Behavioral Perspectives

By

Gary DeVaney

"Belief Is An IQ Blackout"

"We Have The Right To Adopt No Religious Belief."

"To Believe Is To Be Never In Doubt But Often In Error."

"To Question Faith Is Good. To Discard Faith Is Better."

"Most Use Their BELIEF To Will Something Into Reality."

"Faith Is Feeling That God Is Doing Right By You Even When God Is Not."

FACTS VERSES TRUTH: I personally do not care for a believer's "truth". This is because a believer's truth usually has their own ego-driven agenda attached to it. As a thinker, I prefer learning the unbiased facts. Everyone is entitled to know facts that affect them. Facts don't care who agrees or disagrees with them. Only selfish, manipulative, authoritative egos care for facts to be censored or to be altered into their "truth". They want to manipulate reality to be seen on their terms. Facts have no agenda and prove to be real by investigation in time. Facts are mostly ignored by self-imposed ignorance when a high percent of stupid is stubborn. Gary DeVaney

Thought Is The Ultimate Human Masterpiece　

The Manipulative Nonsense Of

"I Have Faith"

"I Believe"

Gary DeVaney: Being a hypnotherapist for about 30 years has taught me some critical perspectives about the diverse use of the words - "I believe".

Diverse? Yes. Once, back in the 1980s, I wrote almost 400 dictionary-defined words that could replace and change the meaning of "I believe".

The word "believe" is not a word that you can depend on when interpreting what the believing speaker or writer means. If you challenge the believer's belief, the believer can easily use "wiggle-room" to dispel your challenge. "I believe" - ultimately admits - "I don't know". If one absolutely knows something, one would say "I know". If a believer's belief is proven to be false or wrong; the believer can immediately claim: I said that I believed it. I did not say that I knew it. I am allowed to believe anything I want because the Bible taught that I must believe.

Thought is the ultimate masterpiece for the Human Animal.

Having blind faith is the fastest way to go wrong with confidence. Belief just seals the error.

Ego: Ego is any manifestation of behavior that exposes: I am the value. I am the authority. I am entitled.

To express a "belief" is an ego manifestation.

To "have faith" is to have "motivated ignorance". To claim to have faith is to prefer ignorance. For a believer to promote faith, they want you to remain ignorant. Ask the faithful, do you prefer to have faith and to believe or would you prefer to know? If they insist on you having faith, ignorance is preferred. Settling on faith promotes covering up facts and knowledge. If they prefer faith and belief, they are lost to learning. That validates the condition that "a high percentage of stupid is stubborn".  

For believers in "The Supernatural" - "I believe" attempts to will wished for things into reality.

"I believe" means I am trying to will what I want into reality.

Of course when this ego manifistation is challanged - denial is automatic.  

Richard Dawkins: There is no well-demonstrated reason to believe in God.

Unexplained, thoughts and confused feelings of high emotional intensity are the most accurate perspectives and best describes "spiritual". However, "spiritual" best describes "fantasy". Hope and idealism often contribute to the mysterious "spiritual" equation.

HOPE: If it were not for hope 90% of therapists and 100% of Clergy would be out of business.

Religious believers want nonsense to substitute for fact with impunity.

MENTAL ILLNESS: Mental illness may be most easily diagnosed in those who fearfully live by hope, faith and belief.

Faith, religion, religious belief: A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny. "Fantasy".  

"Schizophrenia" is a complex mental disorder that makes it difficult to: Tell the difference between real and unreal experiences; Think logically; Have normal emotional responses, Behave normally in social situations.

Fantasy?                                              Spiritual?

Being "faith-based" and "spiritual" instead of being knowledgeable is contrary to "God's Word":  

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to Me. Seeing you have forgotten the law of you God, I will also forget your children.

Being a serious, critical thinker is inconsistent with being a categorical believer.

Science tries to figure out the world we live in - while religion tries to figure out the mind of its fictitious - yet authoritative God.

Religious Dogma: You must trust, have faith, believe in and obey your God with all your heart for your eternal soul to be saved from Eternal Torment. (What a threat!)

