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We wouldn't want to be in Heaven without you.
Introduction
Beauty, truth, friendship, love,
creation - these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in
our lives. Believing uncertainty causes problems is the problem - unless our efforts in all situations are faithfully trusted
in our Heavenly Father. He accepts the unacceptable, not to allow the unacceptable, but to transform the unacceptable into
the acceptable.
There is a source of our living awareness
that is not abstract, mechanical, or uncaring - there is a purpose in our existence beyond our ability to fully understand.
The “Grand Mystery” of all things is based in with whom we are making our decisions.
God has a plan and He does not make
mistakes. However, He is not the author or generator of the difficulties and hardships we and the world suffers. Changing
day by day is unavoidable. We either are falling away from, or rising into, our created place of being.
Nothing is ever about what cannot
be because of what could have been. Everything is always about what can be… right now. Everybody’s wayward wrongdoing
is always automatically placed entirely on Christ whether or not anyone asks Him for His mercy. At the Cross He accepts full
penalty for our transgressions under His own Law through His own faith.
In His Resurrection He exonerates
our unworthiness by providing full pardon, for the authority of our life in His Authority over wickedness, to living faithfully
unto Him. Through our will in obedience to His will, actively faithing the moments
in Him, our record is completely expunged.
Those who seek to shut out the testimony
of God’s witness cannot regard it as constituting an expression of the church, “the pillar and ground of the truth.”
Hence, they feel themselves justified in separating from their faith-active connections with those they love.
Belligerent silence, displayed by
a spitefully disappointed manipulator, is a false cover for hidden shame and echoes but does not represent enduring steadfast
and longsuffering patience. Everyone matters... we get overwrought with people
because of situations and circumstances and wrongly think we lose who they are to us and who we are to them.
Believing in a past where struggles
and pitfalls alienate others from being with us in the future is what the Deceiver wants us to see as real. Reward-seeking
behavior, as taught to inspire favorable self-worth, will encourage troublesome impulses, and train destructive habits derived
from compulsions to avoid fears of personal unimportance. Results oriented compliance is the anti-faith belief in possibilities
in the course of experience.
As a result, “Proving one’s
worth” masquerades for the ongoing guidance the Holy Spirit seeks to provide. The best thing to do with and for anyone
we misleadingly believe we "push into the past", because of overloaded emotional regret over frustration, is to pray for them
- for they have an eternal soul as we do.
"God works in mysterious ways, His
wonders to perform." Judge not lest you be judged for there is never any past, nor is there ever a future in God’s eyes.
He is that He is in the beginning, now, and in the end. ‘Now is the time to come to the aid of your ____ “ means
just that.
Everything starts with prayer, and
everything continues with prayer. We can ‘pray our way through’ any situation’s circumstantial difficulty
by relying in God as the answer of answers. He gives to us our confidence to take action through the grace and mercy we share
with whomever we may be ‘at odds’ against in our flesh-wise self interest.
All our efforts will seem utterly
futile if we ignore the Holy Spirit’s leading by deciding one or another is beyond our attentions or concern –
especially when it involves our heart in personal responsibilities to our commitments in marriage and family. What is thought
to be idealistic impossibility in a dog-eat-dog immature world is matter-of-fact sensible reality to our Father in heaven.
Personal growth and success is
a by-product of our response-able living in faith; it is not the goal. No matter who any of us is, despite personal pitfalls,
each of us has what it takes through faith action in Him, to succeed. Success, in God’s eyes, is founded in honest loyalty
ahead of what is generally thought to be moral decency. Judging success by seeming moral decency precludes the required honest
loyalty needed to walk the walk of faith.
It is recommended no portion
of this site be taken out of context. (If you do not like all or part of this shared witness, pray about it and give
yourself a chance to understand.)
There
is no negative intent implied toward anyone.
