That we're attacked all the time in this world is apparent,
People who attack ruin our self-esteem, and our happiness. They are sadists, and
it is sad to live among the devils.
If Satan presides over hell he must be a sadist. Therefore sadism is Satanism too.
"To heal is to make happy." We are here on earth to make others happy.
Hell exists, and no one deserves it. There are many hells, and infinite heavens,
and many, many, many, many, places in between, such as "Earth," though the world
is neutral and what you make it. As are heaven and hell neutral, as all the many
worlds are within you. Hell is ultimately really bad feelings, and having to live
with people you don't want to live with, and prison. No one deserves hell. No one deserves punishment. Punishment is deportation to segregated housing where the
victim is intentionally deprived and impoverished. Such incarceration is capital
punishment. People imprisoned almost certainly die younger than they would of, making the penalty "death by incarceration." And their body is stolen while they
are incarcerated, making the punishment capital. No one deserves punishment, and
everyone deserves freedom from injustice, and victims possibly deserve recompenses.
So as I repeat, no one deserves hell, and we appreciate dissolving it, and no one
deserves punishment.
All bad things come to an end, and as the Course teaches, all thoughts of love are
true for all time - if only because you choose them.
Further,
"Any ability that anyone develops has the potentiality for good. To this there is
no exception..."
"Psychic" abilities have been used to call upon the devil, which merely means to
strengthen the ego."
- A Course in Miracles
"Yet here is also a great channel of hope and healing in the Holy Spirit's service."
- A Course in Miracles
"Evil does not exist at all... Evil in its nature is neither a thing nor does it
bring anything forth... All things which are, by the very fact that they are, are
good and come from good; but insofar as they are deprived of good, they are neither good nor do they exist."
- St. Dionysius the Areopagite - First "bishop" of Athens (attributed)
Truly evil is to do something against another's will, for that is a contradiction,
and thus that is an error. Capital crimes are the greatest, for freedom is right, and murder is wrong. Stealing a poor man's uninsured horse may be capital.
Someone with Ebola is a danger to others, and truly all crime is but a disease.
Poverty is the root of all kinds of evil, and those who attack are poor. (NKJV,ACIM)
Unintelligence and evil go hand in hand.
An attack upon an evil doer, which insults and condemns and blames, and vilifies
the evil doer, as worse than a person merely with Ebola, is an "ad-hominem" attack. The person may be a "known demon," but they are also, in truth, a "known
son of god."
Thought precedes action.
No one ever got 100% on every academic test. They are not guilty for making errors on a test. Erroneous thought precedes erroneous action. Good thought precedes good action.
Insult is hate speech.
Hate speech which preaches hell and Satan, and punishment, advocates hell and Satan, and punishment.
Punishment is wilful malicious violence with deliberative aforethought, and is sadistic hatred, and is condemnable.
Hate speech precedes the action of rationalized [or justified] violence, which is
sadistic attack and service to evil.
It therefore is close to either threatening, or advocating, such [evil] attack/[crime]. Whether advocating attack; or punishment - which is crime on crime.
Jesus saves people from hell, he doesn't put them there.
If your true religion is ultimately Truth, and not form or concept, then an insult
of a religion may not quite insult you personally, but may still be perceived as
insulting.
So someone is not insulting your religion, if your religion is the Truth, or if the Truth is your religion, but is just lying.
"Satan accuses our brethren before our God, day and night" Revelations 12:10
"Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed
from death to life, because we love one another."
- St. John the Divine, 1 John 3:13-14a, Holy Bible, New Testament
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you
were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the
world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember
the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they
persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep
yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because
they do not know Him who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My
Father. But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’"
- Jesus Christ, John 15:18-25, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV
"If God is for us, who can be against us?
"As it is written:
“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us." - Romans 8:36-37
read whole good passage:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A31-39&version=NKJV
To send someone to punishment or to hell, is to bring them to destruction and not
to bring them to justice (motivations for crime = property, sex, & criminal insanity, (and maybe fighting the government - which shouldn't be an issue in a civilized country); motivations for punishment = guilt, vengeance, & deterrence =
all 3 untenable, while 3 contemplatively tenable motivations for punishment = 1.
Prevention/segregation, - 2. That the victimizer knows what they're doing to others, - & 3. That the victimizer's lie doesn't persist, whether it's "might makes right" or otherwise; in which case I guess the victim(s) doesn't have strong
faith. Attack is insult. Would it make a difference if: 1. Someone killed your
spouse, and child, and cut off your hand and wasn't repentant, or 2. If they _were_ repentant, or 3. If you got in an accident, and with no one to blame, and
your spouse and child died and you lost your hand.
Our law enforcement has too much faith in violence, hell and death. The lawless
who believe murderers are "men of respect," are likewise. Everyone deserves respect. Murderers and bullies if temporarily excepted. - It's not like we are with _law_, in terms of being under it, but it's not like we are with crime. People should understand contradiction, and error, and fundamental law, and respect one another, and thus, through intelligence, be brought to justice, and not to destruction. - We are to live by grace and the pen, and not the law and the sword - Yet self defense _is_ the first law of nature; and human rights hang
on self defense (self-defense may be the last law of nature also). We have an unequivocal and uninfringable right to fight for freedom and self defense. Wars
are fought over property and freedom. When men have neither property nor freedom
they have nothing to live for. Poverty leads to war and war leads to poverty. Mutually assured destruction is unequivocally the end of war.
all that punishment is, is criminal insanity.