Christian "Free-Will" amounts to: You are free to do what you are told - or suffer Eternal-Torment. 

Salvation is based on delusional, paranoid fear. The believer does not share salvation - only their insane fear.

Truth Verses Fact: Believers are entitled to project their beliefs which are usually their, mostly adopted, "opinions". Believers are not entitled to their own thought-up "facts". A believer's personal "truth" usually amounts to just an "opinion" which includes an ego-emotion attactment. Their believing ego's "truth" authoritatively demands and expects to be accepted by others. An proven "fact", in reality, has no ego-emotion that cares who accepts or rejects it. In time, a "fact", in reality, just is what it is. An ego has to intellectually understand and emotionally accept a "fact" in time and move on.

Believers often claim that an Atheist does not understand the Bible because an Atheist does not have "The Holy Spirit". Could it be that "The Holy Spirit" blinds believers as to the controversial Bible C&Vs that are documented? Are they too frightened to read those controversial Bible C&Vs. Maybe they are too evil, themselves, to realize how evil and insane the Bible God is - to have done all that murdering. Believers never take a Bible C&V murder charge and attempt to defend God. They just demonize and condemn anyone who exposes these murderous C&Vs. They just worship the Biblical God as if God murdered no one. That is evil. In a US criminal court, it could be considered an accessory to murder. The Biblical God does not exist - but the belief in God certainly does.

Your hope, faith and belief is simply your attempt to will something you want into reality. Others do not have to accomodate your fantasy.

Gary DeVaney: Religion: When insanity is the norm.

Intelligent Design: I view that the best debate against "Intelligent Design" is: Scientific study has concluded that over 99% of all species that ever existed on Earth are now extinct.

I recently had an inquiring 2 hour, one-on-one lunch, with a 73-year-old Rabbi. We got along fine. I asked the Rabbi: Does God exist? He looked me in the eye and said: "I don't know. But, I do know that the belief in God exists."

Everyone I met on a 7-day cruise was an Atheist - either to Christianity or to Islam.  

Faith, trust and belief are the cornerstones of the god / obedience game.

Faith, trust and belief are the tools / weapons often waged by others against your free-will.

The tyrant's fear: “If you don’t trust / believe me” - it means that “you won’t willfully obey me”.

Anyone, who incorporates the words faith / trust / belief, feels entitled to your obedience.

Faith isn't evidence, it's an excuse to believe absurdities in the absence of evidence. 

The Existence Of God?

Why is it necessary to disprove what has never been proven?

Benjamin Franklin: The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

To promote having "faith" is to promote having intellectual disability.

When beliefs are mind-set - facts don't count.

Bertrand Russell: So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospel in praise of intelligence.

Eusebius: How far it may be proper to use falsehood as a medium for the benefit of those who require to be deceived.

This encourages deception to be proper for those who require to be deceived. No wonder there is so much US Government and media deception. Believers require things - that they do not want to know - to believe in.

Judeo-Christian faith is taking God at His word. If the Bible is God's word and it includes all "The God Murders" C&Vs, you are to take each and every one of them as being God's word. If you do, that certainly is bound to make you "God-Fearing".

David Hume: A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When A Believers Calls An Atheist A "Bully"

Does the believer NOT realize that he or she is pushing, expecting and threatening non-believing intelligent thinkers to ultimately believe, support, promote and finance the believers mind-set, faith-based nonsense?

And, when thinkers stand up and challenge the believer's nonsense, the believer calls the Atheist a bully?

Is the believer NOT expecting others to change who they are so to suit the believer and his or her Biblical God (fictitious or real)?

In reality, it is the believer who is the offensive bully who demands that non-believers accept their “beliefs” - mostly by threat of eternal consequence.

Belief: Often In Error - Never In Doubt

Richard Dawkins: The process of non-thinking is called faith.

Faithful, mind-set believers prove to be often in error but never in doubt. When the believer is proven wrong, they insist that they said they believed and that they did not say that they knew. That is being caught lying and insisting on immunity.

