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Think About It
Dec 3rd
Do you ever find yourself trying to stay busy in an effort to keep your mind occupied? I’ve done this often in the past, especially with a painful situation like a break-up, but recently I’ve begun to question if we’re not just hurting ourselves more when we do this.
It’s bad enough that every moment from when we wake until we sleep, there are a billion different things in our technocratic world that are vying for our attentions, all in an effort to keep our minds from actually having a moment to think. And so what do we do? We use the precious few minutes a day that we have to ourselves, when it’s quiet and nothing is screaming for our attention, and we feel like something’s wrong. We’re so used to being bombarded and told what to think that we immediately try to switch our brains back off. TV, internet, radio, music, movies… not bad things necessarily, but when they keep you from your true potential and from discovering your true self (which must be done before you can reach your true potential) then these distractions are just harming you.
Why are we so scared to be alone with our thoughts?
I’m genuinely curious on this one too. Granted, we’ve all been brought up to be dependent little slaves, never thinking for ourselves or depending on ourselves. We’d all much rather have the answer be given to us, than to actually think for a damn second and work it out for ourselves. And if you take a look at the state of the world, and even more locally, the state of your life — that’s why we’re in the mess that we are today. We’ve given away our God-given gifts, and to whom?
Who is the man behind the curtain holding the strings?
We have all felt like this at some point in our lives — Like there’s something fishy going on, and you can almost put your finger on it, but then it’s gone, and you get sucked back in to the distraction that life has become.
Do you remember that incredible feeling you got, the first time you saw The Matrix ? Why do you think you identified so much with that movie? Why is it that so many of us only feel alive when we’re dreaming, and real life seems like some bad dream that we can’t wake up from?
Maybe a better question to ask ourselves is not ‘What’s so wrong with this world?’, but ‘What’s so right with it?’ Why does life feel so fake and cheap? Even our interactions and relationships with other people seem so fickle. Human beings are like sheep, and we have been, for thousands of years. Christ Jesus was aware of this, and warned about it in his teachings, but then the Truth got buried in a pile of religion.
Take a second and think about the people you interact with on a daily basis. Do your interactions feel pre-programmed? Like all the people you talk to are just bio-robots?
Not answers, but questions.
I think we are all after the same thing as humans… happiness. Or a better way of phrasing that might be eternal enjoyment of our lives. And to get there, we are going to have to answer our questions for ourselves, because we’ve been searching now for thousands of years, and we still have no idea what the answer is. Sure everybody else, has an answer for us, but we don’t have one for ourselves.
So, the next time you start to freak out, because it’s too quiet, or it gets too painful to think about the past, don’t unplug your mind, begin to think your way to a better life, one where painful relationships don’t exist, where only Love lives. How do we create this brave new world?
Think About It!
An End To Slavery
Nov 25th
I’m not gonna lie, I had a good cry today. For the first time in my life, I realized that I have been a slave for all my life. Or perhaps indentured servant is a better term…
How can we call ourselves free, when we clearly aren’t? Sure you can own land, as long as you pay for it… So you spend years of your life working for someone who is working for someone else, doing a job that you hate, all so you can “own” a piece of land in a country that supposedly belongs to you in the first place. And then what happens when you finally ‘own’ this piece of land? You are required to pay taxes on it every year, like some serf or peasant in service to some far off dictator king.
Who have we let take our land from us and then ransom it back to all Americans at a price that they must pay for the rest of their lives? Is this freedom?
And we wonder why the planet and environment is going to hell, it’s because nobody cares about what isn’t theirs. We don’t view the Earth as belonging to us, so we don’t take care of it. And pretty soon, it’s not going to be able to take care of us any longer either.
Why can’t every family own their own piece of the Motherland? Why can’t every family have a garden where they can do whatever they see fit to do without fear of making money to pay taxes or buy food? Do we as Man not deserve this?
Where along the way of human “development”, did we decide that all land belonged to the state? And if it doesn’t belong to the state, then why are you taxed on it? In fact, what would happen if you didn’t pay taxes on it? The government would take your land away.
