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**Kk21pwa9** · 08-04-2009, 03:19 AM

first let me say this is an excellent post and a great reminder. i know i certainly can use reminders like this every now and then.

i don't know about you all but i always had a problem with the word "service". it just seems weird to me.
do i want to be a good person and try to bring joy and happiness to the people around me? definitely
do i serve other people?

bringing joy and happiness to the people around you is 'service', much like bringing misery to those same people is the opposite of service. if it's easier for you to sneak past old mrs. jenkins without saying "hi" and giving her a smile, but you do it anyway, and it lifts her spirits, you did her a service. it doesn't even matter that you did it complaining to yourself, so long as you did it. why? because sometimes it takes stepping in the direction of kindness, whether you want to or not, to enjoy the rewards, yourself, that you offered to another first.

the catholic church seems to have been very careful not to empower the people too much because they would rather them to stay dependent on the church for the answers. they don't want the people to be able to think for themselves and feel like the god the people are searching for is actually right inside of us. then the catholic church would no longer be needed and their money would be gone. this is an example of an organization that does not want to empower the people. hence an sts organization.

do you empower the people around you or do you try to suck the life out of them to sustain your self? more and more people are 'waking up' to this understanding of the way religions work. it's exactly as you say. sure it has its good points, like 'charities' etc., but what good is charity when it comes with the price of being filled with lies. but that's what they need to do to keep the sheep grazing in their pastures, dis-empower them, make the sheep need them and disable the power hidden within. harsh but true.

when you're taught to constantly suppress your inner power and only rely on "god's" power, the god whose image is falsely represented as 'loving' yet psycho towards anyone who disagrees with him, when the time comes for you to "fly" on your own, your wings will be too weak and the beast who was carrying you will have long since left you for it's next victim.

no, i trust the kindness of human beings, i know it exists without all the lies.
all it takes to bring it out is taking that first step.

08-04-2009, 03:19 AM	#2
Kk21pwa9 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 506 Senior Member	first let me say this is an excellent post and a great reminder. i know i certainly can use reminders like this every now and then. i don't know about you all but i always had a problem with the word "service". it just seems weird to me. do i want to be a good person and try to bring joy and happiness to the people around me? definitely do i serve other people? bringing joy and happiness to the people around you is 'service', much like bringing misery to those same people is the opposite of service. if it's easier for you to sneak past old mrs. jenkins without saying "hi" and giving her a smile, but you do it anyway, and it lifts her spirits, you did her a service. it doesn't even matter that you did it complaining to yourself, so long as you did it. why? because sometimes it takes stepping in the direction of kindness, whether you want to or not, to enjoy the rewards, yourself, that you offered to another first. the catholic church seems to have been very careful not to empower the people too much because they would rather them to stay dependent on the church for the answers. they don't want the people to be able to think for themselves and feel like the god the people are searching for is actually right inside of us. then the catholic church would no longer be needed and their money would be gone. this is an example of an organization that does not want to empower the people. hence an sts organization. do you empower the people around you or do you try to suck the life out of them to sustain your self? more and more people are 'waking up' to this understanding of the way religions work. it's exactly as you say. sure it has its good points, like 'charities' etc., but what good is charity when it comes with the price of being filled with lies. but that's what they need to do to keep the sheep grazing in their pastures, dis-empower them, make the sheep need them and disable the power hidden within. harsh but true. when you're taught to constantly suppress your inner power and only rely on "god's" power, the god whose image is falsely represented as 'loving' yet psycho towards anyone who disagrees with him, when the time comes for you to "fly" on your own, your wings will be too weak and the beast who was carrying you will have long since left you for it's next victim. no, i trust the kindness of human beings, i know it exists without all the lies. all it takes to bring it out is taking that first step.
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