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Has anyone told you that the devil is from Heaven and has no relation to Lucifer/Satan except that they are from totally different natures? Do you even know, which of the two names is known as the the fallen name?

Getting back to the The Servant aka the devil, aka the grim reaper, are literally doing gods work?

Contrary to belief Christ himself claims HE is the 'Early Morning Star' revelation 22:16 which is ironic given in Movies when they committed that atrocity of killing new borns, just to kill Christ, Even on his birth there was that same star shining so brightly during both day and night continuously even BEFORE his birth that same star shone so bright for the 3 wise kings to follow it. Hence it was given the very name Bright and Early Morning Star.
(https://biblehub.com/revelation/22-16.htm)
Yes there are some parts that contradict what are said in the bible like isaiah 14:12.
So you guys calling Christ a liar? and how many revisions or NEW versions have been written and re-written over the past 3k years or so hmm? You going to believe so blindly still? Clearly you enjoy the game of chinese whispers.

But yet you so called faithful christians somehow missed that little tidbit of information?
So the very person you claim to love you have hated since idk forever?

If thats not enough for you, lets look at the reaper and the day of harvest. Mark 4:29 does the farmer not reap what he sows? So Christ is the farmer is he not? who reaps from his Harvest? The grim part of it is removing all the weed in the field not only that the weeds that are intimately intertwined with the harvest has to be carefully extracted.
And there are so many to be harvest during those days to come. but the weed far out number the wheat as it is said. Its a Grim job but someone has to Reap it.

And if that is not enough for you then my final piece of proof that the devil is truly Christ. Matthew 3:11-13
His winnowing fork is in his hand and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
And for those of you that dont know what a winnowing fork looks like this little red guy is holding one

....is often said to be Patriotism...but Religion takes a close second... He teared up a bit, explaining his shameful vote to convict our Dazzling and Brilliant Ivy league Grad, not guilty FOR LIFE, campaign promise keeping, President Trump. His invoking his "Faith" of the LDS Church thereby was frosting on the cake. I think the tearful show had more to do with his greatly diminished political future. But why digress? I spent time training in a Mormon Horsepital, so I got to know these folks some. The tendencies toward philandering, the myth of sobriety, and so on. Spend a little time at any Utah liquor store, and see. And I respect almost all religious traditions, but draw the line with the Book of Mormon, on which the religion is mostly based. Once we learn of the story here, the question is, how can any thinking person buy it, and support it. So, we have one John Smith, son in a Christian religious family, known in town as an unstable wacko, given to skirt chasing and religious visions, and said to be a friend of the bottle, over a century ago, and much more, was said to be wandering about in upstate NY, where apparently funny mushrooms can be found. He finds tablets on which writings the Book is based. Curious, compared to other tales of prophets' revelations. All it takes is to first read the real new testament, and familiarity with how psychotic plagiarism can wind its way into religion. Then thumb through the book, and the gospels, now based on things among Indians, and others, in North America, and strong suspicions arise. The names and places are quaintly novel, but the underlying stories have strong metaphorical resemblance to the real item. Then, instead of showing them the door, invite in for an earful, the well scrubbed, shirt and tie, lily white, male evangelizing duos, on missionary sojourns, in many parts of the world. No females, nor minorities need apply, as with the Church Elders. The rigid styles of those deeply brainwashed to buy it all quickly become apparent. As is MY style, I tried to engage, perhaps to learn something, but their absolute genuflection to the John Smith scam was striking. Worse than even what we see in Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndromes. Lots more, but I'll end with the plight of many ex-Mormons, who finally had had enough of it, and walked out. Only to be treated to vicious community and family shunning, which often contributes to severe mental health challenges. Wealthy worm Romney, supposedly a kind sort, could easily set up a foundation, as when he allegedly turned around the Utah Olympics, to help these victims. Don't hold your breath. Do as we say, not as we do. Striking. Pathetic. Telling. Can't make this stuff up, folks.

The Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico is a very strange
place.

Our winter is nicer than many places' summer. Our
Spring and Fall are very comfortable and easy to live
with. But the kicker is, we get two summers. And in
between those two summers, we get something like
an extra spring season.

You can tell that it's summer here because it gets so
hot you can barely breath. And it's marked by the sun
passing directly overhead.

Because of our latitude, the sun passes over us on it's
way north for the Northern Hemisphere summer, and it
keeps going north for another 5 or 6 weeks. Until it
turns around and heads south again for the winter. On
that trip, it passes over us again and gives us our second
summer.

The second summer is even a couple of degrees hotter
than the first summer.

A curious side effect of the sun being directly above your
head at solar noon is that you cast NO SHADOW.

The ancient Maya took notice of this, and many other solar
and stellar phenomenon and incorporated that knowledge
into their architecture.

