Btw MC, I always appreciate your incitful posts, audio and otherwise.
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God created me free, not almost free....If i am not free it is because by fear i dont want to be free....We may enter this life as almost a blank slate, but often enough, or most often, our beliefs are the results of our own meaning making machine. It may not be by fear we are not free though, it may be the ignorance of not knowing what we don't know? I heard this story which serves as a great example of this phenomenon. A young married couple are in the kitchen and the wife has just cut the leg of ham into two large pieces, cutting through the bone. The husband asks the wife, why do you cut the ham in half? The wife says that her mother did it, and it tastes better that way. The husband makes no sense of this reply and some years later while his mother in law was there and his wife was baking ham, asks the mother, why does the ham taste better cut in half? Her reply was that the oven she had back then was too small, and to fit in the whole leg, she'd cut it in half, and it wasn't for taste at all. The grown wife had presumed in her childhood the reason, the meaning of the ham cut in half, and her mother wasn't even aware she had created a superstition about it. People don't like uncertainty, and so we give meanings to events in our lives, to explain why things have happened. Most often the meanings we have created are based upon a total lack of knowledge of all the facts, and much of these foundations of our beliefs are developed in our childhood. With little to draw upon as children, people make assumptions on the meanings, and often twist how events occurred to conform to these meanings, and then they affirm the meanings, incorrect meaning are the personal superstitions. Each of us carries our own personal superstitions, fears, limiting thoughts, beliefs for example that we are better or lesser than others. We shouldn't compare our weaknesses against another's strengths or vice a versa. We are all special, every single one of us, and because we are all special, we are also not special. Continue to be special, and allow others to be special as well, this will build up self esteem, not condescending others. Seeing our superstitions for what they are, the creation of our own making (delusions), and breaking free of them takes honesty and courage. It's by the letting go of Ego and embracing truth that we move past our fears, our superstitions. As for the Bible, what an enlightened contrast can be seen from the old to new teachings. And it would be interesting to discover the original unaltered texts, however as distinct sources have been found, for example texts found at the Qumran Caves, at least these copies show a great deal of the original scripts was most probably kept reasonably intact. I went to the exhibit in Melbourne Museum when they toured the world with some scrolls. I still have the book I bought from the Museum. @ghasley The roar of Moses' Triumph was heard throughout the hills. Joshua's Triumph was heard throughout the land. Old Testament bikers? |
Why are many health care workers quitting their positions? Maybe those people who are in the actual business of healthcare actually know some things first hand that people who read and watch mainstream media don’t?? Just a thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GukIoZ8d3Ew |
Why are many health care workers quitting their positions? Ive heard its because they’ve grown weary of the wait for their Moabs to ship? Others believe those leaving the profession are tired of the overcrowding of the system caused by the unvaccinated OR they are leaving the profession because of the vaccine mandate many health care employers have implemented OR they are sick of their professions being politicized. Like everything else in the universe, its likely a combination of these. I assure you it isnt the Bilderbergers or George Soros or the woes of the supply chain. |
Great reply rix.... thanks...God created me free, not almost free....If i am not free it is because by fear i dont want to be free....We may enter this life as almost a blank slate, but often enough, or most often, our beliefs are the results of our own meaning making machine. But ignorance about anything never impede a free creative gesture ( a tasting gesture for 2 half baked chunk of ham)....Fear do... Ignorance about the real reason behind the ham half-cut, can allow for a creative compensation : the taste seems and perhaps is different.... It is very different to roast a big chunk of pork or two smaller one... Ignorance is not only an anvil it may be also a springboard...The choice is sometimes ours.... And yes we do not entered life like an absolute blank slate, like you justly said with the cautionary word " almost".... We come from an another world which memory is imprinted in us...And in this world ignorance and knowledge are wedding mates and there is no fear.... «Ignorance create sometimes fear, but fear always create a darker ignorance»-Anonymus Smith «Ignorance like knowledge come with the same hues scale»-Anonymus smith «Ignorance and knowledge converge and meet in the absolute, they diverge in this world of illusion»-Anonymus Smith «Fear separate ignorance from knowledge, free love reunite them»-Anonymus Smith «Do you past retirement time talking gibberish?»-Groucho Marx 🤓 |
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