"To my eye, we don’t truly get rid of the Cabal without also getting rid of our Cabal-shaped egos."
And that my friend is the crux of the matter, the fuel that keeps this monstrous fire of evil raging all across this planet. There is no point in eradicating the global Cabal (or more accurately the Global Crime Syndicate) if we are all lined up like good little Cabal wannabees waiting to refill those Cabal shoes that have just been so painstakingly cleaned out.
There is no point in fixing America if Americans continue to believe that they are God's gift to mankind, that they are God's chosen ones, that they are really and truly the "World Police" and thus entitled to trample on anyone's sovereignty, that they are entitled to other people's resources at the price they want to pay--everyone else be damned, that they are somehow entitled to "more" than their neighbors are, that they are somehow entitled to the firstfruits of everything and deserve to always be the first in line. No! This will definitely not do. A holier than thou national attitude by any nation will not make this world a better place. It will in fact continue to keep the world in this prison of darkness.
For the Cabal to die, so must our Cabal-shaped egos.
Some of what you said reminds me of this list of 9 inevitabilities.
The uncertainties of life and the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict the concept of the universal sovereignty of God. All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities. Consider the following:
1. Is courage -- strength of character -- desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.
2. Is altruism -- service of one's fellows -- desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality.
3. Is hope -- the grandeur of trust -- desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.
4. Is faith -- the supreme assertion of human thought -- desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe.
5. Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible.
6. Is idealism -- the approaching concept of the divine -- desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things.
7. Is loyalty -- devotion to highest duty -- desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.
8. Is unselfishness -- the spirit of self-forgetfulness -- desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast.
9. Is pleasure -- the satisfaction of happiness -- desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternative of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities.
Source: the Urantia Book
As always Clarence it is a pleasure to read your thoughts.
Thanks! Yeah, I thought that sentence was right at the heart of it. We don't get through this without a visit to the cult deprogrammer.
Never read the Urantia Book, but have of course run across it many times. I love this set of questions, and how they start by questioning the basic premise: is such and such desirable? Mrs C and I have been doing that a lot lately, questioning our basic premises about having "friendships," for instance. Or our impulse to be "helpful." Or whether what we do is "therapy" or "counseling" or "consulting" or "coaching" or "mentoring." Wondering to what extent those various stories really fit who we are or what we're up to, wondering to what extent they arise from old trauma or unquestioned narratives, etc. Good work if you can get it! It's not something we were taught to do. My old question is, when people ask if we need electric cars, is to ask back: do we want or need cars? Not because I have the right answer, but because it seems vital that we stop and question our foundational premises.
Love this article! I feel so much of the same.
Thanks for taking the time to write this.
Thanks for letting me know! Always nice to find some resonance with others. Glad to meet you here. Clarence
"To my eye, we don’t truly get rid of the Cabal without also getting rid of our Cabal-shaped egos."
And that my friend is the crux of the matter, the fuel that keeps this monstrous fire of evil raging all across this planet. There is no point in eradicating the global Cabal (or more accurately the Global Crime Syndicate) if we are all lined up like good little Cabal wannabees waiting to refill those Cabal shoes that have just been so painstakingly cleaned out.
There is no point in fixing America if Americans continue to believe that they are God's gift to mankind, that they are God's chosen ones, that they are really and truly the "World Police" and thus entitled to trample on anyone's sovereignty, that they are entitled to other people's resources at the price they want to pay--everyone else be damned, that they are somehow entitled to "more" than their neighbors are, that they are somehow entitled to the firstfruits of everything and deserve to always be the first in line. No! This will definitely not do. A holier than thou national attitude by any nation will not make this world a better place. It will in fact continue to keep the world in this prison of darkness.
For the Cabal to die, so must our Cabal-shaped egos.
Some of what you said reminds me of this list of 9 inevitabilities.
The uncertainties of life and the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict the concept of the universal sovereignty of God. All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities. Consider the following:
1. Is courage -- strength of character -- desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.
2. Is altruism -- service of one's fellows -- desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality.
3. Is hope -- the grandeur of trust -- desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.
4. Is faith -- the supreme assertion of human thought -- desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe.
5. Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible.
6. Is idealism -- the approaching concept of the divine -- desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things.
7. Is loyalty -- devotion to highest duty -- desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.
8. Is unselfishness -- the spirit of self-forgetfulness -- desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast.
9. Is pleasure -- the satisfaction of happiness -- desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternative of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities.
Source: the Urantia Book
As always Clarence it is a pleasure to read your thoughts.
Thanks! Yeah, I thought that sentence was right at the heart of it. We don't get through this without a visit to the cult deprogrammer.
Never read the Urantia Book, but have of course run across it many times. I love this set of questions, and how they start by questioning the basic premise: is such and such desirable? Mrs C and I have been doing that a lot lately, questioning our basic premises about having "friendships," for instance. Or our impulse to be "helpful." Or whether what we do is "therapy" or "counseling" or "consulting" or "coaching" or "mentoring." Wondering to what extent those various stories really fit who we are or what we're up to, wondering to what extent they arise from old trauma or unquestioned narratives, etc. Good work if you can get it! It's not something we were taught to do. My old question is, when people ask if we need electric cars, is to ask back: do we want or need cars? Not because I have the right answer, but because it seems vital that we stop and question our foundational premises.
Thanks for checking in. Good to connect again. C