Absolute Reality, because The Creator creates our and the world’s existence thereby, is discovered in non-religious
faith in God through Jesus Christ. ‘Non-religious’, because religions hide their reluctance toward honest redemption
through security in numbers - as opposed to personal safekeeping in the dynamic living reality of God. Religious observance
of traditions, ways, and belief are not exclusive from God’s Created reality, but is a fear-founded satisfying poor
substitute that seems authentic.
Searching to be elevated from one’s lack of internal significance takes on forms of idolatry over God’s
will in the involved reality of human reactions to physical/environmental, and emotional experiences. Interpreted as etched-in-stone
peoples’ ideals, stances of position determined status, and opinionated self-reliance drives an economy that thrives
on insatiability. Money forms a belief in peoples’ own rights to existence that choosing takes, in making someone “who
they are”.
It forces either battling spheres of differentiation combined with the battling over commonly held and shared human
realities, or a mindless “please everyone without regard or respect to lines and barriers” unnaturally imposed
authority. This is opposed to the responsible places everyone holds unto their husbands, wives, children, families, neighborhood,
city, county, state, and country, respectively. Whether or not most people realize it, all personal, social, and economic
troubles people suffer are brought about by misunderstood and misdirected religious belief systems.
Christendom is so immersed (submerged) into psychological methods (tactics) in dispensing the Gospel to obtain conversion
decisions, the anointing of the Word by the Holy Spirit is mostly, if not completely, void in carrying the message presented.
This disrespectful negatively intrusive anti-gospel that argues to be positively convicting, is the Gospel shared for the
wrong reasons. Therefore it is, indeed, necessary to unravel the layers of confused misunderstanding for His Light of Truth
to naturally shine forth from our immortal spirit person out through our mortal flesh person’s concerns.
Catholicism, Protestantism, Muslimism, Hinduism, Secularism, Pragmatism, Communism (Socialism), Atheism, (and a thousand?
other isms without forgetting Evangelism), are all forms of religion in their attempts to understand and control the existing
environment for security, protection, and the sense of self-worth amid life's unanswered questions. But, there is a reality
"behind" the facade of humanity and its groping for validation that comes from God through Christ.
Though taken as cliché for entertaining draw, “Come one come all!” and “Come on in, the water’s
fine!” are aptly applied to God’s call on all our lives to His water of Truth of life. As people, we have ways
and means to associate with, and disassociate away from, each other and others as if there is a sort of dividing line of who
may or may not be awarded God’s grace and mercy in Christ. The misconception comes through pride vs. fear that some
are uncorrupted enough to be salvation worthy, while others are too far past redemption to warrant our efforts.
This is oppositional and contrary to the Gospel as presented in the Bible as a witness of Who God is to and for us.
The true church is a person's heart of responsive consideration. And, when married, the church is a shared heart of responsive
consideration between a man and a woman. Anything else is a disruption of God's protective grace of awareness.
When we have the rare encounter with a person living God’s ways, we usually assume he or she is living by their
opinion of God’s ways as we are. We then attempt to mold that person into the good ways of man, as if we are doing God
a favor, and destroy their and our own witness of living in the process; because our aims of intent are centered in the meanings
of words and how they apply to mortal life, instead of the meaning of the Word and how He applies His eternal life to ours
for our acceptance.
Life, Family, and Marriage
Absolute Reality, because The Creator creates our and the world’s existence thereby, is discovered
in non-religious faith in God through Jesus Christ. Religions hide their reluctance toward honest redemption through security
in numbers as opposed to security in the dynamic living reality of God. The central and core, number one, civil right of humankind,
the basis for all other endeavors, is the union of a man and a woman by marriage.
Marriage in the United States of America is legally classified as "fundamental to our very existence
and survival" because of its role in encouraging and protecting the only type of interpersonal association which results in
the natural reproduction of the human race. God’s transforming power of mercy and grace in Christ does not recognize
aristocratic superiority or inferior peasantry of classes regarding people and their perceived quality, or lack of quality,
in existing social alignments and attitudes.