I tore a page out of that book when I was designing and
building my castle.

I'm sure that some day in the future, some archaeologist will
be wondering how I did it.

What did I make it do? The shadows of pyramids flow across
the front of the castle as the sun rises and sets on the day
with no shadows......and of course disappear at solar noon.

BE BETTER TODAY THAN YESTERDAY
BE GREATER TOMORROW THAN TODAY
BY ZYDEE

A HUMBLE HEART IS MERCIFUL AND GENEROUS
AN ARROGANT HEART IS TREACHEROUS AND GREEDY

EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST DOCTOR

KNOWLEDGE IS THE PILOT THAT WILL NEVER BETRAY
DECISIONS SUCCEED WHEN MARCHING THIS WAY

WHATEVER HAS HUMILITY IN IT WILL BE ADORNED BY
WHATEVER HAS OBSCENITY IN IT WILL BE SPOILT BY IT.



LIFE IS A BATTLE TO BE FOUGHT
NOT LIE DOWN AND BE CONQUERED .

INTENTIONS ARE GREATER THAN ACTIONS.

NOBODY IS SUPERIOR TO ANOTHER BECAUSE OF THEIR WEALTH,FAME ,BEAUTY OR INTELLECT ONLY BY EXCELLING IN NOBLE DEEDS ONE BECOMES SUPERIOR TO ANOTHER

WOMEN'S DAY IS EVERYDAY -24/7 - NOT DEBATABLE!

REFORMATION IS FOR EVERYONE STARTING WITH ME.

ANGER CAN BE A KILLER MAKE SURE YOU CONTROL IT
JEALOUSY IS A FIRE THAT NEVER SHOULD BE LIT
IT FLAMES WILL DEVOUR FOR SURE THIS IS NO MYTH

ENVY AND GREED ARE VENOMOUS SNAKES
BE CAREFUL OF LIVES THEY SOMETIMES TAKE

GLIB AND LIES ARE BROTHERS IN FAITH
SO IS YOUR MALICE AND MALIGNANT HATE
NEVER BE STAINED BY ANY OF THESE TRAITS
NOR ANY OTHER FOOD ON VANITY'S PLATE


FAITHFUL YOU BE TO YOUR SPOUSE AS YOUR MATE
MANY A TIME REGRETS ARE TOO LATE
TWISTED ACTIONS YOU MUST GRAVITATE TO STRAIGHT
OR DISGRACE WILL GROW NEVER TO ABATE.

Society is a language. Language is basic to social existence - to relationship. If you leave language, you are alone. The world may be filled with millions, but if you lose language you are alone.

Meher Baba stayed continuously for forty years in silence. What was he doing in silence? Really, you cannot do anything in silence because every act is somehow related with others. Even in imagination, if you do something you will have to imagine others; you cannot do it alone. If you are absolutely alone, action becomes impossible. Even the imagination to act becomes impossible.

Acting is related to others. If you drop language inside, all doing drops. You are, but you are not doing anything.

Meher Baba would tell his disciples, by writing a note, "On this particular date I am going to break my silence," and then he would not break it. This continued for forty years, and then he died in silence.

What was the problem? Why should he say, "Now, this year, on this day, on this date, I am going to speak?" And why should he postpone it again? What was happening inside? Why would he not keep his promise?

Once you know silence for such a long time, you cannot fall back to sounds again; it becomes impossible. There is a rule, and he didn't follow the rule so he could not come back. There is a rule that one should not remain silent for more than three years. Once you cross the limit, you cannot come back to the world of sounds. You may try, but it is impossible. It is easy to move from sounds to silence, but it is very difficult to move from silence to sounds. Beyond three years many things simply become impossible. The mechanism cannot function the same way again. It has to be used continuously; at the most, one can remain silent for three years. Beyond that, if you remain silent the mechanism which can produce sounds and words cannot be used again, it becomes dead.

Secondly, the person becomes so much silent remaining with himself alone that it will now be a misery to communicate. Then to say something to someone will be like talking to a wall, because the person who has remained silent for such a long time knows that you cannot understand whatsoever he is saying. Regardless of what he is saying, he knows he is not saying that which he wants to say.

The whole thing has gone. After such a deep silence, he cannot move again to the world of sounds.

So Meher Baba tried and tried, but he couldn't bring himself to speak again. He wanted to say something, and he had something worth saying, but the mechanism and the movements necessary to come back to a lower realm were impossible. Thus, he died without saying what he wanted to say.

It will be helpful to understand this: whatsoever you are doing, always go on doing the opposite with it. Go on changing to the opposite always. Remain silent for a few hours, then talk. Do not become fixed in anything - you will be more alive and more moving. Do meditation for a few days, and then stop suddenly and do everything that can create tension in you. Then move again to meditation.

