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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Forty-three =
Having a Propensity for Magical, Supernatural, Unquestioned Beliefs
MAGICAL, SUPERNATURAL, UNQUESTIONED BELIEFS
To review:
Some of the consequences of being programmed and conditioned to think magically / supernaturally / religiously / spiritually - that is, to believe the myths and superstitions and lies that one is told without ever questioning their validity or lack thereof – were shared:
Being fooled; used; hoodwinked; duped; conned; deceived; and bamboozled.
And the result of being fooled, used, hoodwinked, duped, conned, deceived and bamboozled?
Constantly being disturbed, angry, enraged, infuriated, and incensed, as in . . .
In recent years, would-be tyrants, in order to consolidate their power, have used . . .
the feeding of their enemies to 120 hungry hounds,
lethal injections,
beheadings,
firing squads,
firing antiaircraft machine guns and rockets into bodies at close range,
and
a host of other barbaric ways to slaughter those they fear or those who stand in their way.
Those in nations where democracy has not yet been totally obliterated often must be more subtle in the beginning, starting out by undermining among their followers such institutions as the free press, resulting in an uninformed populous;
undermining other investigatory organizations; the judiciary; the nation’s department of justice or whatever its counterpart is called in various countries; minority religions . . . and eventually all religions as well as all opposition parties or groups.
What is required for such tyrants to eventually take total control?
As uninformed populous as mentioned above;
the fomenting of anger and rage by use of propaganda and demagogy and lies;
the widespread manifestation of the symptoms which Maharaj said come with the Ultimate Sickness, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”;
and
a population which has been subjected to generations of ignorant, stupid, and insane programming, conditioning, etc.
In other words, more “suckers” in the population than “non-suckers” are required.
A phrase attributed to P. T. Barnum (though there is no proof he actually came up with that quote) is this: "There’s a sucker born every minute.” Of course that is not true.
More accurately, what can be said is that there are thousands upon thousands of suckers being made every second as the non-realized masses are programming and conditioning their children first and then a population of adults later and leading them to develop the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness. The result?
The programmed and conditioned masses end up being suckers who, throughout their entire relative existence, will be driven unconsciously by ignorance, stupidity, and insanity - all leading to a lack of peace and to entrapment in chaos and anger and even rage.
And what sets the masses up to buy into the nonsense they hear from authority figures?
Ninety-seven percent claim to be affiliated with one organized religion or another, so ninety-seven percent are being programmed and conditioned to believe without any questioning at all anything and everything that they are told, no matter how outrageous and unbelievable the tale is.
That is, of course, totally unnatural. Children, upon first hearing the BS offered in such venues, do naturally and automatically question:
“No way!”
“You’ve got to be kidding, right?!”
“That’s impossible!”
But the absence of blind faith in children is soon scared or beaten out of them, and they eventually “fall in line” with the “company line / lie” which is being repeated over and over to them and to the adults around them.
The result of that? A global population that has been taught to think magically / supernaturally / religiously / spiritually and to be totally out of touch with reality and logic and truth and rationality and their original tendency to question authority and outrageous claims and absurd tales.
Again, Maharaj made clear that fools are those who accept “learned ignorance” without ever questioning it.
What an insane state of affairs on planet earth, yes?
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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