As protectors of the sensibilities of our children to include the general society as a witness of
integrity and stability, the confusion displayed by blurred gender roles is something we should guard our children from having
to process. The intense personal interaction of intimacy is meant to be the permanent bonding of strength of protection and
security our children need, as examples from their father and mother, to grow into healthy and mature members of our world.
Our choice to protect their young impressionable hearts is thwarted by others who believe chasing
personal whims, without regard and respect of responsibilities to us and our family’s right to not be witnesses of counterculture
“modern” lifestyle variances, wrongly outdistances a common moderation of behavioral standards. Being alienated
from life as God provides in Christ, through the ignorance (ignoring one’s humility) that is in him, the blind, unregenerate
child of disobedience thinks lightly of sin. There is no respect and appreciation of God before his eyes.
Lust, pride, and selfishness are part of his everyday life – most often through the condemnation
of others who do not fit his perverted will. His attitude is, “Nobody is perfect!” and he is right about that
but in a wrong way. His dollars of self-righteousness appeases his accusing conscience. He misses pointing out evil works
and attitudes for the building up of people in victory over demonic persuasions through prayer and dedication.
He uses his “wisdom”, turned over upside-down and backwards, to profit through treachery.
Personally connected social desires prompt people into avoiding being involved in right responsibility because it gets in
the way of "play attitude" - causing delay. They do not realize the only created purpose for play is gratitude and appreciation
for honoring right responsibilities.
But, "play attitude" inverts everything to disadvantage when it is assumed tending to right responsibility
is created for the purpose of playing. That is why people steal from others and try to hide the destructive messes they make
- it is a game of "let's see who can get what from whom and laugh about it".
People usually do not want to solve right responsibility issues...
they do not want to talk about real things... They only want to talk about play and playing because right responsibility
seems less fun - except when it can be destroyed by delay as if the passing time makes it some sort of twisted false right
responsibility. And then, "play attitude" takes on increased intensity in running from the guilt playing against right responsibility
causes.
“That’s how I am! - That’s how he is! - That’s how she is! - That’s
how they are!” is the deceptive core persuasion people use to defend their fantasy perceptions. Day by day tensions
build through ignoring delays, play more deeply seats it's clever misuse of its reasons for being to compensate, and people
who are in the player’s cast-off balance suffer without so the players can have their fun.
Meanwhile, the downtrodden are in prayer; hopeful, waiting, and loving the deceived and confused
for God's sake... because He wishes none should be lost to exploitation of right responsibility to profit for play - except
life and living goes by... and will go by... because who as a human being should be "bigger than God" to give up what He has in His will?
Prejudice means to pre-judge. 'Everyone' automatically
assumes that stereotyping is a bad thing. That prejudice has something to do with labeling stereotypes. It is not the categorizing
into stereotypes that causes the problems - just as individualism vs. socialism rests in a balance of moderation of the two
with priority concerning personal choice. Prejudice is making malicious sport of others’ differences.
Personal choice means not folding into and under robotic general opinion that washes out any differences
of thought and recognition. So, respecting stereotypes, appreciating the differences for what they are, and standing against
unacceptable differences, is a better way to maturity than holding in ill regard anyone who intelligently chooses to live
their social awareness by aligning stereotypes according to their own requirements.
Boys is boys and girls is girls. They grow up to be men and women. Concepts such as “lifestyle”,
"sexual orientation", and “unconventional relationship” are bye-words - expressions of distorted understanding
based in cognitive/emotional confusion - a subconscious self-willpower derived from an un-human spirit (rousing persuasion)
of rebellion that masquerades itself using an indignant “right of free expression”.
But, true expressive freedom responsibly embraces standard and traditional rules of conduct and behavior
with respect for one’s own authority in cohesion with respect to higher authorities. The seeming paradox between free
will away from responsibility and free will through responsibility is most of why we have so many socially conflicting battles.
In many ways there is confusion as to what is generally healthy for everyone the same, and what is appropriate for some and
not others.
