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Sam
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We acknowledge the uncertainty and carry on, live paralyzed, or live in illusions of certainty.

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Do we think that when Jesus told these people occupied by foreign warlords to love their enemies and go the extra mile when they’re occupiers demand for labor from them as a demonstration was hating them as you say? I believe I get your point in hating the world and hating sin, but I don’t find your framing in how Jesus conducted himself nor his instruction on how others to conduct themselves.

How about Matthew 5

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”

I certainly misunderstood the purpose of the notes.

I agree that evangelical Protestantism has made so many compromises with the world that it’s tough to recognize the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

But I still wonder if you find the reformed view without fault or weakness? And if so, how do you think about the patristics and the Eastern Orthodox who, at least in their own view, are not adulterating the word of God differ on key subjects such as determine election and predestination Free will total depravity, etc?

I think I’m generally in agreement with you but again I have questions. Isn’t applying the text only to the unregenerate and interpretation? Also do you find these types of memes and approach to sharing truth effective in engaging those who don’t already agree with you or is it mostly getting other reformed Christians to cheer for your boldness to speak inflammatory truths. I’m genuinely curious.

I hear you, I do think that success is not the best way to frame it. Is the country we are living in faithful to what the vision of the US founding fathers and those who have died in wars? I think we could agree that answer is certainly not. Just because a lot of good has come from it doesn’t justify broken means to achieve that end. I don’t think the goal was to be the least bad global option or the lesser of evils. I think the point is less to bash or be ungrateful for the US and more to follow in the footsteps of those who formulated the experiment and would not stand for the same old systems that deny individuals liberty and justice. I think statements like nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2lcd0fn and the videos you see posted of these war veterans saying this outcome was not worth the sacrifice are less complaining and more echoing the founders call to reform (or maybe even prune) the broken parts of the system to recapture faithfulness the the experiment in means and ends.

A lot of cynics here, but your sentiment is not lost on all of us. It think we can acknowledge both that the experiment has gone awry and that, especially early on in the experiment, people really did sacrifice for freedom.

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Thanks for sharing. This is the wisdom and depth that I really appreciate about the people here.

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One thing that I have learnt in states of sleep paralysis is that the more you try to fight evil, the more you feed it.

I wanna be very clear before I go on, that the "fight" remains an absolutely adequate and wise response in the human world, on occasion. If someone is trying to harm you and you are in immediate danger, fucking protect yourself. Act. That might involve a fight.

But also know that most movements to "fight" are pointless.

Know that at the centre of the war, there is no fight.

There is only you, deciding to relinquish control.

I spent the early part of my life in terror and under a lot of psychic attack, in the in-between state before sleeping.

Then I started fighting. I howled and raged at the demonic presences infiltrating my field and tormenting me.

Then I understood the absolute sovereignty of my soul, and I got still. I let go.

And the things that had bothered me my entire childhood and most of my adult life disappeared, in a second.

From here I learned that I could "pass through" sleep paralysis and pass over to the other side. And on other side, it got made abundantly to me that n o t h i n g can even scratch a soul, unless YOU believe it. And then you will create it. Because that's what you believe.

The war within cannot be fought against. It will rage harder the more you resist it, the more you try to CONTROL it. Continuing to feed the war inside you is the way you consent to EVERYTHING that is happening outside of you and in the world. Every single person has a part in it.

Relinquishing control is one of the deepest and most transformative graces you can give yourself and by extension of that, the world.

Depravity is the only perceived "out" for a being that believes they have fallen so far from grace, that the only other option is to face a God that they think will never accept them back into the whole.

Evil becomes the only other expression because at least in evil they can feel as though they belong to something. The extreme and insidious forms of control enacted by forces of evil are frantic attempts to forge solidity and safety where a true belonging to wholeness is absent.

And that mirrors all the places where you control. Where you contort and grip. You will cling onto the seams of every place where your wholeness was forgotten in an attempt to find solid ground.

Release control and let the ground emerge.

You have to go first.

And when you release control, know that your deepening awakening is uploaded to the grid that is awakening this planet.

That the grid is fortified every time you let go.

And eventually that grid will become so bright and solid, and solid in it's brightness,

that there will be no war left to fight.

#spiritualawakening #astraltravel #soul #spirituality #consciousnesd #sleeparalysis #letgoofcontrol #letgo

The fight is to trust that Benevolent Love has you and overcome evil with good.

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It’s right in front of you, seize it! “Just cause you’re American doesn’t mean you get life handed to you on a gold platter!”

This is our Super Bowl! Let’s go guys! Good stuff nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvfu5egz

https://fountain.fm/clip/ztgZ8Ktr4mDiommHhaZ2

This is a perfect example of the position of strength nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvfu5egz has been talking about. Trump can’t imagine saying we don’t care about Chine and expect to survive for 5,000yrs.

Excitement as the price of entry for saving an awfully funny way to think of things. I don’t want it to be exciting it just want it to work. Pulling the population back down the risk curve is gonna be like helping millions of gamblers get off tilt.

I appreciate the way Richard Roth puts it as well…The pain you don’t transform, you will transmit.

You’d be circling the board with no more $4 in savings. 😬