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MAHARAJ AND THE RELIGION VS. SCIENCE DEBATE
and
THE LIES VS. TRUTH DEBATE
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THE LIES VS. TRUTH DEBATE
Two Tools Which Can Be Used To End Attachment To False Beliefs (a.k.a., Lies), Part "A"
This was offered earlier:
When people prepare for a journey, there are certain items that they take along in order to make the trip somewhat easier. Later, some of the items that can be used on the "journey" to becoming free of the effects of believing in false beliefs and concepts and ideas shall be shared.
To continue with that:
First, there are some specific tools which you can use which can assist you in finding many of the commonly-held but false beliefs. Be aware of the phrases which indicate that a falsehood is about to be stated and it becomes easier to know when you are about to hear a false belief. In conversation, distorted concepts and delusional statements and false beliefs are often introduced by certain phrases:
"What I believe about that is . . . . "
"I'll never forget my granddad's words of advice when he always told us that . . . . "
"My personal view on the topic is that . . . . "
"My faith alone is all I need to know for a fact that . . . . "
"When we were growing up, my parents always told us . . . . "
"My (preacher / priest / imam / ayatollah / rabbi / guru / favorite "Big Name Teacher") has no reason to lie to us, so when she (or he) tells us . . . . "
"I know that if millions and millions of people have believed what I believe, we cannot possibly all be wrong, so it's clear to me that . . . . "
"My beliefs are supported by the writings in our holy text which tells us that . . . . "
"Our political party's candidate for that office tells it like it is, and he / she said . . . . "
"No one could have made it any clearer than the spokesperson for that group who said . . . . "
Why is any statement which follows those introductory words always a distortion, a false belief, or an outright lie?
a. The words of those with personal agendas are rooted in personality. Personas are false, so any words inspired by persona / personality are false.
b. People who claim to be sharing "their beliefs" are lying at the outset, for they have no beliefs of their own. To review: no person today has come up with any belief. There is no such thing as “your” beliefs.
All beliefs have been adopted from persons (especially parents, relatives, friends, persons of authority in one's culture, etc.) who have expressed “their” beliefs which you took to be “your” beliefs and which I took to be "my" beliefs. The only difference? As a Personality Type Four, as was Maharaj, I was "pre-wired" / predisposed to question authority figures and their teachings and their beliefs.
All beliefs have been adopted from persons (especially parents, relatives, friends, persons of authority in one's culture, etc.) who have expressed “their” beliefs which you took to be “your” beliefs and which I took to be "my" beliefs. The only difference? As a Personality Type Four, as was Maharaj, I was "pre-wired" / predisposed to question authority figures and their teachings and their beliefs.
And by the way, “their” beliefs are not “their” beliefs, either. They are beliefs that were dreamed up thousands of years ago by ignorant humans, that have been handed down over the years, and that are now accepted as truth by persons today—many of whom are intelligent but who have been programmed and conditioned to accept as truth the falsehoods that are being passed on by the masters of deception in all cultures, namely, "the authority figures."
If you want to find the major sources of the false beliefs which are to be rejected, begin by seeing those being spread by authority figures in politics, in religion, and in business (which were at some in the past three separate entities but which were morphed into one mega-influential entity around the globe which continue to function together to accumulate wealth and to control the masses).
If you really want to ferret out the distortions and misrepresentations and fabrications and falsifications and totally-bogus beliefs that are having the most negative impact in the relative existence and that are inspiring fighting and disharmony - and belief in separation and duality - then look objectively at the concepts which are being espoused by leaders and followers associated with those three "-ism's" / institutions.
So, the first invitation is to be aware and to be alert enough to listen for those introductory phrases which precede the verbalization of false beliefs.
Next, understand that "Truth" / reality / Reality can be known but cannot be stated. Talking is the tool of the ego (of an ego-state or assumed but false identity). Talking is used to fabricate an image, to display an image, and to try to sustain an image. Because images are false, then so are any words used to support them.
To that end, this is offered for consideration:
Those who have not rejected all identities - but who have merely assumed new and "improved" and "upgraded" identifications such as "The Religious One," "The Spiritual Giant," "THAT only" and even "God" - will find such pointers as the ones offered above or offered by "the later Maharaj" to be anathema.
Those who have not rejected all identities - but who have merely assumed new and "improved" and "upgraded" identifications such as "The Religious One," "The Spiritual Giant," "THAT only" and even "God" - will find such pointers as the ones offered above or offered by "the later Maharaj" to be anathema.
Yet those who report "I am now this" or "I now know that I am that" or "I am ___" (whatever, fill-in-the-blank) are stating something, so it cannot be Truth, and to believe that false statements are Truth is also ignorant and insane, along with believing that one is what one is not;
along with making irrational statements which have no foundation; along with accepting a claim as fact without ever having questioned the claim; along with abandoning a phenomenal dream state, only to reside in a supposedly "noumenal" dream state; and along with having one's head in the clouds without having one's feet planted firmly on the ground.
Those persons fail to understand that they are actually seeing no more of "The Light" with their heads in the clouds than the persons planted on the ground who also cannot see the sun because of the clouds.
What other approaches are used here alongside the dispelling of the myths about birth and death and casting aside belief in any and all concepts, including "spirituality" and "this world" and "meaning" and things thought to be "noble"?
What else is used to begin un-doing the confusion, the learned ignorance, the personality disorders and the various degrees of insanity that are so common among the masses and that trap then in their belief in - and their dissemination of - falsehoods? Two additional " tools":
1. One is called "The 180-Degree Rule."
2. The other is called "Obliterating the Present Thought-Based Mode of Talking and Becoming Skilled at Using Only The Vocabulary of Restored Sanity / Full Realization."
More on those tomorrow.
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 their god / their 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) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while
laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank);
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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