I have a member of my family who recently joked lightly with me, innocently
enough, about how younger relatives in the family, relatives who are in their
twenties, who live in another part of the province, now look to me and my
writings like my thinking has great importance, her joking with me that these
younger people see me almost like a prophet in some of the things I’ve written.
For this family member who’s very good natured and kind, who considers
herself wiser then they and me are, she in some areas like this, that I find
myself questioning why, believes she understands normal and truth so thoroughly
and far too well for comfort.
This is the case I speculate possibly because she understands normal every
day life in a dismissive way of what insight I or anyone else might offer anyone
in things pertaining to God or such related mysteries if one goes searching for
them personally. Such an understanding by her that I have no prophet like
authority, which I don’t, also secondarily I think reflects her attitude toward
any insight I may have generally in me attaining any unusual understanding or
any real proximity to God. God by this outlook can’t even be recognized or
discerned in this way in such pursuits at all partly because she’s completely or
partially blind to the existence of God perhaps and partly also because mental
cases don’t figure out great truths about the universe and if they think they do
the thing to do is to laugh.
Such things spiritually discerned go beyond the normal denials common to
ego, beyond people’s sarcasm, and the defiance of resistance common to a
contempt for spirituality. It’s also a blindness by such attitudes to see the
need for any of us just to reach out and give our undivided attention to bigger
explanations for reality then our common perceptions in the every day. Such
attitudes won’t allow truths on such a level often enough to be looked into in
truths about God, for instance, that people tune out far too proudly with great
resistance.
By giving attention to bigger questions and to God I’ve gone somewhere
foreign and unrecognized to someone dear to me. But If she knew me so well, and
if she knew the truth, as she jokingly thinks she knows it so dismissively,
she’d be able to understand that mental illness or not I’ve had real experiences
of a spiritual kind that these younger relatives are open to considering and
that their open mindedness is not ignorance.
What can a troubled mind like mine possibly portray to the world in matters
of truth or meaning is the attitude that commonly enough people perceive about
the nature of reality and the mind I think.
Please think about the following. If it were to be suggested that many
people alive, and many people dead, are, or were, blank slates adrift in the
world to be written on. What If we are all in a place where we’re unavoidably
susceptible to numerous and various states of consciousness meaning in many ways
of how we think and view everything because of differing phenomena being written
on those slates.
This nature involves people being vulnerable to many persuasive ideas in
influences that many people alive therefore have experienced naturally enough.
Those experiences have written on the blank slates of people variations of
imperfect understandings sometimes in variations of perspective on matters of
moral and ethical understanding, sometimes fairer, more just, more reasonable,
more hopeful for instance, and often enough, too, as well, being common to the
human condition, a moral and ethical decline and even bankruptcy leading to
totally bad thinking and evil itself. Nefarious ideas completely outside
people’s control can effect them therefore negatively. The mistake is to think
and judge people by suggesting naively that they have a say in these
struggles always.
Where we’re born for instance, or the condition of those times in those
place we are in, can mostly determine who we'll be shaped into as people. People
might claim that there is freedom in our choices, like some religious views
suggest and argue, but do we unfairly expect multitudes across history in
different regions and continents to be able to personally arrange their views of
truth, God, their own thoughts, as ideas chaotically confuse them, all into one
specific hope that is found only in certain claims and views beyond many
people’s reach for different reasons.
The human being, wherever he/she lives, is a blank canvass through our
development and up against local and personal struggles as well where there too,
as those local influences challenge us openly and quietly in our own thinking
mind, evil lurks there too.
We are challenged through interactions with other imperfect, often
misguided, local minds around us in this way. There is much in our own culture
here to mislead us with our minds being shaped, with our thoughts arranged
unhealthily, as hostilities are formed in us, anger nurtured and conditioned in
us, hatreds of others born, prejudices inspired, cruel imaginations normalized,
dishonesties habitually shaped, conflicts sought and fantasized about, our
journeys all being clouded and distorted by these challenges in our minds
journey through the world.
Life doesn’t just point to truth or hope easily then. We can be greatly
unaided in the development of our personality as we’re shaped by the world and
not given the best way forward. We’re resistant to such things often that would
help, defiant against God or Jesus for instance, examples and ways of living
that personally I believe would develop healthier, safer, hopeful, compassionate
sights forward, ways offering a compass that could open up paths to peace
inwardly and outwardly, but no mass of people anywhere in this life is
guaranteed the discovery of such ideas, pursuits, or beliefs. If they fail to
find such thinking I don’t think we should condemn them as masses or
individuals or believe God hasn’t a plan inevitably in mind for them.
The human being is a blank canvass and its unreasonable to hold all
men/women everywhere to be responsible to doctrine the way things are. The shape
our thoughts are in through life lived in this world might offer opportunities
for good but they are not available opportunities fairly distributed or
discoverable, they are not easily discernable, at least not for many of
us.
If it's true, and I believe that we should believe it so, that we are all
alike, so if there is a God, which I personally believe there is, and if that
God is fair, in His justice, which I suggest it to be so that He is, then that
love God has then is a love for all of humanity alike, not just some of us, and
so then that love far exceeds the religious sermons calculations given from the
pulpits of the world about who has hope in this world.
God’s love for humanity then stretches even far beyond the religious
writings and the doctrine of Churches. His love sees the impossibility, as
things now currently are in nature, of all people everywhere being able to align
universally as a multitude to one discovery and embrace of certain particular
claims and perceptions of who God is and what He teaches relevant.
If God loves and understands humanity so that in His great wisdom He knows
the age old century to century and millennium to millennium changes of life; If
He knows the wars and struggles through history, knowing the processes that go
into shaping minds by differing ideas that go roaming in all the impoverished
corners and far flung places of life; If He sees thoughts falling on the
vulnerable lives of people without them having a direction or fair ability to
decipher them recognizably or to properly compare them to other ideas; If God
knows the limitations for us to know truth, wherever people are, whatever
continent or time period we are in; If God knows all the developments and
transformations of history influencing our state of consciousness, knows all our
beliefs, our understandings and our prevailing ignorance; If He meets humanity
wherever they are in this confusing world and cares for all, cares for every
tear shed in every place and time in the world; If He knows how ideologies move,
how they are ideas written down to rule and guide and control with people
grappling on to one or another of many of them securing those ideas as their
truth in the world for better or worse, good or Ill; if He, the God of the
universe and beyond, knows humanities inherent vulnerability, as well as
indescribable value, He therefore knows what the highest truth is which is Gods
nature which is love.
If God gets humanities inability to be able to often see each other with
understanding or justification where ideas about truth differ; if God loves
humanity in spite of all the suspicions we have for each other; If this love is
who God really is; If He cares for us people, us as the blank canvasses being
shaped by various winds of change, winds of ideas, by the drifting breezes of
ideas of life, then what does it really mean for us?
if really we are all the same in this world then we might find it
justifiable to love fearlessly every person here in this tired world however
misguided they are. If we can have compassion on every human being anywhere and
believe God to be fairer then the ideologies we often subscribe to then what we
then arrive at by this kind of thinking is it something then to be suspicious
of, is it somewhere dark, is it a disturbance of love for all kinds of deceptive
reasons, or is it closer to the truth then views that gives up on billions of
lives.
“Tell them I love and care for them. I will be coming soon”.
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