THE BS ROLL CALL of STATEMENTS BASED IN COMMONLY-HELD CONCEPTS AMONG THE MASSES REGARDING “love” vs. LOVE

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During the administration of Barack Obama, hate crimes in the U.S. fell by 21%. 

 

Then, hate crimes began to increase steadily in the U.S. during the 2016 presidential campaign and continued to increase even more throughout the period from 2017 to 2020. 

 

According to an FBI report, hate crimes increased 20% during that period, wiping out all of the gains made during the Obama presidency; however, the 20% increase referenced in that report did not include the increase in one crime not labelled a "hate crime," namely, the increase in the number of unarmed blacks killed by members of law enforcement via choking and gunfire; therefore, the actual increase in hate crimes was even higher that the 20% reported.

 

During the tenure of the now-exiting administration of the last four years - again according to the FBI - the greatest increase of hate crimes happened among black people, Latinos, gay men and Jewish people. 

Furthermore, the report also revealed that "hate-motivated murders, largely committed by white supremacists, spiked to their highest number in 28 years."

Recently, one observer said that there are three viruses plaguing the U.S. and many other nations: (1) Covid 19 (2) racism and (3) disinformation. ("Non-dualists" would label those three manifestations of the Ultimate Sickness.) 

The severity of #1 was contributed to by lies told by political leaders; the severity of #2 has long been aggravated by duality-based beliefs about "different from" being equated with "better than" along with widespread ignorance and widespread egotism; 

 

and the severity of #3 is rooted in three of the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as "ignorance, stupidity and insanity" as well as egotism.

Some suggest that "love" is the key to generating peace and concord and to  reducing conflict and fighting and killing and hate.

 

Yet "the realized" understand that no concept is as widely-distorted as the fallacious concept of "love" as opposed to the "Love" which Maharaj discussed.

The lies and delusions which the masses hold dear in terms of their distorted beliefs about "love" have triggered more unhappiness and depression and desolation and distress and misery and suffering and chaos and fighting and bigotry and fanaticism and yes, even murder, than any other driver. 

So now, in order to offer some concrete examples, we can pause to take 

THE BS ROLL CALL 

 of

STATEMENTS BASED IN COMMONLY-HELD CONCEPTS AMONG THE MASSES REGARDING “love” vs. LOVE

Maharaj said that whatever gives you pleasure will eventually give you pain, and whatever gives you the most pleasure will eventually give you the most pain. 

How many can see that his pointer applies to events throughout their own relative existence? 

How many have loved booze or opiates or meth, only to have them eventually turn on them? 

How many have loved their mates or lovers or spouses, only to have them eventually turn on them? 

How many have loved their accumulations, only to have the maintenance costs of those accumulations eventually turn on them? 

How many have loved the total nonsense which was mistakenly believed at some point to be "gems of wisdom" when they were passed on by parents or a teacher or a guru, only to have the acceptance of those ignorant or even insane concepts eventually turn on them? 

In regards to what "love" supposedly is per the way the masses misperceive it, all of the following include statements which have actually been made to me or actions which persons have actually taken and then revealed to me: 

1. 

A woman: "I have to wear long sleeve tops to work to cover up the bruises on my arms from my where my husband hits me or squeezes me when he's shaking me." 

F.: "And why do you continue to tolerate that abuse?" 

W.: "Because I love him and because I'm the one who angers him in the first place and who makes him do that. He says he's only giving me 'love taps' anyway and that if he didn't love me, he'd ignore me and show no emotions." 

F.: "Humans do nothing unless they believe there's a payoff. Might it not be 'love' but the continuation of a high lifestyle which all of his money provides that is inspiring you to stay with him?"  

W.: "Screw you, Floyd." 

2. 

Woman: "My husband suggested that I come here to see if you could re-program me. I've spent years listening to and working with a female teacher who told me to 'love what is' and that I could never be happy until I get free of my negative feelings about the man who raped me. She told me to prepare a meal and invite him to dinner and serve him, and I've tried to do that several times but always back out at the last minute. I've believed that I'm a total failure by not being able to listen to my teacher and do what she says." 

F.: "I don't 're-program.' I'm in the business of de-programming and thereby setting the stage for you to see truth. The truth I have seen is that woman strikes me as being totally batshit crazy, but it will do you no good for me to see that. You must see that." 

3. 

F.: "Why did you kill your wife?" 

AA-er: "Because she took away my home and my children and my money." 

F.: "Is it possible that she did not choose to leave you but that you drove her away like a Mack truck racing at her at full speed?"

4. 

F.: "So you say that you have made millions of dollars in the last fifteen years, but you have a wife who is clearly, to me, being driven by vanity and arrogance and entitlement. You say that no matter how many times you have begged and pleaded or ragingly demanded that she stop spending, she ignores you. You confess that three times over the years you have taken out consolidation loans to pay off the hundreds of thousands of dollars of credit card debt she has accumulated. Now, your credit score is under 400, you don't have a penny in savings, you have withdrawn your 401K funds to live on and you paid the penalty for those early withdrawals and still she rages at you for not being a good provider and calls you 'completely useless.' She hasn't an iota of maternal instinct so she has always ignored the children that you two had so you are basically a single parent. Now, I understand exactly why you continue to stay in that misery-generating 'relationship,' but you have no clue, so I predict under that circumstance that you'll likely continue to stay and continue to be miserable while living in denial and in ignorance around what is actually driving you."

He: "Of course I know why I stay with her. I love her. Deep down inside, she really is a good woman." 

F.: "You might want to read about the Stockholm Syndrome as well as some of my writings on personality identification and the way that being driven by the persona of 'The Super Husband' and "The Super Father" as well as by the idealization of that-which-is-most-definitely-not-ideal can lead to your normalization of misery and to your acceptance of the unacceptable and to your tolerating the intolerable and to your 'loving what is,' even though one would have to be totally insane to love what currently is in your case." 

The lyrics of one song, sung as a man is leaving a relationship which did not work out, says: 

"Kiss today goodbye . . .

 But I can't regret 

 What I did for love, 

What I did for love." 

Close, but no cigar, sir. Here, "regret" is never endorsed, but neither is there an endorsement to fail to see that what you "did" was not "for love." 

Among the masses who haven't a clue about the Real Love which Maharaj spoke of, what they mistakenly identify as "love" is really that which can supposedly fulfill the desires of a variety of personas, be it the persona of . . .

"The Stud" or "The One Entitled to a Better Lifestyle Than All Others" or "The One Who Married Someone That Would Be Pleasing in the Eyes of One's Parents" (or the one chosen by one's parents in an arranged marriage) or "The One Who Married Someone Who Was A Member of the Right Religion" or "The One Who Married Someone Who Looks Super Fine," ad infinitum.

The post today and this series will end with these two considerations which have been offered in the past:

What persons call "love" is the most magnificent experience of all; it is also the most horrendous experience of all. With such duality, how can that possibly be taken for the real? As for feeling or emotion, if love happens as a feeling, take the ride and watch the feelings rise and fall; if love happens as an emotion—that is, if it is being "experienced" by a person trapped in an ego-state—prepare for war 

and 

Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more (relatively speaking, of course) if they were able to understand what love is not.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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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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