Life Matters, E.C.Nemeth [robert munsch read aloud .TXT] 📗

upon beyond what has been said about them throughout this work. If we could only admit the underlying reason for it there might be a chance to correct the error.
The question left hanging, as always, is: Are we ready?
God of fear
Concepts are not evil and can be used as easily to reconcile the contradictions we seem to find all around us. But as has been stated earlier, we must be trained to see the evidence in support of those new concepts. So, if it is proposed that all things are connected and nothing is ever separate, alone or isolated we must learn to see in a brand new way. And before we can see we must learn that at the moment we cannot see correctly. We must have a motivation to change, which means there must be proof already evident that can be understood. This has been the goal all along; it has been this point we have been aiming for with these many words.
Concepts, as they are employed today, are a vehicle for the complete delusion of the self. Concepts rely upon the intellectual trick of removing the area of study from the rest of the universe. Removing the concept from the context that it was immersed in erases the concept's meaning and substitutes a mental construct with no connection to the environment that gave it existence. In such an illusory world, there is literally no concept that cannot be conceived of. Everything is possible - this has been the stance of this book from the outset but it is only now that the truth can be divulged. Everything is possible because none of it is real. It is all equally unreal.
Perhaps here is a good place to begin a study of good and evil, although the reasons have all been explored before. We cannot unravel this universal ruse without first understanding that nothing detrimental ever happens anywhere to anything or anyone. That is a hard pill to swallow and from our position as believers in concepts it is observably not true. If the context of the situation, any situation, is considered it would be quite obviously a true statement but it is so difficult to extend beyond our little boxes even just to peak outside of them.
Good and evil are moral and ethical viewpoints based on the fear of being found out. We fear we will see through our deception and find our true selves totally unscathed by all the pretending. The fear extends beyond even that, it seems to us, and should we find ourselves brave enough it would bring us face to face with our greatest fear of all. We fear, above all, the righteous retribution of our Creator for our transgression against God’s Laws. We fear God will find out we intended murder to usurp the throne of creation.
This is why we judge: to distribute the blame and to downplay our personal portion of the total liability. In this way we can rest assured that others are more to blame than we ourselves are. This mitigates the fear of being found out by the transference of a certain portion of the enormous burden of guilt we each carry to others more deserving of it.
The fear of God is enormous. It is so strong in us that most of us would rather pretend our small group is the only ones in God’s favor and that the rest of humanity be damned. We would rather go to oblivion obliviously than even consider looking this fear head on. But our hearts aren’t in it like in the good old days. If we are not bored of it we are at least tired of all the gloomy pretending.
We feel our hearts growing heavy. How much more pain can we ignore - both in ourselves and others, we wonder when we think we are alone. Beneath our public faces this fear of God rattles us to our very bones.
Can you acknowledge this fear? If you refute it then do you judge? Have you judged another and found them wanting? Judgment of any kind is the concepts of good and evil doing battle within your soul. Are you at war or at peace? If you are at war, you fear God. If you are at peace, you have clearly looked at your fear and chose to go beyond it.
Look at the world you see in light of this fear you attempt to ignore. Does it color the events and people in it? Does it gnaw at your spirit, freezing you to the spot in indecision? Are you shy? Do you feel worthless? Or do you embrace life, running out to meet it with joy and innocent wonder in your heart?
The concepts of good and evil are compromise positions designed to separate by dividing and conquering the well-intentioned. Any position is defensible in terms of good and evil, from the tenets of the atheist to the fervent faith of the fundamentalist and extremist of many denominations. Laws and limits arise in accordance with the beliefs of its proponents. Where does that leave those who do not agree? To answer the question: it leaves them in an ethical and moral dilemma that requires that they compromise their values. In any case, those enacted laws and limits of the favored few become the basis for rational reasoning. Since, of course, the laws do not reflect the values of all the people, reason must twist perceived reality into unnatural contortions to avoid contradiction. And the train of logic that holds it all together in a comprehensive whole must be in error. Logic derived in error is at best a lie and at worst gives rise to a rigid system that must use tyranny and fear to perpetuate itself. Sound familiar? Could this be the state of your own country? This book contends that all countries find themselves in this very situation where more and more of its people are marginalized and used as examples to instill fear in other citizens who have as yet not transgressed the law.
