Discussions

Within my discussions I may appear to take certain “sides” of a discussion, I will appear to have certain beliefs and be appearing to defend them. I make no claim to any immutable beliefs.

My goal is not changing anyone’s beliefs, but to simply help us to look at the origin of them. Show life from a new perspective.

I welcome any and all feedback, disagreements, opinions, viewpoints, and thoughts.

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Dr. Stephen Abdiel Dr. Stephen Abdiel

Mouths

Our mouths are solely for ourselves. Our mouths are wholly selfish. Our mouths were created for our own sake. Everything that goes in the mouth and comes out of it are for our own sake. Our mouths lack the ability to be selfless. Our mouths lack the ability to do for others. Our mouths lack the desire to do anything for others. The sole purpose of our mouths is for us and no one else. Everything we do with our mouths, make us feel better. Our mouths can't do anything for anyone outside of ourselves.
We eat food with our mouths which is for us to get nutrition, to stay alive. We drink water with our mouths to stay alive. We put alcohol, sugar, salt, drugs, pills, cigarettes/vapes, and all sorts of other things in our mouths for our own pleasure. When we kiss someone, we do it because it feels good on our lips. We suck on things with our mouth as a form of soothing and comfort. Babies naturally do this until it is taught out of them. The words we speak are for our own sake. We use our mouths to speak of our accomplishments, achievements, feats, and to brag about ourselves. 
Even when we use our mouths to tell others nice things, we are still doing it for our own sake because it makes us feel good about ourselves. When we tell others that we Love them, we do so because it makes us feel good, we do it because we want to express what we are feeling inside. When we give someone a compliment with our mouth we do so because we like to see others happy, we compliment in order to feel good inside ourselves.
There isn't a single thing that our mouth can do that isn't completely selfish. The more we use our mouths, the more it feeds the sense of self and the less we see others all around us. The more we use our mouths, the more selfish we become. Why do so many of us find it so hard to close our mouths? Why do so many of us find it so hard to listen to others without having the incessant need to open our own mouths to give them our opinions or solve their problems for them, or to simply take over and make it about ourselves in any way possible.
The mouth is the window to the ego. Want to quiet the ego? Close the mouth. Love and Peace!
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When I Die

When the sword of nothingness ends my life, I will laugh at those who mourn my death. - Rumi

When I die, I'll shed this worn and tattered body. For those around me who are still using their bodies, I will appear to have gone away. For me it will be no different than what I have always known. I will simply blink and continue on. When I die there shall be no grieving for things lost since there is no loss. My body shall be placed in the ground to be returned to its mother from whence it came. My body becoming nourishment for mother after being nourished by her throughout its stay in this world.
Those who know me best will be by my side. When I die, those who have already left their bodies behind and who have never left me will be there. Those who are still using their bodies will grieve my body's touch and smile. They will shed tears of joy over the loss of the body, but that grief will soon be replaced with joy by the wisdom that tells them I haven't gone anywhere and am still with them. 
When I die, I will be dancing on my own grave. Dancing for joy, dancing for the beauty of it all, and dancing for Love. When I die, I want those who know me best to party along with me. Death is a celebration, not a gloomy affair. When I die, I send an open invitation to anyone who would like to party with me. Smoke your weed, drink your wine, sing, dance, be joyous, play music, have sex and eat to your hearts content. Life is beautiful and mysterious and is a miracle.
When I die, I will still be here patiently waiting for those who come along after me. Love and Peace!

We should say farewell to our loved ones with no more grief than would be natural were they starting on a long journey on which they would be absent a number of years, for we will see them again, when we follow them, just as surely as on earth if we journeyed to their new home.

