Thursday, May 24, 2012

I wonder how long we will have freedom of speech...maybe it is all just to see who they need to get rid of when they decide to...so it was in ages past but if this is the case I want to be remembered as having testified of what I felt was important and true....even if the only ones who remember is the Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ, God and me.

You know, there are people who say that they do not believe in organized religion. I am not sure that I believe in any other kind of "organization", family included. As I have observed all kinds of organizations and friendships or groups/clubs/families in all types of cultures I still believe that it is God that I want to be at the forefront of my thoughts and as my guide for the choices that I make. And this is something that organizations of people try to take away from you.
Especially as they defeat the purpose or place of the Holy Ghost and tell you that you cannot think or make judgments for yourself.
I have seen a lot of damage done and manipulation and abuse in the name of friendship or loyalty to clubs, look at deaths of those who get hazed for instance. That is unusual you say, I do not think so, I believe that many have lost their dignity and self respect as well as any belief that there is human decency anywhere through similar experiences, with such formal names or not. Abuse is a form of existence in a brotherhood or sisterhood and we deem ourselves privileged to be a part of it and then scorn the "organization" of the church of Jesus Christ that teaches us to love one another and not to set up traps to harm another just because we can.
It seems many feel it is better to be the butt of a joke or to join with others like lynch mobs ready to sacrifice another human beings dignity or life so that we may "belong" or get the rush of false power, because somewhere in the core of us we know that it is only luck of the draw that we are not the one who is the brunt of the joke or abuse of the moment.
What do we laugh at? And is all that we laugh at decent or appropriate in honoring life?
Loyalties you say, "I have known them forever and they have been there through this and that". This gives them the right to invade your space and your mind and tell you what you think and why you think it, right?!!???
Many live with outright physical abuse and even sexual abuse justified because of relationships with another. : (
Friendships...I have only seen one to be a friend without fail and that is Jesus Christ. I consider those who have him for a friend to be friends of mine and to be fairly "safe" around and that can change at any moment.
I believe in sex...but I do not believe in romantic love. Sex is a comfort for the pain of life (as well as needed for propagation of the species) and if entered into with fidelity can draw two people together like nothing else can. It is where we become most like God as we unite with another to create life. How desecrated man has made this noble gift!
I believe love is a gift that comes after the acceptance of the responsibility to serve God's children however we may be able to and this would include ourselves.
I believe friendship happens as we prove ourselves faithful to the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I believe that it is God I may trust and that only God is good and 55 years of life and seeking for any witness of anything else has not given me any reason to believe anything else.
I believe that to believe in organizations among men that I must denounce my own existence or ability to think, yet in The Church of Jesus Christ I choose to be taught by the Holy Spirit through scripture, prayer, ordinances, and service. I wish to serve God above all. I also enjoy hearing other peoples interpretation on gospel principles because that helps me to grow.
I believe in duty and diligence. I believe in the oneness and unity of man, even as they claim that it is possible to hurt another without hurting themselves.
I believe in tolerance and patience and the only place I have found this to be real and true is in the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. People within the organization mess up all the time, true enough, but the scriptures and the apostles guide with these principles steady and true, in as much as I have observed for nearly 29 years.
It is only within the structure of this "organization" that I may serve and be served without being put into bondage because all that I do I do of my own free choice and I do it unto God, likewise what I receive from others in this organization (and any other for that matter) comes by the grace of God. I have accepted this truth and it gives me freedom and does not make me a victim to the manipulation of another human being and keeps me serving the living God, according to my own conscience and understanding at the moment. 
And in families sometimes you are accepted and treated with respect and courtesy IF you fit the mode of acceptability within the society that they choose to be a part of. What is up with that? Since when does human decency and human dignity have anything to do with the society one is in and not with the relationship that one personally has with the Savior. What I mean by this is that if one has a healthy relationship with the Savior then all people are treated with dignity and respect, ourselves included. This pre-supposes that we forgive one another and ourselves for our flaws before they even occur. This does not have to mean that we do not speak out if something cruel or unkind is occurring in our presence. This is done with the understanding that we do in fact have love one to another. And it should be treated as something that we would want to hear because to offend someone is not something that we want to do when Christ is our center.
It has been prophesied that there would come a time when wrong would be right and right would be wrong. There is also the prophesy that the great whore of the earth will fall and great shall be the fall thereof. I believe that part of the fall will be the understanding that the only organization we want to be a part of or that has any eternal stability or longevity is that which we hold within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Also, it is only in the church that we have the possibility of being with our families or those that we love on the other side of the veil (after death). I believe that this has a lot to do with the communion of the Holy Ghost and the work he does within us between the physical, intellectual and spiritual body, but it cannot be done if we are too busy or shut off our ability to think.
Once this is understood people will come by the thousands and the church will blossom like never before and those who do not enter its safety will consume one another emotionally and otherwise and they will hurt and destroy one another even more than they do now.
What makes this bearable to those who are in the church is not that they are "safe" and "secure" and the others are "damned", for many innocent ones have been and will be hurt also, rather that the Holy Ghost will help those inside the church to carry the broken heart that the righteous will have at the thought of any of our brethren being consumed and not partaking in the glories of the mercy of God.

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