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'True Believers' Are Willing To Die
And To Kill In Order To Be "Right"
'True Believers' are willing to
die in order to be "right," since
they believe that they are going
to Heaven because they are "right."
And 'True Believers' are also willing
to kill in order to be "right," since they
believe that the non-believers are going to
Hell because the non-believers are "wrong."
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"
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My Writing About True Believers Being Willing To Die And To Kill, Version No. 1: 'True Believers' are willing to die in order to be "right," since they believe that they are going to Heaven because they are "right." And 'True Believers' are also willing to kill in order to be "right," since they believe that the non-believers are going to Hell because the non-believers are "wrong." –Paul Whiting (written August 12th, 2016, revised August 17th, 2016, revised October 16th, 2022, revised May 7th, 2023 and revised May 24th, 2023)
My Writing About True Believers Being Willing To Die And To Kill, Version No. 2: 'True believers' are willing to die and to kill in order to be "right." –Paul Whiting (written August 17th, 2016, revised October 16th, 2022, revised May 7th, 2023 and revised May 24th, 2023)
My Writing About Religious True Believers, Version No. 1: No one can transform The True Religious Beliefs of The True Religious Believer except for The True Religious Believer. –Paul Whiting (written April 23rd, 2022, revised April 30th, 2022, revised September 14th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)
My Writing About Religious True Believers, Version No. 2: No one except for The True Religious Believer can transform The True Religious Beliefs of The True Religious Believer. –Paul Whiting (written April 23rd, 2022, revised April 30th, 2022, revised September 14th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)
My Writing About Being Entitled To Be Right, Version No. 1: Because Literally Nothing is all that exists—since Nothing is all that could exist—you cannot be entitled to be right about anything, let alone be entitled to be right about everything. –Paul Whiting (written April 30th, 2022, revised October 16th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)
My Writing About Being Entitled To Be Right, Version No. 2: Since Universes are Literally Nothing inverted into a perfectly balanced three part system of negative energy (electrons), positive energy (protons) and neutral energy (neutrons) as contained within vacuousness—because Nothing is all could exist intrinsically—you cannot be entitled to be right about anything, let alone be entitled to be right about everything. –Paul Whiting (written April 30th, 2022, revised October 16th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)
My Writing About Being Entitled To Be Right, Version No. 3: Literally Nothing is all that exists due to the fact that Nothing is literally all that could exist. And Universes are Literally Nothing inverted into a perfectly balanced three part system of negative energy (electrons), positive energy (protons) and neutral energy (neutrons), as contained within vacuousness in order to separate the electrons from the protons and neutrons, which is what forms the atoms of gravity. And because Universes are intrinsically Nothing inverted into a Field Of Gravity, you cannot be entitled to be right about anything, let alone be entitled to be right about everything. –Paul Whiting (written April 30th, 2022, revised October 16th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)
My Writing About Being Entitled To Be Right, Version No. 4: You cannot be entitled to be right about literally anything, let alone be entitled to be right about literally everything. You see, Universes are Literally Nothing inverted into a perfectly balanced three part system of negative energy (electrons), positive energy (protons) and neutral energy (neutrons), as contained within vacuousness in order to separate the electrons from the protons and neutrons, which is what forms the atoms of gravity. And Literally Nothing is all that exists because Nothing is all that could exist. Thus, Nothing is a never-ending, eternal Field Of Non-Specific Probability Energy—both in terms of the never-ending space that Nothing occupies and the eternal time and Nothing occupies. Therefore, that is why you cannot be entitled to be right about anything, let alone be entitled to be right about everything. –Paul Whiting (written April 30th, 2022, revised October 16th, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)
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My Philosophical Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I am rereading the "Conversations with God" series of books [which I reread from just shortly after June 5th, 2016 to exactly September 12th, 2016]... And I was rereading "The New Revelations: A Conversation with God," when I read the quotes below on pages 174 to 176, which inspired me to write the poem above:
"There are those who say that government should not be controlled by religions, that there should be a strict separation of Church and State. Yet that is a very Western worldview. Other cultures feel that only God should and can be the supreme governor of human affairs and that God's Law, as contained in holy writings and interpreted by religious teachers and jurists, should be the law of the land.
"This is the clash of ideology that I spoke of early in our conversation. It is essentially a clash between human rights and what some people declare to be God's Law. In truth, there is no clash, for freedom is the essence of God, and human rights—personal liberty, equality under the law, and the fairness of trials—are expressions of that essence. Yet there have been religions (there still are today) that do not recognize basic freedoms and equalities as every person's right. According to some religions, as had been noted here already, women are not equal to men. According to certain religions, atheists do not have the right to live. A person who is not a member of the faith cannot testify against one who is. And slavery is permitted.
"No, no... there is no bona fide religious Scripture that fails to condemn slavery.
"You had better read the Bible and the Qur'an more closely. Now when such religious teachings become the law of the land or become the innermost beliefs and 'morals' of a culture, a clash is certain to develop. Especially when those religions seek to make their beliefs the guiding principles of other people. There have always been ideological differences on your planet, but the present widening of the split in ideology with a simultaneous advance in technology has created the conditions for rapid self-destruction.
"Well, here we are again, at the same question. What can we do to stop this?
"It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history.
"What?
"You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs.
"'I can't. I can't. I would rather die than do that.' That's what some people will say when they read this.
"Then they are going to. Many people are going to die in order to be 'right.' Only when enough human beings die over these ideologies will you decide that maybe it was the ideologies themselves that were mistaken. Your life and your experience will cause you to change your mind, at last, about what is 'right' and 'wrong,' and about 'what works' and 'what doesn't work.'"
And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Posts" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.
Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
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"Conversations with God" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger (I make a totally affordable monthly donation):
"Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers. The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, was published in 1995 and became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.
In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: 'Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?' Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he 'open up' to God these days, Neale stated 'I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.'"
CwG's basic messages:
"In Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:
1. We are all one.
2. There's enough.
3. There's nothing we have to do.
4. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God. The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within us. The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God, being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity. The final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God
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This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 128 was edited on December 6th, 2023.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
