Faithfully Exercising Alternate Realities
Subjects make tyrants, not the other way around.
The alternate reality comes to life
The real danger of believing lies is usually not what one comes to believe, but what they do (not do) and say as a result of that belief.
As the story of the Garden of Eden shows us, sin enters the body through the flesh, and that means anything about us that is natural, including the mind. It’s important to understand that by the time Adam had bitten the apple, he had already sinned by not avoiding the tree of the forbidden fruit. Who was the fruit forbidden by? It was forbidden by God, and if he had not dismissed the importance of that directive, then sin wouldn’t have entered into him. In other words, he was near the tree because he lacked fear of God, and pride entered, causing him to believe he could resist the temptation that arose from proximity. That sin came to life because he felt like he needed to flee in the presence of God, while in reality, he was projecting his own newfound judgementalism on himself. He took on the knowledge of good and evil, to be like God, and then was crushed to a spiritual death by it.
This is what happens in life when we take on fallacy. It becomes part of us and then we act it out and/or speak it. An example of this is believing something about ourselves that isn’t so, and then we make it so with our decisions. You be told repeatedly that you are not smart, have ADD, or just simply that you are not capable of this or don’t have what it takes for that. If you believe any of those then you will eventually make decisions in life based on that belief about yourself. Even if you don’t know that you do actually believe that.
Alternate realities can be exercised in the opposite direction as well. A person can believe that they can do things that you actually are not capable of and have no business bothering with. This type of loftiness usually comes from a form of manipulation that uses the “fear of loss” to drive actions and lifestyles that are not conducive to a fulfilling or principled life. One form of this can come from parental expectations, and another is from the allure of fame and/or fortune.
Whatever it come from, it is destructive behavior.
Believing the lie isn’t the most dangerous part of bondage that weak mindedness causes, but acting out the unfounded and iniquitous belief pinnacle.
The alternate reality takes on a life of its own
As belief inevitably becomes action, it begins to become the identity of the person, community, and even nation. As it evolves as action, it also becomes a “system” of belief, and eventually a lifestyle, a religion, a form of government, culturally enforced, and legislatively coercive.
An alternate reality doesn’t just grow into a personal identity for individuals but also a national identity, and more so as the embedded false belief grows into a system of delusion. As it spreads and becomes more prolific, it convinces the mass of that nation or region that it is something other than what it actually is.. This is done in the United States in the way of thinking that the US is a democracy while it was never intended to be so. The lie that our Republic is a democracy has come to life in many ways but the most prominent two are that it is now the norm to refer to us as one, and the other is the persistent and growing mob rule.
As a consequence of an altered reality as a system of belief, false identity transitions into an inability to discern sustainable from unsustainable. For instance, democracy is not a sustainable condition, but since the majority believes that they live in a mobocracy, and must sustain it, they strive for something that is doomed in the end. As a byproduct of this misguidance, not knowing that it is the actions of a “democracy” that are its method of suicide, then the actions of the people and government are perpetually and increasingly self-destructive. This is the pattern of a fear-laden opinion-based society or a democracy.
Another example of an alternate reality taking on a life of its own is when there is fleeing with no one chasing, or warring when no one else wanted to participate in the war. This is when masses of people are made to believe that something is going to come to gobble them up unless, of course, the savior comes to their rescue. And in many cases, particularly in the modern West, you can replace “gobble up” with” threaten democracy”. There is always an “evil dictator” around to garner fear and get that “defend democracy” fist-pumping going.
The alternate reality stifles life and emboldens deathocracy
As the liar identity becomes more embedded, the truth, which is life, gets pushed out. As the game brain from part 2 of this series is fed more silliness and corruption, then it evolves into acting out the zombie-democratized world that it now perceives itself to be in. It’s sort of like when the ancient Romans flocked to the games and cheered on the gruesomeness. It’s a craving for the destructiveness of society in search of the filler for the emptiness of bondage, and the void created by the false savior.
The widespread bitterness causes all to turn on the other, out of fear, and with little regard for the truth that they may not know. As the divisiveness spreads, and compassion dwindles, war becomes a spectator sport, and death becomes a means of keeping score. Sides are taken, patriotism is questioned, and the bravado of the uninformed is awakened. And the shamelessness of it continues even as a nation becomes the satellite of a victim-nation, and inches closer to the brink of economic desolation.
The truth is not only life but also freedom. As lie pushes out the truth, it replaces with bondage, and the bonded acts and speaks according to what the master dictates. That is precisely how 100s of millions haplessly march into the pit of national suicide and feel like a hero while they are doing it. That is bondage, and the master is the lie planted by the manipulator, who is ultimately the master.
As downside as that sounds though, it’s not over until it’s over. It’s never too late to light the dark, and to that is to stop accepting lies, and seeing the truth. There is a lot of truth-seeking going on today, but not enough stopping when it’s found. Stopping at the truth is the same as resting on the truth, and to that, you have to let the truth be enough.
In the end, evil becomes good & the wicked are elevated because the manipulators have distorted reality so that they would be elevated, the saviors. And for those who surrendered their freedom, they are the saviors. And they are faithful to them as such.
by D. C. Link