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2. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the end of the post for the full meaning and implications of that.
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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Forty-eight =
No Interest in Being Truly Free and Independent
THE MASSES PREFER DEPENDENCY AND CODEPENDENCY AND ATTACHMENT TO THINGS WHICH ROB PERSONS OF THEIR FREEDOM
[Thus, the masses understand neither WHY nor HOW, continued]
My older granddaughter sometimes understands WHY without understanding HOW:
“I am uncomfortable because I am hungry.” That she understands. What she does not understand is HOW, how to prepare a meal to end her hunger.
My younger granddaughter does understand either WHY or HOW.
For example, she does not understand WHY she is sometimes uncomfortable and cries:
Is she hungry? Did she not burp well after her most recent feeding so does she have gas? Is she wet? Is she too hot? Is she too cold? Is she coming down with a virus? Did she scratch her face with a sharp-edged fingernail?
Most of the persons on planet earth - no matter their age - are more like my younger granddaughter, not truly understanding WHY they think what they think, WHY they actually say the things they say, and WHY they do the things they do. Nor do they understanding, really, WHY they often feel the way they feel, WHY they feel the way they feel when people say certain things to them, WHY people say to them what they say, WHY they fear the things they fear, or WHY they desire the things they desire.
Those who are three months old - as is my younger granddaughter - and do not understand the relevant WHY’s and HOW’s in their lives are right on schedule – right where they should be in terms of the level of their understanding.
And some who are my age and in their 70’s, and some who are in their 80’s, are suffering Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia; others in those groups have had a debilitating stroke; large numbers of humans in those groups are, therefore, suffering from a slow decline in memory, in logic, and in reasoning skills.
But what of those persons who are 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 or 60 and who have never understood WHY or HOW and who have never cared enough to find out WHY or HOW?
Some seek in any number of venues and end up being totally convinced that they have found (have found via religion or spirituality or one philosophy or another or one ideology or another) all of the answers which they need to find.
In fact, most among the masses have been fooled and are now continuing to allow themselves to be fooled by others or have taken up the torch and are fooling themselves; therefore, they do not really have even the slightest clue about WHY or HOW . . . about WHY they think what they think and say what they say and do what they do and feel the way they feel or about HOW they became involved in so many self-defeating and self-destructive deals throughout their existence or HOW they became followers early on and then – throughout their lives – often ended up aligned with persons who did not have their best interests at heart.
They have no clue that nothing they have ever thought or ever said or ever did was even remotely a result of making conscious choices because
(1) the masses spend their entire existence accepting blindly and unquestioningly the nonsense and lies told to them by authority figures or friends or relatives, and because
(2) they are lulled into a 24 / 7 unawake, unaware, and unconscious state by way of the universally-ignorant programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination which almost all on the planet are subjected to beginning in childhood and continuing throughout their entire adulthood.
The result: the non-realized masses, no matter their age, do not understand either WHY or HOW. In terms of their level of understanding, they are no different from my three-month-old granddaughter or from those suffering from Alzheimer’s or from some other form of dementia or from a debilitating stroke or from a slow decline in memory, in
logic, and in reasoning skills.
Understand that those . . .
you work with or work for; those you meet in traffic who run into you from behind; those who are running businesses and churches and temples and mosques and governments; those screwing up the orders you place for food or products or anything else; those teaching your children; those supposedly guarding your community; those believing that myths are true and scientific facts are lies; those supposedly providing medical or psychological care; and all of the rest as well, understand about those that . . .
they are totally asleep.
No matter what they are thinking or saying or doing, they are doing it in their sleep.
What a strange and unnatural condition the human condition is, n'est-ce pas?
To be continued.
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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of God in the past was of a weak God, an absentee God, A Santa Claus-type God, a mean, punishing, vindictive God, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring God whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."
The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a God that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring God,' any supposed God that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'God' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.
"That is, a non-narcissistic god / goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'God' and focus on the 'God as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
but are states of mind, nothing more than
concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.
And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?
Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.
The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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