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Transmutation of energy . . . ah yes. What we exist as, never mind what we exist for. . .

Everything is energy, isn’t that wonderful?

I mean, everything is a matter of vibration. And what we perceive is a matter of our own vibration. And as we change our perception, we change the very vibrations of our perceiving organs. And then we give out vibrations in accordance with our change in vibration.

Given our awareness of vibrations around us, we can take one kind of vibration and turn it into another. We can turn wood into gas. We can turn ice into steam. We can make living things decompose. We can make someone sad smile. Vibrations are wonderful things. The energy we make. The energy we use to reconfigure other energy forms. And some processes are fully automatic.

I mean, we breathe, plants grow. Now we can choose to cut down all the forests, and then our atmosphere goes away and we have no more air to breathe. But we can’t stop the breathing itself, unless of course we cut down all the plants.

But we must eat. Therefore we cultivate foods; we cannot help but produce what we need to grow so that we can eat. Unless we surrender our foods to the many, many substance that cause millions of people to have cancer every day. Pesticides, and high fructose corn syrup, more a diabetes thing than a cancer thing, and wastes in the water and the soil. No active substance in what we produce . . . So I suppose if we poison our foods enough, then we will all have cancer . . .

But the light of the sun is something we must take in, it makes everything on this planet grow including ourselves. Of course our gases have been thinning the ozone lately. Pity about melanoma.

And what we do with our time produces energy too. I mean, vampire sex movies are fun. And our opinions about who is wrong and really causing the problems is important, our leaders should be held accountable which is why we always hire new leaders who will do the job better. And I’ve got to vote on who gets kicked off of the singing show this week, and so, there really isn’t much time to learn about my world outside of what I’m already learning by sitting and watching the very important happenings of the world. It’s not like I can grow my own crops, or look into solutions for any of the problems going on; it’s far too taxing watching what those problems are to begin with. And real food is, after all, more expensive than cheese in a can, and the latest diabetes causing, carcinogenic fizzy drink. And I don’t know how to use anything other than the microwave, nor do I have the time to try.

OR

We can acknowledge what we put into our bodies; for what we put into our mouths does have something to do with what comes out of them. And, ultimately, how well we function, and how soon we will be inclined to breakdown. That, and, if we aren’t constantly getting cancer, health care premiums will finally go down, and won’t that be nice?

Speaking of which, we can write numerous letters, or make numerous phone calls to “power possessing” beings who enable pharmaceutical companies to dump thousands of gallons of waste into our water supplies each year, or for that matter enable the conscienceless murderers at oil companies to poison our food supplies and put people out of work during times of work shortages, all in the time it takes to watch a Kardashian throw a hissy fit over what to wear for a photo shoot.

We can buy a bicycle. Or even walk a mile every now and then. I hear sex is more fun when one isn’t a gargantuan blob that gets winded turning over in bed. In fact, having once subsisted on Taco Bell alone, I know for a fact that life in general is more fun when one puts real food into one’s body. A smoothy goes a long way to feeling good, as it turns out.

I understand that many people are so lazy that they’d prefer to believe in a fairy tale about a magic man who will save them from a life of joyfully turning the shit hole they perpetually live in into a Heaven on Earth in which they can eat calorie free whatever food most delights them for all eternity. But the fact of the matter is that if one merely walks a mile to the local grocery store and picks up a cut of mignon beef on special, they will find that having walked has cut their fat, putting real food into their body keeps it strong and healthy, that the walk will make them feel better than a paperweight, and that they wind up with a taste in their mouth sweeter than if their God cooked it themself.

Not that everyone can afford fillet, but I know they can at least afford chicken, even if the government is temporarily subsidizing them. And I know that, unless they’re a fan of cancer, no one can afford any more goldfish.

So, what does it mean to transmute energy? It means that while you live, you have no choice but to turn what you take in into something else that you will return to the rest of the whole of existence. If we function as is proper to self-aware beings, we will take the time to take in substance and transmute them, and return them out, in such a way that no harm is done in the process because everything is created for the mutual good of all existence. Or, we can pretend like it’s ok to not buy a reusable water bottle and continue to throw the ones we do buy into the garbage because, after all, not recycling just this one isn’t going to hurt, right?

