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3. 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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To owe an institution money without feeling any need at all to give their money back to them reveals a rather sociopathic mindset. The same applies if a person or persons are owed money without any intention of giving it back to them.
Now admittedly, mindset and money and debt and repayment are all relative issues, yet the refusal to care about restitution, reimbursement, repayment, and compensation are linked to religious and spiritual conditioning. Really? How? We'll see.
Sure, among the 14 million Jews and the 2.4 billion Christians, there is some attention paid to a "commandment" which say "Thou shalt not steal." The remainder among the 97% on planet earth who claim a religious affiliation also hear some talk about not stealing as well.
Also, there's talk about asking for forgiveness and of apologizing to God for having strayed from the path he / she / it expects one to follow.
Yet while there is talk about what not to do, there is nothing mention in the key "Commandments" about what one should do, such as returning whatever has been stolen or paying back whatever is owed.
Almost all acts of colonialism (that is, the act of invading others lands and enslaving the people and stealing their resources) has historically been done by the people in nations who have claimed or still claim to be religious and godly.
The leaders in such invading nations respond to criticism of their acts of colonialism by explaining that "the people in all those lands are better off for having been exposed to our laws and rules and regulations and values and economic system and our system of government. They should actually thank us."
So what is the religious link to the refusal to care about restitution, reimbursement, repayment, and compensation? There is a belief system passed along via religious and conditioning which offers a huge emphasis on confessing and apologizing but offers little emphasis to repayment.
When the armies of God's supposedly "chosen people" wiped out their enemies and collected the spoils of war (thanks to their God, supposedly) there was never any order eventually to give back the spoils.
What is valued among the religious, therefore, is confessing one's wrongdoings to God and asking for forgiveness. Why? Usually to con God so that, post-manifestation, those persons [think they] will be "in favor with God" and, therefore, will receive eternal rewards rather than eternal punishment. If they were not running another scam, this time with God, they would not just say they were sorry but would actually give back the money or things they took.
Over a billion Christians are regularly told by their leaders, "So you cheated on your spouse and you stole from your employer? Okay. Say ten 'Hail Marys' for each. Now go and sin no more."
What is missing is? (1) "Per God's Commandments, return to the employer all that you stole, with interest" and (2) "As for cheating on your spouse, who knows? You may never be able to correct the potential damage. We'll see what comes of that. Sucks, huh?" and (3) "Per God's Commandments, don't come back until you can tell me what arrangements you've made to make full restitution, reimbursement, repayment, and compensation."
See? Number 3 is never a part of The Commandments and is never a part of the leaders' demands.
So, via very warped conditioning, the belief becomes, "I'll apologize, I'll say I'm sorry, but as for making restitution, reimbursement, repayment, and compensation, hell I can't afford to do that and no one here is going to make sure I do."
Thus, the religious link to valuing confession or apologizing is linked to supposedly eternal benefits which can come from those actions,
but
giving little or no value to restitution, reimbursement, repayment, and compensation is a product of religious conditioning which emphasizes the former and almost totally neglects the latter.
The tithing / receiving rewards connection is regularly taught and reinforced. (Per some "holy" texts, God will reward people for religious tithing.)
Moreover, what humans truly care about is revealed by what they spend their money on: tithing, trying to escape or cope with booze or drugs or other addictive habits, sex, sports, politicians, military forces and armaments, ad infinitum. Trillions of dollars are spent on those things annually, all of which amount to an attempt in the long run to garner power and control.
By comparison, how much is spent willingly each year on restitution, reimbursement, repayment, and compensation? Not too much.
Fanaticism about power and control and self are paramount. Being fanatical about restitution, reimbursement, repayment, and compensation? Not so much.
Want to apologize for things said and done? Stuff it. Want to give back all the money you took? Hand it over, now.
Relative? Yes, which is all any of us have for now. As for what might be had "later," don't sweat that. No one has ever survived the manifestation and been able to have anything . . . neither reward nor punishment. There is only NOW.
Maharaj: " A thing focussed in the now is with me, for I am ever present; it is my own reality that I impart to the present event"
and
"Past and future are in the mind only — I am now."
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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