On Perfectness

I got some feedback on being perfect from a previous post and a YouTube video. It really made me “think.” Actually inspiration came to me…not really thinking. And I really thank those who responded, as I grew personally from the discussion.

The feedback said that they know they are not perfect. And even if one could be, what would come after that?

Actually I sort of agree with them…in my mind…but through inspiration it is hard to hold that idea. It is just the programming that we get in this life. We are told that we are “naughty” when we are young…and sinful when we get older. I can feel the shame and guilt from it.

Then when this revelation came, with all the supporting Scriptures…and many other sources from my research, I had to change my attitude.

Scriptures say to be Perfect even as Jesus is….you will do more than these things…talking about the miracles he is doing.

Also He said go and sin no more…many times…it is the command to be perfect.

The inspiration said that if there is even a seed of doubt, you will not achieve anything. It’s got to do with faith…believing without a doubt

It says in the Bible that if we accept Christ…we become righteous…God sees us as righteous and we can then enter into His presence…

Seems like we can become Perfect!!! Pretty Deep…Hard to understand…because we’ve all been told the opposite all our lives.

And if we are not perfect, then what are we…evil…????

We are made in His image therefore perfect.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within…how can that be if are imperfect.

Jesus removes our sin!!!

We have to see ourselves as perfect as God does.

Those are just some of the Scriptures, but my research found many other places and teachings that say…or at least imply…our perfectness.

Such as:

The Universe is one…we are one…

Creation is perfect…as we are.

In the parable of the man and the white horse… a series of circumstances occur such as keeping a very valuable horse, then losing it…which is a “bad” thing, but it comes back with 10 other horses…which is a “good” thing. Then another bad thing happens then a good thing. The idea is to quit making judgments about our life. We really don’t know ultimately what “sin” is.

So is being imperfect evil?…it is taught that way. There is no gray area…evil or perfect. But we must believe the ultimate result is perfectness or we have chaos!!!

So it seems like when we look at our lives there is no way we can be perfect..and even if we are, what do we do then, like what’s next, but when the Perfect One tells us to be perfect and we can…maybe we should listen!

Let’s take the opposite of “Love Your Neighbor.”

I wrote about “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself” earlier.

I said it’s hard to love your neighbor if you don’t love yourself…and how to Love Yourself!

Well, I got another inspiration…if you hate your neighbor, do you hate yourself???

Seems like the opposite of that famous comment…so could be true. Some say that we reflect what we don’t like in ourselves onto other people. That’s why you can have an opinion of someone, and I can have the opposite.

So if you are offended or don’t like someone, it might be a pretty good sign that you don’t like yourself either!

Pretty tough to take…huh?

So the saying could be “If you hate your neighbor, you hate yourself…”

Now who thinks they hate themselves…not many I would guess…but are you just not satisfied, angry, or guilty???

It might be that you are caught up in the thoughts of what you did wrong. Hard to love yourself then.

So, a few years ago, I “heard” (intuition, still small voice, my higher self…I don’t know…call it what you like) “You are Perfect.”

Well I had a problem with that because I knew all the things wrong with me, but “it” said, “If you don’t think of yourself as perfect, you will always have the seed of doubt and that will keep you from Finding Your Dream.”

Well, I want my Dream more than my doubts…so I am Perfect!!!

Pretty good way to start Loving Yourself and Finding Your Dream!!!

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Another look at fear!

This is by Paul Rosenberg from Casey Research. It is a very well-done treatise on fear, and how we have changed thru the media and other things. It also gives good solutions, so read all the through, and make some changes…for the good!

The Way of the 21st Century: Going Nowhere While Very, Very Frightened

We’re 14 years into a new century, which is typically how long it takes for a century’s unique characteristics to show up. The 20th century, for example, looked a lot like the 19th until 1914; from there on it looked a lot different. So I think this is a good time to take a look at our new century and see how it’s shaping up.

I see two particular things that are defining the mainline culture just now. Let’s go with the easy and obvious one first:

The 24-Hour Fear Cycle

Nothing makes humans easier to manipulate than fear. Get a group of Homo sapiens afraid of something and most of them will run wherever you want them to. Unfortunately, all the manipulators of our time know this and are maximizing their use of it.

On top of that, we have a 24-hour news cycle, and nothing rivets eyeballs to screens like fear. Good news, as we all know, doesn’t sell papers.

There have always been bad things happening on Earth. Take the truly horrifying stories that pop up here and there of women killing their own children. Sadly, these have always been with us, but they weren’t blasted on five or ten news channels 24/7. Likewise, horrifying stories from the Middle East or in Africa; are very definitely nothing new. What’s new is using these stories as tools… tools to make Homo sapiens run to where you want them.

Here’s the reality:

Violent crime is decreasing, and significantly.

Deaths in fires are dropping:

Disaster losses are falling too:

I could go on, but you get the point. Lots of things are getting better in real life, but no one thinks so because everything’s getting worse on TV. Fear works.

