Imagine living in a completely transparent world of truth - and only truth - all of the time.
100% honesty from 100% of the people 100% of the time.
That is true benevolence and caring for and love of all of your fellow humans.
It is truly putting yourself on equal footing with your fellow humans, seeing everyone as equally deserving of truth and love and light.
Is there anything more powerful than truth and love?
Isn't that what God is? 100% truth - 100% love - 100% of the time?
Maybe the feeling of truth and love is God within you - that you are feeling God - and there is absolutely nothing more powerful.
No one likes being misled or lied to. Its a form of disrespect. The person being misled/lied to feels bad. Being lied to makes you feel terrible. Feels like you got s**t on.
Honesty should be the only way. If someone says something to you it should be verifiable, provable, and/or blatantly obvious. There should be no doubt in the recipients mind that what was said to them was true, and/or can be verified as true.
Lying to someone is taking advantage of them, hoping that they fall for the lie, hoping that they are gullible and cannot see the deception. In that sense, lying is a form of superiority, where the liar thinks the target is not as smart and will not see the lie. In fact, this is what the liar presupposes and is counting on to execute the lie. Lying is condescension, arrogance, malevolence - just plain wrong in all circumstances.
Now in a world of 100% honesty, how long would the bad guys survive? If the bad guys with their bad intentions told the truth 100% of the time, how long would it take for the good guys to do something to stop the harmful, malevolent actions and rhetoric?
Do No Harm to me includes Tell No Lies - those are inseparable in my book.
Does any benevolent human disagree with this concept of 100% honesty 100% of the time?
Does any malevolent human disagree?
Now is anyone perfect? Heck no.
Has everyone one lied at some point in their life? Most probably.
Confession:
Am I flawed? Oh, no doubt!
Have I lied? Heck yes.
Was it justified or right? Heck no.
Did I feel bad for lying? 99% of the time.
Did my lies do great harm? No - never.
A little harm, like hurt someone's feelings? Yes.
Do I wish I could start over and take them all back, even the lies I thought were "justified"? Definitely.
Do I feel bad for all of my past lies? Very.
Am I working everyday to make myself a better, more benevolent, caring person? Absolutely.
Have I achieved my goal yet of 100% honesty/benevolence 100% of the time? No, but I'm getting very close and won't stop working on it until I am.
Am I trying to help others help themselves to be better people in this context? Absolutely.
Will Jesus forgive me? Absolutely.
Will Jesus forgive everyone of us that has lied and sinned? No doubt.
Will we all work to be better, honest people, and help others to help themselves - 100% of the time? I think so.
That's why we are here.
That's why I love this place and why I'm drawn here constantly ever since discovering DC.
I love everyone here.
Now is there anyone here that I don't love? Only the Cabal minions or wanna-be minions that we now quickly root out.
I feel a sense of deep sister and brotherhood to right the wrongs of the past, to make ourselves better people, to make others make themselves better people, and to ultimately shape this world into The Way It Should Be.
End goal: 100% honesty and benevolence - from 100% of people - 100% of time. That's true love.
Nothing less.
Can it be achieved? Sure - why not? We make it the way we want it.
Would you really desire to live any other way? Not me.
Keep the faith!
God Bless
Matt T