"Chris Morton" <cmorton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:dram4l01dsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Have you enslaved anyone?
There is an old adage which says that no one can ride your back unless you
first bend over to let them climb on. Consider the case of Nelson Mandela.
Some of his fellow South Africans attempted to enslave him, even to the
point of slapping him into a physical prison for 27 years. And, yet,
Mandela
ended up as President of the country. This is the power of spiritual
maturity. It does not require guns or bullets or stones. It requires a
deep
abiding belief in, knowledge of, Self.
After Mandela _had_ to be released (What physical prison can enslave the
immortal soul?), the apartheid government next tried to drag the country
down to the level of the physical warfare you so heartily recommend. They
financed another group of black Africans, Inkatha , in an effort to
destroy
the unity of the people. This also did not work because, once again, the
weapons of the physical world can never defeat the weapons of the
spiritual
world. Spiritual power was described by Mandela:
"When we, as one people, act together, decisively, with discipline and
determination, nothing can stop us."
Notice what we are saying. There is Power, spiritual power, in Unity.
Unity
is the All. God is the One who exists in All. Know Self, so that We, the
All, can recognize the One in All. We can then advantage of the
omnipotence
and omniscience of the One, within us All, to bring Peace On Earth.
This message is not that hard to grasp. It is not other-worldly, or
mystical, or unrealistic. It is simply different from what we have been
taught to beleive since the days of our youth.
My answer to your question. Yes, there have been times when I have
enslaved
someone. There have been times when I have stooped low, allowed someone to
climb onto my back, and enslaved myself. You have done the same, to the
extent which you cling to the weapons of the carnal world.
> Strange, I ALWAYS say I DON'T. And just WHO is this alleged "god"?
Horus?
> Zeus? Ahura Mazda? Yaweh? Jesus? Allah? Cthulhu? Daehok?
And, yet, you persist in what I suspect has been a life long struggle to
seek justice, to make sense out of this world, to forge ahead in the
direction you think to be the direction which leads to Truth and Justice.
What is God, if It is not Truth and Justice?
> "God" is a way to get people to do things that you want them to do that
you
> couldn't otherwise convince them to do by means of logical argument...
for
> instance being a slave... or flying an airliner into a building.
Change "God" to "religion" and we are in agreement.
Istlota
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