RAZD - A Lesson in Life

It's time to face yourself.

How do we face ourselves?

We look at something we've done that is obviously wrong and then realize that something within us is imperfect (illogical). If we have the strength (faith and humility), we can then face ourselves and admit, work, change, and overcome these things. If we don't have the strength (fear and pride), we will move forward without taking the time to admit our faults to ourself (lie to ourself / denial / self-deception) simply lying to ourself digging our own grave deeper and deeper with each new episode of self-deception.

This denial will—over time—interfere with our ability to reason logically. To make a long story short, continued denial will produce an emotionally-based, selfish, self-serving, self-focused person with little regard for truth and less for the rights of others.

This continued denial, because of the way it interferes with our ability to reason logically, will—over time—cause us to become assumptive. This trait is usually found in people who have become frustrated with this inability to comprehend the deeper processes in life or life's situations and they give in to the explanations provided to them by others over time (blind faith). So, this continued denial creates a personality that is particularly vulnerable to being controlled by philosophies of other people because they are unable to make sense of their world on their own.

This explanation (above) is a steeply abridged explanation of the mechanism that causes nearly all evolutionists that I have ever known (many) to have a certain similar set of personality traits.

Even though these traits may not be apparent externally, they become apparent once you get to know a person well enough to predict their behavior patterns.

Some of these attributes are:

Self Preservation
They may be nice people, but when push come to shove, they are going to do what benefits them the most without regard to the affect it has on others. In short, they are unable to make a true sacrifice unless they see how it benefits themselves. They often end up in a relationship that ends in a hateful divorce or continues in co-dependency with someone they actually don't respect.

Assumptive
They come to conclusions without realizing that they have not checked out all of the facts. They are unusually biased but will—in many cases—appear to be just the opposite, but this behavior is only a mechanism of over compensation used to attempt to continually convince themselves (self-delusion) that they are smart and logically minded.

There are other attributes of people with a history of denial, but it is this second feature that I want to focus on.


Know Yourself

The best most effective way to know yourself is by what you do and how it affects others. If you understand that others are very real and are very much affected by the things you do to them just as you are by things they do to you, you can use the standard that measures how you affect other people through harm or benefit to determine if what you do is positive or not positive and therefore to measure your morality as a person.

(Don't let the word morality confuse you. There is a lot more to this than you realize. I'm only giving you the short version.)

Now for the sake of time, I'm going to recap what you did on this thread and how it relates to your fanaticism toward evolution.

A few posts ago, you said:

[color:"magenta"]"The purpose of Russ's posts therefore are to attract customers, not debate with non-customers"[/color]

Laura then pointed out to you that this is a lie and demonstrated to your just how far from the truth it is. Post 249305

You then apologized but attempted to correct her stating that what you stated was a "falsehood" and not a "lie". However, you then did something very interesting. You deleted your original statement.

The saga continues, but I want to use this opportunity to do something that only true friends usually have the guts to do. I'm going to show you yourself.


The Double-Edged Sword

When people conduct processes (do things), they normally do them in a way that is related to the way they do other things. For example, someone who is impatient with children would often turn out to be impatient while driving.

In your case, you jumped to a conclusion (about me) and then, after realizing that you were being called on it by Laura, you retracted. You then went on to make this interesting statement:

[color:"magenta"]"I don't need others to hold me to the standards I expect."[/color]

This is a clear indication that you don't know yourself.

How?

Because you didn't apologize until after Laura had called you on your lie/falsehood. Therefore, it's logical to assume that you would have allowed the fallacy (your statement about me) to remain unless you were called on it, so skillfully, as Laura had.

Once again, you're logic is simply not existent here in that you in fact do need to be held to standards "you expect", because without that accountability, you lie (tell falsehoods) and, could be be so honest to say—"jump to conclusions quickly"—are assumptive?

Well, it's not surprising that you do exactly the same thing when you choose to believe in evolution. You are blindly believing what you are being told by someone else and assuming it is true (assumptive). This is a poor method of developing a faith, especially in something as evasive as evolution. You would do better to do more correlating and checking before blindly accepting what you are told.

So, to continue, what this tells me as one who knows people is this:

You have a distorted view about who you are, and this fact alone undermines my confidence in your ability to do research. Again, you are assumptive.

Remember, you would be willing to hurt others (my reputation) for the benefit of your own self-delusion while all the time believing that you would do no such thing. You clearly market yourself as a smart researcher. By analyzing your history on this forum, I would predict that probably the opposite is true. More likely, you're a parrot.

Now, I've known a lot of evolutionists in my life (most of my family are as well) and can tell you that this collection of traits that make them unable to know themselves accurately (thinking of themselves as more moral than their actions demonstrate) and making unfounded assumptions about anything from people to the way the world works...are amazingly consistent traits that I find associated with the evolutionary mindset.

Observing this for myself, I can see how clearly this set of traits lead people into believing things that are simply not true. People with this assumptive mindset (especially when mixed with a little pride) is just was is necessary to deceive a person into believing that something can happen even when all common logic declares the opposite. These people become, in fact, emotionally-based people, allowing vast assumptions to override logic and reason.

It is truly amazing how consistent this set of observations has been, but again, it should not surprise me. Denial, assumptiveness, and a propensity to believe anything that sounds credible and appeals to the pride are traits that are very often found together.


Facing The Truth

I have often told Linda that when anyone comes up against truth, they will end up being stripped naked (in the intellectual sense). They will be faced with the age-old dilemma/opportunity to face their flaws, selfishness and pride within themselves.

If they face this opportunity with humility and courage, they will be changed for the better. If they face this dilemma with pride and self-righteousness, they will become further entrenched in the limestone of their own design.

The choice is yours, but the truth is for everyone who has the strength to receive it.


