reply to post by TheOneElectric
Bingo man, you got it. The key is to not live in fear. I have noticed a pattern, so please indulge me.
We are a judgmental lot, we humans. We very often, to the point of addiction in many, refuse to look at ourSELVES in the mirror. We then take all
those negative thoughts and emotions within ourself, the destructive ones, and we project them onto others all of the time. We project the positive
ones as well. The point is, when we judge others, we not only influence the behavior in others through our expectations, we also give those negative
spiritual aspects within ourselves free reign to wreck us subversively, from the subconscious realm. When we refuse to forgive, when we hate the
assumed negative aspects of others, we only attract those horrible, destructive qualities to fester in a world of passive influence over us. We
eventually think that all women are manipulative *****es, or that all men are dominant ***holes, for example.
Because we know how judgmental we are, we are a culture obsessed with image. We fight a mental war with ourselves in order that we can contruct the
proper image to present to others. The individual does not matter; it is only the image that is PROJECTED that is important. This is very key. The
wise ones in the past warned us about making graven images, about icon worship. Why? Because the image is false, an artificial recreation of
something else. And it is used to deceive and coerce others in a submissive position, a position of relative slavery.
What does faith in image get us? It gets us fear. Being trapped in image, in pretense and deception, it forces us to fear losing that image, of
deconstructing and then reconstructing to what we really are. The fear magnifies onto everything.
Because we fear, especially the fear of losing our image, we become engulfed in pride. The pride solidifies our ego space, so that we might not be
harmed in this world full of war, full of domination and submission rituals. However, this pride acts as a filter, as a veneer that blocks out true
influence. If you have two prideful people together, and we all are prideful to a certain extent, some more than others, they block out the other.
In fact, the prideful does not show himself to the other, for reasons to be explained. The level of pride we have is a direct reflection of the level
of insecurity which we hold onto. On the flip side, the level of humility in us is directly correlated to the current level of confidence which we
possess. Humility sees us as part of the whole, and when we see ourselves in that light, we have no problem in confiding in the whole; when we
confide in the whole, the sum of Others, we become more and more whole ourselves; we have less and less angles.
I have faith that when humility and confidence reach a certain culmination, one has a sort of awareness of the heartbeat that sustains life. We can
then be truly free and go in infinite directions, but only by keeping the whole perspective, by totally lacking any and all angles, all narrowed
ranges of view.
This pride, since it blocks willful influence (only allowing the sort that will strengthen the pride, or assumed ego), it leads to vanity, or looking
at oneself. When we look at ourselves without regard for others, without seeing any other perspective, we become narcissistic, totally wrapped up in
our (false selves). We then, since we lack all ture knowledge we could have learned, we are just a combination of characteristics that made it easier
for us along the way, we succumb to lust, or our animal instincts. These animal instincts, which are only simple programs in us, masquerade as the
divine, as the true self. The instincts lead to domination and manipulation, the most selfish raw machinations of the active and passive, of the
dominant and submissive. The Beast rules the world.
[edit on 22-7-2009 by orwellianunenlightenment]