With faithful belief, there is no penalty for their being wrong.

What could possibly promote being wrong more than faith?

People, who want to control you, promote faith because they want power and authority over you. They want you to commit to their beliefs, values and agendas. If you support their beliefs, they feel that you support them. They want you to serve them on their terms.

"Faith" & "Belief" are tools of hypnosis.

"Have faith" means "Be Hypnotized".

Concerning the words - "I Believe" - every single belief that you claim to have is a separate state of hypnosis.

When a believer promotes faith, he or she seems proud to promote ignorance and to accept nonsense without proof. To promote faith is the epitome of assuming authority over nothing. To trust someone is to give them authority over you. "Trust me" means "shut up and do what is expected". They claim that their invisible god expects conformity and obedience from you when it is only the authoritative believer who expects conformity and obedience from you. "The God Game" is the authority / obedience game.

Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

If it were not for "HOPE" 90% of therapists and 100% of clergy would be out of business.

                           Are You Hypnotized?

To be instructed, by an assumed authority, to "believe" deepens the hypnosis.

"Trust me" means "shut up and do what you are told or what is expected".

The purpose to promote "faith" is to command obedience to manipulation.

“I believe” means “I commit" / "I obey”. This is why religious people and other authoritarians push you to believe.

Bill Mahr: Believers are not fans of knowledge.

Seneca the Younger: Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Roman Emperor Nero ordered Seneca the Younger to commit suicide in 65 AD?

An assumed authority wants you to believe in and commit to his or her beliefs, agendas and values. You are targeted to become their slave - to serve them on their terms.

Reality is an insult to a believer.

They want you to have faith in - and to be faithful to - their beliefs, values and agendas.

They often want and demand your love, respect and willful obedience.

You must sacrifice your values in favor of theirs – otherwise they will threaten punishment from themselves or from their egos’ fictitious, supernatural God.

Prejudice / Bias: When an Ego feels entitled while believing that another Ego does not deserve an equal chance to be a free and non-dependent Human Being.

Your "faith" is your willful ignorance. Faith is your agenda to not know - to not be responsible for knowledge.

Believers are low-percentage gamblers. Their faithful gambles are based on ignorance. When hope, faith and belief crashes and burns for the believer - it is written off as God's will. The believer just looks for a new nonsensical deal to gamble on. Some are delusional enough to hold on to failed beliefs. 

When you question one's belief or faith - you can't expect an answer of substance.

We all have egos that we use to competitively control other egos who happen into our atmospheres. Some tend to super-charge their egos by applying and incorporating their fictitious, “supernatural” God. Insane, authoritative egos evolve to feel that it is their birth-right and entitlement to categorically change the world into their image through the sacrifice of competing egos that are accessible to them. Some attempt to use their fictional, supernatural God on the gullible to accomplish their ego’s opportunistic and imperialistic goals.

People claim to have a "spiritual experience" or that something special was spiritual. The "spiritual experience" could probably be best identified to a remembered thought or feeling. Thoughts are rarely remembered unless a feeling of some emotional intensity is attached to it.

Other than an unknown-based, difficult to explain, emotionally charged feeling, what is "spiritual" to you? Can you - with any logical, reasonable and rational clarity - define what "spiritual" means to you? Would your "spiritual experience" amount to a confusing thought with an indescribable feeling attached to it? How realistic or rational is your "spiritual experience"? Remember - you too can walk through walls - in your imagination only. A thought is the most miraculous event mankind can experience. Could your living, lit-up genes have communicated the thought to your consciousness along with a feeling to deliver it.

God, King and Country: The agenda of the US government is to mass hypnotize its subjects. It's agenda is to program you, its subject, to become a believer so that you will practice sacred loyalty to God and country.

Praying is obeying.

Believing is practicing obeying.

The more faith you have, the more you believe and the less you know.

To "have faith" is to obediently shut-up and to do as you are told.

To say "I believe" is to always admit "I don't know". I am pretending. I am gambling. Why would any intelligent human being buy into another's I don't knows, pretends and gambles?

