness, but few seem to ask why? This attraction, although strong and ubiquitous, is generally accepted and happens with little comment from people; for example do we ask why our news is so extremely dominated by bad news, and why we want to watch so little good news? ​It would seem the ideas we have about human darkness are very conflicted, on the one had we continually say it is bad and should be eliminated, but on the other hand we constantly use it in all our professions, quite often regard it as the highest act, use it to produce all our meat, relentlessly entertain ourselves with it, enjoy it, and freely engage in it? It is possibly the greatest contradiction we have in all human belief and understanding of ourselves, and therefore possibly one of the most destructive also. Where there is conflict, there is always falsehood, so what belief is it that we have which is incorrect?
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What Everyone is God believes:
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We believe the entirety of human history, and our desires, tells us that we will never be able to eliminate human darkness, it is an integral part of humanity that can never be taken away.
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Within the phycology of all people, is all aspects of human darkness, each to a lesser or greater extent, and it is essential that it is there as without these dark aspects, human life simply could not exist in a functional way. This is because darkness is require to carryout any aspect of human life as described above. To eat we have to destroy plants, animals, and the natural habitat that will become farm land, to house ourselves we have to destroy natural resources first for materials, to have medical care we need psychopathy, and to have a civilised society we need the balanced use of dictatorship AKA authority.
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It is a physical fact that if something is to exist, it is exactly half dark and half light. For every positive number, there is exactly one negative number, for every part of the earth that is in light, there is a part that is in dark, for hot there is cold, for up there is down, for left there is right, and for dark there is light. All humans are exactly half dark and half light.
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So how do we solve the contradiction?
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We believe it is simple; we cannot change basic human nature, but we can change our understanding of it and they way we express it. We need to abandon the hope of eliminating human darkness (as it is impossible), and instead encourage the full and functional understanding and expression of it. Again we stress that we are not suggesting that we all murder and rape, we are suggesting the opposite of this, that we properly resolve these things. The more we try and supress human darkness, the more it will continue to manifest in all the dysfunctional ways we do not want, and continually see throughout our history. Supress human darkness and it will become war, violence, rape, murder, torture etc. The more we understand it, how to use it functionally, and how to enjoy it, the more it will manifest in functional ways, examples of which are such as those mentioned above, along with many others.​
We believe, based on our research, the most fundamental and important way human darkness (and lightness) is expressed functionally, is sexually, if we get this right everything else tends to work out much better. This requires a deep understanding of human behaviour, it is because as far as our psychology is concerned, sex, love, and wellbeing are the same thing and at the root of our psychology. Therefore a balanced expression of light and dark in our sexual activity, is deeply grounding, balancing, and healing for everyone. If we fail to understand and encourage the balanced sexual expression of darkness we will never solve the issues we have.
To explain the extent of our view, for example we believe all the ruthless dictators, both current and historic, would never have dictated had they been fully sexually satisfied. At this moment, Putin would not be invading the Ukraine, if he was fully sexually satisfied. We understand that many may find this a strange idea, but we very briefly wish to try and explain. Dictators are famous for have disturbed and unbalanced upbringings, in which they did not have loving stable parenting. It is well known in psychology that the love and physical contact that children receive becomes the basis and model for their adult romantic and sexual relationships. People who have loving, stable, tactile, upbringings go on to have balanced, loving, relationships in adulthood, people who do not have love and physical contact in their childhood, are much less likely to feel love in their adulthood, and more likely to dictate. It is this that is the root and driver of all their dictatorship. Fully functional sex and romantic life reduces or even eliminates the possibility or being extremely psychopathic and ruthlessly dictating, as such sex is possibly the fullest measure of how balanced and content we are in our lives.
As we have said, within the phycology of all people, is all aspects of human darkness, and each one of those aspects when used in a balanced way, has essential uses throughout all of human life, so there are many ways in which darkness can be used and expressed functionally, some examples of which are as follows:
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All forms of dark sexual practice such as, power play, age play, sadomasochism, humiliation.
The military.
Any professional role of discipline, authority, or reprimand.
Any sport, but particularly, extreme, adrenaline, endurance, contact, and combat sports.
Adventure such as mountaineering, polar exploration, sailing, etc.
Challenge, such as business challenge and risk taking, mental challenge and testing, physical & emotional challenge.
Dark humour.
Entertainment which includes any form of darkness.
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The pain is the power.
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Another important understanding regarding human darkness, is that all the pain and suffering we experience deepens us, and the entire experience of life. Without darkness and pain, our experience, understanding, and appreciation of anything is superficial at best. Once we have processed a particular experience of darkness and/or pain, experience becomes much deeper and richer. There are countless examples of this, many people are inspired by personal suffering to great achievement and fulfilment. Again we wish to be clear that we are not suggesting that we should seek experiences of crime or suffering, or regard them as good things that should happen. We are simply saying that when they do happen we have a choice about how we perceive and react to them. Some famous examples of people who have turned their pain into a positive force in their life are Nelson Mandela who spent 27 years in prison, and Opera Winfrey who experienced sexual abuse in her childhood. Winston Churchill suffered from depression (or manic depression), and referred to it as his 'black dog'; would he have had the strength to lead the British people against Hitler had he not learnt how to hold this pain within himself? Although we are not a Christian or a religious party, possibly the most famous example is Jesus Christ who was crucified for the sins of humans.
The opposite experience is that there are also many people who feel broken by something dark that happened in their life, it could be something inside of them, such as mental health issues, difficult events in their external life, or both. The key difference between the two is their perspective on darkness. Is it perceived as something to be avoided and eliminated, or is it seen as an experience that although extremely painful at times, ultimately has value; many have said what does not break you makes you stronger? The former perspective always leads to being a victim and feeling broken, whereas the latter leads to a feeling of empowerment and fulfilment. It is a core policy of ours to always encourage the latter response, and extensively teach exactly how to achieve this throughout all of education and society.
I personally have experienced much pain in my life, I experienced almost continual depression and anxiety from the age of around 9 to 40, and for much of this period it went to the extreme. However one of the things I have learnt is that I am not that different to anyone else, everyone has pain, and everyone has to learn how to hold and unlock the power of their pain, if they wish to fulfil themselves. Much of my life coaching work is spent helping clients turn their pain into their power. Everyone is God passionately believes that although we should never seek pain, our pain is our power, indeed those who have experienced great darkness and pain, have the potential to access an equally great power within themselves and their life. The education of this understanding is crucial if we are to resolve our human nature, and fix the problems we have on this planet.
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Summary of our policy:
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We believe that the hope that we will eliminate human darkness, is one of the biggest misconception we have ever had, and in this sense therefore is one of the most limiting ideas we have. It is an idea that paralyses all attempts to resolve our core, light and dark, human nature and the problems it creates; as humans we will never solve anything by going against our basic nature, and hoping or trying to be something that we clearly are not.
Our policy is very simple, there are four parts to it:
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Change our fundamental paradigm around darkness and see it as an essential and functional part of humanity and life.
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Education: provide education, at all ages, to understand human darkness, and how to use and express it functionally.
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Education: provide education, at all ages, to understand that pain and suffering is a gift, and how to unlock the power of it.
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Construct our society, and all our social/political/managerial systems, to encourage a deep understanding and functional use and expression of human darkness.
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Supporting policies.
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Witten by Marcus white © 2024, updated 27-4-2024.
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