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Yesterday:
Fanaticism can often manifest around attachments involving sports, athletes, musicians, actors, etc.; around anything which persons become addicted to; around politics; and around religions and spiritual movements and ideologies and philosophies.
Yeshu'a (Jesus) warned persons about that when he said, "A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways," so when fanaticism manifests, it brings with it duality; dual-mindedness; a tendency to be frenzied; a propensity for ragingly and being furious; attach to places dedicated to attaining power / a Power / Powers which reinforce personas preoccupied with being holy; and, since holy means "different," a propensity to believe that one is different-from-others and better-than-others.
More accurately, when there is a belief in dualities and when there is dual-mindedness, then fanaticism comes. And when fanaticism comes, it is accompanied by a tendency among humans to be frenzied; a propensity for ragingly and being furious; an attachment to places dedicated to attaining power / a Power / Powers which reinforce personas preoccupied with being holy; and, since holy means "different," a propensity to believe that one is different-from-others and better-than-others.
Consider the message revealed via some of the pictures taken during the "Unite the Right Rally" which occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia from August 11th to the 12th, 2017 when protestors who were members of the far-right, white supremacist groups, the alt-right, neo-Confederates, members of the KKK, neo-Nazis, and militias gathered to protest the removal of statues honoring Confederate soldiers who started a war against the U.S. Government - nearly 160 years ago - in an effort to preserve the institution of slavery.
One-hundred and sixty years ago? Yes. That's a long time to be in a frenzied state, but that has been the case, especially in many of the southern states in the U.S. whose ancestors lost the war and lost their supply of near-free labor; that's also a long time to rage and a long time to be furious
and a long time to hold onto the hatred of the government which ended the private sale and ownership of humans; that's also a long time to carry a grudge and a long time to carry around and fly and otherwise display the flag of the Southern, Confederate states that lost that war.
So an accurate explanation of the fanaticism / duality phenomenon is this:
First comes duality and belief systems based in dualistic beliefs; then only comes fanaticism and the chaos and hatred and fighting and anger and rage which manifests alongside fanaticism.
Then comes such acts as driving one's car into a crowd of counter-protestors and killing one and injuring scores,
attacking or killing those who reject the duality-based beliefs of the members of such groups as the far-right, as white supremacists, as the alt-right, as neo-Confederates, as members of the KKK, as neo-Nazis, and as the members of militias who also hate persons who have brown skin; who have black skin; who are not Christians; or who support the government's having brought an end to slavery.
What comes first among frenzied and raging and hate-filled persons is the duality-based belief that one is different from "the other" and therefore better than "those people," and when such duality-based egotism manifests, then of course chaos will come; of course fighting will come, of course killing will comes; and of course raging about a war that ended slavery nearly 160 years ago can come and continue.
That same duality-based arrogance and hatred and rage led to a civil war in the U.S. in which 620,000 people killed each other, and 160 years later, there remain large segments of the U.S. population who are longing for another civil war in which "the South will overthrown the federal government"; in which "the South will rise again"; and in which the new Southern leaders will use the Old Testament as a Constitution, providing the laws which will govern the people of the new nation, including:
killing those of religions which are not the one approved by the state;
stoning to death those whose sexual preference is different from the majority;
persecuting and / or killing those who do not believe that there is a non-human Being in another world who is controlling everything in this world;
putting on trial those who fail to follow the laws of the church (which will run the theocratic government);
killing those who want liberty rather than accepting the bondage imposed by religious or spiritual leaders;
killing those who do not believe in supposedly supernatural causes of what are actually natural events;
persecuting women who do not submit themselves to the rule of their husbands;
etc., etc., etc.
So here is the recipe for disaster which humankind has been mixing up and serving for thousands of years:
Take one part duality-based beliefs; add the preference for separation which that brings (including "America First" and "Down with blacks and browns and yellows" and "White Supremacy forever," etc.); allow that to steep for a while until fanaticism is thoroughly brewed; allow that fanaticism to strengthen; and then kiss peace goodbye.
So it is in the world of duality and personality identifications and fanaticism.
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"
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]
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