The paradox of belief: Belief eliminates thought. A person who states a belief - cannot question that belief. Because - should he or she question that belief - he or she proves not to believe it.

Each belief is a separate state of hypnosis. One, who has many beliefs, is bogged down with many states of hypnosis. If one cannot question his or her beliefs, he or she is incapable of thinking.

A question is the highest form of thought.

Do God-fearing believers resent that non-believers go through life without dread, panic and fear of God?

I personally do not hold with ancient beliefs, prejudice and hostility.

The Ego's Use Of Belief

GWD: Somebody whose talent is great - the talent is for his or her own approval - not another's. What you do has to suit you. If what you do does not suit you, what you do will probably not suit anyone. If you don't bring something to the table, it won't suit anybody.

Animal Ego is a behavior manifestation of: "I am the value" - "I am the authority" - "I am entitled".

"I believe" is a manipulative term that often means: "I hope to will something I want into my reality." "I feel entitled to will my desires into reality". "I want you to believe what I believe and assist me in willing what I desire into reality."

Richard Dawkins: The time has come for people of reason to say enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, is divisive and is dangerous.

Psalam 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not and make their loins continually to shake.

Is this another fear-based threat designed to prevent believers from seeing the controversial C&Vs of the Bible.

If you are a religious believer, "The God Murders" website will question and challenge what your are programmed to believe and what you feel you are entitled to believe. If you are an Atheist, the website will easily validate - by Bible C&V - your being a non-believer.

The hypnotic power and the delusion of belief is strong - as a belief is a state of hypnosis.

"I believe" can often mean: "I pretend".

Believer disclaimer: I don't "pretend" when I say "I believe".

What is "truth"?

First, a “fact” is something real and provable in time. A fact is real for everybody and a fact does not care who believes it or not. A fact, in reality, has no agenda.

A religious “truth”, for a practicing religious believer, is a manipulative lie that they are emotionally attached and obedient to. The tyrannical, authoritative believer insists / demands that others also be emotionally attached, committed and obedient. A truth always has a personal agenda attached to it as it is designed to manipulate others - to change them to suit the practicing, manipulative ego that is announcing the “truth”.

As a religionist (Christian or Islamist), you want others to be like you - or else. Don’t you? You want others to live by your values in their lives - probably with you being the center of those values - don’t you? To insist that others believe, obey or follow your truth, you are displaying an authoritative ego manifestation. Atheists are not religionist (Christians or Islamist) and do not share the practicing religionist’s dogmatic values, rules and demands - in spite of the practicing Christian’s - or Islamist’s - bogus threats.

Think - it isn't illegal - yet.

G: Do you pretend to believe in Santa Claus?

B: That is a joke.

G: So, you admit that sometimes when you say that you believe - you joke?

A belief is often an attempt to "will" something into reality. Belief often serves wishful fantasy and hopeful invention.

A belief is often "positive thinking" (self-centered, idealistic delusion).

Peter Singer: Christianity  did not create compassion. Buddhism, addressed compassion 500 years before Christ, and Buddhists are Atheists because they don't believe in God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phgb67NAaHA&feature=related

Peter Singer points out that  concerning the argumentative Christian claim that Christians give to the poor and Atheists do not - Dale Carnegie, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, all Atheists, are documented to have each given more to the poor and impoverished than any known, named Christian.

Sex-Role Delusion?

Believers use beliefs to manipulate their desires and their values on others. They want those others to give them free cooperation and support.

There was, a long time ago, something I thought that I liked about the Biblical God. But, after reading, studying and learning about the Biblical God, and the deeds that the Bible documented about its God, I can’t remember what it was that I liked.

Intelligence is categorical. We are all capable of learning certain things - and other things - we are not.

The religious teach abstinence and that sex is a dirty, vile and disgusting act that you are to save sex only for the one you love.

Abstinence: Saving it for the worms.

John 15:14 Jesus said: You are my friend if you do whatever I command you.