Therein is the internal source of a feuding attitude. When there is no distinction from basic applications
of behavior for everyone (primary rules) and specific differences of behavior for each to choose (secondary rules) there will
be nothing but increasing chaos unless and until the proper differences between the two are collectively realized.
The belief a person’s individual identity, as fixed to sexual orientation, is opinion stated
as fact. It is part of the confusion creating our social upheaval. Even though unconventional sexual orientation may be emotionally
binding and most likely a rigorous compulsion that increases with practice, the fact the conditions are less easily denied
by will of choice does not mean alternative lifestyles are not a choice.
If intimate relationship outside marriage between a man and a woman were to be generally understood
as illnesses, as in some societies, the assumptions that the conditions are not choices have more merit for argument, just
as someone may contract the flu. However, even sensibly considered as illnesses, there still remains a choice to search for
remedies.
The independent "me first" attitude that drives consumption of manufactured goods in order to increase
the "thrill of experiences" is why we are abandoning our better senses of self preservation by and through the preservation
and protection of others. When we care for our children, born and/or unborn, we are fulfilling our duty to ourselves and everyone
else.
Of course, there are specific and rare times tough and heart wrenching medical decisions need to
be made where someone loses - but, that is not the case in almost all of aborted children. It is a fact that most aborted
children do not have genetic defects and/or health considerations to warrant their life be extinguished.
Emotional considerations when weighing the alternatives of the quagmire involved in conflicting responsibilities
usually sway the mind to err toward “self-protective measures” over others. In cases involving involuntary pregnancies,
whether because of inattention to consequences, rape, incest, or what have you; the circumstances of conception do not give
anyone a right to remove the right of a child to live.
The reality of a 'viable life' is in whether an unborn child
would be alive as a human being, in any capacity, if allowed to continue to birth unmolested. We take someone with guilt ridden
ill-behavior; drag them down to the Gospel altar of salvation to rid them of aggravations in order to have a better example
for ourselves to follow – all the while expecting God to make of them a good citizen.
When human quirks and errors of havoc crop up, we then reason salvation as not doing its job, and
condemn our subject to an increasingly guilt ridden ill-behavior. “Outcome based Christianity” is a pick-and-choose-your-whim-of-Scripture
reversion to the retributive Law of Moses as if the Old Testament message needs no New Testament direction of conscientious
liberty.
While we are saved not by works, but by grace through faith, it reasonably follows we are not condemned
by our works – our separation from life in Christ is by fear through doubt. Right is right, no matter how we feel about
it - no matter the responsibilities a turn of events may bring. The purpose of the Church's preaching is to invite the non-caring
into the practice of caring.
It is not to condemn the non-caring into never caring. Jesus Christ bought and paid for this entire
planet and all who live thereupon. The church lovingly accepts people to share in growth out of the darkness of misdirected
motivations into better ways of understanding - while the process of the church does not accept some behaviors of the people
they accept.
A church cannot be a life and soul changing experience if there are no changes of heart and behavior.
It wouldn't, then, be a church. It would be more like a social club where the Word of better living has no actual effect.
Feeling sorry and in dismay for one’s self and others beings emotions that spin into thoughts about what cannot be done
and leads to identifying people with the state of affairs.
However, faithful empathy and compassion give to us knowing recognition, an appreciation, for opportunities
in what can be done by working to understand that people are not the situations that bind them. God does not provide verifiable
profile applications for admittance into Life. He already provided the purity of righteousness in our stead via His Son Jesus
Christ for “whosoever will”.
Matthew 7:7-8 says, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall
be opened unto you: For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds;
and to him that knocks it shall be opened.
Living is not about what we have become. Living is about who we are becoming.
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Scoffing
at the Wise
When we find ourselves tempted into scoffing over the fears, inadequacies, and shortcomings we believe
are binding others against our view of reality, we are binding ourselves to the very ways we claim to oppose. There is a cultural
self-invigorating emotionally motivated belief in results through resentful anger that draws on rage to overcome obstacles
and oppositions to self preservation, and thereby defense of others.
