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"It's really easy to say take " Personal Responsibility" when you offer no solutions in return."
"About Adam and Eve,if satan didn't exist then Eve wouldn't eat the fruit."
"Something makes us like that."
"Mathew 19:14 but Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."
"There is a their and them."
"there is a difference between loving someone and hurting them"
The OP is not a proponent of religion. Religion was only referenced for allegorical example, because many of us are familiar with Biblical accounts.
We can not say that for certain. This existence is a jumble of infinity waiting to manifest. Everything is a relative and subjective expression of infinite possibility. So if not for Satan, perhaps Eve may have eaten the forbidden fruit out of boredom or even spite. The point to discuss the Biblical 'Fall of Man' was to expound on an alternative understanding. That, being, the "Fall" was marked by both Adam and Eve choosing to look externally to place blame upon others. Traditionally, most mark the "Fall" as disobedience to God.
I agree. This "something" is directly linked to mankind forgetting that we are all one family, and that all of existence is One. Getting lost in the illusion of separation and allowing Ego to spiral towards further separation, compartmentalization, and isolation. "I am THIS, you are THAT." Separate, selfish, ego.
That is right! Children see the world with a fresh vitality. They haven't been corrupted with the constant mental processes of analyzing, judging, prejudging, expectations and preconceptions, prejudices, ideologies, and all the likes of the psyche that chops up reality into little pieces.
"Also,we're not "all one family". I have nothing in common with people like you."
Is this hypocritical?
War, tyranny, oppression, starvation, poverty, and environmental devastation result from the ideology you are expressing; i.e., Separation and hostility.
Maybe you did not even read the whole OP. I know the scenarios might seem long, but they shed much light on this discussion.
My dear brother or sister, you are to blame.
Debate and rebutt
reply to post by Kgnow When we understand the tricks of "others",... when we understand the psyche, the ego, and the self... when we understand the interconnectedness of this reality,... OH BOY DO WE HAVE GREAT RESPONSIBILITY! But pretty much you're saying that the people should be blamed equally as TPTB while in the other hand you also say that they're not to be blamed at all. You're even contradicting your own self. Why don't you clear that up first. The people's responsibility right now is to try and resist the manipulation coming from the people you're defending and that's quite hard. Are you going to fight? Rise up and rebel? Peace can only come through peace. More fighting will birth future fighting. I've already started it. I'm keeping my mind under my own control. Example: You're talking about peace based on false ideas such as "It's the people's fault,not the manipulators' " and "We're equally responsible for what's happening." Those are lies so you're talking about a "peace" based on lies. That's not peace,that's a Trojan horse right there. It's my fault. It's your fault. It's all of our fault. Speak for yourself. People make many bad choices because of the constant manipulation from the people you present as blameless. Besides being positively and tirelessly active and proactive towards love, peace, freedom, and abundance,... I see no other way. How about critical thinking? You "forgot" about that,didn't ya?
"Can you at least clear up if you think the world leaders are to be blamed or not?"
Illumined, Goyim
Oceanborn, geneticists have discovered that all humans are descended from a Mitochondrial-Eve and a Y-Chromosomal Adam. I am your brother, and 'TPTB' are a part of our human collective family. I'm telling you the truth, separation ideologies only cause further suffering.
"So... you are saying that the JEWS were responsible for the Holocaust, right?"
"That Rape Victims are to blame for being Raped?"
"That people who are murdered are at fault for being in the path of the bullets?"