Go on moving between the opposites, you will be more alive and dynamic. Do not get fixed. Once you get fixed, you will not be able to move to the other extreme, and the ability to move to the other extreme means life. If you are not able to move, you are already dead. This movement is very good.

Gurdjieff advised his disciples to have sudden changes. He would insist on fasting and then he would say, "Now eat as much as you can." Then suddenly he would say, "Go on a fast." Then again he would say, "Start eating." He would say, "Be awake for a few days and nights continuously, then fall asleep for a few nights." This movement between the polar opposites gives you a dynamism, an aliveness.

Dear Lord,

As i thank you for the gift of life, I also thank you for the gift of wonderful people i have met along this journey. Some of them inspire me,stretch me, challenge me, love me and encourage me. all of them helped me to realize how meaningful and beautiful my life is. I love them so much. Bless them lord with good health,security,wealth,success,peace and joy. grant this prayers too.amen:-)

Have a blessed day??

It depends. There are as many loves as there are people. Love is a hierarchy, from the lowest rung to the highest, from sex to superconsciousness. There are many many layers, many planes of love. It all depends on you. If you are existing on the lowest rung, you will have a totally different idea of love than the person who is existing on the highest rung. Adolf Hitler will have one idea of love, Gautam Buddha another; and they will be
diametrically opposite, because they are at two extremes.

At the lowest, love is a kind of politics, power politics. Wherever love is contaminated by the idea of domination, it is politics. Whether you call it politics or not is not the question, it is political. And millions of people never know anything about love except this politics -- the politics that exists between husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. It is politics, the whole thing is political: you want to dominate the other, you enjoy domination.
And love is nothing but politics sugar-coated, a bitter pill sugar-coated.

You talk about love but the deep desire is to exploit the other. And I am not saying that you are doing it deliberately or consciously. People are falling in love with horses, dogs, animals, machines, things. Why? Because to be in love with human beings has become an utter hell, a continuous conflict -- nagging, always at each other's throats. This is the lowest form of love. Nothing is wrong with it if you can use it as a steppingstone , if you can use it as a meditation.

If you can watch it, if you try to understand it, in that very understanding you will reach another rung, you will start moving upwards. Only at the highest peak, when love is not a relationship any more, when love becomes a
state of your being, the lotus opens totally and great perfume is released -- but only at the highest peak. At its lowest, love is just a political relationship. At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.

Their love is given for the sheer joy of giving it; it is not a bargain. Hence the radiant beauty of it, hence the transcendental beauty of it. It surpasses all the joys that you have known. When I talk about love, I am talking about love as a state. It is unaddressed: you don't love this person or that person, you simply love. You are love. Rather than saying that you love somebody, it will be better to say you are love. So whosoever is capable of
partaking, can partake.

Whosoever is capable of drinking out of your infinite sources of being, you are available -- you are available unconditionally. That is possible only if love becomes more and more meditative. `Medicine' and `meditation' come from the same root. Love as you know it is a kind of disease: it needs the medicine of meditation. If it passes through meditation, it is purified. And the more purified it is, the more ecstatic.

Man is born as a seed. He is born as a potentiality,he is not born as an actuality. And this is very special,this is extraordinary,because in the whole of existence only the human being is born as a potentiality; ever other animal is born actual. A dog is born as a dog, he will remain the same his whole life. The lion is born as a lion. Man is not born as a human being, man is born only as a seed: he May flower,he may not. Man has a future; no other animal has a future. All animals are born instinctively perfect. Man is the only imperfect animal; hence growth, evolution, is possible.
Education is a bridge between the potentiality and the actuality. Education is to help you to become that which you are only in a seed form. And this is what I am doing here; this is a place of education.The thing that is being done in the ordinary schools and colleges and universities is not education. It only prepares you to get a job, a good earning; it is not real education. It does not give you life.Maybe it can give you a better standard of living, but the better standard of living is not a better standard of life; they are not synonymous.
The so-called education that goes on in the world prepares you only to earn bread. And Jesus says " Man cannot live by bread alone " And that's what your universities have been doing - they prepare you to earn bread in a better way, in an easier way, in a more comfortable way,with less effort, with less hardship. It is a very primitive kids of education: it does not prepare you for life.
Hence you see so many robots walking around.They are perfect as clerks, as stationmasters, as deputy collectors. They are perfect, they are skillful , but if you look deep down in them they are just beggars and nothing else. They have not even tasted one bite of life. They have not known what life is, what love is,what light is . They have not known anything of godliness, they have not tasted anything of existence, they don't know how to sing and how dance and how to celebrate.They don't know the grammar of life; They are utterly stupid. Yes , they earn - they earn more than others, they are very skillful and they go on rising higher and higher on the ladder of success - but deep down they remain empty,poor.
Education is to give you inner richness. It is not just to make you more informed; that is a very primitive idea of education. I call it primitive because it is rooted in fear,rooted in the idea that " If I am not well educated I will not be able to survive " I call it primitive because deep down it is violent: it teaches you competition, it makes you ambitious. It is nothing but a preparation for a cutthroat, competitive world where everybody is the enemy of everybody else. Hence the world has become a madhouse. Love cannot happen. How can love happen in such a violent, ambitious, competitive world where everybody is at each other's throats ? This is very primitive, It takes life only as a struggle. My vision of education is that life should not be taken as a struggle for survival; life should be taken as a celebration.