The devil wants people to believe that nobody gets into heaven without a fight. So, he gives to us
a fight to try to prove the deception. Any assumed strengths of character based in doing what is needed to do, because one
or another gets mad enough to work a situation through, undermines the very joys of loving-kindness and respectful integrity
in appreciating work for its positive attributes. What people call “Tough Love” is using of circumstantial controls
placed upon others to bring desired results.
Its torment is contrary to the Love from and of God in Christ and separates faith of the will of
the heart from realizing harmony in Truth through responsible sacrificial intercession. Nobody needs to be tested. Life and
living is enough of a test as it is. It is sadistic to test an individual or associated individuals with judgment, trials,
temptations, and hardship conditioning, to determine and/or train into acceptance their viable accountability.
Forcing people under the law of works serves to ruin the inherent capacities each person has to respond
to the witness of righteousness for faithful trust in who God creates everyone to be in Christ. Scoffing means we do not understand
our own place in living God’s expectations for us unto others and, therefore, means we do not understand other’s
rights in Christ to our and their dignity in improving all our lives. False justifying of one’s fears at another’s
cost directly denies faith-action’s justification in grace through mercy.
Aside from demonic influences and pressures to drive people against living in God’s creative
plans, the reason ignorance into pride reaches the self perpetuating levels of scoffing is our avoidance of trust in God where
we are unable to figure out our own solutions. We play others over and through a fence between our own perceptions and the
perceptions we force upon others to agree with our way. Scoffing is one of the
aspects of false pride that gives strength to mockery.
Idolatry is taking a good thing in its proper place and orientation and making it an ultimate thing
in its improper place and orientation. Scoffing is a ‘fear-based’ defense mechanism that reinforces itself by
projecting and transferring fear’s emotional intensity onto and into anyone who piques our defenses in opposition to
our own inadequacies.
Because we are unable to comprehend properly working through our own fears without a stable reliance
in Christ and His life through us, we errantly try to overcome our misunderstanding by forcing those whom we hold accountable
for life’s problems to capitulate to our will instead of respecting God’s will through their will.
Consequently, scoffing is also a display of jealousy where we do not understand means and ways foreign
to our own sense of security, protection, and will of choosing our purposes through our fascination with sensations. Self-righteous-indignation
(as different from righteous indignation) is because we are deceived in believing the basic rules of living, which apply to
everyone, are actively at our whim of choosing to change in the same way as the variances of personal choice within the rules
of life we find in our particular and unique awareness.
But, when we confuse personal choices of fulfillment as the same as choosing to ignore general responsibility
to common decency and respect for our reasons for being, we lose the very purpose God gave to us our ability to choose the
values and joys of living. So, we unwittingly allow an alliance with the “master of scoffers” (the enemy of mankind
and God – satan and his minions of following demonic hoards) by scoffing in others what we recognize is wrong in ourselves.
This reinforces our acceptance of the wrongs we wish to be rid of by validating the wrongs as wrongs
that must be hindered in order to achieve the strength of ‘anti-fear’ in the power of pride and self-edification.
Self-edification, based in compensating for the fears we adamantly rail against, is founded in those very fears and we reach
out to religious avenues of expression for their own merits and deny the reason the reality in religion is calling us through
the Gospel.
Then Jesus Christ becomes a false scapegoat for the building up of our egotistical self in the name
of God in a way where “spiritual wickedness in high places” is not speaking about those who are making a mess
of our world and our own ability to proceed in faith. Rather, it is actually speaking directly about ourselves and we deny
the possibility because our pride “in Christ” keeps us bound through spiteful retaliation substituting for responsible
thoughtfulness.
In our pride of false superiority we believe snooping into “inferior’s” interests
and possessions will punish them for their lack of support for our own weaknesses. Manipulation of others through implied
emotional persuasion is an attempt to eliminate the risks of being denied. Respecting another’s integrity to decide
their will to be what God supplies, or chooses not to supply, in their responses to our wishes rests in directly and honestly
asking our desires of them – especially to whom we are married.
