The Source of Evil

That which was once called Belial, Baphomet, Satan and a plethora of other names grows like a fungus in the modern day because of a denial of its existence. In my upcoming book, I touch upon what Evil really is and how to defend oneself against it. As a parent, how can you protect your children from it without completely isolating them from the world (which certainly does not help prepare them for it)?

3 basic methods:

1) Teach them to not bully, yet to not accept bullying.
2) Show them your way of honoring God.
3) Allow them to find themselves.

Judgement Day and Friends

Judgement comes for all. It is just a matter of time. So why would anyone want to keep on racking up their debt in the eyes of the judges, unless they have been deceived in the past?

Living a good life can be hard at times. People can seem like friends to you, when you are really just acquaintances to them. Thus, to them, you may be somebody to "make deals with" in the sense that your interactions are more exchanges. Whereas, friends are giving. They share with you and are there for you if you need them. This sort of a relationship has far fewer conditions. This sort of relationship entails a sort of caring that makes it stand the test of time, while acquaintances blow away in the winds of change.

The Death of a Soul

When two people become one, that which is formed is a new type of entity, a completion of the Yin-Yang circle that drives life. All sorts of things can attack that bond and degrade it over time. But if it was a true love, one that developed as true loves do, then it will last. Even if one of the two ends up pulling away, the entity will exist and walk the land until the couple is reunited or a way is found to help it dissipate, or evolve and incorporate into somebody new.

You follow me wherever I go...like a ghost whose resentment towards demons is balanced by a longing to be whole again within me and another. I feel you sometimes, smiling sadly, when I reach for what we had. I hear you sometimes moving something in my room, when I get lost in deep contemplation. What we had started off so innocent, as if we were both compelled towards each other and lost ourselves in a mutual need. You made her and I both better and stronger, as we faced down life's challenges. I celebrated you early and wanted to build a permanent altar to you, but the timing wasn't right. I took you for granted, as if somehow thinking that you would always be what you were in that time, as if you would always be by my side to offer a guiding light. And when the demons of the dark forest ripped you away from all who ever loved me or called me friend, you still found a way back to reside within me.

You were with me when I needed you, so I devote these words to you and your ascension.  

Self Gratification vs. Doing the Right Thing

Self-Gratification
1. the act of pleasing or satisfying oneself, especially the gratifying of one's own impulses, needs, or desires

Pleasure-seeking is a state that many find themselves in, consciously or not. This is not inherently bad in the moment if you are alone. But whenever you admit others into the mix, this becomes a very faulty motivation for behavior. Because most people are not mature enough to realize when their pleasure-seeking begins to impact others. Thus, groupthink from groups like this resemble groupthink from violent criminal organizations in the number of abuses that they create. One is simply more obvious than the other.

As a person who actually cares about other people, what would you choose? Would you choose to do the easy thing and gratify yourself, or would you do the right thing?

Hope

I believe that, no matter what your concept of God is, sends us hope in various forms more often than we realize. It is up to us to accept this hope and not to fight against it. Because to fight against one's own hope is self-destructive.

When

Some people think that its not about the destination, but the journey. If we end up where we began, you can think of things in this way. But if the journey determines how long, then it becomes even more important than you might think of.

Some people only want to die. They wonder why haven't they been taken yet? Perhaps they had something to do. Perhaps their skills were needed. Perhaps they have loved and lost.

Some people only want to live as good of a life as they can. Perhaps that which was fundamentally them had been lost and they either have faith in something new or do not want to know that which they were. Whether they are simple folk with duties to do or people with myriad concerns who simply realize that there is always a higher authority.

Some people think "It is too late." It is never too late to choose to do the right thing. It is never too late to update and improve one's perspective. People who want to change the past are doomed to be stuck in it. People who can deal with the reality of it and what they did can, at the very least, help those who cannot.

Everything In Its Own Time

No matter who you are. No matter what your issues happen to be. You probably think of the world in terms of conflict. Perhaps you try to rise above this and think of methods of unity. Perhaps location matters to you a lot. Perhaps you are more independent of that. No matter what, you care about Time. Whether it is the lack of time that allows you to fully experience life, or whether you care about the past or strive for a better future. You care about Time.

Oh yes, you care about Love. Love defines what you care about. This is important. But this comes in Time.

Patience is a virtue. Impatience often makes problems persist over time. People get so caught up with their own concerns or are brought up with artificial senses of entitlement that they forget that they are not the only people who matter. So they try to do things on their own time. They try to make things happen by themselves instead of trusting that which we now know to be true.

The question that everyone implicitly asks themselves is whose clock are you looking at?