The Mind and the Memory.

Amid the terrible sounds of the Holocaust were people who once experience the freedom of mind and the freedom of conscience, but what drowned out there cries and screams for help was another persons Mind and memory. Can you ask me what it takes to loose your conscious thought of history? Could this have prevented the Holocaust from happening? Could pre war Germany thought been radically changed if it were not for the consciousness of thought and memory? Imagine you are in a room in the middle of winter there is not very much heart, and you are freezing to death, what would be your first instinct? If you were in your right mind your very first instinct would be to survive the feeling of cold. Now a simple question is is it just a feeling or is there more to your survival than just feeling away the cold.

The cold is real, just as much as the feeling but if you want to know the truth everything is real, and part of not seeing or realizing that things are actually happening is that you deny the truth intentionally. Your rational mind would tell you to turn up the heat, but if there is a man standing with a gun to your head and saying if you get out of your bed and turn up the thermostat, he will kill you. So what do you do? Do you freeze to death or do you make an attempt to convince the man that if he doesn't let you turn up the heat he will die as well! But if this man is convinced that he doesn't feel any cold, that he is just fine, you both will die. So your only option at this point is to pray that this man will really see that it is winter outside, feel the cold, and turn up the heat. Then you both will be saved.

When someone forgets that they are living in a free society, take away the home, take away their money, take away their (figuratively speaking) cloth and food and make them "feel the cold" and come to their senses.

this is mike.

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