(04-14-2022, 03:04 PM)Loki Wrote: Someone can be ignorant about something or someone can ignore something.
These are two very different concepts which should not be confused.
Someone can be ignorant and fight like hell for what he understands as freedom. And freedom looks different from each side of the fence. Free will entitles every creature to its own freedom including the one to kill others. Who are we to throw stones? Ra never does.
For me ignorance is not a choice we make it is an adversity we need to overcome because we are born in ignorance. The illusion is the cornerstone of ignorance because it delivers us into separation.
The journey on this Earth is intended to make us escape the ignorance/separation around us and in us.
More we learn to ignore our ego and other people ego more we lose our ignorance, because we can only ignore things we make peace with.
You missed to explain the ignore something in opposition.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignorance Wrote:Definition of ignorance
: the state or fact of being ignorant : lack of knowledge, education, or awareness
Definition of ignorant
1a : destitute of knowledge or education an ignorant society also : lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified parents ignorant of modern mathematics
1b : resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or intelligence ignorant errors
2 : unaware, uninformed
Definition of ignore
transitive verb
1 : to refuse to take notice of
2 : to reject (a bill of indictment) as ungrounded
You are correct that there is a difference.
The word ignorance is definitely ambiguous, in the dictionary it is connected to knowledge and intelligence onesided.
I think in the video the word is used as noun for the verb ignore.
The really difference is very subtle, because someone can ignore something because he has no knowledge about it - that is caused by the "sinkhole of indifference", or he has got the knowledge and is actively ignoring something by choice.
This process of "actively ignoring something by choice" can be caused itself by psychological mechanisms such as cognitive dissonance or the panopticon.