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So, first was a brief description of the meaning of “Transmutation;” we eat and stuff gets created. Next we began the notion of the reciprocation of substances created by the transmutation process of substances taken in and released. But what we’re really after is the transmutation of energies.

They surround us, everywhere. There’s energy coming out of your refrigerator. There’s energy fueling your perceptions of the energy emitted from the screen in front of you. There is energy coming from the sun and from the other stars. Just as sure as everything in existence is a matter of vibration, there is no existence without experiencing energy of one form or another.

The term “transmutation of energy” means turning one form of energy into another. Everything is energy. Matter is static energy, energy waiting to be released. And then there’s dynamic energy, like the waves of light hitting your eyes from the screen before you. Right now you are converting, transmuting the energy your eyes receive into the the electricity of the firing of synapses in your brain and brainwaves communicating with other parts of your brain creating synthesis of new thoughts, different forms of energy still. Along with these brain impulses which, are probably for the most part at least initially automatic, are also impulses in your emotional centers, be they neutral, harmonious, positive, productive, or negative, counterproductive. Which is to say that a positive emotional response elicits the release of endorphins which not only make a person feel good, but also reinforces one’s immune system and natural predisposition to healing. Whereas a negative emotional response releases various forms of poisons into the body which do the opposite, make a person feel worse and weaken immunities. And neutrality is neutrality, much as the feeling being produced in me as I perceive my actions as nothing more at the moment than an engagement of listing facts.

Thus obviously the ideal is to transmute that which elicits a negative reaction into a positive one. For example if one feels revolted by a homeless person they are passing by, the action of offering that person a sandwich or a blanket might transmute their initial negative emotional energy into a positive emotional energy, not merely because they have done something that can make them feel better about themself as a person, but because by further facilitating the continuation of life of a fellow human being, they may have given that fellow human being the opportunity to grow into a person capable of embodying a state of being more positive than the one they currently embody. That person may be inspired to make something to sell, or might seek help for some form of schizophrenia, or, if these possibilities seem too lofty, that person might merely not be inclined to do harm to another later because they won’t have been driven mad by hunger, or, that person might not be a literal dead weight to have to be moved by those working off of our tax dollars. Brutal, but the point is that when one tries to create a positive from what they initially perceive as a negative, the odds go up considerably that something better is going to come of it than if, say, one were to kick the homeless person as they walk by them.

And so it goes with those one encounters in their everyday life. So it goes with one’s coworkers, one’s friends, one’s family, one’s self, one’s environment. One sort of energy can be turned into another; one sort of energy makes things more pleasant and facilitates creation, one sort of energy makes things more unpleasant, facilitates destruction, one sort of energy can be converted either way with ease if intention is put behind it.

Next week, the picture these three pieces make.

TTFN

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“Teenage Mutant Ninja Transmutation Turtles . . .” That was what the series was originally going to be called, I just know it . . .

Okay, back to the business at hand: Transmutin’ stuff. In this case I’m converting food previously ingested into energy so that I can take the understanding converted from thoughts and experience I previously ingested and turn them into concepts that will be converted from brain waves into the action of listing them via the energy from the food eaten and the volition of the thoughts created. Then the energy from the tapping at hand will create the configuration of energy affecting the change on my screen, convert to a different energy that can travel through the cables and reconvert into the form more or less resembling the one being created now for the ingestive sake of eyes and brains consuming it, which in turn will be converted into brain waves, the firing of synapses, and the grounds for future transmutations to come . . . What the hell did I just “say?”

I derive the notion of transmutation of energies giving one’s life purpose from a guy who listed his views to be consumed about a century ago. According to this particular teaching, the universe is sustained via a reciprocal exchange of energies amongst all of the universal bodies. If this notion is true, what it means is that we are processing various universal substances to send out to other planetary bodies’ sustenance just as they are sending similar substances to us for our continued existence. For example, the energies of the sun make life grow here on Earth; that’s the obvious one, I’d speculate about other bodies, but I figure that’ll be enough for now.

So, one’s existence boils down to turning stuff into other stuff for the subsistence of other entities that exist as more than the sum of its parts. It’s easier to look at how the Sun helps us than it may be to see how Earth helps any other celestial body. One need not look to so large a scale, however, to be able to observe how we effect other existences via the energies and substances produced from our own intake of substances.