One man came to me and he said, "I am very much afraid of death." He had cancer, and death was very near; any day it could happen. And he could not postpone it. He knew it was going to happen. Within months it would be there, or even within weeks.
He was really physically, literally, trembling, and he said, "Just give me one thing: how can I get rid of this fear of death? Give me some mantra, or something which can protect me and give me courage to face death. I don't want to die trembling in fear." The man said, "I have been to many saints. Many things they have given—they were very kind. Someone has given me a mantra, someone has given me some sacred ashes, someone has given me his picture, someone has given something else, but nothing helps. Everything is in vain. Now I have come to you as the last resort. Now I will not go to anyone anymore. Give me something."
So I told him, "Still you are not aware. Why are you asking for something?—just to get rid of fear? Nothing will help. I cannot give you anything; otherwise, as others have proved failures, I will also prove a failure. And they gave you something because they don't know what they are doing. I can say only one thing to you: Accept it. Tremble if trembling is there—what to do? Death is there, and you feel a trembling, so tremble. Don't reject it, don't suppress it. Don't try to be brave. There is no need. Death is there. It is natural. Be afraid totally."
He said, "What are you saying? You have not given me anything. Rather, on the contrary, you say to accept."
I said, "Yes, you accept. You just go and die peacefully with total acceptance."
After three or four days he came again, and said, "It works. I couldn't sleep for so many days, but for these four days I slept deeply, because it is right, you are right." He said to me, "You are right. Fear is there, death is there, nothing can be done. All the mantras are just hocus-pocus; nothing can be done."
No doctor can help, no saint can help. Death is there, a fact, and you are trembling. It is just natural. A storm comes and the whole tree trembles. It never goes to any saint to ask how not to tremble when a storm is passing by. It never goes for a mantra to change it, to protect it. It trembles. It is natural; it is so.
And the man said, "But a miracle has happened. Now I am not so afraid." If you accept, fear starts disappearing. If you reject, resist, fight, you give energy to fear. That man died peacefully, unafraid, fearless, because he could accept fear. Accept fear and it disappears.

Your mind is just like a river. Thoughts and thoughts and a crowd of thoughts go on passing. You simply sit by the bank, unconcerned, just a witness, and you are in for a great surprise.

Slowly slowly, as you become more and more centered and simply a witness, thoughts start disappearing. They can exist only with your identification.You give energy to your mind. When you pull yourself out, you have stopped giving nourishment to the mind. And once there is no nourishment — thoughts are very fragile things — they start dying out.

Soon there is silence, there is peace. And this peace is not the peace of a cemetery. This peace is not dead, it is not flat. It is such a tremendous experience that once you have reached the first rung of the ladder, the ladder goes to infinity. You can go on and on discovering new layers of peace. This is the real excitement, unending excitement. That’s the meaning of the word “ecstasy”: unending excitement. You cannot exhaust it, you cannot come to a point where you say, “There is no more to discover and I am feeling flat.” It has never happened. On my own authority I say to you, I have been going as fast as possible, deeper and deeper into silence, but there is no bottom, there is no limit.

Each moment of silence brings new fragrance. Peace brings new flowers. Nothing is said, but much is heard. Nothing is shown, but much is seen. Nobody guides you, but some magnetic force of peace itself takes you farther and farther away from the mind, from the body, from the neighbors, from the wife, from the husband. And the excitement is continuously deepening.

Unless we can create millions of people around the earth who have experienced this kind of peace, war is inevitable, because people cannot survive flat lives. It is better to go into a war and have a little excitement, although it means death.

If a man who has not known inner peace is forced to live peacefully, he will either murder or kill himself. Even that will provide some excitement. Excitement is a great nourishment, but only the right kind of excitement is nourishment. The wrong kind of excitement is poison. And up to now humanity has been dominated by the wrong kind of excitement.

You are here with me to learn a very simple thing: to enjoy peace, to enjoy silence, to enjoy something that is within you..