"Why won't God heal amputees?"
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Quote from archimedes:
Wake up man -- stop being a jerk.
Ask yourself why the God you worship lets stuff like this happen every day... while Benny Hinn's flock buys him a jet.
"The sins of the parents are passed down to the seventh generation. "
Sins are seriously insane notions that get passed down from parent to child, until a child is born who will stop the insanity. The effects of seriously insane notions are passed down as well.
Within this thought stream, a personality emanating from an eternal soul shifts its attention to a fetus in a womb...knowing full well where it is placing itself in this thought stream.
In this sense, the child is no different from me. In most worldly births, the mind-personality emanating from the soul is attracted to this world wherein the fear it feels, feels more at home here.
When such personalities die in fear, they may fear even their own soul...which remains perfect, powerful, and fearless. In this way, such personalities are turned back by fear to join the world again, where fear is at home. It is common for personalities to think they have lessons yet to learn in the earth, karma to balance, guilt to expiate.
You think you see a child, but you do not see the mind-personality that animates the flesh for a while. You do not see how that mind is connected to a soul, and the soul connected to Spirit and the Spirit connected to God. The connections are strong enough that you could still say that this child is one with God. You can even go further and say, there only exists God, and the child is That God...each seeming part of the whole having the power of the whole.
When separation from God is considered, a series of thought processes use the power of God to create circumstances. That same power that makes a Bill Gates, makes also this child. Such though processes can lead into a labyrinth of fear, out of which it is certain that the thinker cannot think its way out. Bill Gates is in no less a labyrinth.
So there is good reason for compassion. Both Bill Gates and this child are connected to you. And you are all equal having temporary circumstances according to a flow of thought processes.
No one, nobody has done anything wrong here, much less the child. It takes great power to follow a trail leading from perfect soul to a small, frail, starving child. You will argue, why would God allow that? And I would remind you that this IS God and Love allows all things. Any thought process is allowed in the Kingdom of God.
There is such thing as intervention to correct thought processes, but there is one thing that cannot be taken away from you is your own fear. Fear is the one thing you must give up in order to manifest abundance on the level of a Bill Gates and beyond. Nothing can be created in a state of fear, but many things can be made in fear. Some African states are nothing but fear.
To help this child, or any such child, would be to help yourself. You can best help by giving up your own fear that you may teach how to do that if called upon. You can also help yourself by not judging this event as unacceptable or unconscionable. You cannot judge by appearances, so why even try?
Yet, if you are standing next to the child, he becomes the neighbor in front of your face, and that is the one to give water to. It does not help to look for evil...for an evil child...an evil god...an evil parent...an evil religion. To do so is to imprison this child in such a body, in such a condition. You will perpetuate the type of thinking that got him there.
In the end, you are responsible for everything you see and experience. There is no such thing as a victim in this world. Your responsibility extends to everything you see. Now that you see what you are responsible for, you can forgive, including yourself whatever it was in you that produced this.
If you have bread, give it. If you pass blame around, you give stones to such children, just as his grandparents gave stones.
Jesus
Here I emphasized fearlessness: "Do not be anxious". Here I talked about a deliberate thought process that deliberately gives up fear and fear-ful thoughts. Faith is fearlessness, and this is a deliberate decision you can and must make in order to have your needs met effortlessly. For you are creators, always and evermore. There is abundance available that only fearlessness can access. That's the bottom line.
It is fear, passed on from generation to generation that leads to pictures of children like this.
Jesus
you must be utterly stupid. utterly. sorry, i know this
is a wrong word, but i can't help it. hypocratic arrogance
needs to be adressed properly.
IMHHO the concept of buddhism and karma is able to
answer the question why this child is dying. nevertheless
i find it impossible to talk about it in such context.
simply because i am sitting in a coffee house and just
finished my breakfast. at a price that would keep a
family alive there for a week probably.
