To: average joe who wrote (7197 ) 3/28/2001 7:13:08 AM From: Frederick Smart Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931 Average Joe.... >>I think Salon is right most of the time and you say some darn nice things to. But, how do you disarm a hostile opponent that wants to take you and everything you love down without breaking the Christian God's commandments. We are all limited by time.>> Time doesn't exist for time is "relative" to something else - ie. the present relative to the past, the future. Imagine moving into timelessness where there is only LOVE and Light. Time is simply a separation from the present. And since mankind - ie. this world, all of us - are separated from this ONENESS based on the illusions we work so hard to create/support/maintain we will continue to live in these relative balloons called "time." But inside these balloons which we all work so hard to keep blown up - as we breath FREE air we blow this air inside these balloons and the air/backdrop, etc. becomes conditionalized "relative to" something else, etc. Everything is FREE. And there's is no competition. As for "disarming a hostile opponent" simply operate within that model of the trinity - ie. TWO helping/serving ONE. Make that person the ONE being helped/served. Pray, imagine, risk in ways that place the stake of this ONE truth before him and respect his unlimited, incredible freedom and power to decide for him/herself. I/you and we all get into problems when we unknowingly take the position of God in the form of our EGO which is separated from this ONENESS. The whole basis for our "beingness" from this vantage point is based on defining, labelling, limiting, controlling - ie. "taking" energy, If our EGO fails to define, control, label, limit, constrict and take energy it will ALWAYS rationalized a way around why the target of that failure and everyone else is simply "wrong" period. Our EGOs do not care about truth. For the truth is unconditional and FREE light, energy and Love. Our EGOs and mankind operate only in a relative/conditional world where everything has a price/cost and NOTHING escapes which isn't accounted for in some way/shape for form. The unconditional FREEDOM and randomness of energy, light and Love is the enenmy of this world. The answer is to NOT speak/identify with that which is limited and conditional in whoever is confronting you. For these limits and conditions are lies in and of themselves and if you try fighting a lie with a lie you will both go down into the Black Hole together. For anything that I/we/you - ie. mankind - creates ends in destruction. All simply because of the self-imposed framework of limits which we impose on ourselves and others. And leave my EGO out of this equation. I have no interest in playing these relative games that keep spinning round and round and round which end up nowhere. But that's what we all have to face/confront everyday. And the only ONE who can defeat/neutralize these games is this energy, light and Love from Christ, God himself and all the manifestations who have/are communing with this energy without taking ANY credit/claim. Period. There is nothing "I" can do to rise above this confrontation you speak of. I am powerless. You are powerless. For once the model/formula of destruction is launched - ie. TWO (2) taking from THREE (3) - it will always end in destruction. And it will keep going around and around and around. Forget about judging, defining and controlling this stuff. Leave everything up to God. And make sure YOU - not me or anyone else - understand and get this. Now let's get back to singing, dancing and swinging from trees!! That's THE best way to confront - with fun, joy, laughter and Love!! Peace. Light! ONE!! GO!!