Any healthy mental bodies in attendance?

[Billz]

I have a button I never wear that a friend sent me which says: I see stupid people...

I have mentioned often here that in my opinion this world is still really asleep, no matter how much people are saying the world is waking up, that there are new children etc. There may be new children but in the US, those kids, and adults, seem to me to be more indoctrinated than ever...Which leads me to how I deal with it, and that is to stay focused on my own self and journey. I don't do it for the good of all, though the good of all matters. I do it because I feel this is my only true responsibility.

The end result is that yes, it is isolating here. I really don't think there is any getting around that. To acknowledge, accept, and commit to one's own unique journey brings accountability and no one else can be accountable for your own self. This idea is a central fallacy (and disservice) of Christianity—that Jesus could take others' sins (and accountability) away. Humankind desperately seeks to ignore accountability, and I can sympathize that it opens a huge can of worms. Personally though, I have never thought ignorance was bliss. I'd rather be aware and challenged than asleep and cozy.

I am not sure at all that there will ever be some utopian existence where all is bliss only, though this state is in flux with everything else. Nothing is static in this existence. Even when fully integrated with the OIC (if this is what will happen at some point), there was the original impulse to split off for the sake of experience, which suggests an unrest with the status quo, or just a result of the general tendency to evolve or change. I doubt that would just go away because all parts returned to the whole. Then what?
  

Diana: I believe that you've hit quite a few salient points here and I agree with a lot of what you've said. I should mention that I've chopped up your post to show some of what I find especially intriguing. I agree with so much of your statement that I was thrilled to respond.

Unfortunately, so many will argue with your position as well as GentleReckoning's premises because these types of assertions don't fit in with the desire to maintain the status quo without introspective evaluation as individuals. This reflects your statement regarding the general feeling of oblivion and bliss.

I have long wondered about the desire of the populace to be spoon fed the content that constitutes weekly religious worship or service. Too many are satisfied to simply sit for an hour and hear someone else's interpretation of lessons or scripture. That itself is appalling to me, but, what's most unnerving is that these same people can be satisfied that they have completed their weekly obligation and return to their snug oblivion and go back to sleep for another week of existence within their habitrail.

I believe that love and light are critical points to our existence and wish those for all. Thank you for your part of this conversation. I have sifted through quite a bit of fluff to find this one thread. Be well and be blessed.