Let’s start with transmutation of substance. Last post I already talked about the effects of mastication. Before going into something as subtle as energy, lets talk about the slightly more substantial result of the much more subtle matter transmuted by breathing. Oxygen comes in from plants and trees, carbon dioxide goes out to plants and trees, carbon dioxide goes into plants and trees, oxygen comes out of plants and trees, oxygen comes in from plants and trees, carbon dioxide goes out to plants and trees. This is just about the most basic example there is of reciprocated exchange of transmutated substances. In other words, on the most basic level, we exist so that everything else can exist too.

Given that by design we are not merely existing to gratify our desires, other culturally prevalent notions about self gratification immediately can be seen to possibly lead folks away from a harmonious coexistence with the rest of reality if those notions are believed. In other words, this song aint about you, though I believe you’ll feel immediately more gratified if you learn to sing along.

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In response to a comment about a reference I made in an earlier posting, that reference being about one existing so as to “transmute energy,” without further delay:

Transmutation of energy, ah yes . . .

The Basics:

On the most basic level, we eat. We take in a particular substance, and turn it into other substances by transmuting it via our various bodily functions, the first of which being mastication. And as a result of the initial intake of what we commonly refer to as food, what is created is various forms of matter capable of building the cells that sustain our various organs and workings; that is of course aside from the waste that feeds other manifestations of existence; soil insects, etc . . . So the basics is that from ingestion of food our bodies can grow, heal, and be sustained on the one hand, and on the other hand seeds can be planted, spiders and birds can eat, etc . . . Food is transmuted from one form into others. And a part of this basic food transmutation is the transmutation from solid substance into a form of substance that ultimately is utilized by the body as energy, i.e. fat. And that energy keeps the metabolism going which enables foods to be transmuted, almost like a sort of perpetual motion machine that works via the process of food intake. That is to say, we peoples work as a perpetual motion machine dependent on the two principles of taking in substance from outside so as to transmute them inside.

The beginning of the none-basics:

What we commonly refer to as food may be considered as not necessarily that which is very literally ingested orally. Food may be considered as anything taken in by a being. For example, water, air, or light. Sound could be considered food; touch. Or perhaps food isn’t the word so much as stimuli, but not just stimuli, substance. The substance of oxygen, the substance of light waves, the substance of sound waves, the substance of the electrons effecting communication in one’s mind via the stimulus effecting sensory organs. When one comes down to it, anything outside of ones being that enters one’s being can be considered as food.

The reason for considering stimulation as food is because what is taken in is changed, converted, transmuted, into something different. And by law, something on the one hand more subtle, and on the other hand more coarse. From one substance, two substances are derived, which in turn are processed into other substances, which sometimes result in the creation of the original substance, and sometimes creates something else altogether. This is the basic principle for the complex processes of the great turning of substances and energies into other substances and energies within the human form so that some part of those substances and energies are returned to outside the human form for the utilization of other processes in the universe, Earth or otherwise. The human form takes stuff in, turns it into other stuff, uses some of it, and sends the rest back out for other processes in the universe to utilize, and for that matter live by, just as humans live by substances taken in from outside of them.

This is the basics of transmutation. Next I’ll describe why this answers the question of what the usefulness is of being alive as a being privy to the inevitability of the suffering of its own existence.

Chou!

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If I knew more about Islam I probably wouldn’t keep bringing up this guy. I’d probably also talk a lot about the misogynistic engine of greed started by certain followers of the guy who was devoted to his wife and wanted to help the poor. But I don’t know very much about that religion, and I don’t particularly want to be put on any lists to get bombed, so, since I happen to be in a culture inundated with Jesus which, as an outsider to that world, fascinates me, I figure maybe that’s why I keep dwelling on that guy.

Now, he is said to have said, “It shall be done unto to you as you believe.” In other words, if you believe your efforts on this planet will make it a better place to live, and I mean if you really believe it in your heart, that’s what you’re going to be making. So, let’s call this a law since, if it is true, it works according to how it is used, and must work according to how it is used. I could start getting Euclidian on this concept, but the point is the law is that it shall be done unto you as you believe. The other law, or rather the working-to-the-extent-of-being-experiential definition of God, is absolutely everything without exception; from our perspective especially the whole of humanity since together we comprise most of the highest levels of consciousness we are typically aware of. And when I say higher I do mean compared to a rock, or a gerbil, or a head of lettuce, etc . . .

