Who wrote the bible and why do we follow it today?

 Now that I live in a "Bible Belt" community, I need to understand what these people are relying upon, or fearing in their use of a century old book within are many books written by men only.

Spiritual or religious. Both beliefs are ways of living through a guide, a journey of awakening. Awakening which is merely a new way to look at life. 

If you choose spirituality, you are seemingly a person who receives a broad, subjective, and intangible concept for your personal empowerment. A personal quest for the meaning of life. Spirituality is centered on your inner growth and doesn't require blind faith in religious doctrines. Spirituality offers your way, to heal, to understand, to contemplate issues in resolve.

Whereas, religious beings are formed by way of an organization entity with rituals and practices that focus on a higher power or a God. 

However, religion offers books to read, to guide you through life, a journey of awakening as well as spirituality, yet it is very controlled by male beings. Albeit, there are many all female congregations the majority and history has depicted, men run the Bible. Apostles, they were men. 

Epistles written by Jude, in the bible among all the other men, Moses, Peter, St. Paul, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the list goes on. These "men" whom we have no image of wrote these epistles to guide, to direct and to shame people into one way of living. Stating there's only one way to journey and that is through "God".

But whose God? How do we know it's Luke's God?, St. Paul's God? Moses' God? Give be a real reason to guide myself into an awakening journey for self-preservation when I am told there is a mindless "God" or Dog spelt backward, that is leading the world into destruction.

How many wars have been started due to religion? Way too many. This cannot be ignored any longer as we sit to contemplate our times in this 21st century. Find your true spirit not the local tax-exempt collection taker's cathedral.

I'll show you more peaceful humans all due to their spirituality journey. 

Then I'll show you more disturbed, conspiring, immoral, illegal humans that grew up or are in belief of a "God" that guides them on a daily basis.

Aside from some people that are the exception, you make the choice, you live with the consequences. What is your commitment in life and why?

Write your own story, make it true to your humanity and follow that with greatness of consequences.

After the Summer's Gone

 The summer of 2024 is ending and I have made one of the largest decisions of my life!

Leaving a career is a timely event, or should be but that's just what I did. I fully believe in making connections to your feelings, listening to yourself truly is how decisions are best created.

I decided that since I had started my career pretty much as a single yet married woman back in 2001 and became a fully-single career woman by 2011  I could make the decision to retire when my feelings were understood by me. No influence, just how I felt, where I was in life, how I got there, and what do I expect moving forward, like the next day.

I had built a career, not only through experience but financially I was as ready as can be. Of course, as a single woman, my wages were lower than the common man, therefore I did need to create assets with help from an advisor, and mind you, not just any advisor one can pick from an Instagram advertisement.  Women must be ready-smart thinking ahead of event that can happen great or not. Women's opportunities are threatened all along the career paths. It's universal.

So, I saved, I bought, I sold, I bought again and now I am closer to happiness than I ever thought I could be.

The decisions I made and created through by growing days, many of ignorance via bribery or just plain following the path of least resistance, gave me 2 people in my world I can always rely upon. 

That is where I landed as the summer's going into another season, I am in a new place, a new land, a new philosophy I must adjust to, or understand, or find my own way to live in this place. So far so good. I refuse to ignore the obvious oppressions, omissions, and illimitations. There is always a place to improve.

Are We Headed for a REVOLUTION?

     Today is the year of 2023, 1/3 into this new year and aside from living under a rock, we are being faced with horrendous bigotry, discrimination, disinformation all to divert a following that has never really led too many in the right direction.

    When you have leaders who dismiss people's needs and law placed rights no one should sit still for that. America has mainly been on the surface at least, open to democracy, open to truth, albeit, much truth has been covered up over the decades I been alive but that's just it, it is time to claim what is really going on.

    We have Supreme Court Justices, defaming themselves but have the ability to cover it up so the people don't know how unethical this balance is not. 

    We have organizations holding our leaders hostage in gaining financial profit, in turn our people are set aside, lied to, given excuses, cheated out of the American dream unless they too join the corporate organizations that lobby to hold hostage our laws and bills solely based on one opinion. 

    America has a melting pot of cultures, populations of religions, gender differences, and political desires. When these norms come together and create a stirring blend it should be well received. But many on the opposing side of humanity are trying to created a regime, a Reich, an empire of one type of people.

WE ARE HEADED FOR A REVOLUTION!

    The Earth is made up of differing matter, why can't people understand that and come together based on Mother Nature's needs? Because money rules these bigots, these controlling humans who rely on the funds to lead them into their destruction.

    Don't refute the fake bullshit of how other's are filling our children with pornographic means, let our parents care for their children, you make them have the child, not allow them to learn to care for them without fear-mongering them into your submission.

   Do not sit down and watch humanity derange other's norms. People are not to be controlled by outside organization, help those who may need a boost, see that they can make it in this world, emulate, open your arms instead of blaming.

