avatarAlexandros Roumpos

Summary

The article discusses the concept of thoughts as the most destructive virus, surpassing even the impact of COVID-19.

Abstract

The text argues that the most harmful virus affecting humanity is not a biological entity like COVID-19, but rather the intangible virus of thought. It describes thoughts as structured entities that, while not chemical in nature, are capable of infecting individuals and spreading through communication, influencing behavior and ideologies. The author posits that negative thoughts can lead to detrimental actions and beliefs, such as racism, war, bullying, and indifference to global injustices. These thoughts are seen as more dangerous than biological viruses because they can alter human behavior and values, resulting in widespread harm and destruction.

Opinions

  • Thoughts are considered more dangerous than biological viruses due to their ability to influence actions and ideologies.
  • The author believes that negative thoughts can lead to harmful behaviors, including violence and discrimination.
  • Ideological movements, such as racism and fundamentalism, are seen as manifestations of this "thought virus."
  • The article suggests that society often overlooks the destructive potential of thoughts, despite their profound impact on the world.
  • The author emphasizes the importance of being aware of one's thoughts, as they are the precursors to actions that can have either constructive or destructive consequences.

The worst virus

No, it is not COVID-19

Virus, Photo by CDC on Unsplash

So you think that COVID 19 is the worst virus that exists. It couldn’t be a worse disease that spread among the people and infects the majority of them. Let me tell you that such a disease exists and is a kind of virus, a little bit different than the ones we are used, but more sneaky and more infections. It is a really dangerous one because you couldn’t easily diagnose and even harder to cure. I bet I have triggered your interest? Right? Before I reveal to you the most distractive virus, that is on our planet for centuries, we must first agree on what a virus is.

A virus is a structured chemical bond that can infect living beings. It needs other living beings so that they can exist and live. It has a mechanism to spread and infect more living beings, doubling his self. According to how dangerous a virus is, it has the ability to even kill his host. Even if death does not occur the host loses some of his energy and functionality, making him live not on his full potential.

Let me introduce to you the number one disease that has been around for centuries and has cost millions of lives and has made other millions lives terrible. The number one distractive virus is the thought. Yes, you heard right, the thought is the most dangerous virus — diseases. Before you start to disagree with me, give me a moment to explain. Saying a thought a mean from a single word that represents a meaning, until a more complex sentence containing more words, that could be an ideological movement or even a religious.

Let see if a thought meets the rules we mentioned above. It is a structured thing, maybe it doesn’t have chemical bonds but it is created in our brains, where a lot of neurons connection are triggered and a lot of chemical substances are released in our body. A thought without a living person stops to exist. It has a mechanism to infect others because we tend to express our thoughts. Ones you have heard something, it lives in you.

Now you will ask me how can a thought harms you. Because it is current, take for example racism. It is an ideological movement that drives people to harm other people, even to kill them. You want another example. War. Τhe idea behind war and all the reasons that are coded in words and transmitted in such a way that makes people kill each other. One of the most stupid and disgusting actions human beings can do.

I will tell you more till you got to my point. Bullying in schools where young children are using violence to there classmates. Fundamentalists from some religions go so extreme finding normal to come to the point to kill others. Most of us, in the social west community’s, we come to the point, don’t give a dame fuck about what our governments does to the countries of the third world. We behave so because through a lot of verbal and not communication, we have shifted our beliefs and our values to the point we don’t care.

All the above doesn’t happen because it is mentioned to happen. The virus of the bad thoughts is infected us and from the moment we get infected we reproduce the same thoughts and transmitted to the people around us. That is the most deadly virus that exists and even if we (the majority of us) don’t see it this way, it doesn’t mean it is not soo.

Every action that humans do, starts first with a thought. These thoughts when good are blessing the world and the menkind. When bad, they drive us to do terrible things with destructive consequences. Be aware of your thoughts because they are the starting point of your actions and they can make the difference.

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