--- In [email protected], "Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LOL again. And my inner editor suspects you meant "steeped" > rather than "seeped"... :-)
Maybe it's negativity seeping in from association with the rest of us neganauts. :-) > Unfortunately, experience leads me to conclude that, in most > cases, a TMO devotee's "negativity" is the universe's "reality". It > continues to astonish me that most TMO devotees are apparently > completely incapable of seeing that literally NOTHING of the TMO's > grandiose plans or promises has ever happened, or that there is a > vanishingly small likelihood that any of them ever will happen (IMO). > > There have been very brief moments when I have envied this > ability to completely deny reality, as I acknowledge that occasionally > it feels as though it would be easier to feel that someone or > someting else is taking care of everything. It is pretty astounding, isn't it? Some of it, I'm convinced, is just inertia -- a mind at rest (having decided that one person is the "authority" in one's life) tends to stay at rest, and resists doubting that authority (or any kind of change, for that matter). On the other hand, a life of pure faith (with no objective "payoff" for that faith) can be a viable path, as long as one has sufficient funds to keep paying the bills so that the fantasy continues. The obvious threat coming from the movement right now (what with the "recertification" thang and the fatwa on England and stuff like that) is that if you *don't* have the faith to buy into anything that's said as if it's absolute truth, you'll be expelled from the movement and the fantasy channel will be switched off. > But most of the time I am very thankful that I have concluded I am > solely responsible for my own decisions, experiences and evolution. > Without that responsibility, I can't imagine I would deserve the > freedom that comes with it to really experience life at its fullest. Well said. While there is something to be said for a life in which one surrenders one's critical faculties to an "authority," IMO there is a great deal more to be said for a life in which one is comfortable being one's own authority. Or with knowing that there is no such thing as an authority. > --- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Its a shame we are both so seeped in negativity. :) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
