Entry 491 - Entry 509.5
Entry 491
Religious people say God doesn’t force people to comply with His will:
They say the true Creator of the universe, more than just another war god assigned to Israel, says that all must repent or die. Also, sidenote: The Jews called the gods from other nations war gods, while their god was the only true one, even though their god shared the same characteristics and actions with the "bad gods" from other nations (jealousy, love, joy, peace, kindness, wrath, holiness, conditional protection based on obedience, sacrifice, rituals, favoritism, hostility, engaging in wars, genocide, protection, killing babies and women for God, etc). All gods followed by each nation were invisible, but apparently one of the invisible gods from only one nation was correct, and the others were wrong. And how do you know? Because the "correct" god favored the "correct" nation. XD
So if all must repent or die, is that not forcing people to comply with someone’s will against their will?
They say actions have repercussions and it’s not God’s will that they die, but the pagan nation’s will. When did the pagan nations ever say the whole nation wanted to be murdered by the Jews as recorded in the Torah? To have their children killed, their wives taken, and their cattle and land ransacked by "holy men" because God chose the Jews and didn’t choose the pagans? I'm not saying Jews alone used these excuses for what they considered valid reasons to harm others, but for time’s sake, we are focusing on the stories told within the Torah and their claim that "God told them to kill them."
See, if they believe that God did order the Jews to commit genocide as recorded in the Torah, then they logically do not believe in free will because:
- If the Jews didn’t kill these people, they would be punished by God, potentially by death. Where is the free will? They aren’t given the option—they are expected to do it, or else.
- If the Jews do kill the pagan nations, they are forcing their will onto the pagans. And if they blame it on God, and the actual Creator commanded genocide, then that would mean God is violating the pagan nations’ free will to live by forcing His will that they would die.
- If their excuse is God can give and take away free will, then that actually isn’t free will at all. That means we are all victims to a higher will that we must obey, just like a tool must do its master’s bidding, or else the master will discard the tool.
- If their excuse for genocide is the pagan nations were unrighteous, then that would mean the Jews should’ve gotten the same exact treatment by God for their unrighteousness, or else it wouldn’t have been fair or equal. If God is truly fair, equal, and harmonious, God would apply the same measure to everyone equally and fairly. Otherwise, God is disharmonious, picks favorites, and condemns some while upholding others for the same actions. How could this truly be the Creator of the universe when this god upholds unequal, unfair, disharmonious, chaotic rules of punishments based on His preferences, which in this case was a particular nation?
- If their excuse is God picks favorites, then they believe God is subject to temporary duality and is not truly infinite—or that duality is truly eternal, which would mean this entire universe was always chaotic and messed up from the start. Aka, you believe God is a lunatic.
- If they’re saying they needed to die for their sins, but it’s also a sin according to the Ten Commandments to kill, then they’re saying God forced them to sin against His own commandments. This means God supports errors and changes His ways.
- If they’re saying God really wanted them dead, then why couldn’t He just kill them Himself? Why did He need the Jews to do His bidding, especially if murder is a sin?
If they see things outside of their conditioning, they’ll realize it literally doesn’t make any sense. But that’s why religion needs people to be in a state of cognitive dissonance so that they’ll use excuses when ideas of irrationality are presented to them within that religion.
Entry 492
Does saying you create your own reality invalidate God? I would say no, not at all. If anything, it validates even more the free will that God has given to every single person to make their own choices and create their own reality. It validates that we each are completely responsible for whatever is in our lives because we have complete autonomy and free will to do as we please. To say that we only have partial free will would be a useless concept.
It’s like if a robber came into your house, held a gun to your head, and gave you two choices: either you give him the passcode to your home vault of money or you die. It’s partial free will because out of the infinite number of choices, this man who temporarily has power over you is requiring you to choose between two choices: one that will keep you alive and another that will get you killed. Is "partial free will" truly complete free will? You tell me.
Entry 493
When certain Christians don’t like someone else’s beliefs about God because it doesn’t align with their beliefs, many immediately say some BS like, “Oh, they’re not real Christians.”
First off, invalidating their relationship with God shows they don’t understand the nature of beliefs or their current conditioning from their respective denomination.
Secondly, denying their personal subjective experience of God while expecting others to validate and accept your personal subjective experience of God is 100% hypocritical. Putting others down and judging them based on concepts they’ve given different meanings to doesn’t logically make sense, especially if the semantics are different.
That’s like if someone were eating ice cream while you’re eating ice cream, and someone runs over to say, “It’s not real ice cream because you’re not eating it how I am,” or, “It’s not real ice cream because it’s in a puddle of liquid and mine is shaped this way and looks real.”
It doesn’t logically make sense to invalidate someone else’s subjective experience of their ice cream because they don’t eat it how you eat it, or they don’t view ice cream the way you view it.
How on earth could someone ever properly judge someone as a real Christian when they have no complete idea and total perspective about someone else’s relationship with God because they aren’t in between it? Invalidating someone else’s beliefs because their beliefs don’t align with yours is a prime example of someone who doesn’t understand the nature of beliefs.
