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Experiences Everyone chooses a path, or do they?

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M!$TER-ED

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Sometimes I wonder how much of an influence I am in my own chosen way? I agree we are the author of our destiny, I believe I am accountable for my life and choices I made. However, there have been times when my mind was not in control for long periods of time. I don't believe my life was being controlled by sources beyond my understanding or under the protectiveness of god or spirit,

I believe there is an inner self, a core nucleus humans are born with that protects, guides, adapts, understands, relates and interprets our lives and gives meaning in ways we cannot understand, but it is there. It is often referred to as the soul, it is present in everyone spiritual or not. It is a human trait that existed before religion turned into a commodity for control. My beliefs are my own, I respect the views and beliefs of everyone. as their right and privilege.

The only advantage to age as I see it is the amount of acquired knowledge that comes from experience. With that said, if I had a choice prior to my birth i would have optioned out.
 
There are many paths however you can choose your own direction. <3

You are 1 person with free will in a world full of madness, crazies and religious zealots ( haha )

It makes you outstanding, knowing what others are about

Do as you like just don't do harm.... as the saying goes.
 
Win or lose, it's up to You. You can choose. ☮️😎🔥🔥

I love it.




"Be what you is...And not you ain't, cuz if you is what you ain't....You ain't what you is"!

--- Yeah ! M!$TER-ED ( and that's an Education ) 🖖
 
soul is your brain chemistry, or maybe the soul is what causes our brain chemistry.

too much pressure in society. fucks up people's natural ability to feel good... some people can feel good with the pressure, but they could probably feel better, unless they get some type of pride from being atop the economy. idk. i don't believe society lets most take the path that benefits our natural brain chemistry pretty much... pretty much society is for people competent enough to get good jobs.

MIT predicts the economy is going to crash in 2040. they will have to set something up differently to manage all these people. psychedelics will probably be legalized allowed people to pray as they please... i'm really not sure what's happening.. i'm pretty sure there is already some military CIA project going on to study people.

so i don't believe society let's people choose their own path, and i could say more about this but i'm not sure i'm right. i don't believe everyone's soul is that great, so i don't know that we should all get to choose our own path. i'd like to think that we are all praying and that people shouldn't have to work 50 hour work weeks doing jobs that are way harder than other people that get to work less. i don't really consider that choosing the path you want. that's being bitched around.





M!$TER-ED said:
I believe there is an inner self, a core nucleus humans are born with that protects, guides, adapts, understands, relates and interprets our lives and gives meaning in ways we cannot understand, but it is there.
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this is our will... i believe nietzsche called this the will to power... will to power will have people going through the heavy jungle brush or something. lol. got to work 2 shit jobs just to get around... i guess that's chosing a path. that killing yourself is going off the path maybe? the thick jungle brush of working 2 full time shit jobs is your path.. IDK. can't really see it. lol.

i say i don't think everyone's soul is that great.. idk. i don't think a lot of people should have to work as hard as they do. most people aren't terrible.
 
Hmm, I don't think I would'nt have optioned out if given the choice. I like knowing there's a tomorrow and chances are there's something new coming up maybe it'll be small but whatever, it is.
 
M!$TER-ED said:
I believe there is an inner self, a core nucleus humans are born with that protects, guides, adapts, understands, relates and interprets our lives and gives meaning in ways we cannot understand, but it is there. It is often referred to as the soul, it is present in everyone spiritual or not. It is a human trait that existed before religion turned into a commodity for control.
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Whenever I role around all these thoughts in my head the one thing that stand out, there is Truth. There is a truth to everything. And people using religion for control can't grasp the deep meaning of anything spiritual. I have to believe that a lot of churches want to help people, but it quickly turns into social time and the deep meanings get covered up. Last time I was in a church the only time I got anything out of it is when the priest read a bible verse and expanded on it. For all of about 5 minutes while restless people were waiting to get out of the pews. When I was a teenager I got dragged to church a lot by my mother who while very kind hearted couldn't grasp the deeper meanings. (Eastern Orthodox, from Greek Orthodox.) I even went to a Good Friday service once when I was 16 after taking morning glory seeds. Eh But I think churches can change things, somehow get to the people that think God is only for the white man and show we are all the same. All these people saying they are religious and do nothing to help themselves or others. That is when the priest can step it up. Just a thought as they have the power already.

I have had periods of life that I felt I guided, then there are others where I felt a higher power was guiding. Even Nature as that higher power. It speaks to us, traveling around the sun on a mud ball over a thousand miles an hour well....., people try that with their free will. Much higher than me.

I have also ended up in situations that I never planned for that spun me. So much for free will. My thoughts are that we do have a blueprint, but there are many ways we can use free will to move us ahead in that blueprint. But we end up in the same place.

Life to me is for gathering Faith. None of us know what the next moment is going to do but we go about in experience and faith.
 
To me life and death doesn't matter, it's all the same, as far as faith there are those who have and those who choose not to. I fit in the latter group. It's not that I'm a hard-nosed anti-god-christ etc, It's just I see through it and it is not what most people believe it to be. When I was young I followed along like everyone else, but none of it made sense to me in terms of validity and proof. I was Christian or at least played the part. Christian doctrine has always been taught to be the only way to heaven was through Jesus. This seemed odd to me, how did christianity secure the only to god and heave from all other religions and beliefs?

