Delusion Feasts Off Lies Like Maggots Feast In Garbage Series

DELUSION FEASTS OFF LIES LIKE MAGGOTS FEAST IN GARBAGE

This is an article on Delusion as I read it right now.

I want to revisit this important subject of delusion mainly because it grows worse, and like a vortex, is sucking more and more people into it.

The end of the Church age is going to see a great increase in deceivers and imposters as promised by God through Paul – {{2Timothy 3:13 “Evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”}} There are two parts to that verse. These people will deceive others because they are deceived themselves. It becomes an ever growing cycle, something like what the old pyramid money schemes were about.

I will be moving to climate change shortly, not because I find delight in attacking it, but it becomes more serious daily. There are all sorts of delusion, so much so, that the people of earth are getting so used to them, half the time they don’t question any details.

We all know about commercial delusion. That is when you buy a packet of something like breakfast cereal in a showy packet but when you open it, the top third of the package is empty. It is made to look good on the outside but has deception on the inside. I do not need to cite a lot of examples. In fact I think we could fill pages with them.

Just one more I will mention in the retail advertising. We get here on television these infomercials screaming out at us about all sorts of fabulous inventions (actually a rehash of something already existing and made in China in a junky way. It never lasts). The way these things are presented, makes you feel you are getting a huge bargain, BUT THERE IS MORE – if you are one of the first 97 callers then you’ll get (another piece of junk) for free. “Yes, the first 97 callers will get (that piece of junk.)” Of course these commercials go on television stations all over the country at all different times and they have no idea of “the first 97 callers.” The people who take up the offer are deluded.

SEPARATING DELUSION AND DECEPTION

There is a very fine difference between delusion and deception, but both of them are spawned from the one who was a liar from the beginning. When people are deliberately tricked they are deceived and have been deluded. One of the very worst plagues the world has at the moment is the Indian scammers, and I doubt if anyone has not been contacted by them. They run scams like the refund scam, and pretend to be with Microsoft, Amazon, Telstra, Norton, Romance, Internet, and whole lot more. Most operate out of Kolkata and Delhi.

Roughly 59.4 million Americans have lost money to phone scams over the past year. Americans lost $29.8 billion to phone scams alone over the past year (from CNBC.com). Also reported in PC Magazine.

“Australians lost a record amount of more than $2 billion to scams in 2021, despite government, law enforcement, and the private sector disrupting more scam activity than ever before,” the ACCC's latest Targeting Scams report reveals.

People are deluded and deceived and sadly the Indian Government does very little about it. Delusion is an octopus with many arms, and scams are but one. We could include evolution, homosexual “love”, and so much of what drives this world today.

When I was a boy in the 1950s, I know that if that sort of delusion was around people would be decrying it. Television stations most likely would not have screened it. How times have changed! People are becoming numb with the insidious delusion that is everywhere. It will get worse because God has said it will get worse!

THE WORLD HAS CHANGED

Something really changed in this world in the past 4 decades. Once everything had to be confirmed and proven. Those days are gone. People get on TV or radio and into magazines and can make the worst of unproven statements and are not challenged over it. Politicians lie and say what they like and there is no media scrutiny except from a couple of pockets of decent journalists. One reason for that is the hard left media these days that refuses to challenge any socialist or socialist agenda.

Delusion is poured out in school curricula and infused in subtle way in all parts of life. It is said that when a frog is in water that is slowly heated up to become hot, it does not notice. I have never done that so I do not know. If it is true, then the frog is being conditioned to its environment. People are being conditioned to the acceptance of a particular system of beliefs and over time come to accept them. Another way to say that is that they are being numbed into pacification. Or maybe just dumbed down.