This allows faith combined with genuine togetherness to oust out and overcome the “tricks-of-the-trade”
of tactless using displayed in the “tactful urging” of other’s cares and concerns. Also, it releases the
knotted pressures found in taking advantage of ourselves and others through the convoluted conflicts the valuing of people
as identified with circumstantial situations bring through selfish and willful compensations for personal fears of insufficiency.
Simply, the accusations we are under and the accusations we hold against others, are not of us but
of the adversary. It is true we and others are not living in perfection but we hold them bound to their imperfections by manipulating
wrong against right in efforts to find peace and order.
But, the chaos that results is through the same process where we deny people the privilege and dynamic
of faith in the one and only true God through His Son to mend and uplift the errant through grace and mercy rather than the
presumed intimidation, bondage, and separation thought to bring remorse unto a fear to disobey – oftentimes maliciously
arranged to appear as happenstance of providence.
A common anti-Gospel complacency based in the worldly wisdom of rugged independence can be found
in the phrase, “God helps those who help themselves.” A vengeful make-it-right-for-me-whatever-it-costs person
is persistently looking for sources (and continually ongoing sources) to focus their pride based esteem in the false god of
personal self-worth.
Rightful self defense against wrongs brought about by self and others connects, through temptation,
with internally depraved opportunistic exploitation, as a backdrop for false faith securities, in taking pleasure in standing
against people who are considered unworthy. These ‘others’ who are judged by humanly contrived right-over-wrong
conditional requirements, through their paying to support revenge based ‘restitution’, become physically and spiritually
bound to the holders of “civilized spite” called ‘just punishment’.
Whoever is working hidden greed to extract ‘due recompense’ from others whom they think
have caused great or small harm must ask their selves: “Who is it I am making pay for evils I do not fully understand…
and is that a greater evil?” We wouldn’t want to happen to ourselves what we see is happening to others and it
is counterproductive to disenfranchise ones we deem inferior to what we believe is our way by forcing hardship with regard
to circumstances and situations.
We cannot separate ourselves from sin by
separating from sinners. We cannot proclaim our Gospel witness by separating sinners from us. The Word carried in our heart
is not subject to the sinful confusion carrying other’s ways because the sins of condemnation placed against people
denies the purposes our faith exists.
As long as anyone is drawing the breath of mortal life, we must pray for, and help, him and/or her
to honor their responsibilities unto whom they are committed according to our and their respective places in Christ. They
were born into the world the same way we were and they must die away from the world the same way we will. The more angry we
are with what others do, and the harm we see them doing to themselves and others, the more they need our prayers and assistance
with respect to their own promises, desires, and will given to and by God.
Matthew 18:18-22
says, Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose
on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that
they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in
my name, there am I in the midst of them. Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus said unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times
seven.
“The love
of money is the root of all evil and gossip is the fruit of the tree.”
A
tough pill to swallow
Thinking is responses to what we know. What we know is from our awareness of
life, our will to choose, and our natural instinct. As we do the thinking for ourselves, thoughts necessarily compare with
expressed thoughts of others because our thinking is mostly formed by our learning experience. So, in order to make sense
of our thinking we must, in simple human terms, project our expectations of what others might expect of us to know that what
we are thinking is sensible and functional. Imagination needs reality as a backdrop for a control of standard our creativity
can deviate from to overcome the necessities of serviceable living.
While our need is to think our way to survive, we know everyone else is different
from us as individuals, and the same as being people with common to all needs. Thus, as we must think because to stop thinking
is to stop… being, the tendency is to do the thinking for others to have them think with us in order to better make
do with the living of living. Conflicts ensue when each other person is doing as we are to cause us to think as they do. We
and they lose who we are trying to be we think we need to be in establishing thinking that works for us and others, as well
as our own thinking that must work for us individually as distinct and different from those others.