So these two laws in concert look like this when utilized by the concept that God is a guy suffering and dying for our sake. If God is everything, and everyone . . . then if we believe that God dies after very deeply suffering, and then comes back to go away and leaves behind a trail of confusion . . .

So God suffers, in other words we suffer, especially our most male component that tries to do good. In other words we believe that any really good men will need to suffer to the point of dying, which in turn will make accompanying good women suffer accordingly, which in turn will make it even harder for people not particularly good at life to catch a break, and since it will be done unto us as we believe, no wonder we can’t seem to stop killing each other incessantly for even two minutes at any given point in time. No wonder we keep ourselves perpetually too lazy to clean up after our own filth, or toss a can in a recycling bin. No wonder those of us who believe that God is greater than the consciousness of a suffering person constantly have to work harder after those who insist on worshipping suffering itself as though it is their own God; as if it is themselves. Since it shall be done unto us as we believe, or at least so says that guy supposedly, can we stop believing in a suffering God now and start believing in a happy one? It seems to be what Jesus would have wanted for us; to believe in a happy God. Or would anyone rather believe in a God that wants us to suffer?

Life is pain princess, anyone who says different is trying to sell you something. But perhaps if we give of that pain willingly; pick up after ourselves, curb our anger, not use the credit card as often, not be rude to our children, but teach them the value and pleasure of helping and working for their own existence as we should all work for our own. Maybe we can be happy for our labors and stop worshipping suffering as a living God. It seems like what Jesus would want from us; for us . . .

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Just now I had an experience that brought me to the above conclusion, and thus, this is what God is Like . . .

After unwrapping my sausages for dinner I was left with the paper wrapper they came in. Since I didn’t want to be lazy and throw it in the trash, or because I didn’t want to waste resources by taking up a great deal of space in the biodegradable bag with the wrapper in our small compost bucket, necessitating using another biodegradable bag sooner, and those things aint cheap, I decided to walk out front to throw the wrapper in the big compost can. Once outside, noticing the garbage cans lining the block, I realized it was garbage night. If not for the desire to throw the piece of paper away in the best way possible, either the unpleasantness of the building up of garbage would have ensued, or the possible unpleasantness of others working hard and recovery from ailments, only to have take the trash out late or amidst unfortunate circumstances would have ensued, making me a recipient of unneccsery negative energy, if not just by virtue of proximity.

From a simple act of going out of my way for the best possible way, a simple piece of paper thrown in the right receptacle gave rise to a the larger happenings of the time, and a lot less stinkiness. God is like that. To quote Yann Martel, or whoever originated the phrase if not him, take two steps toward God, and God runs to you.

And with that said, now I am going to finish taking out the trash!

Peace!

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So, since my book signing was Saturday, I thought I’d take it easy for this Sunday’s post and put up a perspective by somebody else. This seemed like the ribbon on the theme for the last week and a half. Enjoy!

Louie: God

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Now that we’ve got the sins definition in the bag, let’s talk . . .

Now, I’ve really been hoping to avoid pissing people off, but there’s just a couple of things about the way people have been inclined to worship that guy that I find odd, sometimes to the point of making us all suffer.

First the observation: A friend pointed out to me not too long ago that the cross was an instrument of torture, and that it’s kind of odd that everybody is now wearing it as jewelery. I couldn’t help but agree, and I’m not sure if the extrapolations to come were her thoughts on the subject or mine, but they seemed so obvious that I took them as my own, though credit might be due to her. . .

Let’s say just for a moment that Jesus actually comes back. And by the way, if you are someone who really believes that Jesus is God, or close enough to be considered divine, and/or that he’ll be coming back one of these days to either take people to Heaven, or make Earth Heaven, or declare that Earth had finally become Heaven, or just host his own talk show, I say to you I will not be contradicting you at all in this posting, and while it is not personally my view, I have no beef against you for holding yours, nor am I going to try to convert you via this posting. Now, let’s say he comes back, and sees a bunch of people wearing the thing he was tortured to death with around their necks. Does anybody think that that is something he would enjoy? I mean, the two flavors seem to be that the initial impression is that he would think that everybody was really happy that he got crucified, and thus wear the cross as a good thing, or, as the omniscient ruler of existence who understands why everyone is walking around with a torture device proudly displayed around their necks, wouldn’t he rather his people not burden their necks with an implement of torture? Wouldn’t the guy who took one for the team rather that people enjoy their salvation rather than bemoan and mourn it, burdening their necks with a torture device?