Entry 494
Either only I create my own reality (as in, it’s my world and y’all are just living in it), or we all create our own realities.
Let me expound on this. From my personal experience, I know that I have control over my current reality. Other people may not be aware of that, but I am. I’ve experienced how my choices have harmed or helped myself, others, and more.
When I stopped blaming Satan or God and started taking responsibility for my actions, I realized I am the one in charge of my experience.
I am not a victim of the world, and the world, therefore, is not a victim of me. We are all either co-creating, or you are all living in my creation. Since I believe in equality, balance, and free will, I believe we all choose to co-create together rather than being victims while others presume God and Satan are doing it all and we’re helpless.
Entry 495
You know praying is more for us and not for God because God has no issue forgiving. It’s people who have the problem with forgiving, not God.
Entry 496
Even if I think I have correctly analyzed a person, it wouldn’t be complete because I’m missing the ability to analyze them from their point of view and the perspectives of everyone who has ever been in contact with them.
At this point, my analysis of them is still skewed because I only have my own complete point of view.
Entry 497
There are Christians who make fun of Mormons for their beliefs, saying they have no proof and only faith. Yet here they are with their own beliefs, also with no proof and only faith, and still, they cannot see the hypocrisy.
Mormons and many people who are not Christians will hear Christians’ beliefs, which lack validation, about how they’re all going to hell because they didn’t say the prayer exactly how Christians wanted them to, or live life the way Christians say God requires. According to these Christians, they’re going to end up in hell for eternity—even though that logically doesn’t make any sense.
To be in hell for eternity, one would have to always be there because the nature of eternity is: was, is, and will be. So, their belief not only cannot be validated, but it also logically does not make sense. If someone were to be in hell for eternity, they would have never not been in hell because eternity is never-ending.
Here they are, judging Mormons, while they themselves hold this nonsensical view that God will throw Mormons and others into hell for eternity for "believing wrong." And all they have for this belief about who makes it into heaven or hell is their own faith, with no legitimate proof. Their judgment is embarrassing.
Entry 498
All beliefs in invisible, man-made religions have some degree of irrationality. Once you realize that, you stop putting your faith in an idea or belief and instead redirect that energy to what you do know: that you create your own reality. Then, instead of begging God to change your circumstances, you take the actions necessary to change your own circumstances. Instead of begging God to fix an issue you're having with someone, you take the actions necessary to help fix that issue with them.
You make the decisions and take the actions necessary to move forward rather than irrationally blaming the devil and begging God to exert His power over others, bending their wills and yours, to change things. Escaping duality is the best thing you can do for yourself. Stop focusing on things that don't make sense (beliefs founded on irrational and nonsensical ideas). Focus on what you can do, and that will help you stay grounded and take responsibility. Taking more responsibility will help you remember you have the power to change things.
Entry 499
April 4th, 2021
Almost every religion tries to convince you it’s not a religion, but something more, and that it’s not like the other religions. The fundamentals of most religions say something like, "The people who ‘found’ the knowledge in our religion are deeper than all the others." They’ll claim the founder of their religion is God Himself or the gods. They try to create distinctions between themselves and other religions, which ironically declares their own separation—their own ideal duality—from what they consider less real or correct than their own.
However, those who truly embrace and accept the limits of their religion and see it as such are less likely to be tied down by its fallible limits disguised as limitlessness. They are much more likely to see the distinctions and separations placed on their members and move beyond those limits. Instead, they find the commonality between all: to love God, to love one another, to live a life with glorious and rich fruits of love, joy, peace, and kindness, to not judge, and to treat others how they would like to be treated.
To them, they see the limits and transcend each one with no judgment, only love. They neither see themselves inside nor outside of religion, simply one with all. There is nothing that can limit them because they choose to remain limitless.
Entry 500 - Just Be a Good Person to Be a Good Person
Some people need religion as a valid motivation to be a good person. Then there are others who just try to be a good person to be a good person. They don’t need a reward like Heaven dangled before them like a carrot to be good. They are good simply because they want to be good.
Honestly, doing something to get something, rather than just doing it for its own sake, seems a lot less genuine. Your motivation to be good is rooted in getting something out of it, which seems far less authentic than a person who is excited to be good simply to benefit someone else's life, with no expectation of getting anything in return.
The first teaches morality based on rewards and duality, not on simply doing the best you can with what you have. The second teaches a lifestyle based on doing what's best regardless of whether you get something out of it or not. So yeah, I'm very suspicious of those people because I don’t even know if they truly want to do good or if they’re just doing nice things because of the reward they’ll get—not for the sake of the person.
It reminds me of people who act nice to someone solely to get something out of them, not because they actually like them. They don’t want to be their friend; they just need them for whatever reason. Whether it’s for help with their grades or to get closer to someone else they like, the person is just a means to an end. Similarly, people who do good for rewards like Heaven, rather than for simply being a good person, make me very suspicious.