 I'm on the humanity side, the control of human kindness, the realistic means to human needs not wants, I am for the revolution side.

✊䷰🤟 ....they don't even have a brown, or black imoji fist!!! 

    

We Will Always Miss Them

      Oh what this Covid-19 has done to every human on this earth! If you’re not changed by this series of viruses engulfing our space you are a hard ass person. The fences we have drawn and results we are enduring is mind boggling. 

I lost someone from this shit virus recently. Someone who touched my life nearly 50 years ago….we were as one for 3-4 years and then some but in the most naive manner, you know when life was taken for granted, uncaring, security created by our parents home, not our own. Never thinking of tomorrow.

So why do I still wish him to be here, not for me, but for his life, for his wife, for his adult kid(s)? I mean I couldn’t wait to leave him, or for him to stay away. You see, back then when life was quick and filled with uncertainty for the future we lived as fast as a ridiculous commercial! 

His promises were empty, I knew that then but you stayed, all the while I always knew I would not marry him, nor bear his child. It was because we lived stutteringly that I ran fast as soon as I could only to remain lost about love and caring, and even commitment. Not a clue! I did that a couple more times in my life, sadly.

Today, because of him, because of the naive me, I do life for me, for my trust is only with me. I’ve been disappointed by him and other loves since and long enough, that I can only truly love me now.

Yet, I’m grieving for his loss in life. The regret, of what he’s lost also. I think it’s really just the time I’m in. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is where I relate my grieve to this feeling, to where I’m at now.

Where physiological needs are listed on the bottom of this chart, you know the need to be fed, to sleep, to be cared for. My parents did that well. I know for certain his parents did that too. I saw that first hand. He may have received a bit more coddling than I did by his parents but you get the idea. 

Now Abraham Maslow back in the 1940’s wrote in this chart, Self-actualization as the tip top height of one’s needs. I’m there now! I feel my Esteem and my Safety are in check but not my Belonging related to this pyramid.

You see, I’ve lost my daughter too so the Belonging part of Maslow’s hierarchy is wrenching at me these days. It’s sort of the same feeling I’m having in grieving my first “love” back in the late 70’s. 

But thankfully my daughter is alive and well! She just resents my life and how I went about bringing her into this world. Wondering if….you know, if I had a different opinion on that subject with my love from the 70’s….we were still allowed choice back then, how would that life had played out.

I chose this daughter and I chose this son to be here today. To live like I did, to feel like I did, and understand it was nothing more than a life, good, bad, or ugly. Play it, live it my children!

I feel that choice I made for them (as we all really do not get a choice to be here), was not in vain nor naive but really it fell to that way. I love my kids and regret how I let things go to where they keep to themselves today, resulting in a negative need of Belonging like the Maslow chart indicates we should be.

So as I am grieving, I’m also saying, Damnit!, my young once lover, why didn’t you care more for yourself, your health, your future, your family’s?  With you in mind or physically in front of you, we remember each other and those days stick to our minds regardless of the outcome. 

I could tell 4 months ago when I saw you. That was a very flattering yet brief moment in time and now you’re gone. Life can be so fucking cruel. And we are cruel to it as well.

My loss for my brother 7 years ago, was it? If he was a part of this pandemic, oh God he’d not done well. He hated using his credit card online! He might have endured the isolation we first had, but ultimately the unknown, the misinformation, he wouldn’t have liked that.

So I am grateful my brother left before my first love did, they were good buddies, albeit not a healthy good buddy at times, but there was that thread of life I was a part of and I will always miss them for their life that I was a part of, the ways that formed me, aided in my decisions, and holds me today at the top of the hierarchy in a reassuring manner. For me at least.

I’d love to be back on that side stage guys, listening to you two play in your band. 

Hold a place for me, meanwhile Rest In Peace.

How we ignore the obvious

 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! If this is not your go-to, end-of-the-year celebration know I am addressing you as well.

This wasn’t obvious? 

Reading into our traditions has been waning over the decades, I’ve realized. Why is that you ask? Many reasons, some I believe are based on our need to be unique and separate while claiming to be united. Traditions and religious beliefs can be very comforting and soul seeking with great results. 

For some. What I see who are seeking individuality has somewhat gotten out of hand. 

I was watching the current Netflix movie called Don’t look Up.  This movie must be watched with an open mind for it is trying to show what our society has evolved to with technology, politics, science, beliefs, and traditions. As one article wrote about this movie’s depiction, “…about how we are blowing it, hurtling toward oblivion.”

This tells me society, people, children, preteens, teenagers, young adults, new parents, mid-parents, even us oldies, we are all guilty of ignoring the obvious. Our selfies have made us all selfish! Our individualism has asked us not to “look up” and see our world as a unified place for individual ones to exist without harming another. Human narcissism. It’s all to real thanks to the vast array of social media.

The quotes you read on all social medias can deter you into isolation for fear of becoming one of them! We are all blessed, we all have at least one best day ever, and why is it you must have thousands of followers? What does that for your ego?

