We Live In a Time of Great Doubts
What to believe has become confusing. That doubt shakes most of us to our core being, as what we believe as principles and values for good are being assaulted daily by information that makes us question those principles and values.
The following are the types of information we receive:
MISinformation ‒ (mistaken information, accidently counter to the truth)
DISinformation ‒ (information subtly designed to make you question or doubt the truth)
MALinformation ‒ (information purposely designed to make the truth look like a lie)
The truth ‒ well, you know what that is. Logic of what your mind has reasoned, what you and others have done and your mind “filtering” information by your experience in life as to what is illusion and what is reality. The truth ‒ we all desire to know what it is. But deep down we all know. It’s based on goodness, decency, sacrifice, compassion… and hope.
A Proposal
Consider this: what is not contrary to the three “manuals” of the Abrahamic religion ‒ Christianity, Islam and Judaism (actually all theological manuals that express compassion in some manner for others) ‒ is good for society and its people. As long as it’s also not contrary to individual rights, as in the Constitution and Bill of Rights written in the spirit of the original authors and founders cited.
I’m not going into the massive psychological operation (PsyOps) being perpetrated on the world by that “One World” Clique who want to be your gods. (I learned about the British version of PsyOps taught in their Special Forces training.) The Globalists focus on broadcasting information based on #2 and #3 of the above. The goal is to destroy #4.
We as humans need to believe in goodness and decency. I am amazed at the compassion and caring I see in people towards others, even in this decade of selfish interests and illusions that absorbs most people. “Me,” “me,” more “me” …and “I.”
Core Beliefs
These cannot be based on egos, sexual persuasions, gender identity, ideologies or politics. They must be based on beliefs other than our own selfish interests.1
Belief in good values and decency is the core to society's function as a civilized mechanism to govern us and for us to live by and be courteous and respectful towards others.
No society has lasted long that lost the ability of its members to be courteous and respectful towards others and to have a resolve to accept, either as a winner or loser, the decisions of a court system as the means of settlement for dispute resolution… rather than violence.
So, what do you do!?
Find Refuge
I didn’t start studying the bible a couple of years back because of my age that makes me closer to the end… than the beginning. Or being scared. I’ve been through so much shaking-in-my-boots relentless fear that I’m numb to it. Actually, I study the Koran, the Bible and the Tora/Talmud. I doubt I’d make a good member of any of them, but “I’m workin’ on it!”
I know that in the heat of combat, whatever your beliefs, if you hesitate for one fraction of a second, fear or doubt for one split second… the Grim Reaper will swoop down and snatch your soul right out of your body. So, I carried on being the “adrenaline junkie” who couldn’t get enough combat and who was a “Spit in the Devil’s Eye” type being.
Amongst these people in my group, all suffering from the trauma of life, some the military, some combat and most just living life… I find peace. Not happiness… but peace. Happiness has its ups and downs but peace is like being in a car with the engine purring but the car not bouncing around on the road.
That source of information that is the truth? A book…the Bible. Why the Bible? It’s come to be the greatest story I’ve read. Maybe the reason it makes sense now, that it didn’t make when I was 14, is because of a person’s age… age, that brings maturity, also characterized as wisdom. I've learned a new meaning of the words... sacrifice, forgiveness (still working on it), compassion, hope... and peace. Many other words too.
That book tells how we lived decently and how we also behaved badly and by that the people of those societies destroyed themselves. Stories on how we beasts, who wear shoes and clothes and think of ourselves as other than beasts, should live. How we should behave towards others, for the good of ourselves, our offspring and others. How a good society behaves… because the people behave in courteous, decent and caring ways. They have hope.
Fairy Tails and Parlor Tricks
Well, that’s what I used to think in my younger days. But now? The wisdom of my years tells me that I was allowed to live through all I’ve experienced… for a reason. If that reason is just to invite one reader of this collage of words to God… that’s probably it. That will work.
Go to a Refuge. Maybe you’ll find peace in it. Maybe you’ll find someone like reader DK, a local friend I have found. He gave me the state of mind of Refuge when he told me some 3 years ago when I was all worked up and had my “knickers in a knot” with frenzied worry... “Jack, quit listening to yourself so much!
Funny, how those 7 words he spoke calmed me down that day.
Termini…
About the Author
Jack Lawson is a prolific writer on this topic, focusing on the practical, and has been a close friend of mine for over six years. Please visit his website and enjoy the other products of his mind at Civil Defense Manual.
Editors note: This is correct. History testifies that human governance is axiomatically flawed; trying harder produces yet-harder failures. We make terrible gods for ourselves.