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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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Black

Pain, severe, excruciating, unfathomable, endless pain. Misery, sorrow, grief, depression. Desire for death, desire to stop existence, and desire to never have existed. Fear, judgement, and punishment. Darkness, emptiness, and nothingness. These are our nightmares in which we attempt to create a false reality. When we live within this false reality that we have created in which we appear separate from you, as if it were possible, all the apparent darkness comes along with this false reality.

When we are children and are awaken by a nightmare, we are assured by our Loving parents that it was just an illusion, same as the troll hiding under our bed to turn us to stone as soon as we are left alone is an illusion within our mind. We as children believe the nightmares to be real and need a Loving parent to assure us otherwise. We transform into adult sized bodies but still hold onto the nightmare from childhood and create new nightmares. We become trapped within our own nightmare and believe ourselves to be apart from you or we worship one aspect of you and idolize that one aspect and call that one aspect of you God and claim we know all of you.

Having never left you, for that would be impossible, you remain patient and assure us that we are safe, and no harm may fall upon us. We get so lost in our nightmares that we find it hard to hear you or feel you or to know that you are there. We get so lost in our nightmares that we start to believe that our pain and suffering are real and are actually happening to us, instead of seeing our "pain" for what it is, which is just a nightmare and when we awake, all pain and suffering will be shown to us for what it is, which is just an illusion of our own making within our mind.

In our stubbornness we refuse to listen to reason and logic which tell us that we are safe and that we are not alone and that we are Loved. Within our nightmare we use logic and reason that aligns with our nightmare, and we refuse to look at any other reason or logic that would contradict our reason and logic remaining trapped within our own nightmare created by the self that we are dreaming is separate from you.

In your infinite patience, you allow us to remain in our nightmare as long as we please all the while holding us and reassuring us that all is ok. Because we are so determined to live within our nightmare and not wake up to you, we force ourselves to dive deeper and deeper into the nightmare until we inevitably end up right back where we started having never gone anywhere.

As we dive deeper into the pain and terror within our nightmare, we are shown the pain and terror for what they are which are part of our nightmare. The more pain and terror we face the more we start to doubt our own nightmares reality. We chase pain, we chase death, and we chase terror. None of which we can ever seem to find no matter how hard we try. Those around us within this nightmare appear to die and we use their apparent death as proof that we too shall die and therefore are most definitely abandoned by you.

We condemn you, we damn you, we hate you, we worship you, we preach about you, we plead with others to believe in you or not to believe in you depending on our own personal belief about you, as if believing in you or not would change your existence or anything about you in anyway whatsoever. Just as a child may not dream of their parents while asleep and therefore may not be aware of their parents' existence while in the dream, which doesn't make their parents vanish into thin air. The child simply isn't dreaming of their parents but when the child awakes, they will still see their parents and know them for who they are. We sin, we make mistakes, and we fall from grace. We fight we each other, we fight with nature, and we fight our universe all in our attempts to make our nightmare real.

Despite our greatest efforts to prove our nightmare real, you remain with us at all times reassuring us forevermore that all is ok and there is nothing to fear. Just as a parent will hold their child during their nightmares, you hold us during ours. In all your Loving grace for us, you will turn our nightmares into peaceful dreams. No nightmare shall remain, and only peaceful dreams shall remain. When we awake to see your face in all its stunning majesty and Love, we will know within that Holy Instant that you never left us and that we were never in any danger. For we were always with you and you with is. We Love you, you are perfect, you are Holy, you are the one and only. We are nothing without you and everything with you. You are the light to our darkness, and you are the darkness leading us back to the light. 

We need not pray for anything since all is provided with excess, for our will is one. You need not our gratitude since you give with or without. We need not pray for grace since your grace is always with us. We need not pray for forgiveness just as a child would have no need to apologize for a dream they had. We need not pray for peace and joy since that is our natural state. We need not pray for Love since Love is all there is. It is only due to our belief in our dreams and nightmares that we believe that we need anything for with you all is well. How much greater is the Love of the source and creator of all there is, than that of figure within a dream. Love and Peace!
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Orange

I see you in the brightest pastel colors of the sunset as the world becomes engulfed in perfect alignment with our soul

I dream of you night after night, I long for you while I am awake, always with me, always in my mind, never ceasing, never relenting, never surrendering
When given the pleasure to indulge in your sweet aroma, I inhale every molecule of your scent as to merge our essence into one