This is evident because they're trying to do something you _don't want_.
You may just say "I want everything" or anything they do, confounding their insult
and their unequivocal attempts to hurt you.
"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, ...wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever
you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those
who practice such things."
- Romans 1:28-2:2
"I once asked you to sell all you have and give to the poor and follow me. This
is what I meant: If you have no investment in anything in this world, you can teach the poor where their treasure is. The poor are merely those who have invested wrongly, and they are poor indeed! Because they are in need it is given
you to help them, since you are among them. Consider how perfectly your lesson would be learned if you were unwilling to share their poverty. For poverty is lack, and there is but one lack since there is but one need.
Suppose a brother insists on having you do something you think you do not want to
do. His very insistence should tell you that he believes salvation lies in it. If
you insist on refusing and experience a quick response of opposition, you are believing that your salvation lies in not doing it. You, then, are making the same
mistake he is, and are making his error real to both of you. Insistence means investment, and what you invest in is always related to your notion of salvation.
The question is always twofold; first, what is to be saved? And second, how can it
be saved?"
"Whenever you become angry with a brother, for whatever reason, you are believing
that the ego is to be saved, and to be saved by attack. If he attacks, you are agreeing with this belief; and if you attack, you are reinforcing it. Remember that those who attack are poor. Their poverty asks for gifts, not for further impoverishment. You who could help them are surely acting destructively if you accept their poverty as yours. If you had not invested as they had, it would never
occur to you to overlook their need.
Recognize what does not matter, and if your brothers ask you for something "outrageous," do it because it does not matter. Refuse, and your opposition establishes that it does matter to you. It is only you, therefore, who have made
the request outrageous, and every request of a brother is for you. Why would you
insist in denying him? For to do so is to deny yourself and impoverish both. he is
asking for salvation, as you are. Poverty is of the ego, and never of God. No "outrageous" requests can be made of one who recognizes what is valuable and wants
to accept nothing else.
Salvation is for the mind, and it is attained through peace. This is the only thing that can be saved and the only way to save it. Any response other than love
arises from a confusion about the "what" and the "how" of salvation, and this is
the only answer. Never lose sight of this, and never allow yourself to believe, even for an instant, that there is another answer. For you will surely place yourself among the poor, who do not understand that they dwell in abundance and that salvation is come.
To identify with the ego is to attack yourself and make yourself poor. That is why
everyone who identifies with the ego feels deprived. What he experiences then is
depression or anger, because what he did was to exchange self-love for self-hate,
making him afraid of himself. he does not realize this. Even if he is fully aware
of anxiety he does not perceive its source as his own ego identification, and he
always tries to handle it by making some sort of insane "arrangement" with the world. He always perceives this world as outside himself, for this is crucial to
his adjustment. He does not realize that he makes this world, for there is no world outside of him.
If only the loving thoughts of God's Son are the world's reality, the real world
must be in his mind. His insane thoughts, too, must be in his mind, but an internal conflict of this magnitude he cannot tolerate. A split mind is endangered, and the recognition that it encompasses completely opposed thoughts within itself is intolerable. Therefore the mind projects the split, not the reality. Everything you perceive as the outside world is merely your attempt to maintain your ego identification, for everyone believes that identification is salvation. Yet consider what has happened, for thoughts do have consequences to the thinker. You have become at odds with the world as you perceive it, because you think it is antagonistic to you. This is a necessary consequence of what you
have done. You have projected outward what is antagonistic to what is inward, and
therefore you would have to perceive it this way. That is why you must realize that your hatred is in your mind and not outside it before you can get rid of it;
and why you must get rid of it before you can perceive the world as it really is.
I said before that God so loved the world that he gave it to his only begotten Son. God does love the real world, and those who perceive its reality cannot see
the world of death. For death is not of the real world, in which everything reflects the eternal. God gave you the real world in exchange for the one you made
out of your split mind, and which is the symbol of death. For if you could really
separate yourself from the Mind of God you would die.
The world you perceive is a world of separation. Perhaps you are willing to accept
even death to deny your Father. Yet he would not have it so, and so it is not so.
You still cannot will against him, and that is why you have no control over the world you made. It is not a world of will because it is governed by the desire to
be unlike God, and this desire is not will. The world you made is therefore totally chaotic, governed by arbitrary and senseless "laws," and without meaning
of any kind. For it is made out of what you do not want, projected from your mind
because you are afraid of it. Yet this world is only in the mind of its maker, along with his real salvation. Do not believe it is outside of yourself, for only
by recognizing where it is will you gain control over it. For you do have control
over your mind, since the mind is the mechanism of decision.
If you will recognize that all the attack you perceive is in your own mind and nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it begins it must
end. For in this same place also lies salvation. The altar of God where Christ abideth is there. You have defiled the altar, but not the world. Yet Christ has placed the Atonement on the altar for you. Bring your perceptions of the world to
this altar, for it is the altar to truth. There you will see your vision changed,
and there you will learn to see truly. From this place, where God and his Son dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you will look out in peace and behold the world truly. Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the
world as you project it, allowing the Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you
from the altar of God."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7
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