Is it not obvious? You’re individualism has separated so much you can’t see right in front of you nor behind or around you, and God forbid, you look up once in a while.

It reminds me of the day I was 9 or 10 years old in the summer at a lake, I cannot remember the name off hand but I was with my mom and sister of 13 months older than I. Mom and her lady moms all sitting out on the shore of this lake while me, my sister, and a friend whose mom was also laying out by the shore were sitting on top of a small inner tube in the calm lake. Chatting and being preteens in the late 60’s. Suddenly, the girl flips back, and my sister and I do the same! How fun!! Except it wasn’t fun.

Our legs were intertwined inside the inner part of this small inner tube and as one of us flung our arms up and out to rise up, that movement would bring the other down under the water! This went on for a good 3 minutes maybe more until one of the mom’s noticed this confusion inside the inner tube on this calm lake was 3 girls trying to escape a drowning moment.

It wasn’t obvious?

No, it wasn’t. Our lives don’t lead us to obvious notions. It takes study, observation, contemplation and the like to really see what is going on around us while we go about our daily lives.

Infotainment it is called. We want to be entertained at all costs, somewhere in our evolution we created beliefs that quietly tell us sitting alone is not okay, FOMO, another belief that has aided in destroying our psyche. 

It isn’t obvious? We are losing our purpose in life and replacing it with objects, behaviors and attitudes that ignore the obvious problems surrounding us.

When facts surrounding you are skewed and opinions are ridiculed, we are in trouble, denial does run deep. 

Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday, and make your new year obvious to others not just what you see in the flipped camera screen.

Helping Hands in the Cookie Jar

 You reach a point in your life when you should show empathy for those in need, for your neighbor...but what if it goes wrong, somewhere that you had no intention of seeing the outcome in that empathetic start?

Women silently suffer in ways like that as we are exercising empathy. We don’t say “no” because we are looked at as being a “ bitch” (bocce), a wicked person, misunderstood, or an angry being all for reaching out and caring...albeit blindly.

Yet, this act and acts along those lines make a being, a woman in kind, stronger in our hearts and in our decisions.

I failed myself many times, duh, when will I learn! Taking in a lost friend, a lost young person, a person in need. These type of people who are needy became that way through so many avenues, I certainly am not one to judge, however...... taking the time to understand and sympathize all the while, keep an eye out for yourself. 

Many good people suffer and are in need of help. Many good people suffer and retaliate onto their healer too. That’s where time and understanding calls for you, as the empathizer, to “read” the situation before blindly opening your home, your wallet, your assistance.

Don’t mistake this blog today as a denial to helping those in need, no! We all are obligated to reach out to neighbors we have experienced real life threatening need. With their approval, and that’s the key, the people in need must approve your assistance otherwise you are meddling. And then we have to turn away and rethink to understand what is needed in that situation.  

Be kind, vote for the good of people, watch your government as they distribute laws to all levels of people, follow that law to its home and SMILE...death is always around the corner.

Blind Faith

 What has happened these past 4 years and how the world is now in a pandemic is nothing more than another page in our History.

Four years ago many of my wonderful friends were advocating for an American leader who was a “businessman” and how that will be much better than our former “transformational man.”

You can argue these two leadership qualities especially after you read the linked articles provided but as History has shown us power can make or destroy oneself and those who have blind faith in that particular quality will be a part of that destruction or enlightenment one way or another.

So after reading these two articles linked with “businessman” and “transformational man” you may feel like an historian. Good! We all need to be a part of our world’s growth, knowledge, and community. Why, isn’t that what the beginning of time has been instilling in us? For centuries ago, the complacent neighbor lived a blind faithful existence and more than likely regretted not having a minor hold in their life’s progress.

When we bring in democracy we bring in the possibility of an asymmetric congregation. This cannot be made to attend to progress without fully understanding the processes the leadership has intended. That is not to say we all become know-it-all’s which btw, is what Social Media seems to be creating; another blog on that later, no we need our citizens to feel the faith and belief of the leadership however, more importantly, the leaders MUST TRULY continue to hold themselves to our understandings. 

The blind faith leaders want their community or congregations to have is no longer to be a part of our History. Leaders of tomorrow will need to have an open book, they’ll need to be at the conference table with each and every one of their followers. We’ve announced this in the past however, as human as we are power and greed is the largest sin all humans will face. And that is where blind faith must be stricken from  all ways of belief. 

America is no longer the most powerful country solely based on power and greed. Not yet a communistic rule, not yet an autocratic system rule, no dictatorship, and the like. The 21st Century needs open ended democracy and we need it to work well for all; for the leader must lead but not in a place that overrules its people for these will be the people who are believing and we mustn’t destroy that belief.

Once the blindfold is placed on the people, the community, the congregation, democracy will no longer be 

available to work. We cannot say run the country like a business, we must not say run the country in a socialistic manner, no we need to be open to what the country is now, has become, and what will it transform into.