Entry 501 - This Life is One Big Game of Mafia
April 4th
Have you ever played the house game called Mafia? Where everyone picks a card and, based on that card, they are either a peasant, doctor, sheriff, or mafia. If you’re mafia, you go around the house and "kill" people, and then everyone tries to vote the mafia into jail.
I just made a connection! This whole incarnation on planet Earth is one long game of Mafia. The best part is when we all finish the game (die), we’ll be like, “OH, YOU WERE THAT?!?” or “Oh, you came for this reason???” It’s going to be so awesome. :D
Entry 502
A metaphor came to my mind today: I’d rather dance with God in the dark than sit on a cloud playing a losing game of chess with the devil in the light. However, I realized these preferences of one over the other are clues to which part of duality I’m still clinging to.
Once I investigate those preferences, I’ll find the triggers and blockages stopping me from wanting all and everything as my experience of reality. By no longer resisting or forcing certain experiences, I allow myself to follow the flow of my heart and where it leads me. Regardless of what others say, I follow my heart, and that will lead me to the love I’ve always been.
Entry 503
I don’t regret exploring the places where people are afraid to go, because how do you know if you don’t know?
How can you understand what your denomination is like in relation to something else if you’ve never explored other denominations? Or other religions? Or yourself?
That’s why I actually believe it’s a blessing to be transgender. I am learning through the contrast of being assigned female at birth and now transitioning to become a man through hormones.
I’ll bring things up to women and say, “Did you know that women have this, but men have this?” They’ll respond, “Wow, I never noticed that. I just assumed everyone had it like that, but I guess it makes sense,” and I’ll say, “Yes, I didn’t notice that either until I experienced both!”
We wear duality over our inherent unity. We clothe ourselves in disguises of separation to experience aspects of ourselves in new and exciting ways.
Through contrast, we learn a lot about ourselves, but the ironic mystery of it all is that we learn what we’ve always known deep down. Before the contrast even existed, we were, are, and will be.
If you didn’t always exist, then you never truly existed in the first place, and you are part of the illusion. However, if you are not trapped in duality, you are beyond contrast, beyond limitations. You never stopped existing because, by the laws of nature, you cannot stop existing. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. You either always were, are, and will be, or you never truly existed in the first place.
Entry 504 - Spiritual Gaslighting
This mainly happens to people in religion when they "repent of their sins to God," thinking everything is okay, but they still haven’t made peace on Earth and never properly reconcile with the person on Earth.
Entry 505
We’re all just motherf’ers pissing each other off. :D
Entry 506 - Safe or Not Beneficial?
While I was working, I was dwelling on my experience in the Local Churches (started by Watchman Nee and Witness Lee). I remember feeling very safe and comfortable, and I wondered why.
First of all, I didn’t have to search for what to believe or not believe. They simply told me, and I trusted them.
Secondly, we were taught to trust the leaders of that Christian denomination to the point of seeing them as having God's authority, similar to the apostles. We were told they were the “ministers of the ages” and that their words were more truly from God than anyone else’s. This was drilled into our heads, and we began regurgitating the idea that their words were closer to God’s words than other denominations’ or even our own.
Lastly, we were encouraged to do all that was safe and comfortable rather than adventurous and explorative. We were discouraged from exploring our bodies, other people’s bodies, other religions, ideas, or doctrines. Instead, we were told to stick to what the “ministers of the ages” deemed correct. If we did explore, we were met with fear, guilt, and shame, so it wasn’t worth it.
They showed us the box to entrap ourselves in, and each of us voluntarily went into it, considering it “safe and comfortable” from the world.
Entry 507
In the Local Church denomination (started by Watchman Nee and Witness Lee), they often stressed how they were separate from the world. The ironic part is that declaring one’s separation only causes one to get lost deeper in the illusion of separation rather than become aware of its impermanence.
By creating a separation between you and the world, even though you and the world are one, you create more hoops to jump through when it comes to healing from division inside and outside of oneself.
Entry 508 - Dialogue Meant to Expound
Person 1: What did Jesus state in the garden before his death?
Person 2: That we would all know that we are one.
Correct.
Do you think Jesus was aware that people would misinterpret his work and create a new religion out of him?
Yes.
So that’s why he emphasized oneness. Instead of affirming division, he desired to close the gap and show us our inherent oneness.
If what Jesus said was true—that we are all one—then the idea of Christianity, that Jesus died to save us from sins, would apply to everyone because we are all inherently one.
At least believe what Jesus said was true: that all will be saved because we are all one. If we weren’t all one, then obviously not everyone would be saved, but that’s not what he said. He said we are all one, so if one is saved, we are all saved. Creating separation out of oneness literally doesn’t make any sense, lol.
Entry 509
Christian Universalism was a majority belief before Protestantism even existed.
Entry 509.5 - Questions to Ask in Order to Expand Beyond the Ideas
- What is death?
- In death, would you cease to exist?
- If the definition of dying is ceasing to exist, then by God's very nature, God cannot die.
To believe otherwise would mean nothing is real and all is temporal.
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