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Topic: Dale Pond
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Belief Systems 2002, 07/10 All religions, whether state sponsored, "God" sponsored, soveriegn, old, new, social, tribal, etc., etc., are all, without exception, nothing more or less than a belief system hatched by the ego for the purpose of abating illusory fear. All such egoic founded thinking is based in fear, divisiveness, control, separation, hate, guilt, being right, condemnatory of others, selfish, demeaning and the list is as endless as rationalizations to support such fear-based and illusory belief systems. There isn't (to my knowledge) a single belief system (religion, way of life or philosophy) that is not founded within the rationalizations of the ego to protect itself from supposed annihilation. Those systems that fight the hardest to protect themselves from perceived persecution or attacking other belief systems are the most egoic and fear-filled. Love needs no defense. These belief systems then are not based in Love. They are based in Fear, which is to say, illusion. Bringing up "reasons" and rationalizations why we should hate, condemn, kill or destroy another belief system or its supporters is not being allowing or neutral. Such begs the real issue. It is a fallacy of the ego to believe there is "them" and "us" and of course "we" are right and "they" are wrong. Who's dream (egoic illusion, i.e., belief system) is more real? When I see various proponents of differing beliefs go at each other I'm always amazed because there is zero base in reality for either side. Look at it this way: One is either in a state of Love where there is no difference between souls or one is in a state of Fear where any perceived differences are rationalizations and justifications for not being in a state of Love. Religious belief systems or life styles are nothing more than beliefs (illusions). Organizations built up around these are without foundation in natural law. They are all meaningless in and of themselves. The reality hits home in how we each, within ourselves, understand who and what we are: isolated victims of our own illusions or coherent parts of a Greater Whole. We, as egos, are living out our illusions thinking they are real. And we will do just about anything to deny we are all of One Mind and Source. Because to do so means we must eat humble pie and admit we are wrong in our egoic arrogant thinking. This is death to the ego so the ego will fight til death of its host to prevent this supposed death. It will condemn, murder, wage war, lie, steal, cheat and calumniate through deception and guile, accumulate earthy power and wealth and keep same away from others thinking all the while it is doing this to protect itself from supposed fears. The problems in today's world appears to be caused by this or that religion, this or that political belief system or this and that social organization. None of this has any foundation because we each live in our own consciousnesses. It is within our own thoughts we meet each and every event and it is in our awareness we make our choices as to what these events mean and how we are going to react to the meanings we our selves have assigned to those events. So the only place or thing any of us have to deal with the world is in our own thinking. Our own thinking then IS the world insofar as we as individuals are concerned. None of this, of course, precludes the exist of God - presuming the definition of God as some resemblance to actuality |
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