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Topic: Dale Pond
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Peace (or war) exists only in the minds of individuals. There is a small percentage of individuals in the world who deny peace and in fact demand war (in all its flavors). There is then a thought pattern for war permeating the global thought patterns. At times, like now, these few manipulate others to continue their push for more war. As Bashar said this morning: "You can understand the analogy of belief systems being like the blueprints of a building. The emotions are the builders -- the activation principles and energies that get the building built, and the behavior is the building materialÉ the thoughts and actions that you do." Unless we as individuals, taking the initiative, and do not command these three personal forces they will be commanded by others as happens too often today. Our belief systems are artificially created through propaganda and schooling, our emotions are used to elicit specific behaviors such as "go along to get along" or back war in its many forms. In America's case some of these types have seized control of our government on many levels if not all. Hence America has become a war-making tool completely against our founding principles and spirit what is in the hearts of most people. So, as individuals, to have peace we must do two things as individuals: 1) stop making war (in all its forms) 2) BE peace As Bashar so perfectly pointed out people's actions and behaviors are directly related to their belief systems. If a belief system encourages war, believers will be war-like. The four religions, party to the current war circumstances - Christian, Jewish, Muslem and Zionism - all have ideas of war, making war, revenge, etc. embedded in them. So adherents to these will, to some extent, believe in war, violence and "go along to get along" with such notions. They've all been taught, to some degree, that war in the name of their God is OK. God here can mean "money", "power", "political influence", "territorial imperative", "being right", you name the idol.... What would be positive is to have a belief system or religion that professes Peace and the Golden Rule as primary tenents. Something like what Christ and Buddha originally taught. But the ego of individuals demands to be right in their beliefs which of course implies everybody else is wrong and must therefore be destroyed, censored, caged or otherwise restricted. WAR! is all they want. A religion or organizaed belief system based on Peace is possible. An omni-shared belief system could be established wherein the Peace-advocating elements of these religions could be isolated and rejoined into a cohesive whole - dropping out ALL the discriminatory and war-like elements. These negative elements are not difficult to see by an objective and heart-felt analysis. Many in the world today have done just this but getting away from formalized religions altogether. Perhaps throwing out the baby with the bath water. |
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