Good and evil spawn a host of conflicting dilemmas and events that defy restitution or compromise. And conflict always leads to war. We must, then, look at the final piece of this puzzle: the concepts of heaven and hell. These imagined places are so misconstrued that they leave us in a confusing position. For while we are alive, where are we?
Exactly the point. Where are we? We are in limbo. We are nowhere because we only think we are alive. Life is not what it seems to be. What life is will be left to the next chapter to explain for it will be the final chapter that unifies all we have been taught in these books.
God of love
Every day we are exposed to moments of ultimate reality - the truly real. Most of those moments we squander. Our definition of life is so convoluted, confusing and contradictory that we cannot even see what those special moments offer us. If we could but see, we would hasten to respond to the truly real with nothing but the natural inclination to forgive and to forget - and to love wholly. Instead, those moments where truth shines through the mundane are often times considered a burden and an unwanted break in the otherwise uneventful days we are all used to.
We live our lives like automatons. Our reactions are robot-like in that almost all our responses are preprogrammed. We have internalized our society’s rules to such an extent that thinking is virtually not required. By giving our natural authority to others we have betrayed ourselves. This has left us with no alternative but to take on rigid constructs of behavioral responses. Thinking is not a requisite in our society except where our jobs insist on it. In almost every other situation we have given our authority to others to decide for us. Consider, in our world our worth is determined by how much we need to use our brains on the job. This statement is so obvious, it will be allowed to stand on its own without further argument.
We have a choice every moment of our lives to respond creatively or to respond by rote. To respond creatively we must learn to understand we are no different from one another when it comes to what we truly value. We must learn to respond with the tenet that each individual deserves their just due according to their merits based on respect and true fairness. In fact, to turn a common phrase of modern culture, we would be well-served to remember to approach every moment of life with the motto: “Just due it”. Along the same thread, do unto others could be understood as just due unto others. Every moment is a matter of just and fair treatment of everyone and everything for that is the basis of respect for all life. To respond by rote is to make distinctions among the rank and file, and that fosters discrimination - also note that no one is not among the rank and file including kings and presidents, CEOs and gurus, dictators and despots. You cannot separate value from worth. A strip of paper or a metal disk is not a loaf of bread or an hour’s work. As innocent as it seems, such gross symbolism must rest upon underlying beliefs based on assumptions of differences that give rise to cliques, clans and groups of the like-minded. It is like a disease and it spreads rapidly. Soon there are countries and conglomerates and terrorists. There is another way. It is not the only way, perhaps, but at least it will not lead to total annihilation. We must learn to respond creatively.
Creative responses are equally addictive. They attract attention by their very novelty and nothing spreads as fast as a good story of an unusual nature. Creative responses inspire like-minded responses. Large or small are distinctions based on rote assumptions and do not apply to creativity, therefore even the smallest act, say the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Texas, can have tremendous and far-flung effects, like say a typhoon in Japan.
Creative responses are restorative and healing. A creative response is a carefully crafted action based upon the truth of a given situation. Therefore, such actions reveal the truth by being its manifestation. This restores faith and can effectively heal even the most confounded situations.
Groups as well as individuals naturally gravitate toward the extremes of conduct based upon what is perceived to be the accepted norm. Creative responses ensure that truth has a voice in the world. They shine like a star, illuminating the benefits of fostering a loving and caring nature. The truth observed is like a balm to the spirit and can cause miraculous and instantaneous healing - even in bystanders. Those that are the focus of such creative acts stand to save a tremendous amount of time in terms of comprehending their own dysfunctions. As the truth of such creative responses draws near the recipient has a unique opportunity to observe and compare their own false reactions in the light of truth. If the creative act is sufficiently focused the addressee can safely allow a complete transformation to occur with ease.
To be healed is to accept and extend the truth. Illusions on the other hand propagate outward, multiplying as they go by the sheer conflicting force of their passing. But truth need only dawn on the mind at peace, quietly and surely, because truth is already present everywhere. Since truth is present everywhere it is not a propagation, in this sense, but a realization. This realization is a focus of intention, a thought, that is then extended onward by word and deed.
Heaven and hell
Heaven and hell are both concepts.