Pinch me I feel it. Pinch you, I do not feel it, so my pain is more real to
me than it is to you – and, of course, the reverse. You may feel your pain differently than I do when pinched as your
voice is different from mine and your calculations and processing of life’s information is from your own perspective.
My viewpoint is not the same as anyone else’s and your viewpoint is not the same as anyone else’s. But, we must
agree about the things that are beneficial and the things that are not. Agreement brings better chances that we will make
it through a day better than if there were no cooperation.
All the above would be fine and well, if human life were simply the co-existent
interaction of people helping people to live healthy and well lives. Without realizing the purpose for living itself, everyone
who is unaware of why they are living is bound to this humanistic simplicity. The many people who believe that humankind would
be fine and well to believe natural life is reality, and anything else is fantasy, are fooling themselves by the ever-present
fact of evidence that nobody, no person, is purely matter-of-fact living in absolute reality as the plants and animals are.
Our awareness of our own existence gives to us the sense that there is purpose
to our living. We do not know what the purposes are, so we naturally identify with other “life forms” to see ourselves
as living to live. That means defending our self esteem to protect life in ways where opposition to our desires to achieve
and experience as we wish must attempt to be eliminated. It also means defending other’s self esteem to protect life
in ways that conform to our own perspectives is our ultimate imperative. It is miserably difficult for anybody to accept direct,
open, and honest leading and guidance when the general belief is people create and own their thinking.
If a single person were thought of as an ant colony and another cooperative
person to the first were also thought of as an ant colony, all would be well because ants do what ants do and have not the
anti-societal self-destructive individual will to choose against their own well being. When there are type differences and
territorial and resource supply conflicts between ant colonies, survival overtakes collaboration into battle and the fittest
survives – but, continued survival cannot be as if there had been no dispute. Nobody will ever see an ant laying outside
an anthill with sunglasses on slurping a drink while watching the other ants work.
Again, since people are not natural creatures as all other natural creatures
are, our particularly distinct human thinking that makes us uniquely pleasure fascinated, mechanistically progressive, as
well as self destructive through those same evilving propensities, is because we fear death (at least our own unless we are
browbeaten by terrorists who wouldn’t do themselves what they require their subjects to do) in ways where our thinking
is able to consciously contemplate how we came to be and our purposes for being. The reason we are confused about this is
“right in the looking glass”. It is because we are deceived into thinking our thinking is generated by our thinking.
To grasp our thinking that generates more and better thinking, we learn and
input experiences by the truckload to find satisfactions which poorly substitutes for safety, security, and peace. Because
we understand that the individual cannot collectively survive in the accumulation of knowledge and technological development,
we assume the culture of humanity has importance over an individual. Thus, we again try to identify with natural creatures
to rid ourselves of the unknown differences between ourselves and nature in how the functioning of nature works to maintain
its ways much better than people.
Thinking… Where does a person’s thinking that responds to stimuli
(whether internal or external) originate? A person’s unique and new thoughts did not originate before they lived, and
personal perspective based in the accumulation of varied experiences does not account for the mind-boggling ideas and behaviors
people devise. So, as people do possess awareness, will, and instinct, they possess the gift of the power to respond to thought…
but, people do not have the ability or capacity to generate thought. Thought comes from trusting faith in God through Jesus
Christ through interaction with those with whom we are involved, and/or thought comes from another source by trusting in the
self and others without Godly consciousness.
Since God’s desired plan for all humanity is perfect, whole, and without
all the hardships and troubles the world has been experiencing for ages, contrary thought to right living of and by human
beings is not produced by human beings, but an enemy (or hoard of enemies) who are able to subvert our right knowing about
who we are and why we have the lives to live we have. What we do have is the ability to pick and choose our decisions to respond
to our Godly, or otherwise, prompted thinking, in any situation and circumstance, as we see fit – with the clear trust
for God’s sake that anyone and everyone else is also cared for by Him to honor themselves by honoring Him and others
in their place unto each of us. (MB – 1978)
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