So to be Jesus' friend is conditional.

You impose your beliefs on others as if they were rules and laws. You don’t want others to argue, question or challenge your beliefs, rules and laws. You, like God, expect others to support, promote and obey them.

An authoritarian believer said: "I believe" in the afterlife. 

Gary: Why is the afterlife important to you? 

B: It had better be important to you as you are going to suffer "Eternal Torment".

G: Are you lying when you claim to believe that?

B: No! I am manipulating you to save your soul.

G: So, "I believe" means "I manipulate". Your intent to share your belief with others is your intent to manipulate the will of others? Damn! Why has it taken me so long to figure that out? You use the words "I believe" to manipulate and impose your will on others. 

B: Well, of course. Everybody who knows the truth does it. I want obedience because the Bible ordered me to subdue and dominate the Earth.

This is Bible indoctrination and tyrant training.

The greater the belief and trust you have in the insane Biblical God, the greater is your betrayal to other human beings. God has ordered Bible C&V: Go kill every man, woman and child. God will send you into Eternal Torment. How much programmed fear motivates your belief in God?

Question: Who is the greatest persecutor of believers in God?

Answer: Religions.

Christians persecute Muslims. Catholics persecute Protestants.

Most Atheists just want to be left alone by all promoters of religion.

More than once, I have visited a Muslim Mosk. Almost every Muslim I have met has been an exceptionally good human being.

In discussion once, a teacher of the Koran stated: "Religion is evil. God is good." He did admit that he did not believe that the Biblical God really had His "chosen people" kill every man, woman and child in 60 cities. He chose to believe only certain C&Vs of the Bible.

He claimed that Jesus Christ was a prophet and that Jesus did not die on the cross.  

In a - one on one meeting - I asked a Jewish Rabbi: Rabbi, does God exist? He looked me in the eye, smiled and said: "I don't know." He did emphasize how important belief in God was.

When a believers says "I believe" who much of the belief is based on knowledge and how much is hope?

Can a believer define the difference between belief and knowing? If the believer does, then "I believe" always means "I don't know". Why do believers share their "I don't knows"? Why would you buy into their "I don't knows"?

Review: Each belief is a separate state of hypnosis. To question the belief is to break the hypnosis.

To believe is to obey authority.

For many - to practice believing is to practice obeying.

       For Many - Praying Is Obeying       

Teach A man to fish and he will feed himself. Teach him to pray for his fish and he will starve.

If you practice obeying a fictitious authority - an assumed authority can more easily step in and control you.

Don’t believe me or any other man. Question everything for yourself.

Enforceable criminal and civil laws - you don’t have to believe. You know that you must obey them - or suffer their consequences.

You somewhat control your thoughts. Your beliefs usually control you. You can question your thoughts. You cannot question your beliefs because if you do, you prove not to believe.

Your beliefs control your behavior - not mine. Your belief that you have power over others has no influence or control over me.

Do you tend to use your beliefs as manipulative tools?

To promote your beliefs is to promote gambling because when you say “I believe” - in reality - you are declaring to the world “I don’t know”. Why would you expect others to buy into your “I don’t knows”? If you tell me that you believe, you are not telling me that you know. You are telling me: "I don't know".

Because the question is the highest form of thought, you have the power to change a belief into a thought by simply questioning it.

A belief, like a theory, is another definite, guaranteed maybe.

God consists of faith and belief - nothing more.

 Albert Einstein: I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

Believers tend to serve tradition and the past. Thinkers struggle to seek enlightenment and facts so to better evolve into thoughts yet to be experienced. Believers seek dogma - not enlightenment - and it may take many progressive, human life-cycles to break out of the prison of redundant belief. Thinking and knowing is more beneficial than believing and gambling. To not promote supernatural nonsense as fact may be a fair start.

People say “I believe” because they are trying to change the world to become more what they want. Believers are delusional when they try to will reality into their expectation. And, believers expect you and me to help them in their agenda. People share their beliefs to invent the world they wish to live in. Beliefs are challenges - and like fictitious people, egos or gods - they are competitive.

