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WHEN SEX IS SUPPOSEDLY NOT SEX: Whacked Out Human Perspectives
There’s a comment that goes something like this: “If you
accept the praise of the town, be prepared to accept the scorn of the village.”
It points quite well at the state of the relative, namely, that all is in a
state of flux and inconsistency and that all is marked by duality.
It also points to the state of the planet today where the Borderline
Personality Disorder runs rampant: “I love you today. I will hate you tomorrow.
I hate you . . . don’t leave me.”
There is another comment which suggests that “you will always eventually have
to pay the piper” and another that talks about “what is good for the goose is
good for the gander.”
Another suggests, “You might want a pit bull to protect you and yours, but do
not be surprised when your infant is mistaken for dinner.”
As long as there is manifested consciousness, there will be movements, shifts,
impermanency in the relative. All things are coming together and coming apart,
and those who believe in an over-simplified version of causation will believe
the following:
1. “I can intervene and cause effects to be different”
and
2. “I can control things and bring about different results that are more
desirable”
and
3. “I can make my own personal world better.”
What does all that mean in terms of the relative existence and in terms of
false beliefs?
A man came here and made the claim that his first wife had fooled him, that -
from the way she had presented herself - he thought she was a “good and moral”
woman. “But eventually,” he said, “she had an affair with another man and left
me for him.”
He went on to say that he was determined that, when he married again, it was
going to be to “a truly upright and moral woman with high standards.”
As a
result of that goal, he decided that he would join a large church and only date
women who were active in the church and who were nothing like the first wife
whom he had “met in a bar.”
Per his plan, he found a woman that certainly seemed to be a “good” and “moral”
and “upright” woman with “high standards,” those words being the ones he used
to describe her when he came to announce his plans to marry.
The result: it took less than a year of marriage for her to check him out
thoroughly and to begin using on him that moral yardstick of hers (which he has
decided originally was one of the things that made her so wonderful).
She began using it more and more frequently to measure
his worth, and she used her high standards to evaluate him, and she found that
he was falling short in many areas.
First came some fairly pleasant instances that began with “We need to talk,”
during which his shortcomings were discussed calmly, along with suggestions for
change and improvement.
Eventually, those sessions were followed with sessions in
which her directions became somewhat less pleasant in tone and far more
straightforward while cataloguing his shortcomings, in noting the ways he was
not meeting her “high moral standards”-based expectations, and listing the
changes that better start taking place immediately.
In the end, much like the ironic case of the parents who had bought a pit bull
for protection - only to have the pit bull become the only real source of danger
- the irony was that the man’s seeking and finding someone with higher moral
standards than those of his first wife led to his finding exactly that, only to
have those moral standards used to judge him and to find him lacking in all
ways.
In the U.S., a couple of bombers were in the news. Things were moving along
swimmingly until one recast himself as “The One Who Is Good and Moral, The One
Who in Truly Upright, The One With High Standards in a Nation Full of Evil and
Immoral People With No Decency at All and with No Standards at All.”
In a nation such as the U.S. where so many seek to be valued as a result of
their religious principles and their strict adherence to their dogma and
beliefs in order to receive “the praise of the town,” they are never ready to
allow others to express and act on their “scorn for the village” that is based
in their religious principles and their strict adherence to their dogma and
beliefs. Why? Because their religion is not the “right” one or the “best one.”
They do not want to admit that “If they accept the praise of the town, they
must also be prepared to accept the scorn of the village.” Their egotism and
arrogance that support their religious roles cannot accept that “what is good
for the goose is good for the gander.”
If you accept that the cause of “the ills of the world” is “evil” and that your
beliefs alone are the ones that can remove that evil and that the beliefs of
others contribute to evil, then the rules of the game have been set forth;
therefore, there is no justification for criticizing “others” when they play by
the very rules that you set forth.
In the relative, all non-realized persons accept as truth that they and their beliefs
are the ones that are “good” and “upright” and “moral.” In the relative, what
is deemed to be “good” and “upright” and “moral” - and what is deemed to be “bad”
and “indecent” and immoral” - all depend on perspective;
and perspective is rooted in programming and conditioning
and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.
Persons have no right to despair the warped perspectives of “others” that are
rooted in their programming and conditioning and acculturation and
domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination when their own warped
perspectives are also rooted in programming and conditioning and acculturation
and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.
Yet in the realm of ego-states and egotism, the only thing really acceptable to
the non-Realized is “another version of me”:
“Enmesh with me.” “Mirror me.” Be like me.” The man who came here proclaimed
that he was going to intervene and cause the effects in his second marriage to
be different, and he thought he could control things and bring about different
results that would be more desirable.
He thought that he was going to make his world a better
place by finding someone with high standards. Yet he was shocked by the actual
results of his plan.
The same applies to the majority of the persons in this nation who were shocked
that dogma could convey to two brothers a sense that they were really good and
moral and upright and that “others” were evil and immoral and indecent.
Yet what dogma-based conclusions were drawn about the brothers after the
bombing? They were “evil personified.” “They are evil, but good will prevail.” “The
good people in this nation far outnumber the evil people in the world.”
The tools of the ego, which ego-states use to defend and protect and sustain
and enhance themselves, include denial and putting a spin on the facts. It is
not unlike the man who went with his wife for marital counseling. Her
complaint? He was “sexually promiscuous and unfaithful” and “has had at least
four affairs with other women that I know of.”
His reply: “Those were NOT acts of promiscuity or unfaithfulness and they were
not sexual affairs. In all four cases, I only had oral sex with them, never
real sex.”
So something that he himself identified as “oral sex” was, a micro-second later, not really sex at all. Now there’s a perspective based in both arrogance and denial and insanity.
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.