- Curtiss

Realms of the Living Dead

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Omnism

Omnism is the respect of or belief in all religion. All religions point to the same God. The different paths to God such as religion are like a bunch of boats spread out on a lake at night and all the boats are heading in the direction of the moon. All the boats can see the moon and it looks the same from every one of their perspectives but the light from the moon is being reflected onto them from different angles, so they are all receiving separate but equal reflected light. Same moon for all boats but different light from the moon. To each boat it appears as if the other boats are going the wrong direction since all the boats are supposed to being going in the same direction. The boats then fight over which boat is right and which boat is wrong when they are all seeing the same moon and going to the same place, they are all just taking different paths to get there.
All paths lead to the one true God. Religions are some of the paths that are available to God but ultimately there are infinite paths to God. Every single one of our individual paths inevitably lead to the one true God.  Some religions teach how to know God, some religions teach the letting go of everything that isn't God, some religions don't recognize a God at all, and some religions worship hundreds of Gods. All religions are equal and valid. God is Love. All religions lead to God. All religions lead to Love. 
The Holy Bible says God Is Love in 1 John 4:7-21 (ESV). The bible gives us an image of God in order for us to be able to have a comprehension of God at all. The bible tells us what God is, which is Love while giving us a father figure in order to associate with Love. Since humans live in world of individual forms, we can't grasp certain concepts without using forms to understand it and realize it. The bible gives us God the father who punishes us and protects us. A father who created us and who didn't always make sense to us but who told us just to trust in him and know that he has our best interest at heart even though sometimes it may feel like punishment. A father who sometimes appeared to make mistakes or contradict himself, but who always knew what he was doing. 
The bible then tells us that God is Love so we start to associate Love with the father figure provided within the same bible. We start to see what Love is, we start to understand how to give and receive Love. We are taught what Love is in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. The purpose of religion is to realize God. God is not a form, God is Love. The bible teaches us Love so we may Love. When we Love, we experience God, the more we Love the more we experience God. The more we experience God the more we know God and the more we know God the more we know ourselves since we all came from God. Eventually everything and everyone just becomes Love eternal, the one true God.
The most prominent Abrahamic religions are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. They, alongside Samaritanism, Druzism, the Baháʼí Faith,[3] and Rastafari,[3] all share a common core foundation in the form of worshipping Abraham's God, who is identified as Yahweh in Hebrew and called Allah in Arabic. These religions worship the same God which is the God of Abraham they just have different prophets or their beliefs about certain details split over time. They all worship the same God and God is Love.
Eastern religions tend to focus on the letting go of the self or ego which is essentially everything that isn't pure Love. Since we are all children of the same God which is Love, we are all Love. Everything outside of Love is an illusion that we created in this world of forms. When we let go of the forms of this world is releases the light from within until we see the light that we are. We no longer see forms, only Love. These eastern religions tend to focus more on meditation and mindfulness in an attempt of realizing enlightenment which the release of everything that isn't Love.
Jesus was a poor carpenter who Loved the world so much that he gave up his life for it. Buddha was wealthy beyond belief and knew nothing but a life of luxury who walked away from everything he knew in order to attain enlightenment. Different religions show us that all can find God, whether wealthy or poor. Since all religions lead to the same God just in different ways, there is no right or wrong religion. Just different paths. Love and Peace!
There are hundreds of religious books yet they are all one chapter, there are a hundred different holy places yet only one altar. - Rumi
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The World I Know