Land should be available for every family who desires it to create for themselves a family domain where they can live free and happy. This would solve every problem plaguing society today. Think about it… No more crime, no more poverty, no more hunger, pollution would begin cleaning itself up, diseases would be nearly wiped out, medicinal plants would be free to all those who needed them… Free healthcare wouldn’t even be needed because no one would be sick… Obesity, gone. Diabetes, cured. Cancer, a sick thought of the past. If everyone had the best of what they needed to be healthy and happy, then what kind of world would America be then?
Let Laws be passed that provide for private land ownership without taxation, and let’s begin cleaning up the mess we’ve made of God’s creation.
Or do you already know of a way this can be accomplished? Please let me know about it.
Time For A Change
Nov 21st
Everybody knows that Nature is constantly changing seasons, changing shapes, changing colors. I’ve been thinking a lot more lately, which has been an amazing change for me. Now I’m not talking about the worrying that most people consider to be thinking… the what-do-I-have-to-do-today kind of thinking, but actual creative thought. The peace and joy and love that have flowed into my life as a result have been, well, as you might imagine, wonderful.
What about you though? Are you happy? Be honest. If you aren’t, then why aren’t you? Why do we do things (like our jobs) that we don’t want to do? Some people might call this lying. This was just one quick example, but is it any wonder why we find it so hard to be happy in our technocratic world? We lie to ourselves first and foremost, and then somehow expect ourselves to be happy with ourselves? What have the Sons and Daughters of God done to themselves? Why is it that Man feels helpless, powerless, and miserable?
Is it time for a change? Time to take back what is rightfully ours? Time to be free. Free from the worries of money, food, clothing, shelter… Free from jobs that you hate, and a purposeless life. Free from selling your children into the same slave producing lifestyle that has us weighed down beneath a pile of debt, all because we’ve let ourselves believe that we need this car, or that house. Man was meant to be more than a Consumer of products from a lifeless society.
God gave Man all of creation, and all we’ve managed to do with it is rip it apart and create inferior mechanical versions of it that constantly break down and rob us of our time and joy.
It’s time for Man to realize that what we’ve been given (Everything) is already perfect. We don’t need to “fix” or “invent” anything to help us be happy. Our only requirement is Co-creation and the enjoyment of its contemplation.
Think about it… It’s time for a change.
Who Are You In Your Head?
Nov 3rd
In light of the recent holiday (Halloween), where you got to dress up and go masquerading around as whoever you pleased, I’ve been thinking about how we often wish we could be someone else.
I recently wrote about the importance of beliefs, and today’s topic is a big one: Other people tend to see you, as you see yourself.
Try this out, just for fun, and see if it doesn’t help you. Find a character from a movie, someone that you can watch and listen to. Pick somebody who has what you want in your life (whether it be success, confidence, integrity, money… whatever). Then Study this character… memorize the way they walk and move, the way they talk. Their facial expressions and body language.
Then for five minutes a day, when you’re alone, in front of the mirror, Be that person. Talk like them, move like them, act like them. Really make the character your own. See yourself in their location, see the people that would be surrounding this person, and pretend that they are surrounding you. Interact with these imaginary people… what would you say? what would you talk about as this new you?
Change the way you see yourself for the better. When you’re in that situation where you would normally freeze up and go into failure mode, ask yourself, “what would (your character’s name here) do?”
I’ll let you in on another little secret I’ve found: You’re brain can’t tell the difference between something you imagine happens and what really happens.
Both things are equally real to your brain. Take dreams for example. If something happens in a dream, like a friend dying, or you getting a promotion… when you wake up, supposing you’ve remembered your dream, then your brain treats those memories as actually having happened. So you wake from the dream of your friend dying with a pounding heart and an aching chest, just as you would have if your friend had actually died. And you wake from the promotion dream with the same exhilaration and expectation of a person who actually did just get a promotion.
Take Advantage Of Your Imagination
Use this to your advantage… don’t wait for a good dream that you actually remember when you wake up. Make up your own dreams while you’re already awake. It’s how we learned as kids too. We called it make believe, or pretending. See yourself as the best you possible. And when you need some help, switch into your alter ego and pretend, until you’re no longer pretending.
