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NEEDLESS WORK THAT JUST COMPLICATES ONE’S LIFE 

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DIMINISHES THE OPPORTUNITIES TO RELAX AND TAKE IT EASY

[Continued from yesterday when it was asked]:

So what are the motivators at play which will assure that persons for the most part will never abandon their religious and / or spiritual and / or SELF-Inquiry workaholism?

Yesterday, these were identified and discussed:

1. THEIR DESIRE FOR CONTROL AND POWER 

2. DUALITY AND WANTING AND GETTING 

3. FEAR 

Also from yesterday:

There is never anything offered here except (a) considerations and suggestions and invitations and (b) relative problem identifications and suggested solutions. 

That leads to another motivator which blocks persons from abandoning their "good" (or more often, "perfect") identities:

4. A PREFERENCE FOR DENYING RATHER THAN ACKNOWLEDGING ONE’S PROBLEMS

Humans are quick to spot shortcomings in others, but they are quite skilled at blocking out any admission that they have as many or even more shortcomings as the other humans they judge.

Consider what was revealed during this conversation:

A visitor: “My wife is a crazy bitch.”

F.: “Hummm. Well, in that case, I feel compelled to ask: ‘Why would you marry a crazy bitch?’”

Visitor: “She wasn’t a crazy bitch before she married me, you idiot.”

F.: “Ah. I see. You may have just raised the possibility of a cause-effect correlation which you obviously haven’t considered before.”

Visitor: “What is that supposed to mean?”

F.: “It means that humans are often driven by psychological projection, meaning the defects and liabilities which exist within them are the very ones which they are most likely to cast upon others or to see in others. If you spot it, you got it. If you can see it, you can be it.”

Visitor: Reply censored.

The ego-states assumed by humans are supported by many ego-defense mechanisms, and one of the most commonplace of those mechanisms is egotism. And one’s egotism will squash any desire to look at one’s self / selves honestly and admit one’s own shortcomings and liabilities.

The problem-identification and solution-suggestion method used here is, therefore, often quite unpopular, so many prefer to seek in “other venues” which use their egotism to manipulate them. [Again, the truth can set you free, but it’ll likely piss you off first.]

That leads to #5:

5. EGO / NARCISSISM / IMAGE-BUILDING AND IMAGE-MAINTENANCE 

Humans - trapped as most are in ego-states, in the accompanying use of egotism, and in massively-high levels of narcissism - love to be preoccupied with all things deemed to be “Ultimate” (except for the Ultimate Sickness.) They are fascinated, for example, by their love of things referenced in “The Guinness Book of World Records.” Humans love “#1’s.” They hate losing and being less than #1. They love hearing that they “live in the greatest country on earth,” wallowing in the arrogance of that belief rather than asking, “In terms of ‘what,’ exactly? By what standards or by what criteria, exactly?” 

Religious going and doing and zooming can supposedly make one “The Best Person Possible”; spiritual workaholism can make one “The Closest To God and The Purest of The Pure”; SELF-Inquiry work can lead one to a new and superlative identity, such as “The Ultimate Self” or “The Supreme Self” or even to “Being God.” 

6. HUMANITY’S LOVE OF SUPERLATIVES 

Thus, humans love all things deemed to be “superlative”: The Grandest; The Largest; The Loveliest or The Prettiest or The Thinnest; “The Greatest Country on Earth!” or “Let’s Make This Country Great Again!”

The Most Famous; The Smartest or The Most Knowledgeable; The Longest; The Quickest; The Richest; The Most Powerful; The Most Influential; The Master; The Holder of the Highest Office; The Ultimate; The Supreme; whatever. 

7. GREED 

Sane people would not agree to work an eight-hour shift for monetary pay and then pull a second shift even though being told that they will be paid for their second job with “Monopoly” game money. There is always a perceived “payoff” for anything humans say or do, and at the root of religious / spiritual / SELF workaholism is some perceived gain, some really huge payoff. 

8. DELUSION / DISTORTION 

Humans love to (1) do whatever they want - even if it is totally contrary to their religious or spiritual beliefs - and then (2) be restored to a “clean slate” state: 

“I stole money, used people, abused people, killed people, whatever. Now, God, please forgive me. Ah, perfect. Pure again. Clean again. And I can keep up this cycle until the day I die. Use and abuse, get what I desire, ask for forgiveness, and - bingo! - right back to being qualified for more rewards now and for eternal rewards later . . . altered upon request from being sinful to being virtuous in the time it takes to snap a finger." 

So see, humans are not really trying to “explain” anything in their talk about “The Ultimate,” “The Supreme,” etc. 

Instead, they desire control and are driven to seek power (and Power) to be able to do so; they are trapped in the hidden agendas of their dualistic agendas and their propensity to accumulate; they are driven by their personality-based desires and fears; they are driven by their assigned or assumed ego-states and by egotism (which works to support the illusion that those false identities are real); 

they are driven by levels of narcissism and image-building and image-maintenance that manifest in the most extreme ways; and they are driven by humanity’s love of superlatives, by humanity’s greed, and by their delusional and distorted thoughts and belief systems. 

All of that will most assuredly get you some religious and spiritual and SELF-focused workaholism. workaholism of a type which is always accompanied by an inability to even consider that it might all be for naught, that it might all involve totally needless work.  

Tomorrow: The role that personality disorders play in driving humankind’s workaholism and in assuring the continuation of humanity's entrapment in the agendas of all of the factors discussed today which are driving persons' thoughts and words and actions. 

To be continued.

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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