Some considerations for people who were not in paradise with Jesus on Good Friday

Good Friday came yesterday, and left, without my giving it much thought, other than if Jesus in the Gospels were in America today, doing what he is reported in the Gospels to have done, he would be killed by Christians.

Meanwhile, some Easter considerations for people who were not in paradise with Jesus on Good Friday. 

Good? 

Really?

Reddit/Spirituality 

 

avisionofpeace

Does anyone else ever read all the stomach turning positivity and think yeah if you were living my life you wouldn't be so f****** positive all the time✨

Sorry but I'm fed up of pretending I'm ok and when I act all positive it's just a mask to hide how I really feel and that is that life is really f****** hard and sometimes I wish I could just die 

Puzzleheaded (me)

Engraved on my Jewish great grandfather's grave monument: "God's noblest creation is an honest man."

I lived in Santa Fe, NM 1/12 years, and in Boulder, Colorado 8 years. New Age and Eastern spirituality meccas. I met a lot of people into positive thinking as a way to get what they wanted and/or to just be more spiritual, and they were miserable inside, struggling just like everyone else.

I received extensive psycho-spiritual training, as a practice client and then I did it for other people. Everyone of them, me included, had all sorts of awful stuff stuck inside of them, which was influencing them in many ways. None of us got to the bottom of it. 

After angels took me over, they ushered me through healing of stuff I had no clue was inside of me, and some of the healing was unfathomably terrifying. Even after all of that, there was still plenty in me that was not exactly hunky dory. Yet, my perspective of just about everything had changed, and would continue changing. 

Perhaps the best self-help book I read was A Course In Miracles. The Course is no fun, according to people I knew who were doing it. It says nobody knows that is really going on, and it's pointless trying to figure it out. Just do the Course for a year, and emerge a different person, who can move forward, instead of staying stuck or going backward. 

In sum, whatever happens that disturbs us, punches our buttons, sit in it, burn in it, don't try to fix it. Do that for a year. Kinda reminds of Jesus in the Gospels: turn the other cheek; resist not one who does evil; do good to and pray for your enemies. Sort of.

I think the spiritual path is everybody for him/herself. It's between each person and God, or whatever people wish to call the unfathomable and the unknowable.

Geopold

Forced positivity doesn't work for someone suffering from shit life syndrome, agreed.

avisionofpeace

Please explain shit life syndrome.

Special-Hunter

it’s when your life is shit

avisionofpeace

As long as that's what it is and not some snarky comment about how my head is the problem and not my life.

Special-Hunter

honestly it could’ve been but i wouldn’t worry abt it. idk what’s going on in your life but i’ve never been bothered by the overly positive comments. it shows another pov for me. i could be in this deep dark place but i’ve got ppl who might’ve gone through similar experiences saying that life will get good again, this and that. i get it can get annoying tho when you’re reading them and you know you can’t feel those things atm.

avisionofpeace

Trust me if you were in my shoes you'd understand. Sometimes it's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel when all you can see is darkness.

Special-Hunter

there are still things to find in the darkness just like there is in the light. i met my truest self in one of my deepest depressive episodes. the darkness is just trying to see what you’re made of. will you wade through till the light or settle for the shit life gave you

avisionofpeace

There is no light to be taken from the hell I'm going through. You have absolutely no idea.

Special-Hunter

then can i ask what the reason for your post was? bc i only would post if i was looking for help or some type of advice/guidance/helpful words but if there’s no solution for you then why post. why even keep on doing life? if it’s so bad?

Puzzleheaded

Of course he is looking for help, but how can we help someone if we are not walking in their moccasins and understand what that person is going through? But that's not what his post is about. It's about the "path of positive thinking" not working for him. 

 

So, someone has cancer. Postifive thinking is the way to deal with that? Someone's infant child died. Positive thinking is how to deal with that? The one way to deal with either is to get up each day and do what's dead in front of you. And, that's the way to deal with everything. How you deal with it, of course, is important. 

 

However, trying to mentally apply our thoughts, our will to a situation, to get an outcome we want, is witchcraft, isn't it? As opposed to, Not my will, but your will be done, O Lord.

avisionofpeace

Was hoping people could relate so I wouldn't feel so alone.

I stay alive because the very few people I have left in my life, I love too dearly to kill myself.

Puzzleheaded

You don't provide details of your angst, and I'm not asking for details. There is something called the dark night of the soul, and its big brother, the black night, both of which I experienced. The dark night was horrific, but was a cakewalk compared to the black night. Both come on their own and leave on their own, when they are ready, and trying to outmuscle either is futile. 

 

I don' know what your spiritual basics are, but there is something with you, which is beyond human comprehension, and you might wish to try leaning into it in your own way, and keep leaning into it, as you try to do your best to deal with what each day and night bring to you.

Facebook 

I imagine the Devil loves our mass shooting problem.

Once upon a time I practiced law.

US Constitution, Amendment 2

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

For the life of me, I cannot understand why the US Supreme Court and every other court in America and every American ignores "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State".

That's the predicate for, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Where's the regulated Militia?

The gun lovers want zero regulation of their love.

Amendment 14

Section 1

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

  
What about the right of school children to life (not be shot and killed at school)? 

 

Poetic Outlaws 

 

Fleet Visit

By: W.H. Auden 

 

The sailors come ashore

Out of their hollow ships,

Mild-looking middle-class boys

Who read the comic strips;

One baseball game is more

To them than fifty Troys.

They look a bit lost, set down

In this unamerican place

Where natives pass with laws

And futures of their own;

They are not here because

But only just-in-case.

The whore and ne’er-do-well

Who pester them with junk

In their grubby ways at least

Are serving the Social Beast;

They neither make nor sell —

No wonder they get drunk.

But the ships on the dazzling blue

Of the harbor actually gain

From having nothing to do;

Without a human will

To tell them whom to kill

Their structures are humane

And, far from looking lost,

Look as if they were meant

To be pure abstract design

By some master of pattern and line,

Certainly worth every cent

Of the millions they must have cost.

Sloan Bashinsky

A different sort of fleet visit

SHANGHAIED

A calling to serve carries its own wisdom,

which legitimates both the calling and the serving

so that the two are one.

Only the one called to serve

can know this wisdom,

and for some who are called

the knowing comes easily,

while for others the knowing is a fiery baptism.

Each calling is different,

and while some callings can be declined,

others cannot,

and those whose calling is without repentance

know they are in it for the duration of the calling,

and while others may try to persuade them out of it,

the calling for ones such as these always prevails;

thus is it advised to all called for keeps

that they view their calling as a blessing

even when it seems at times to be a curse,

and that they try to reconcile the loss of their captain status

and allow the Spirit of God to man the helm of their ship,

and be glad and willing crew members thereon,

knowing that all sailing ships of souls

need a crew as well as a captain

to maintain and navigate the ship through

seas of many tones, depths and flavors;

so consider each league sailed

as part of the overall journey

going to where the captain deigns to go

by using whatever winds and sea currents available

to navigate the ship to the experiences

this ship and crew need to have

in order to fulfill their calling and its wisdom

revealed by the journey of many leagues,

many known only to the ship and its crew,

all of whom come to know,

some sooner than others,

that once conscripted

there is no safe jumping ship.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com