Posted by FH on September 10, 2012 at 18:22:23
In Reply to: Re: Question #1 posted by Extreme on September 06, 2012 at 19:58:44:
Dear Extreme.
Thank you for a good post…a big topic.
You said: “I don't know how to believe in something without acting out on it,…”. My first impression here is that this is not at all a bad thing. Imo it is quite the contrary. If you don’t do anything for what you believe in it isn’t what you believe in, simple as that.
But there is a 'but' there, and namely for those of us who is carrying around programming from past life in a spiritually stressing high yield environment, such as what we know.
There are two ways of operating that are literally opposites, like black and white, and we do not want to confuse those two things.
What I mean by ‘acting on what you believe’, for me it is a conscious, considering the cost, intelligent, volitional decision with your mind as to what to do based on what you really believe to be true, what you even know to be true and the right thing, and also considering the circumstances, what can serve your cause the most.
And by the same token, after you have decided on a course of action, those you thus in turn may have any bearing on should likewise be guided through and by the same processes as yourself, and not under any form for coercion.
What ‘acting on what you believe’ often was in a typical TFI setting, was acting on some input or stimuli, NOT out of love for the cause, NOR due to an intelligent volitional decision, nor out of a willing heart, but mostly based on fear and therefore some subconscious dynamic, a response to a set of subliminal stimuli. A bit like a robot. This is one reason why most members are relatively childish even though in their 60s, they never learned how to think yet.
God does not want robots, he wants people who consciously choose him with their mind, out of love, because they fully believe and know it is the right thing to do.
I dare say that in any fanatic movement from communism, to the jesuits, to the rest of the secret subversive societies, to religious nuts, Islam, TFI, etc etc. there is precious little intelligence among the rank and file there, indeed little more than blind obedience to your superior or you are history