                          Islam                                  Competing To Change The World?

In my "The God Murders" debate with believers, the website's words say what they mean and mean what they say. Often believer's debate in a manor that reminds me of the French philosopher, Voltaire, who wrote: "There are some who only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."

Many religious believers claim and fight for individual freedom - yet - they practice and promote mental / emotional slavery to their Biblical God. They also tend to discipline and restrict the freedom of others. Many believers will go to war for their imperialistic beliefs.

In war, it is the perfect believer who makes perfect canon-fodder.  

Secular Humanism is a secular ideology which espouses reason, ethics and justice while rejecting supernatural and religious dogma as a basis of morality and decision making.

Many non-religious people are more likely to be Humanists because their moral beliefs are rooted more in the world around them, the world of their fellow man. Religious people base their morality not on the world around them but on laws that were written thousands of years ago, that may or may not be the teachings of a mystical being, which can be interpreted in many ways.

One conflict with hope is - if a Christian currently hopes, he or she is not currently happy with what God has dealt them. Ergo, to hope is to complain against God.

Both the Judeo-Christian God and the Islamic Allah demand death for not being obeyed - even concerning their insane, illegal commandments. Some of their documented insane, illegal commandments are: To kill an unruly son, to kill the infidel, to kill non-virgin girls, to kill gay men. Anyone who does not view these commandments to be insane and illegal - is themselves insane and prone to do insane, murderous things.

 Aleister Crowley: One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

Believers indicate that obedience is more important than knowledge or questioning.

The religious love that praying to God is the practice of obeying.

If you pray for something you personally want - nothing fails like prayer.

Two hands that work gets more work done than 7 billion pairs of hands clasped in prayer.

Religious training is subordinate soldier, slave, obedience training.

                 Subordinate Slave / Soldier

Believers are often in error but never in doubt. If you prove them to be in error, they will claim that they said that they believed - not that they knew. Their beliefs also gets them out of a lot of blatant lies.

Hope is a meaningless feeling - usually with dramatic, emotional (do want) intensity - because its fruits always lie in the future. By definition, hope is rarely realized in the now. To act on mere hope, belief, and having faith is to gamble.

Las Vegas gambling is motivated by hope, belief, and having faith. The agenda is - you are to win often and to lose it all once.

"My belief is" often means "my agenda is." That is why believers want you to share their beliefs. Their beliefs / agendas give them a sense of self. It often builds their often false self-image.

If it weren't for hope, belief and faith, 90% of therapists and 100% of clergy would be out of business. For the chronic hopeful, hope is the fearful, cowardly, do nothing, substitute for confident, responsible and prepared action. Your hope is like being the rear dog pulling a dog sled. No matter how fast you go you never get closer to the one in front - and the view is always the same.

How much faith is nonsense / delusion?

Christopher Hitchens: What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

The manipulator's agenda and tools: The hope, belief, have faith agenda is to persuade you to work harder in the hope that things will change and profit you. Mostly, whoever motivates what you should hope for is usually who also profits if you succeed.

You have to ask yourself, are you encouraged to have hope simply to make you obey and do nothing or to achieve something that benefits the one who encouraged you?

Most chronic hopes for the better don't change for you because your mindset beliefs are designed to prevent change.

I am not religious. Because I know what the Bible documents about its God, I am an Atheist. Fictional or not, I do not want to help the Biblical God. As a Humanist, I want to assist Humanity in helping itself.

  Friedrick Nietzsche: There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The words hope, belief, and have faith are used by the manipulative cons and the devious: "Take the crap I am giving you now in the hope that things will get better (but as long as I control you, I won't want them to get better.")

In other words as long as you believe - you are expected to - "Shut up and do as required."

When you buy into hope, belief and having faith, you usually do shut up and do as required - don't you?

Is that NOT the way that you want someone that you tell to have hope, to belief, and to have faith to obey you?

What trains you to hope, believe and to have faith more than fear-based, consequential, eternal-torment religion?