Which brings me to my next bone of contention, the serious one. What, pray tell, has Jesus’ death accomplished? I’ve heard it said that people believe that his death absolved everyone of sin. So is that a free pass for murderers, child rapists, and oil companies? I’m all in favor of a good teaching that helps a bunch of people, but I can’t help but notice that Jesus didn’t seem to be all that helpful in terms of the events of this world. I can’t help but wonder if as many women would have been burnt alive by his church if not for him.

I mean, since people got freaked out by the way this teacher got whacked, his followers have been eaten by lions, gone on murdering rampages regularly for the last 2000 years, have made child molestation an organized practice, and still persist in holding up the reconciliation of people to the realization that if we work together as people instead of against each other as members of religions, this might be a nice sphere to live upon.

If a relatively good guy dies 2000 years ago, how exactly does that absolve me from sins I haven’t committed yet? And does that mean that I can impede upon other peoples lives incessantly until the day I die since whatever torture I decide to wreak upon the human race amongst me has already been washed clean by Jesus? I can understand that a good guy was talking to lousy people who were too lazy and full of themselves to make the world better, and so they killed the good guy to get him to shut up. I can understand that the moral of that story is probably to start moving my ass and doing the best I can so that this planet becomes something better than the slice of Hell that guy found himself living on 2000 years ago. But what sin, pray tell, did he die for, aside from that of those nailing him up to begin with?

What I can accept is the notion that he died so as to encourage me to not sin, and for that matter anyone else who has ears to hear and eyes to see. But, given the people suffering on this planet for everybody’s sins, mine included, the idea that anyone died for sins of sinners who had not yet been born seems just plain silly. Died because of the sins of others in that moment in time, maybe. Died for the sins of those today, hardly. At best you’ll find other genuinely good people dying because of our sins, and that’s just about as close as your going to get; unless, of course, you decide to make a conscious effort to become a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem . . .

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I was going to write this after my next post, but my next post might come off as slightly abrasive to certain believers that are kind enough to read my words, and so I feel it necessary to lay this one down first. The purpose of this post is simple, I want to make as clear as I can my current opinion of that guy:

So, the obvious: I take him with a grain of salt. That being said . . .

The catholic church has long maintained that Jesus is both earthly and divine. He is both man and God. Whenever looking at a religion I tend to look toward the orthodoxy for the views that should be inherent to that religion. And given that that view was created about 1600 years ago to reconcile the fact that there was no orthodoxy at the time and different “Christians” had different views regarding Jesus, I look at this view as being the thing that the organized teaching of Christ had as its belief once it was in existence 400 years after the fact. Since that is the belief of his followers consistently since they decided to have an organized agreement about him, I begin by considering that belief against what I know of history past, and existence present.

My view of anything, and anyone, is as follows: If I haven’t met someone, they seem much less real to me than someone I have met. I am 99.9% certain of Ben Stein’s existence because I have met the man personally. Before that I was about 95% sure because I used to watch his game show frequently, and was a Ferris Bueller Fan. But before shaking his hand, there was only so certain I could be. Take Einstein for example, I’ve seen enough pictures and read enough exact quotes, and used enough of what his science created, that I can be pretty sure he existed. But I never met the guy, and even if I had, I know from experience that things aren’t always what they seem.

I don’t mean to come off as a doubting Thomas. The simple fact is that to me, if something is not experiential, it is not useful. If it isn’t in the realm of direct experience, it falls under the heading of entertainment. Ben Stein is something I have experienced. Einstein is something I have experienced, or at least the concepts attributed to him. God is something I perpetually experience. Comparatively speaking, Jesus is something not so experiential. I’ve seen plenty of pictures of what he supposedly looked like. Though of course in real life everyone knows he was black . . . Just kidding I don’t know that either, though he probably at least had a real good tan. I’ve read the stories written at least decades after he supposedly died that tell me what he supposedly did. And studying the history, no two accounts are the same.

