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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 Fourteen-
An Acute Borderline Personality Disorder
Some personality disorders are rooted in other "Personality-Disorders-Gone-Wild." For example, the Narcissistic Personality Disorder generates enough chaos and misery by itself, but in the case of the Sociopathic Personality Disorder and the Psychopathic Personality Disorder, narcissism can "go wild" and "supercharge" the Sociopathic Personality Disorder and the Psychopathic Personality Disorder in what could be termed for the sake of discussion "a cancerous mental growth called 'malignant narcissism'."
Malignant narcissism is similar to a neuroendocrine tumor which is a fast-growing cancer. Malignant tumors develop from cancer cells and they usually grow faster than other types.
Similarly, unchecked malignant narcissism can spread like cancer and infect a mind which is already plagued with one degree or another of the Sociopathic Personality Disorder and the Psychopathic Personality Disorder.
Thereafter, malignant narcissism can aggravate the severity of those two disorders to the degree that affected persons become "God-like" in their minds and think that they should be in charge of the universe and space and time and people and places and should have the right to destroy any and all who do not meet their expectations and who do not succumb to their desire to control and dominate completely.
However, in a different case, it is duality-based thoughts, words, and actions which drive those with the Borderline Personality Disorder to exhibit some of the most extreme evidence of a mind warped by dualistic influences.
The very title of Dr. Jerold J. Kreisman's book on borderline types captures the essence of the unstable nature of those with that disorder:
I Hate You-Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality.
While it may take a matter of months or years for certain persons in a relationship who start out believing "I love my partner" to shift to the opposite belief that "I hate my partner," many borderline types can make such shifts - back and forth - in a matter of days or hours.
In one marriage which was facing more challenges than seemed to be surmountable, one man described how elated he was when his wife came to him one evening around 10 P.M., stopped right in front of him, held his face in her hands, pulled him to her, kissed him passionately, and told him, "Everything with us is going to be alright."
At 10 A.M. the next morning while on his first break at work, he called her and said how her words from the night before were so appreciated. Her reply: "Well forget them. I'm leaving you today," and she did.
Now he had long known that she had a Borderline Personality Disorder, confiding for years that he never knew when he opened the door to their home at the end of each day whether he would be greeted by "Mrs. Hug" or "Mrs. Slug."
In every aspect of their relationship, he had said, "She runs hot one day and cold the next, or hot one moment and cold the next."
Talk about duality.
As visitors here are aware, Yeshu'a ("Jesus") is reported to have said: "A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways." Such is the case with persons all around the globe, but those who are Borderline exhibit greater levels of instability than most.
As a broader example, consider the U.S. which has long been considered a Personality Type Three nation - the type driven by narcissism which can experience psychic disintegration and produce more than typical numbers of sociopaths and psychopaths.
Now on one hand, those types have talked in the past about this being "the Greatest Country on the Planet." Many here still do. But at other times, they expressed their hatred of a nation being headed up by the same federal government which took away their ancestors' slaves and made their cotton plantations far less profitable.
Driven by their duality-inspired Borderline Disorder, they look back to "the good ole days when American was great" (meaning, the days when the nation was mostly white and nationalistic and xenophobic and the federal government was something to be despised). Those types can, in their Borderline, dualistic fashion, agree with former politicians who told them that they were living in the Greatest Country on Earth but can then agree with current politicians who tell them it is not the Greatest Country on Earth but that they are going to make it great again, just as it was during the good ole days.
Of course, the good old days were white-dominated days, so to make the country great again requires eliminating the changes which have diluted their (white) numbers by an influx on non-whites.
So consider what has happened in the U.S. in the last seven days:
1. A right-wing fanatic - inspired by a right-wing leader who is trying to reverse the demographic changes - sent bombs to "left-wing persons" who are hated by the the extremists on the right;
2. Another right-wing fanatic armed himself with a gun and tried to enter an African-American church. When the doors were locked, he went to a nearby grocery and killed two blacks;
3. Another right-wing fanatic - convinced by the movement's leaders that "Jews are leading and financing an invasion of this country by minorities" - loaded his AR-15-style assault rifle, strapped on three pistols, entered a synagogue, and gunned down eleven Jewish people. These are the people who were leading an invasion and threatening the very existence of the U.S.?
Yes, best to have been on alert if the 84-year old grandmother above and her
97-year old criminal sidekick happened to be approaching you. Definitely
better to cross to the other side of the street from this whole dangerous crowd,
right?
Meanwhile another 350+ people were gunned down across the nation in that same seven days. It is not uncommon in the U.S. for more than 33,000 people to be killed by guns each year. How commonplace has it become and how blasé have people become about the shootings?
4. Yesterday, a North Carolina school announced that classes would proceed just hours after a student was shot and killed by another student on campus.
As Lawrence O'Donnell has pointed out, if a would-be mass murderer walks into a religious edifice, a movie theater, a kindergarten school, a middle school, a high school, a college or anywhere else in the U.S., the politicians and the National Rifle Association will have already assured that he or she will be "the best-equipped mass murderer anywhere in the world."
Yet in every case, after the press seeks out those who knew the mass murderer for years, someone will report, "He was the kindest man you'd ever meet" or "He was a loving father and loving spouse and loving grandfather. I just don't believe he did that."
See? Capable of "loving" and "hating" simultaneously; that is, capable of loving some but capable of hating those "others" at the same time.
On a planet where only a few are realized and freed from being driven by duality, we are all living with Borderline types. Some are in the same state as you, some are in the same city as you, some are in the same neighborhood as you, some are under the same roof as you, and some are sleeping with you.
The widespread, dual-minded-based instability which Yeshu'a mentioned now prevails globally as the Ultimate Sickness and its cousin - the Borderline Personality Disorder - assure that chaos abounds.
Meanwhile, "the Rumpelstiltskin Rule" applies:
In that tale, a magical goblin says that only if a parent can guess his name can the parent's child not be killed.
Similarly, if one cannot put a name to whatever it is in the relative existence which is putting one at a relative disadvantage and generating pain and suffering, then the pain and suffering shall not be averted.
The names to know for today? Among others, "the Ultimate Sickness" and "the Borderline Personality Disorder."
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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