Riffin' On the Street Level

Here’s the problem at the street level, and because it’s down to that level, this is stuff we could change as quickly as this afternoon…

In religion class in Catholic school I was first introduced to the concept of monotheistic versus polytheistic traditions. I was taught that the monotheistic traditions are correct and that the polytheistic conceptions and traditions were mildly insulting to the one true God, God the Father.

In Hinduism, which the Catholics taught me in religion class was polytheistic, they say that there is a Singular Source (God the Father) who is ultimately comprehensively unknownable to human faculties, but we can know enough of His/Her Personality to construe meaningful takeaways about the nature of life in general. The deity system is a cast of characters for this Singular source to enter so as to intercede in the affairs of Mankind effectively. Which deity shows when would tell an immense amount to a learned practitioner as to what exactly the Universal is willing and what need be expressed.

So the Hindus, in their own words, are a Monotheistic tradition.

We have religion textbooks sitting in town that are just outright telling lies. They are not to the caliber of the kinds of books we allow into the public school system. I’m not damning the Catholic school system; it wouldn’t be hard to uh get your shit together and stop being jerks.

The Hindus taught me the Life of Christ in the most beautiful way. The Catholics never taught me Hinduism, but they did try to pervasively teach me, in religion class in school, that the Hindus were objectively wrong, and less holy that the Christians.

Honestly, because of Karma, at this juncture one is a little better than the other in regards to teaching the Gospel…everything comes down to individuals but that generalization is actually a thing, and that could change by the end of today…

This could be fixed entirely, administratively… just the right little move in the right place and lots of people are never introduced to these types of notions/materials…

To sum it up thematically or abstract it…these are instances in which the authors were intending to prove Christianity as the one true religion, clearly better than other major world traditions. Maybe if we start from the assumption that no one could be any dearer to God and we’ll get a lot further in regards to the social-spiritual mission…

Also too, I haven’t met a former lover of mine who wasn’t completely taken into mysticism by the Spirit. That goes for nearly my entire life. I might be the common factor there…maybe that’s what’s happening out there with a lot of romances, I don’t know.

But I kind of assume that it is. Or that I’m not such an anomaly case… which gets into romance as an inherently spiritual institution, one that is very powerful. Sexuality would be a more appropriate term…

I’ve seen Spirit grab people I’ve connected with and change their lives drastically after that person started connecting with me. If you would’ve talked to the person, they would’ve attributed it to their “angels” or something along those lines… they were clearly in the midst of spontaneous spiritual experience. And I’ve never seen a vibrant, chemistry driven affair that wasn’t this…

So I’m very, very reluctant to allow to campaign against homosexuality to continue largely unchallenged. I think sexuality naturally takes on the impression of our cultural biases so as to eradicate them from the culture with the coming generations… I think where human-made ideologies wrought with fallacy fall short, sexuality as an institution forces individuals to challenge and replace them, as sexuality is particularly concerned with the successful continuation of the species.

I have ex’s who might not be alive if somebody had actively discouraged us from ever connecting in the first place, if someone had stigmatized it in the name of proper human behavior. Relationships save young adults.

So uh, it’s bad. But it doesn’t have to be. These are things we can change by the end of today.

I’ll end on this note: I used to have social anxiety. What got rid of it was going back and unaccepting aspects of the worldview the Church forced. They are actually forcing mental illness on people (how’s that for a cosmic flip to the fact that Homosexuality was once listed in the DSM iv); they are selling a lie concerning reality, and it’s why they lost the youth as hard as they did.

(I grew up in the emo generation; for some reason we all started dressing entirely in black when we were young adults…guys started experimenting with wearing women’s make up and clothing…the androgenous was fed… bisexuality and homosexuality became socially accepted while we were doing all of this, and we were naturally super about it, and super down with bisexual and homosexual people, largely all of my peers were… there was also an obsessing with the individuals struggle with mental illness, whether it be anxiety or depression or something cool and sexy that sounds even more dangerous… we were obsessed with sickness and delusion as being integral elements of the identity we make for ourselves…certain that we were perpetually on the precipice of death…it was very Wednesday or Addam’s Family…)

In the Buddhist worldview, I could never understand anxiety. In the Christian framework as it was taught to me and not how it is in the Bible… we were waiting for the apocalypse…the second coming of Christ…why the hell of all of the things in the world that they could be talking about (like Infinite Love Supreme ruling the affairs of Man) would they be talking about the end of times and the second coming of Christ? Figurative language aside…figurative language has its time and place.

In the Buddhist worldview, we were one human family…in the Christian some of these people are the play thing of the Devil… and if you want proof, just look to gay conversion camps and weird GOP-esque ideas that were backwards for the public even in 2002. At what point can we call ass clowns ass clowns and not have to waste our time?

The weird numbness of adulthood is to refer to it as wasting our time, to experience it as a waste of your time, but also to fully know that this kills entire human beings, these sorts of hate-seeded patterns of behavior. Oh, the turning away…

To encapsulate it…too much man made narrative of institutions…too little listening to what’s clearly being screamed in each and every moment and has been for someeeee time now. Man versus God, Man versus Nature, Man versus Luck, Man versus Man…

If we are all equal and equally dear to God, if this world is a co-creation the editing rights to which are owned exclusively by God…. I don’t think one of the world religions is going to be any truer than the others. It’s just that easy. Because the man who made religions, God, loves us all equally, and doesn’t like root for the USA over China in the World Cup.

Now that I’ve been utterly depressing for some time, these are no longer active threats. It is clear that historically a lot of work was put in for too long of a period of time. We have passed through this, largely. The death blows are now ringing out in the Advent of 2023. We are on the precipice of change.

The Church stood tall in the saddle and they lost. They played it real bad, and alienated a lot of spiritual people in doing as much. But all of that is nearly already washed away. And where we are at is on the cusp of a spiritual revolution, a cultural revolution, one seeded by and rooted in Christ, directed at the Church.

“I crashed with the wheels still spinnin’; I had no overview; I just crawled out and walked away; Now I can’t stop my mouth from grinnin’ and time is running thin; This time I had to lose to win.”

Time grows thin in this instance because of very newly found meaning/perspective ushered in by the crash. Suddenly time is once again of the essence, and each individual moment is precious, because something has fundamentally changed in our narrator…

The Church hit the wall.

Welcome to adulthood, yo.