So, to begin with, whether or not Ben Stein, or Einstein, or Jesus is real doesn’t really matter to me. But of those three, two of them I have a basis for experiencing, and the other one I really don’t. That being said, I have no reason either to believe or not believe that the guy existed to begin with. And that being said, since a lot of people seem to think he did exist, and since I have no reason to dispute something so many people want to believe, if he did exist, and again I have no reason to care one way or the other since he hasn’t done much for me lately, my views on an existent Jesus are as follows:

Given the reports passed down through the years by the groups of Christians who were successful in silencing the other groups of Christians, Jesus is supposedly both human and divine. I have no problem with that premise whatsoever. As a man he seemed to be someone really trying to teach people to treat each other as though there was an inherent divinity within each of them, and that they should respect that of each other. He must have taught according to his own realization that he was made in the image of the divine as was everybody else, since a) that is the Jewish teaching, which was what he taught, Judaism, and b) he is likely to have had a direct experience of that teaching given the character of what he is said to have taught. So, as is every human being, Jesus was of course both God and Man. If he existed, the only difference between him and apparently most of the people around him just then is that he was maybe more cognizant of his place in the greater whole than most of the others he taught to.

So, that’s it. Jesus is alright with me. It doesn’t particularly matter to me if he existed or not since the law is the law regardless of him. But if anyone can learn to treat others as though they are sharing bonds of divinity as Jesus strove to teach his students, thank goodness for the stories.

TTFN

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Definition from my POV:

There are two definitions of “sin” that have even vaguely sat well with me over the years. Personally I don’t like the word, but I’ve spent enough hard time on the most, most holy planet Purgatory to know that the word ought be respected for the work one may need to suffer as a result of what that word probably indicates . . .

Definition #1: Anything that gets in the way of one’s goals.

The first definition I offer is the seemingly egocentric of the two. And it would be completely egocentric if not for the interconnectivity of all reality. If my goal is to write a new blog posting by next Wednesday, and I use my day off to go drinking with friends, there are ramifications of my actions, the least of which being that I don’t get my blog posted. However, since my only goal was to get my posting up, I just undermined myself, which in turn sets a precedent for not taking myself seriously in the future, which in turn makes it harder if, say, a future goal is to be a professional anything. And that being said, definition #1 is all about context.

Definition #2: Anything that causes harm to another human being.

To relate it to definition #1, egocentrically, if a person ever wishes to do something other than cause harm to another human being, it’s hard to do things when one is in prison. Of course, if one’s gaol is to be in prison, harming another being winds up being not a sin by definition #1. If one wishes to do something positive with one’s life, however, simply in the most scientific terms, doing harm to others slows one’s own ability to accomplish anything. It takes time out of one’s day to issue apologies, answer lawsuits, step over bodies, scheme against people who have become obstacles, etc . . . To say nothing of the monetary costs.

The fact is every action gives a result. When you help someone to a better place, they can help you to a better place. If you hinder another being, the odds just went up that they might hinder you. If you love someone, but don’t treat them with love, respect, or kindness, you either get to watch the way your “love” breaks that person, or you will simply drive that person away, which sucks if you really cared for them at all.

And again, if a person’s goal is to cause pain and be in prison, that is an easy enough goal to manifest, and by definition #1, offering a flower would be a sin. However, in such a case, what would make that person’s actions a sin by definition #2 is that the rest of us would have to deal with the consequences, including footing the bill. So by definition #2, I suppose a sin is really any action that makes life more of a pain in the ass for everybody else.

Since the Buddha’s first noble truth was that life is suffering, I’m going to qualify the definition above by saying that if one’s action results in lessons being learned, or even the opportunity for lessons being learned by all parties involved, no real harm done. But what is someone supposed to learn from being yelled at hysterically? From being hit? From being killed? From being bombed? From having their treasured item burned?

Sometimes a proverbial kick in the teeth is the only way to teach someone a lesson. I’ve spent enough time kicking and being kicked to know, however, that I’d rather God teach that lesson; I just don’t think I’ll ever be qualified to know when the timing would be right for me to meet out such a thing, and I never want such a qualification to exist unto me . . . And for a definition of what I call God: HERE.

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