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A NATION LEADING THE PACK IN DENIAL, SPIN AND EGO-STATE-SUSTAINING ARROGANCE ON A PLANET WITH NATIONS STEEPED IN DENIAL, SPIN AND EGO-STATE-SUSTAINING ARROGANCE
Though Russia is giving the U.S. a run for its money in being the most xenophobic, sleepwalking, and blind-to-self nation, the U.S. has long made an excellent but ignored showing in that contest.
Ignored? Of course. The U.S. is generally referred to by its citizenry as “The Greatest Nation on Earth.”
Many here idolize “the Constitution” and its authors and “The Founders” in spite of the fact that the document’s hypocrisy denied women the right to vote;
denied freedom to the dark-skinned people who were enslaved and tortured and killed, claiming that they count only as “2/3’s” of a white person (which is still the most common view, at best);
allowed “The Founders” to keep their slaves; calls itself a democracy but chooses a president not by popular vote but by a band of “electors,” it being 20 years since Republicans won the popular vote for president and only entered office after having been selected by a gang of at least 270 electors.
Moreover, while labeling and criticizing others around the globe as being “warmongers,” the U.S. has been engaged in more wars during its existence than any other nation.
The point: the Ultimate Sickness rules globally, but the Sickness rules to even greater degrees in some particular places.
When one nation bombs another and kills over 100,000 of
its citizens, and when one-half of the people in the attacking nation still
claim that the war was justified even though the premise for the war was proved
to be false, how could any logical and sane and reasonable person suggest that
an act of retaliation for that act, a retaliation that includes an attack on
our “innocent civilians,” is horrible
but
claim at the same time that the attack against “the innocent civilians” of the
nation bombed and invaded was justifiable, fine, and even - what history will
show - a really good move?
See? Denial. Spin. Ego-state-sustaining arrogance. And the same applied in the
case of the man mentioned yesterday, a man whose second marriage was “guaranteed
to be really good for the simple reason that he was going to marry a really
good woman with the highest of religious principles.”
The marriage lasted just over a year before it was determined that he was
actually, to use a term that was once aimed in this direction, “A New Age Agent
of Satan.”
Now all of the above deals with the relative, and in the relative, all is in
flux; therefore, if one’s desire is to be with someone who has shown that he or
she is “ethical” and “idealistic,” then expect their close cousins - namely, “being
judgmental” and “critical” and “dogmatic” - to be invited along for the ride as
well.
In that example, the “praise of the town” (that is, a woman praised for being
so “good”) was accompanied by “the scorn of the village” (which came with judging
and a knack for critiquing and a firm and unshakeable conviction that morals
and ideals are not relative but are firmly-fixed absolutes.)
In the end, the ego-state of “The Wife” and “The Good Religious Woman”
self-promoted themselves. Those identities were upgraded to “The Super Wife”
and “The Super Religious Woman,” and in the process of upgrading, there will
always be the accompanying act of downgrading, so “The Husband” became “The Bad
Husband” and “The Not-Religious-Enough Husband.”
He, later: “You know, Floyd, I see now that those people in that church all
have the opinion that they are better than everyone else because of their high
standards, and when they decide that someone is worst than them, it’s almost
like they want to attack them and punish them, even destroy them.”
F.: “You think?”
In Boston, two brothers had the opinion that they were better than everyone
else here because of their high Muslim standards, and when they decided that
everyone here was worst than them, they wanted to attack them and punish them,
even destroy them.
The brothers had upgraded themselves to “The Ones Who Are Good and Moral and
Truly Upright, The Ones With High Standards.” As a result, those “others” who
were citizens of a nation where a different religion was dominant and who
seemingly accepted their government’s bombing of other nations had - in the “minds”
of the brothers - formed “A Nation Full of Evil and Immoral People With No
Decency at All and with No Standards at All.”
Insanity is at play when persons hate persons who behave exactly as they do.
Psychological projection can be a real bugger, yes? And projection is not a
form of evil. It is a psychological phenomenon, defined as such:
“Projection is a psychological process by which someone denies some aspect of
their own behavior or attitudes and assumes instead that everyone else is doing
or thinking so instead.
“It is usually seen as the externalisation of a person’s
negative traits, placing blame on an outside force such as the environment, a
government, a society, or other people.”
The notion that “I am going to be protected from future hurt by getting a woman
who is as tenacious as a bulldog when it comes to sticking to her high
standards” actually blinded a fellow to the possibility that those judgmental standards
might be applied to him someday and that he might end up being chewed up and spit
out.
So when the notion is that one’s dogma in the only one that contains the right
beliefs and is the only means for eliminating evil - while also being convinced
that the beliefs of all of those “other people” are the source of evil in the
world - why should it come as a surprise when the “high standards” assumed by “others”
might be applied to them and that they might end up being chewed up and spit
out?
It is ignorance and stupidity and insanity - not “evil” - which allows persons
to say:
“The way we behave is okay, but it is not okay for you to behave that way.”
“Our beliefs are right so, of course, it is okay when we act on them (even if
that involves killing others), but it not okay when you act on your beliefs
(especially if that involve killing us).”
“Our religion and what we do in the name of our religion is sacrosanct and
above the law, but your religion and what you do in the name of your religion
is not sacrosanct and is not above the law.”
“We are the good people, and you are the evil people.”
“It is okay for us to be driven by our beliefs because they produce good, but
it not okay for you to be driven by your beliefs because they produce evil.”
The relevant facts:
If you accept the praise of the town, be prepared to accept the scorn of the
village
and
What is good for the goose is good for the gander
and
Be prepared to pay the piper if you dance, especially if you dance on “others.”
Meanwhile there is all of this duality-based nonsense: “You.” “Us.” “Versus.” “Good.”
“Evil.” “Others.” “Them.” “Moral.” “Upright.” “Decent.” “Immoral.” “Indecent.” “Sinful.”
“Virtuous.”
Welcome to the products of dualistic beliefs. Welcome to the insanity and chaos
of duality that always accompany those products.
As a fellow named “Yeshu’a” (but called “Jesus”) said after he was exposed to the
non-dual understanding and began to share non-dual pointers: “A dual-minded
person is unstable in all ways.” Not, “A dual-minded person is evil in all ways”? No. Unstable.
Mentally and emotionally unstable.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