The world I know has nothing wrong with it. There is no such thing as evil or moral, good or bad. There is only Love and Love is all there is. Fear is only an illusion that was conjured up. The world I know is nothing like the world I was taught about. The world I know is filled with mystery, joy, play, kindness, and Love. There is no pain in the world I know, only opportunities to become stronger and more courageous. The is no imperfection and no one is broken, and we all deserve Love. There is no sickness or disease. Only peace and harmony. 
Everything is alive in the world I know, and everything has its own personality. Animals, plants, insects, rocks, elements, music, and thoughts are all alive and are in constant communication with each other. In the world I know langue is not required since all life communicates with itself. Words do not need be spoken to understand any living thing. When I breathe, I am at one with the plants, when I consume, I am at one with the life I am consuming, and when I Love I am at one with everything. When my body dies it shall be consumed back into its mother. 
I ask and the universe provides. Often, I don't even need to ask for in order to receive a gift from the universe. The universe is constantly gifting me things. The universe guides me along my path and gives me clues as what direction to go next. The experience of pain is no longer feared and fought. Pain is encountered with excitement, since I know that I am about to learn something really good. Pain leads to the best discoveries.
The world I know is as mysterious as it is known. The world I know is just an illusion of separation so we may play and find joy. We are Love discovering ourselves. We are one spirit in many forms. We are perfect, we are light, we are holy, and we are Love itself. Sadness is just a doorway to the Joy inside. Fear and anxiety are life guides and friends. 
There is nothing to fear in the world I know. There is no death and there is no separation. Peace is unity is all there is. Where all are one. Where we are all clones of God. No one is ever alone in the world I know. Everyone is always surrounded by other forms, seen and unseen with the body's eyes. Everyone is always watched and looked after, not as a way of making sure we are behaving, but out of Love so in turn no one is watched. No one is judged, no one is condemned, and no one is beyond Loves reach. Everyone is Love whether they admit it or not. We play a game of hide and go seek with our Love. Everything is a game, everything is play, and everything is fun. 
There is nothing to fear in the world I know and any thoughts that say otherwise are simply uninformed. Fear can only exist if there is something to fear and there is nothing to fear, therefor fear cannot exist. No one can do "wrong" in the world I know. Hell is only real to those who want it to be real. The world I know is heaven and there is where I'll stay.
In the world I know, there is no need, there is no want, for I have everything I want and need. I have everything I will ever want for eternity. I am safe, I am Loved, I am taken care of, and I AM. Love is all there is. Life is like a cartoon where you're walking through a field full of wildflowers where the birds are singing, and the animals are playing. Where you seem to float through the field a couple inches off the ground singing your heart out like you're a Disney princess or prince. The sun is jamming along with a groovy smile on his face. The plants and the trees dance and sway to the music with the wind. The fish do acrobatic dancing in the stream while the frogs play the turtles shells like drums. 
In the world I know that is like a cartoon, I am living in the happily ever after. In the happily ever after, there are no more bad guys coming to get you. There are no antagonists or protagonists. There is no mission to complete, or some obstacle to overcome. It is just the happily ever after. Where life is happy, the day is saved, and 
I have everything I want, I have more than I could ever need. I live a life of peace and joy. I am always surrounded by those who Love me. I am always taken care of. I always have someone to talk to or to keep me company. I have no enemies and only friends. No one is out to get me, and I don't have to look over my shoulder for anyone or anything. I don't need to do anything, and I can't do anything wrong. Where life is awesome.
How did I find this world that I know? I looked for Love and I found it. I found Love in everything around me, I found Love in everyone around me, and I found Love within myself. I found Love everywhere I looked and all else vanished. God Is Love. I spent years trying to "find" God and trying to figure out who God is. Turns out that all I needed to do was Love. It is only by embracing Love that we are able to find God. We become one with God. God is Love and when we Love we embody God. Love is the only way to know God, Love is the only way to experience God. God is Love.
The holy bible (ESV) mentions Love 745 times in 652 verses. It also mentions in 1 John 4:8, Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. The bible explains very clearly that God is Love and the way to know God is to Love. Yet we come up with every excuse we can think of to not Love. We look for God in some form, we are so convinced that we are our body that we think that when the bible says that we are made in his image (Genesis 1:27) that it is referring to our bodies and we waste our time looking for a God that has a human form. God is Love, we are made in his image, which is Love. God is Love; we are Love. When we live within Love, we are living within the true living God. When we Love, we become one with God. All our problems and worries melt away into the sea of nothingness from which they came. 
Want to know God? Want to live in heaven with God? Want to have peace and joy? LOVE is the answer. Love has always been the answer and Love will always be the answer. Love is the only way to know God. One cannot know God without knowing Love. Unbiased, unjudgmental, unconditional Love. Love and Peace!
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What Is Reality?