Time and space have no significance to us, our Love flows beyond all that is and all that ever was

Our Love extends beyond these forms that we call home in to the marrow

None of the illusions that surround us can ever crack the foundation of our Love, for we see past all of them as our souls are one

The slightest glimpse of your lips turned towards the heavens from the joy that overflows your heart, is enough to stop mine forever more

One instant with you is an eternity of pure bliss, one instant without you is enough to drive one mad with utter insanity

Passion flows from the depths of my soul for you out of the well that your Love replenishes

I long for your embrace, I yearn for your presence, I am in awe of you

Take me, engulf me with your Love, I long for nothing else, I wish for nothing else than to be one with you forever, no more the two, just one

Thought no more, sorrow no more, pain no more. Nothing except for everlasting peace floating in a cloud of Love
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Is Knowledge Reliable?

What if everything we think that we know is wrong? All of the information and knowledge that we have today is built up throughout the history of humans. Today we still don't have all the knowledge available to us. Humans living centuries in the future will know more than we know now but it will still be built from our knowledge which was built from the knowledge of the past. What if we got it wrong as a whole? Maybe that's why we can't all seem to agree on anything. It seems as if there were a truth to the universe, we would all know and agree, truth doesn't need to be questioned or defended or debated. Truth just is. So, what is the truth of the universe? Does the universe have a truth or is it all just random?

How does our knowledge get passed along and which knowledge is chosen to be passed along? Who gets to choose what knowledge gets passed on? Knowledge like everything else in this world is about the ego. History is written by the winners. What type of knowledge have we missed out on due to mass casualties or genocides? How much knowledge did we lose when civilizations just up and vanished throughout history?

Scientific theories are rejected due to being fringe science only to be accepted later into mainstream science. All of our religions are just separate variations of early humans' religion. New prophets or revelations come along, and new religions are formed. We humans think we know everything, and it is only when we start trying to collect knowledge that we learn we never had it and never will. We realize we know nothing. When we accept that we know nothing we see that we know everything. The kind of knowing we inherently have comes from wisdom instead of knowledge. Wisdom comes from within while knowledge appears to come from without. 

Wisdom is our inner knowing, our conscience, our gut, or our instincts. We know nothing and God knows everything. God shares his wisdom freely and willingly to any and all who will listen. God is always speaking to us, guiding us, teaching us, helping us, comforting us, comforting us, and supporting us. The Holy Spirit connects us to God so we can hear God. The Holy Spirit speaks to us in whichever means we will hear. We all hear God differently and have different beliefs. We spend so much time attempting to prove that we know more than God, or that we know ourselves better than the God who created us. We rebel against God.

If we truly believed God, we would believe God when God repeatedly tells that there is nothing to fear. We would believe God would never abandon us. We would believe that God not only Loves us but is in fact Love itself. We would believe his son who he sent to share the good news of Love and forgiveness and atonement. We don't believe God because we believe that we already know all that we need to know. We believe that we know more than God and we use everything in this world as proof to that "fact". 

God has never left us, not ever, not even for a second. God has never looked away; God has never left anyone. How can God, the creator of all, ever leave his own creation? How could that be possible? If even God could somehow leave God's own creation, God wouldn't want to. God's Love is endless and doesn't give a fuck about anything you have ever done or will do. We can't fathom a Love like God's because of the love that we made that worships forms instead of the source itself. Love and Peace!
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Be Kind

Be kind. It costs nothing to be kind and its value is beyond that of all the gold and silver. Kindness is forgiveness, kindness is charity, and kindness is a gift for everyone. Kindness is contagious and kindness spreads. Kindness is joyous for both the giver and the receiver. Kindness is blind and kindness doesn't care who gives or who receives it. Kindness can come at any time to anyone and from anyone. We all have kindness within as kindness is our natural state.

What good does it do to be mean to another? Meanness is an attempt at creating chaos and appearing to drain the energy of all involved. Meanness divides, meanness separates, and meanness creates loneliness. Meanness is never necessary and always uncalled for.

Be kind to yourself and "others". Be kind to life and to death. Be kind to fear, sorrow, anger, joy, grief, desires, dreams, and thoughts. Be kind to love and to hate. Be kind to friends and to enemies. Be kind to the mistakes in the world we made. Be kind to nature and our planet that we call home. Be kind to the universe. Just be kind.

