FANATICISM ALSO REQUIRES ONE TO BE ASLEEP TO THE REALITY ONE'S OWN "self / "selves") IF THE FANATICISM IS TO FLORISH

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FANATICISM ALSO REQUIRES ONE TO BE ASLEEP TO THE REALITY ONE'S OWN "self / "selves") IF THE FANATICISM IS TO FLOURISH 

Some regular visitors to this site are aware that a woman who was and continues to be a religious fanatic had judged me and found me to be different from her and therefore less than her. Confusing the ancient non-dual teachings with the 1970's New Age movement, she informed me that I was a "New Age Agent of Satan," that she "would never have anything to do with a non-Christian," and that she "had been praying for a year that God would kill me." 

Praying every day for a year for her God to kill someone? (That is, thinking she's such a Super Christian and so hooked up with God that she was entitled to be able to hire her God as a Celestial Hit Man? Now that is some persistent fanaticism.)

But that fanaticism only thrived as a result of being totally asleep to the reality one's own "self" / "selves." Only then can fanaticism flourish and foster an amazing ability to spin one's own reality or an amazing ability to deny the truth regarding oneself. 

Though her work in the ministry at several churches resulted in her being seen as one of the most devout Christians ever, she had played some role in the demise of several marriages as a result of her having affairs with married men; had destroyed her own marriage; and had pretty much abandoned her own child in the pursuit of a new career in a host of Christian churches.

Of course three benefits of being fanatically-religious are (1) the perk of being able to ask forgiveness for anything said or done; (2) believing that one has been forgiven and therefore given a clean slate again (and again, and again); and then (3) being able to continue to do whatever one wants over and over and over, no matter the resultant relative consequences and misery and suffering for others. 

I recall a man telling me that he had defrauded a bank of $100,000 after they had issued him a credit card and had made him a cash loan. He explained that he "had joined a spiritual group and had asked God to forgive him for that" and then explained how great he felt "when God lifted from him the burden of guilt and shame and worry over that." There's that imaginary "clean slate" again.

The reply: "Wonderful. Sounds like a rather keen and passionate - and maybe even fanaticism-generating - experience. Congratulations. So now that you've worked with God to make you feel better after having stolen $100,000.00, what arrangements have you made with the bank to repay them?" End of that conversation, or any possibility of future conversations as well. 

A man a few months ago apologized for damages his work crew made to my sprinkler system while working in a neighbor's yard. He said, "I've pointed out the damage and showed them what they did and told them not to ever do that again. I assure you it will not happen anymore in the future." 

I explained that an apology without restitution was meaningless and gave him a bill for the repairs. Until my neighbor told him that he could never work for her again unless he paid for the repairs to my sprinkler, he had no intention of accepting responsibility for the damage his crew had done. 

Another man later apologized for damages his work crew had made to my property. I explained that an apology without restitution was meaningless. End of conversation. 

All of those people are fanatical about hanging on to their money instead of using some of it to make restitution when due while believing that making an apology shows clearly that they are nice and decent people and that nothing more than an apology should be asked of them. As soon as I explained that recompense was expected, it turns out that - in their view - I was the one being a jerk. 

As soon as I explained to the woman mentioned above that my take was that one "being the most devout Christian ever" was a phony image rather than one's actual reality if one is praying every day for a year for her god to kill someone and abandoning her daughter and having affairs with married men. The view that I was the one who was being a jerk was reinforced in her mind.

Does all of that have to do with the relative existence only? You bet. It's only during the relative existence that one can spin and deny and self-deceive and rob persons or institutions of their property and develop a sense of being different from and thus better than "others" who are of a different skin color or of a different economic class or of a different sexual orientation or of a different political party or with a different perspective regarding religion or spirituality. 

No sense of being different from and better than and no sense of superiority could be believed in were it not for a belief in duality first.

Nor could any sense of superiority be believed in were it not for being fanatical about one's own race or economic status or sexual orientation or politics 

and 

being totally asleep to one's own relative condition. 

So it is when the masses all around the globe have contracted the duality-based Ultimate Sickness and are quite willing to accept and normalize its key symptoms (identified by Maharaj as being "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity").

On one end of an "attention continuum," Covig-19 is presently receiving international attention; on the other end of the continuum, the Ultimate Sickness is receiving hardly any attention at all, most humans never having even heard of it. Yet the Ultimate Sickness always poses the greater relative threat when compared to any viral or any bacterial sickness. Why? Consider:

Look at what has happened around the globe and see where even moderately-wise leaders and moderately-wise populations have reacted in moderately-wise-and-sane fashions. By contrast, leaders in the U.S. - driven by ignorance and stupidity and insanity and selfishess as well as politically-motivated agendas - have exacerbated the effects of Covig-19 to the extent that 27 countries in the EU yesterday voted to ban U.S. citizens from entering their nations.

Wise move.

The reasons given?

#1: The level of new cases and deaths which are occurring in the U.S. Yesterday alone, there were 50,000 new cases.

More revealing is reason

#2: People in the EU and all around the globe are watching as people in the U.S. . . .

- are refusing to heed cautions offered by wise scientists and members of the medical community in deference to the ignorant advice being given by right-wing politicians;

- are behaving in the most absurd and immature and childish ways, prioritizing play over self-care;

- are engaging in fisticuffs and melees as some refuse to wear protective masks though required;

- are watching as those offended by efforts to force them to wear masks are spitting their potentially-deadly saliva at those trying to enforce wise health cautions;

- are seeing resentful people spitting on produce in markets;

- are seeing resentful people spitting in the faces of others;

- are seeing hundreds gather without any protective gear in close quarters in order to socialize and party and play and ignore the fact that a pandemic continues to rage throughout the land;

etc., etc., etc.

See, the ignorance and stupidity and insanity which comes with the Ultimate Sickness results in magnifying the effects of viruses and bacteria as well as the consequences of other hazardous behaviors; thus, the Ultimate Sickness will always be the greater sickness, no matter what other menace or peril or relative dangers might be involved.

It is typical for a child to be fanatical about play; unfortunately, it is also typical for adults who are being driven by their childish ways to be just as fanatical. When concerned with "self," both "self-harm" and "other-harming" - relatively speaking - will prevail.

It is commonplace for Darwinian scenarios to play out, scenarios which result in some organisms which - if normal - would favor survival and reproduction but which cause organisms which are currently abnormal and unnatural (i.e., driven by ignorance, stupidity and insanity) to croak, wane, fail, or collapse.

The bitch with a virus as easily passed on and as easily contracted as the coronavirus is this: the abnormal and unnatural organisms can take out millions of those organisms in the "normal group" that are not entrapped in a Darwinian-style mindset.

Reason enough for the EU's decision, a decision which is providing a perfect model for the approach which should be taken when dealing with any among abnormal and unnatural groups (whether a pandemic is raging or not) as well as when dealing with fanatics, those asleep, and those absorbed in their false selves and driven by the insane agendas of those false selves.

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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