Reality is whatever we make it, we are the reality makers. We find what we seek, we see what we are looking for. If we want to believe the universe is against us, or God has some vendetta against us, we shall surely suffer. We can be anyone we want to be who lives in any kind of world we want to live in. We can use the suffering and misery that we endure and turn against the world; become a helpless victim to circumstances. We can be bitter, angry, and just plain mean if we choose to be and that will be the world we live in. We can live our life choosing to believe that we have no control over anything and believing that "bad things" just happen to us. We can choose to be frustrated over every obstacle that comes our way. We can choose to constantly blame others for our misery instead of taking responsibility for our own lives. We can choose to see the world as evil and corrupt. We can choose to live in hell, or...
We can choose to trust the universe and believe that God is on our side. We can use our suffering and misery as opportunities to grow, evolve, and learn. We can choose to be a hero on a quest instead of a helpless victim. We can be accepting, joyous, and kind and we will see the world that way. We can live our life choosing to take control over our lives and realize that there are no "bad things" that happen to anyone only opportunities. We can choose to be grateful for every obstacle that comes our way. We can take responsibility for our own lives and stop blaming others. We can choose to see the world as honest and good. We can choose to live in heaven. We choose whether we live in heaven or hell, and we choose what type of heaven or hell we live in. 
There is a video game called Life Is Strange True Colors and in this video game, you can make decisions throughout the game which will affect the outcome of the game. Every decision you make affects every other aspect of the game in ways that you won't know until later. You play this game making the best decisions you can and hope for a good ending. We do this with all video games we play. We can choose to follow the laws in GTA and play a peaceful game or we can choose to break the laws and end up in a police chase or being killed.
Our life works the same way as video games. Every decision that we make in our world has a direct result to another aspect of our life. Every action we take has a result. We can choose to live a peaceful life and keep to ourselves, or we can choose to be criminals and run from the police. We create our own karma, there is no one to blame for how our lives are, except for ourselves. We choose our lives with every decision we make, with every action we take, and with every belief that we have. Some of us choose to pretend that we aren't in control of our own lives and like to blame everything else for how our lives are. When we take responsibility for every decision that we make, we can see very clearly that there is literally no one to blame. 
If a child has a shitty life, it is not their fault, and they are not to blame. A child is never to blame. As we grow into adults, we develop the ability to take responsibly and change our lives. A child in an abusive home often isn't given the option to choose how their life plays out, but once that child is an adult they can leave that abusive situation and become whoever they want to be. As adults, there is no one to blame but ourselves. There isn't any situation in which we can't change as an adult. 
Live your life as a video game. Take responsibility for you character that you create (self).  Think through every situation and make an informed decision and if you can't decide, go with your gut. Never doubt a decision that you make, never second guess yourself, and just trust yourself. Stop blaming anyone else for how your video game of life plays out. Believe that you are safe in this world you have created for yourself. Create your own stats and achievements. Raise your stats, raise your achievements, and raise your talents. When you play your own life as a video game in which you are a character who can change their own stats, life becomes a game. Life becomes fun, interesting, and mysterious. Life becomes exciting and exhilarating. 
So many of us take this life too seriously. We have to be this or that, we have to do this or that. We can't do certain things, so many rules and certain ways to act within a society. Some of us are playing a really boring life as our characters. Some of us are taking this game of life way to seriously. Who says life has to be serious and can't be fun? Who says we can't approach life the same way we approach a video game? If video games aren't your thing, you could also live your life like a movie, or a book, or a piece of art, or like music. It's your life, you can live it however you want to, you get to decide, you choose your character, you choose how it plays out. You choose whether you're living in a tragedy, comedy, drama, romance, musical, porn, or mystery. Love and Peace!

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