Hurt people, hurt people. Meanness is a result of pain. Being kind to the meanness heals the pain hidden underneath. Being kind to the pain eliminates the pain all together. Pain is simply a call for Love from a dream of separation. Kindness awakens us from our dreams of pain and separation to the reality of what is. We can never be alone therefor there can never be pain. Pain is only pain when we think we are alone and separate. 

A hug from a close friend or family member will take that pain away. Crying on someone's shoulder will take that pain will. In an effort to prove pain real, we attempt to isolate ourselves in order to keep our pain. We convince ourselves that we are alone and in pain. Reality is we are always surrounded by Love and kindness we just don't want to look at it because we know it will shatter all the illusions we have made within our minds about our reality. Love and Peace!
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Ten Rules Of Love

The first rule of love is to love God. The second rule of love is to love your family despite how unsafe they may be to your wellbeing. The third rule of love is you cannot feel romantic love for more than one person at a time. The fourth rule of love is you are not allowed to love someone who doesn't reciprocate that love. The fifth rule of love is you absolutely cannot tell someone that you love them on a first date or upon first meeting someone. The sixth rule of love is that only certain people are deserving of it as long as they have the same set of beliefs. The seventh rule of love is it's "immoral" to feel romantic or sexual Love towards someone of the same gender or sometimes different ethnicity. The eighth rule of love is that love can be given and taken on a whim and be used as reward and punishment. The ninth rule of love is that love can and will be used as a weapon. The tenth rule of love is that love is transactional.

These are simply ten rules out of thousands upon thousands of rules concerning love. This is the type of love that we made, this is not real Love but only a concept of love that we made in an attempt at replacing Love with a love of our making. This love we made came about due to believing that we are separate from everything. As if we are somehow outside of the universe looking into it. Since we believe that we are separated and alone and don't want to be alone, we made the love of this world which is only a very faint dimmer of true Love's majesty.

The love we made that does not exist also has hate permentaly attached to it, they go with each other and cannot be separated. Within the love that we made we can chase love but are always running from hate or we can chase hate and are always running from love. If we go far enough into the love that we made it will lead us to hate. If we go far enough into hate, it will lead us back to love. If we go beyond the love that we made and the hate that comes permentally attached, we are able to see Love in it's true form. Unaltered by our ideas of it, unchanged by our thoughts about it, unfazed by our belief or disbelief in it, and Holy Eternal. How can we hate when we know not love?

True Love's beauty can only be seen by looking past the love that we made. We let go of love and hate and walk into the perceived abyss, only to realize we gave up nothing. True Love has no opposite, true Love has no enemy, and true Love is endless and ceaseless. True Love doesn't judge or condemn, true Love doesn't forgive since true Love sees nothing which needs to be forgiven, and true Love accepts all. True Love has no opposite since true Love never ceases. We simply use the form of one individual as our "proof" that the love that we made can and will end and therefore hate will inevitably have to make an appearance. When we go beyond the perceived forms in which we see ourselves as separate beings and we Love everything equally without question, without doubt, and without unwavering conviction. We see Love in it's truest purest form. True Love is indescribable and unimaginable to anyone who believes in the "love" that we made.

Love doesn't care if you love it back. Love doesn't care if you ever think about it or if you believe in it. Love doesn't care if you have hate in your heart, Love sees hate for what it is, which is nothing. Love doesn't care if you ignore it, or try to suppress it, or seem to be fearful of it. Love just Loves endlessly, quietly, peacefully, gracefully, and without ever needing anything in return. Everyone is worthy of Love, everyone is deserving of Love, everyone has Love, and everyone is Love. Love is all there is, and we don't even need to look for it. All we need do is stop trying to prove to ourselves otherwise. When we choose to "find" Love, we simply make the choice to let go of the love and hate that we made in an attempt to replace what we thought we had lost.

We are Loved, we are Love itself, everything is Love, Love is all there is. When we allow ourselves to see true Love we cannot deny it's majesty and truth. The love and hate that we made need to be defended in order to keep them "real" in our minds. When we feel the need to defend love or hate, we know that we are believing in a figment of our imagination which will always result in fear. When we exist within the center of Love we feel nothing but joyous peace. Love and Peace!
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