There is the matter of faith that all good believers support and practiced which is based on supernaturalism. You say faith is different, yes and no, faith is the mechanism that makes belief possible, the crazier the notion the more likely believers will retain their belief. The thing about faith and being recognized as a member of the fold, you get an automatic approval simply by association, Trump is well aware of the potential voting support among his flock of believers. The beauty of it all questioning a so-called believer's motives is as good as questioning god's authority, and no one does that.

If religions were truly designed for human development, growth and education learning these things would be universal and create unity among us all. Religion on the other hand does not create unity, it creates division. Us and Them, good and evil, saved and unsaved, believers and nonbelievers. Throughout the bible it teaches there is a spiritual war between the good guys and the bad guys, Right vs Wrong, simple as that, or is it, I'm a nonbeliever by choice however, I am not evil, nor am I at war with believers, seriously I couldn't care less about what people believe. I'm ok, your'e ok and that is that, however, christian worship services preach a different story and believers do what believers do, they believe. Secularism is a sin, and all sins must be eradicated along with us nonbelievers, who by the way are condemned to hell according the bible, god' word. The only reason secularism is considered a sin is according to wikipedia secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion. In other words, any and everything that is not god oriented and in accordance to church laws is heresy. I'm a heretic.
 
thank you

M!$TER-ED said:
To me life and death doesn't matter, it's all the same, as far as faith there are those who have and those who choose not to. I fit in the latter group. It's not that I'm a hard-nosed anti-god-christ etc, It's just I see through it and it is not what most people believe it to be. When I was young I followed along like everyone else, but none of it made sense to me in terms of validity and proof. I was Christian or at least played the part. Christian doctrine has always been taught to be the only way to heaven was through Jesus. This seemed odd to me, how did christianity secure the only to god and heave from all other religions and beliefs?

There is the matter of faith that all good believers support and practiced which is based on supernaturalism. You say faith is different, yes and no, faith is the mechanism that makes belief possible, the crazier the notion the more likely believers will retain their belief. The thing about faith and being recognized as a member of the fold, you get an automatic approval simply by association, Trump is well aware of the potential voting support among his flock of believers. The beauty of it all questioning a so-called believer's motives is as good as questioning god's authority, and no one does that.

If religions were truly designed for human development, growth and education learning these things would be universal and create unity among us all. Religion on the other hand does not create unity, it creates division. Us and Them, good and evil, saved and unsaved, believers and nonbelievers. Throughout the bible it teaches there is a spiritual war between the good guys and the bad guys, Right vs Wrong, simple as that, or is it, I'm a nonbeliever by choice however, I am not evil, nor am I at war with believers, seriously I couldn't care less about what people believe. I'm ok, your'e ok and that is that, however, christian worship services preach a different story and believers do what believers do, they believe. Secularism is a sin, and all sins must be eradicated along with us nonbelievers, who by the way are condemned to hell according the bible, god' word. The only reason secularism is considered a sin is according to wikipedia secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion. In other words, any and everything that is not god oriented and in accordance to church laws is heresy. I'm a heretic.
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"The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish." Terrance McKenna

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Goodbye, halcyon days...

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened.

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The Definition of Our Future:

Responsible freedom of self determination, becoming truly self-confident and free, to
unconditionally be responsible for oneself, without being coerced to accept some higher
authority.

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Denn der Mensch ist der Acker und sein Herz sein Baum, sein Werk seine Frucht. -- Paracelsus
 
M!$TER-ED said:
To understand is to first accept then love, works every time
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Love seems to be the thing that drives everything. Spouses, children, jobs we love. We chase love around as if it were a elusive thief. Yet I believe as humans we can't even comprehend love beyond the little things. But maybe that is the training camp here. We are just learning.
 
Ki3ly said:
Oh !! I'm a workingon too. Yessah. 👍:love:
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I had clicked send when I was working on a post. ;) You are quick Ki3ly. Yes I said working on it. I guess working on a post, and working on learning what love is.
 
JackARoe said:
I had clicked send when I was working on a post. ;) You are quick Ki3ly. Yes I said working on it. I guess working on a post, and working on learning what love is.
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That's so profoundly crying material. And that was really good. 🥹

It was a chord that hit.


We worked. We earn. <3
 
Going back to one’s path in life, the path you take may or may not have anything to do with what you as far as work concerned. Most of the time you don’t get to work on what you want to do, therefore a shit is working to survive rather than a career, maybe the path is your understanding, state of mind and role in life.

Growing up in the 70s LOVE was a big word, I understood love to be total acceptance unconditionally love of all and everything, even if I did not approve or liked, loving those things are a true test of love. Unconditionally, without bias, or judgement love is..freedom of conditions
 
I could have chose many different paths. But I chose the one that I did. It could have been better.

I didn't know that when I was choosing though. I didn't know any better. I wasn't taught to focus that way specifically.

I just did to do. And I took the long way around somehow. Not the most direct healthiest path either for that matter.

I had to find out for myself now that I can look back on it all. I sure would pass that information on if I had someone

to do that for. I am just from the old school pack. The organism is what the organism does. We sure made our

efforts though. With around the corner type of ways, just all wrong. With all of the good trying to be in the mix.

Welp, so here I am now ... and I think the @M!$TER-ED is trying to say we all still have the ability to choose ?

So. Here I go. Again. Thanks Mr. So Muches. 🕊️

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