The Fantastic Human Being

 

Hello fellow Homo sapiens,

Imagine yourself like those two kids. You have it in you.

Throughout the ages, there have been controllers who put their fellow humans in boxes, huts, chains, on gallows, crosses, electric chairs, or made to drink poison.

Controllers have used manipulation, coercion, blackmail, belittlement, ostracizing, ignoring, blaming, threatening, propaganda, lies, excommunication, and deportation to control people and thus gain power. And we use such tactics to attempt to change people's thinking.

Yet look at those faces above. Feel their joy.

You know that Homo sapiens are hard to control.

Toddlers rebel against control. As parents, we tried to control them, schools tried, and governments tried—often with extreme tactics, yet out of this came individuals who fought for peace, advancement, freedoms, liberty of thought, and expression.

These people were artists, adventurers, philosophers, scientists, and ministers. Many had no desire to change the world, but they worked on their passions and passed them on.

They inspired and motivated others to action.

Think of the Buddha, Krishna, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Antony, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, and John Lennon. All were peacemakers. Most lost their lives to controllers who believed in violence, not discussion, and yet…

The Peacemakers changed the world.

I read that the actor Steve Martin became popular at the end of the Vietnam War when a "Wild and Crazy Man" made people laugh. He came at the perfect time and place. We needed absurdity. 

We need laughter now. Laughter is a little heart massage--or maybe it's a big one.

And cream rises to the top.

And individuals will improve on a phone until it is a hand-held computer resembling a Star Trek communicator.

I heard this story (Twilight Zone music here) that in space, there are spaceships built on the same design they have used for thousands of years. Yet if you gave one of those ships to a Homo sapiens, he would try to improve it.

That desire to Make Better is built into us.

We can't help it.

Perhaps that is one of our strengths as Homo sapiens. If we are lost in the jungle, we would try to protect ourselves by making a weapon. At night, we would build a hut. If that hut fell on us that night, we would make a better one the next night. We would search for landmarks to get back home. We would look to the sky and say," I think that star was over there the first night I was lost, maybe I'm going in the wrong direction."

Put restrictions on people, and some young whippersnapper will poke his head up and find a way around it. (Or a not so young person.)

Take the individual who worked for the government and believed that certain secrets should be shared with the world.  It was not an attempt to give them to an enemy.

He downloaded them on a microchip and placed it inside a Rubik's Cube. He had constantly fiddled with that Rubik's Cube; thus, the people he worked for and with were accustomed to seeing him with it. On the day of the microchip escape, he threw the Rubik's Cube to the guard as a sort of joke, that way he got past the detector.

"I define a hero," exclaimed actress Shailene Woodley, "as somebody who against the judgment of other people, if they believe something will positively impact the world and they choose to do it and honor their integrity, that's what I (sort of) consider a hero, no matter how big or small a feat they create."

Take Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who asked the President to be merciful to scared people. Yes, she called him out in a Church Service, she embarrassed him, yet if she had said it in private, it would not have caused a ripple.

People get ready

There’s a train a-coming

You don’t need no baggage

You just get on board

All you need is faith

To hear the diesels humming

Don’t need no ticket

You just thank the Lord

Songwriter: Curtis Mayfield

 

“It has always been a coalition of the faithful that have brought about change.”—Bishop Mariann Edgar Buddes

 You know we want to be FREE. Being controlled isn't in our genetics. We're a lively bunch, a faithful bunch, we're tired of lies and mayhem. Let's get on that train.

Listen on YouTube to the Bishop Mariann Edgar Buddes’ 2022 sermon on her epiphany that challenged her courage. “Finding Courage in the Face of Injustice.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne6SQH4qMYU

Temporary Failure

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"Temporary failure is all the rage. All the cool kids have done it"—Jen Sencero (Life coach)

 

"In Japan, broken objects are often repaired with gold. The flaw is seen as a unique piece of the object's history which adds to its beauty. Consider this when you feel broken."—unknown

 

Have you ever had someone say to you, "What did you do to create that?"

 

You were pulling your hair out over the booboo you just made, and then some smart-aleck comes up and asks, "What did you do to create that?"

 

When tremendous things happen, I have never heard anyone say, "Wow! What did you do to create that?"

 

I'm not saying people don't congratulate you on your successes. I'm talking about those holier-than-thou people who are hurting the hurt. And, you know what your response ought to be. "If I could create that easily I wouldn't create you in front of me asking that stupid question."

 

I have Good News for you.

 

Let's say you have decided on a project and are going full out. That old subconscious mind of yours who sees a change coming decided to throw roadblocks in your way. It's like when you stop smoking, taking drugs, or doing something that will massively change your life. All hell breaks loose. 

 

You are detoxing. Both physically and emotionally. 

 

That's when your computer crashes, the washing machine breaks, or you get the flu. And then some idiot says, "What did you do to create that?"

 

"Well, Dude, I was changing my life, that's what."

 

Long ago, I got the chance to travel with my husband on a business trip. (What a great company to send me along.) He was going to England and Germany to show an instrument. I was excited. And then, as I searched through the necessary papers to get my passport, I lost my Driver's License. 

 

This occurrence was before I was into metaphysics and any thought that maybe, just maybe, we have a say in creating our reality. 

 

Then I called it "Static."

 

I knew I wanted to go. I was sure of that. So, why would I lose the very thing I needed to get my Passport? I could go into that dark place and say I'm stupid and disorganized, and if anyone had said, "What did you do to create that?" I would have sat on my hand to avoid punching them. 

 

As I anticipated my trip aboard, my subconscious started to make it hard for me, but I beat it. I found my Driver's License, got my passport, and had a fabulous time in England, Germany, Amsterdam, Holland, and Denmark. 

 

So, if you decide to make a massive change in your life, go for it, and don't let anything hold you back, other people, or your fears, and especially that subconscious mind who had operated on a certain level for so long that any change produces a tantrum.

 

Remember, sometimes shit happens before it turns into Shinola.