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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (8597)	12/8/2001 1:17:37 PM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

That is a plausible interpretation. Perhaps that explains it. There is no doubt that much about us comes hard wired. Each person gets to decide for themselves if they have a choice in the matter or not. Who else has a say in it?

To: epicure who wrote (8597)	12/9/2001 7:49:45 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 28931

The X Matrix..... >>I have known some mentally ill people. And I would say that some think they choose knowing and some think they have their knowing thrust upon them. And I think being inside the box of yourself, you can have no idea what kind of knowing you have. I have no idea whether I chose or whether I was thrust. I get the feeling that I was born with the sense of logic and reason that I have now- because I have always been unmystical. And I suspect we are simply wired for belief or we are not. The people I have met who are most like me have always been the way they are. They didn't fall away from faith, they simply never had it. And the people who fall away from one faith frequently look for another. So in my opinion the world is composed of two sets of people. People who are not wired for belief seem to be a smaller set. There might be a reason for that, or there might not.>> I believe we are born into an infinite number of spiritual matrixes that reflect various patterns that have developed in the lives of those who have proceeded us into this world. A hateful father or mother, for example, is going to be part of "receiving spiritual energy" that is inverted/perverted which will obviously work to influence the continuation of this spiritual matrix of hate and anger in their children, etc. But, eventually, we as children have to decide for ourselves whether we want to be constrained by these default matrixes that have been passed down through the generations of this "fallen reality" or whether we want to begin "to believe" there might be another way, another avenue, etc. I grew up in a pretty unconventional matrix. Many preacher and ministers two generations removed. Traders, entrepreneurs, gamblers, risk takers. My late father was a big risk taker and straight shooter. But he had a very hard time expressing his feelings. My mother has always been a very chatty, loving and caring person, but she also had her ups and downs and could play the victim role very well. All families go through these extremes of emotion where these rollercoaster rides throw us up and down as conditions change socially, financially, spiritually. I decided very early on - once I left home - that I would never ever return to the "traditional" home/need paradigm. But, looking back, I can ascribe this decision as being God-led for there wasn't a logical-rational reason that could justify me NOT coming home each summer and being part of my family, etc. But I broke away early. There was a great cost of pain and separation that had to be paid for this - try 2 1/2 years of not speaking to my mother for starters. This may sound very cold, but it sometimes takes such extreme decision which lead to actions that can effectly break the default power of these spiritual matrixes we are all born into. This is not a judgment in any way against my family, mother or father. But it does map with what Jesus said about how he came to break families up. He didn't mean it in a negative way, but in a very positive way. I had to rediscover who I really was and my parents had to respect this process so that they, too, could learn to know more of who they really were in conjunction with knowing who I really was, etc. It takes both sides. Things that work all connect and thread and support as ONE. Peace. Light! ONE - LOVE!! GO!!