Eternal-Torment?

For someone to tell you these things, they are trying to make your decision to do nothing for you and for you to agree to let some agenda or someone have its way with you.

Your "controllers" want you to accept what is going on now in the hope that good times will come. They really just want to con you to agree to let them have their way. Once you agree to hope, believe and having faith, they have made your decision for you.

The words hope, belief, and having faith will attempt to lead the gullible to a false promise. It doesn't fulfill, but, by the time you realize it, it's too late.

Hope, belief, and having faith are tools to keep you in the sacrifice mode.

Programmed hope is designed to keep you from rebelling. 　

You can't have hope now / today, only tomorrow. Hope is always for later or for tomorrows.

When hope fails later / tomorrow, we can only hope for it's the fulfillment sometime later.

Do not be conned. Question and demand fairness, accountability, justice and freedom now and tomorrow!

That's how hope works - or - more realistically doesn't work.

"Abstinance" is to sex education like "just hold it" is to potty training.

When you are unhappy, change is a motivating word.

When promised change, always ask from what to what will change take place. HOPE for what? Faith in what? Change what? Believe what? Insist on an answer now!

If the hope promoter does not tell you their view of change now, they have none. They want to influence and control you.

It is crucial for an assumed authority to not specify and detail what is meant by his hope, belief, and having faith.

The thinker approaches the Bible with questions of substance. Thinkers dare question scripture.

The believer approaches the Bible with no questions of substance.

Jesus' Miracles

John 14:11 Jesus said: Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.

Ergo, The Believer Claims:

Jesus was born of a virgin birth.

Jesus changed water into wine. 

Jesus cast out demons. 

Jesus calmed a stormy sea.

Jesus walked on water. 

Jesus caught 153 fish. 

Jesus fed thousands with 2 fishes.

Jesus healed the sick, diseased, paralyzed, crippled, blind, deaf and mute.

Jesus raised the dead.

Jesus transformed into His transfigured body. 

Jesus restored a severed ear.

Jesus resurrected after His death. 

Jesus passed through walls.

Jesus appeared to disciples after His resurrection.

Jesus ascended into Heaven.

Upon Jesus's death, the graves opened and the dead walked the Earth.

The Critic: I don't believe that.

The Believer: Really! What part?

The con-man will tell you that he is for you - but don't you dare ask him details as to how he is for you. You will expose his manipulative agenda.

Another "Holy Trinity": Faith / Belief / Delusion - all three are one.

Con-Men?

In therapy, crying often takes place. Crying is often a signal that anger is being vented, sadness is being purged and fear is being faced. A therapist's tool is to consider that the client is in a fishbowl with his or her problem. If, emotionally, the therapist were to enter into the fishbowl with the client, the therapist would be useless and ineffective. The therapist's practice is to address the client's issues, ask the sensitive questions, and take them where others cannot and will not. A surgeon must emotionally distance himself from the body he is performing surgery on. Unless, hypnosis is used, unlike a surgeon, the therapist must endure the pain the client is experiencing during his or her session. Over time, like a conditioned surgeon who loses patients, painful therapy takes a toll on therapists.

In the early 1980s, two Los Angeles police detectives came to my office and asked me if I had a therapy session with a certain woman. I said I had one session with her a few months earlier. In referring to my notes, I recalled that the client's session issues had no "red flags". There was no discussion concerning her primary relationship nor her life-style. On occasion, if I sense a "red flag", I will tape the session. There was nothing exposed in this session that indicated a “red flag”. The session was not taped.

This session was not taped. They reported that she and her lesbian roommate apparently made and carried out their double "suicide pact". The detectives had found my business-card in her purse.

Democrats and Republicans compete for power and profit over people. Christianity and Islam are just fear-based and blackmailing political parties that compete for power and profit over people.

Absurdity Of Prayer:

http://nobeliefs.com/creativePrayer.htm

Offensive Christian Beliefs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC91GYEumyA&feature=relmfu 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-1xIPPSak

What one person, who you know, would be impacted if sent to this site?

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