Conspiracy

In post #248625, you make some interesting statements:

[color:"magenta"]"What's interesting about this is that I didn't call the Phelps or Koresh terrorists or an 'extremist militant terrorist christian group' -- you did. I said they were dangerous, deluded and fanatic people".[/color]

Once again, you are making grand assumptive statements about things you know nothing about.

And how do I know this?

The facts about the events at Waco concerning Koresh have been lied about and completely twisted until they no longer resemble anything close to truth. In fact, they are mostly backwards.

Here's an example.

I was involved in a political group that investigated things relating to law and current events at the time the Waco massacre occurred. This experience and research was one of the gradual turning points in my life concerning the way I viewed at the world.

I'll give you only one example of the type of disinformation that the public has been fed about what the U.S. Government did that day.

I personally watched CNN as they incessantly declared that this crazy guy Koresh was a child molester and that he believed that he was Jesus Christ. The way they made their point was by playing a video of Koresh with a Bible in his hand saying "I am God."

By the time they started playing this story on CNN, our organization already had in our possession teaching videos from Koresh's group. I had already watched them so when I saw the clip CNN kept playing over and over where Koresh was saying he was God, I recognized it immediately.

So, we went back and watched the video again to establish what Koresh's context was in making this statement. To our shock, Koresh was actually saying (as closely as I remember it), "If I could move mountains; If I could do miracles; If I could foretell the future, than I am God".

Yes, CNN had omitted the first part of the statement completely removing the context because Koresh was actually saying that he was NOT God, as demonstrated by that fact that he could not do these things. Yes, we caught CNN in a direct lie.

Through the ensuing months and years as my work progressed, we discovered instances over and over where mainstream media completely lied about events, sometimes grossly exaggerating, other times telling outright lies. Sometimes making things up. Other times leaving things out. Whatever they did, it always served the anti-Christian, anti-Constitution, anti-freedom, anti-life agenda, never serving any beneficial purpose for the opposite cause, and certainly not for the truth.

I also saw (and continue to see) lie after lie about the Bible and Christ on television, especially on channels owned by the Discovery network (Discovery Channel, etc.). The Bible and Christ are incessantly slandered over and over again.

Finally, I've been in the alternative health movement collecting research related to herbs and vitamins for over 10 years now and the same thing has been happening in the medical field all along. Lie after lie, misrepresentation after misrepresentation, even known fraudulent studies have been publicized on national news without any mention of the known fraud involved. It's so astounding and so beyond the paradigm of most people belief system that they just continue with their lives going into some kind of denial about the evil that is occurring all around them.

[color:"brown"]Example: A Couple years ago a study was conducted that compared 2 very popular mainstream pharmaceutical antidepressants and St. John's Wort. The news spouted the outcome of the study for days. It was on all major news outlets, all media types and in many other countries. They announced that St. John's Wort, the popular natural anti-depressant has no effectiveness against depression. None.[/color]

[color:"brown"]Well, when we finally read the study, the truth was that NONE of the three items tested showed any effectiveness whatsoever against depression, but the news and all of the media outlets conveniently omitted this information.[/color]

[color:"brown"]So, either all items have no effectiveness or the study is fatally flawed. Now, we have many other studies on St. Jone's Wort and they are all very positive about it's effectiveness. This is another in a long line of disinformation events I've witnessed.[/color]

Now, people live in a country that has some semblance of freedom that actually originated nearly entirely from Biblical law and principles while the so-called leaders whip people into a frenzy about giving up their rights for the sake of security and freedom all the while creating the very disasters that seem to justify sacrificing freedom while slandering the Bible—the very source of freedom. What an irony.

Again, too much for most people to handle. It was for me in the beginning, but I'm different in one way from most people. I don't stop. I continued with my research even though it seemed unbelievable to me emotionally. Looking back on all my work, I would not trade my place with anyone. I'm so glad to know what I know, even if I'm among only a few that do.

My world view actually works.


Mirror

I tell you all these things because I plainly recognize that you are a "sucker". You defend this all stuff you barely understand and become the shoulder-parrot for the very ones who use your own ignorance to enslave you.

Oh, I know, knowing you, you may make light of this and belittle my work and research, but the ultimate joke will be on you, when the curtain finally falls and the wizard is revealed, you will be found nipping at his heals for a morsel of food.

You know nothing about Bible prophecy, numerology, history, archeology. Yes, those you serve would rather you don't know about these things. And again, the great irony is that you will end up serving those (actually already are) who you believe empower you while opposing those who brought you the truth that could have kept you free.

So, as you devise a response and work to come up with the next piece of junk science or personal imagination to waste my time and the time of those reading along seeking truth, just remember that in my eyes, you are as lost, confused, deluded, and suckered as a person can possibly be. You are a rank amateur jumping from website to website believing you actually know something.

Not to be disrespectful in any way. I only tell the truth so that at some time in the future, when you are afraid enough, humble enough, and are willing to begin listening to the logic that has been annoying you all along, you just may remember this conversation and may—perhaps—try looking on the other side of the curtain before assuming you're being told the truth.


Enron is Hiring



[color:"brown"]"The creation account in Genesis and the theory of evolution could not be reconciled. One must be right and the other wrong. The story of the fossils agreed with the account of Genesis. In the oldest rocks we did not find a series of fossils covering the gradual changes from the most primitive creatures to developed forms, but rather in the oldest rocks developed species suddenly appeared. Between every species there was a complete absence of intermediate fossils."[/color]

—D.B. Gower, "Scientist Rejects Evolution," Kentish Times,
England, December 11, 1975, p. 4 [biochemist].



[color:"brown"]"We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet.' "[/color]

—Errol White, Proceedings of the Linnean Society, London, 177:8 (1966).