EVASION is the willful suspension of one's consciousness.
No, this doesn't mean you fall asleep. It mean's you deliberately UNfocus. Awareness requres focus.
In order to accept a LIE as truth one must practice EVASION.
You cannot detect false information if you fail to pay attention
The How To of evasion:
Bad news? Unfocus your mind and say "No!"
Burdens of responsibility? Induce an inner fog and escape knowing.
The unstated premise that A THING WILL NOT EXIST if only you refuse to identify it is evasion.
What induces evasion?
Unpreparedness. If you are unprepared to face the facts you are doomed to attempt to avoid acknowledging they exist.
How many active JW's are unprepared to face the fact their religion is squandering their time and leading to a futile existence? Fear sets in. How would they cope without some organization to dictate their every move? What would they do without all their "friends" to support them (their so-called brothers and sisters)?
How do JW's evade?
Fellowship
The premise of fellowship is the others give you strength and encouragement and on your own you are weak and selfish. Fellowship is the opposite of self-esteem.
Indoctrination
Reading matter controlled to filter out reality programs the evasive mind to set life's purpose on a future event in order to squander all opportunity for life in the here and now.
Magic-thinking
Spending your thoughts on fantasy and fending off actuality leave no time for analytical purpose destroys your rational process.
Seeking advice from self-appointed authorities
To seek advice you have to regard yourself as incapable of thinking out your solutions to life's problems. Seeking advice means a total stranger who does not live in your shoes is given the magic power to tell you how to live your life for you. This is abandonment of the self and a collapse of personal individuality. The difference between consulting an informed source and seeking advice is this. A consultation will afford you facts that require decisions of action. Seeking advice is turning over the wheel to another driver.
Delay
Procrastination delays the decision that must be made now; the action that must be taken. It is a default decision which is no more than a coin flip. It says "Whatever happens; happens. All things work out for the best. I'll let go and let god..." The difference between a person who is an individual and a slave is the slave must wait for commands.
It is not ORIGINAL SIN which infects mankind. Suspending your mind in an act of abandonment destroys you.
Evasion, blanking-out and avoidance lead to mindless out-sourcing of your thinking to a worthless OTHER.
How many of the 8 million Jehovah's Witnesses in Kingdom Halls have EVADED looking at the facts?
The price they are paying is the sound of the clock ticking as it runs out all the opportunity to own a life worth living.
