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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 Fifty-nine =
No Interest in Being Truly Free and Independent
THE MASSES PREFER DEPENDENCY AND CODEPENDENCY AND ATTACHMENT TO THE THINGS WHICH ROB PERSONS OF THEIR FREEDOM
The reason that throughout the ages so many among the few that were wise have sounded the alarm regarding personality identification is that assumed roles never show up alone and in a vacuum.
Like a mob boss (or the political equivalent, namely, a nation’s president or prime minister or king) they show up with a huge retinue including an entourage of advisers, attendants, guards, hangers-on, gofers, spokespersons, etc.
Like mob bosses, presidents, etc., personal identities / roles / personalities / stage characters / personas / guises / facades / fronts / faces - call them what you will - ego-states show up with an army.
They each have a basic desire and a basic fear - both of which are assured to guarantee the manifestation of misery and suffering - and they each bring an army of defenders and guards.
Among those defenders and guards of ego-states are belief systems which results from fallacies that - throughout the relative existence - generate “character defects” or “personality traits and personality disorders” and bizarre behaviors.
Those include abandoning discussion, appeal to pity, personal attack, demands for special consideration, lip service, post hoc, red herrings, and many more.
Other “character defects” or “personality traits” which the assumption of false identities / ego-states generate include selfishness, judging, projecting, deflection, envy, jealousy, impulsiveness, oversensitivity, procrastination, dependence, isolation, self-pity, perfectionism, false pride, guilt, resentment, intolerance, vengeance, manipulation, dishonesty, fear and an overwhelming desire to control.
Days ago, there was a discussion regarding how single-mindedly and passionately and fervently persons (that is, those assuming false personal identities and believing that those are real) will ignore relevant facts and will avoid seeing truth.
It is the goal of ego-defense mechanisms to block persons’ minds from registering and acknowledging and admitting the presence of any “relative character defects” and “tainted personality traits” and “personality disorders” and bizarre behaviors.
To that end, also generating chaos and misery and suffering are the well-armed guards and defenders of false identities, namely, psychologically-based ego-defense mechanisms which operate in the background to protect against any perceived threat to, or interference with, one’s personal identifications.
Those include projection, egotism, justification, victimization, blame, rationalization, grandiosity, excessiveness, denial, and many more.
The greater the ego, the greater the use of those defenders of ego, and of all the “ego-guards” available, denial is one which traps persons in childish thinking, talking and behaving. Why?
Denial is the refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if a painful event, thought or feeling did not exist. It is considered one of the most primitive of the defense mechanisms because it is characteristic of the early childhood development stage.
Another definition of denial is this: "Denial is a psychological defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality."
Regular site visitors know that one of the services here involves personality testing and analysis, beginning with the nine basic personality types which manifest to lesser and greater degrees in all persons.
Less developed Personality Type Threes often display narcissism, being especially concerned with their public image and seeking admiration and appluase; they also often exhibit Type One traits (Type Ones being perfectionists).
So if Type Threes are shown to have been at fault in some relative incident, they might consider the possibility for a few seconds but then their narcissism kicks in and they immediately shift to the Type One Perfectionist and once more see themselves as perfect and flawless; then denial of any and all faults will be triggered.
Yet the use of the ego-defense mechanism of denial is not limited to Threes. All persons can – and usually do – use denial to defend the agendas of their false, personal identifications.
Not only is it narcissists who use denial all day long. Racists live in denial all day long. Xenophobes use denial all day long. Religious fanatics and spiritual giants live in denial as day long.
Those driven by three of the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness - identified by Maharaj as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” - also use denial. The ignorant deny the truth; the stupid cannot see the truth; nor can the insane see the truth.
And those persons, as well as narcissists and racists and xenophobes, all have the following in common: duality-based thoughts and duality-based words and duality-based behaviors.
To deny the truth is to trap one in ignorance, and being trapped in ignorance - or in anything else - is imprisoning and, therefore, the enemy of freedom and independence.
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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