One final example: Here’s a list of events from a year that generally inspires no fear in us—1970:

March 6A bomb being assembled by terrorists explodes, killing three.
April 847 children are killed by (peacetime) bombs from a neighboring country.
May 4Soldiers kill four American college students.
May 8A huge mob of construction workers in New York attacks protestors.
May 14Police fire on a crowd at a college, killing two and injuring 12.
June 9A bomb explodes at New York police headquarters.
July 12Two canisters of tear gas are thrown into the British House of Commons.
Aug. 7Terrorists take a judge hostage in California, then kill him.
Sept. 1An assassination attempt on the King of Jordan.
Sept. 6Terrorists hijack four airplanes on flights to New York.
Oct. 5Terrorists kidnap a British diplomat.
Oct. 10Terrorists kidnap a Canadian Minister. He is found dead a week later.
Nov. 25Terrorists seize the headquarters of Japan’s defense forces.
Nov. 27An assassination attempt on the Pope.
Dec. 3A major government caves and releases five terrorists.
Dec. 4Spain declares martial law.
Dec. 7A Swiss ambassador is kidnapped.
Dec. 13Martial law is declared in Poland.

These events were accepted in 1970. People thought they were sad, but they didn’t panic over them. I don’t think that would be true in this 21st century. We are living in a fear soup, which is being stirred by the overlords of the age. And it’s working for them.

Going Nowhere

A great line in the Bible says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” And that is exactly what we’re being treated to by the mainstream culture right now. This is a second defining characteristic of our new century.

How many of us can answer this question in any positive way?:

Where is Western civilization going?

In this 21st century, we have no vision, no goal, and no direction. And that’s a very bad thing.

Lots of modern people want to live healthier and longer, but to what end? So they can eat more fancy food? So they can have sex a few more times? To what great future does that lead?

Millions of 21st-century people want to get rich, but what do they do with their big pile of money? Is it just to look at? To salve their insecurities? To prove their superiority?

Money is a fine tool, a good thing to have, but anyone who thinks it’s going to make them into some kind of superior person has a big surprise coming. The one thing they may get from it is status, but only in the eyes of shallow people.

At one time, the men and women of the West did have goals. At one time, they strove to attain righteousness, to love their neighbors, and to eliminate slavery. (And yes, I’m talking about the early Middle Ages.) Was this universal and perfect? Of course not, but it was quite real and quite effective, no matter what pop history says.

Even during my youth, we had a vision: We were sending men to the moon, then outward from there. However poorly the effort was handled, it was a real goal and one that positively affected millions of us.

Now there are no goals, no striving, no searching, no becoming. Instead, we have distractions, fears, and stasis.

Humans need goals, and we as a civilization currently have none.

The Current Necessity

So what do we do about this?

The common reflex is to “reform the system,” but I think that’s a tragic mistake. There’s a line from Emerson that goes like this:

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

And that’s precisely what the usual path will get you. Always “gonna live soon” but never actually living.

“Things will change as soon as we get X out of office.” “They’ll change as soon as we get Y into office.” “As soon as we change the Supreme Court!”

You can chase these rainbows for decades, but it ends up making no real difference. One day you’ll wake up and realize that you’re old and nearing the finish line… and that the system still sucks.

So, I recommend that you dump all of that and get busy changing the world directly. Forget the visionless 21st-century culture and start creating your own vision. Read, learn, choose! And get busy doing.

Without a vision, we stagnate, we walk in circles… we perish.

Don’t live in that trap.

A Free-Man’s Take is written by adventure capitalist, author, and freedom advocate Paul Rosenberg. 

The Ins and Outs of Loving Our Self

Starting to blog again. Hopefully, this will turn into a video to post.

I have been looking into Loving Yourself…as referenced in the Bible verse “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

I just look at the verse and ask what does it mean…or how can I do it? So it says to love my neighbor…how much??? As much as I love myself. In order to love my neighbor I have to first love myself. It’s like turning it around…and that’s the way many good truths are stated. They put the result first, and the necessary action first…and probably the hard part also.

So what is harder, loving yourself or your neighbor…. a good question. Doesn’t seem like either is “easy” or that we even want to do it. Loving our noise-making, property crossing, and dirty neighbor is not something we want to do…and sitting down and seeing what we love about ourselves is not something we care to take the time to do. Maybe we are afraid of what we will find…maybe we will realize that there isn’t much there to love.

We might find that we are liars and unaccountable in almost everything we do…and that is not easy to deal with. And we are very good at seeing all the other negative things which don’t lend themselves to Loving Oneself either.

But we need to learn to Love Ourselves because we need to deal positively with the world…our neighbors. Otherwise, we end up in frustration, despair, and resentment which doesn’t end well.

So how do you learn how to Love Yourself? Well, it’s probably doing things you don’t enjoy doing…initially. Once you get started, though, you will find that the release and freedom that are the result will bring you back for more.

Imagine working through your inconsistencies….your self lies… and no longer being subconsciously burdened by them. Imagine being able you hold your head up in front of your family and friends, because you have dealt with your “issues,” and can now come from an honest and open place….meaning that you recognize and admit your failings, are making amends and making great strides in improving yourself.

Do you think you could love the “unlovable” brother-in-law better then? Would it make your life and maybe even his better?

Probably…most likely…for sure!!!