"If you are born into a war-torn region where genocidal conflicts are a routine occurrence and your only hope of getting fed is joining a militia at the age of ten, what do you think your chances are? If your odds of survival past the age of five are a 50/50 shot because you have no access to clean drinking water... if you have no time for reading or writing because you have to scrounge for dry roots from sunup to sundown... if the culture you were born into offers no education, no economic opportunity, no emphasis on self-worth at all, what do you think your chances are?"
And once again, what are all of the above ? CHOICES ! I don't want to hear some sad bullshit excuse on why people can't get ahead. It all starts with your thinking . The mind is a powerful thing and anyone can decide to make a choice to better their life and move on. Why is the water dirty ? Who made the choice to piss in it ? Is there no fire in this country to boil it ? Your chances are what you make them .
And once again, what are all of the above ? CHOICES ! I don't want to hear some sad bullshit excuse on why people can't get ahead. It all starts with your thinking . The mind is a powerful thing and anyone can decide to make a choice to better their life and move on. Why is the water dirty ? Who made the choice to piss in it ? Is there no fire in this country to boil it ? Your chances are what you make them .
Stupid to me is people who make poor CHOICES such as continuing to have children when they can't even provide for their current family. But that is somebody elses problem right ? Because they can't help that they are uneducated. The first step in changing your life is self responsibility. Until this is realized, there is little chance of moving forward.
Look: you don't understand culture. You don't understand geography, logistics or geopolitics. You don't understand basic biology. You don't understand the inner workings of the mind. And your empathy quotient is apparently zero.
Worst of all, you seem too incompetent to grasp incompetence.
For all your self-help worship, I highly doubt you understand the true nature of success. You certainly don't grasp the subtle gradations between skill and luck, or the fact that truly great accomplishments require more than a bit of both.
Your dogged insistence on a black and white world where everyone has an equal shot--and thus no one deserves mercy or pity--is indicative of deep rationalization. You want to believe you are better than others, perhaps. Or maybe you desperately want to believe this world is 'fair,' and so you make it so via laughably ludicrous kludges in your own mind.
Your philosophical sickness is a microcosm of religious sickness in general.
Just as most marketing is based on wishful thinking... the implicit promise of something for nothing, or a disproportionately large payoff for little investment... most philosophical assertions and religious beliefs are based on wishful thinking too.
Most people do not want to view the world as it is. They do not want to face the reality of who they are, or where they are. Because of the mind's great plasticity, this strong desire to mask reality is effectively molded into a cartoon world. Deluded people do not see what others see -- or they seek out large groups of other deluded folks who have twisted the world in a similar way.
Ego plays a role too. As Bertrand Russell once said, "A stupid man's report of what a clever man said can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
From the Russell viewpoint, it would seem that "clever" and "stupid" are permanent monikers. But this is a case where I believe bootstrapping is in order. It is often the case that the stupid man does not have a mental problem as much as an ego problem.
Many "stupid" people willfully choose to remain ignorant, and dumb, out of a desire to preserve their inflated ego or protect their deluded world, rather than take the risk of trying to understand something new.
Well said.
Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad, and seeks to let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it sees illusions where the truth should be, and where it really is.
The body is the instrument the mind made in its efforts to deceive itself. In this sense, sin gave the body eyes to see only insanity. In this sense, such eyes are blind.
The purpose of such a body - every body - is to strive. But this goal can be changed, and truth can be it's aim as well as lies. The senses will then seek instead for witnesses to what is true.
Sin is the home of all illusions, which but stand for things imagined, issuing from thoughts that are untrue. They are the "proof" that what has no reality is real. Sin "proves" God's Son is evil.
A madman's dreams are frightening, and sin appears indeed to terrify. And yet what sin perceives is but a childish game. The Son of God may play he has become a body, prey to evil and to guilt, with but a little life that ends in death. But all the while his Father shines on him, and love him with an everlasting Love which his pretenses cannot change at all.
How long, O Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin? Shall we not put away these sharp-edged children's toys? How soon will you be ready to come home?
Jesus