Beliefs Often Are Regurgitated Rhetoric

For more background information on this post, please read the previous post, Beliefs Are More Than We've Been Taught posted on 6/02/11

Let’s go a little further with our, what if scenarios. What if someone came along and said for one million dollars, I will teach you all the secrets of the universe. When you know this, you will be the most powerful person in the world and not lack anything you so desire. Would you jump at this? Of course, I’m sure many would if they could find the million dollars.

All of these things sound far-fetched or hopefully they do, but they are actually real. Sure some may title it as dooms-dayers, Doomsayers or unlimited abundance but if you break these things down, you really need to ask yourself if they pass the sniff test. I’m sure you could think of many examples in your day as well as I have only touched on very few.

The thing that saddens me though is how we as a human species accept that which others tell us to be the truth. We spout off regurgitated rhetoric as proof that we know what we are saying. We have our cue cards and our points of order already made up. We have our ears closed and we are proud of these things because it shows others that we truly have something they don’t have.

Yet, in the end, who are we fooling? We are not only fooling ourselves but we are fooling many that listen to us and follow us either giving millions of dollars in donations or $999 to buy into a program that promises to have all the answers. At the end of the day, is any one better off than anyone else for buying into these programs?

Sure, it makes us feel better to believe our own belief system and promote it, but one of these days, I think we will be forced to answer for what we do unto others in our life.


Further Reading:
1) Beliefs Are More Than We've Been Taught
2) What Do You Believe?


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Beliefs Are More Than We’ve Been Taught

What we allow ourselves to believe defines us but it only defines us until we learn to discover the parts of our self that we remain obliviously hidden from in our mind.

We all want to make it appear that we are in control and we are defined by the test of time, when in reality we shudder in fear, separated from our own awareness and connection between our mind and body.

We go on living each day in this manner because it is what we currently see, not what we truly know or have experienced.

In the past few weeks, I’ve seen examples of just how guided we are by our beliefs than by the evolution of our awareness. Some people follow blindly all that they are told because as little children, they were taught that way. Whether it is a church, politics, or those who seem to have the answers, they follow as if it is the correct thing to do. They follow because it is in their mind, a display of having life under control.

Imagine someone telling you that tomorrow at a noon; your life is going to come to an end. How would you react to that? Imagine someone telling you that if you don’t accept a series of rules, concepts and beliefs, that you would miss out on the greatest prize in the entire world? How would you react?


Come back tomorrow for more on the discussion of beliefs. (Posted 6/3/11)


Further Reading:
1) Beliefs Often Are Regurgitated Rhetoric
2) What Do You Believe?


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End Of The Oprah Era

It is hard to believe that 25 years have passed with the Oprah Show. I still remember back to that day last fall where I was at the 200 Male Survivor show in the audience. It is a highlight of life and a memory that I will never forget.

In fact, in Oprah's finale on May 25, 2011, she once again highlighted the 200 Men show as one of her most significant moments. It was not hard to locate myself just a few feet behind her. It brought back some wonderful memories of tears. So, here's my farewell message to Oprah or at least until we see her again.

I watched the final show today and you almost made me do the ugly cry. I was one of those 200 men and that event has really turned life upside down for me. I’m not complaining because I know I’m growing through some very difficult moments in life and last October when we taped the show, it was the start of an emotional upheaval for me. I’ll take it... I know it is helping me find my purpose and calling. I always thought life had been a challenge for me up until this point with all I had been through from the abuse to the paralysis and many other things, but since this show it seems like life has thrown things at me one right after another with great speed.

Yet, I’m comforted by many of the words you spoke today. They have given me more resolve to keep going in the midst of difficult and trying times. In the end, I know I will get where I need to be. Right now, I cannot fully see it because my world is filled with moments of confusion and frustration. But I know I’ll get there – after all when I was paralyzed, I knew I would walk again. I had to believe that because it is the only thing that got me up out of that hospital bed!

I stand in awe of the teaching and inspiration you have given to so many throughout the 25 years but I am hopeful of how that will translate exponentially to so many others and impact the world in ways that no one can even begin to imagine. May the legacy not be of what people learned from you but how they went out and gave that to the world (and I’m talking to myself as well).

Thank you Oprah for just being you and sharing your life with your platform.


Further Reading:
1) Oprah - Male Survivors Of Child Sexual Abuse (10/28/10)
2) Oprah, Tyler Perry, 200 Male Survivors Stand Together (11/5/10)
3) Oprah, 200 Men - Part 2 (11/11/10)
4) Conversion (Somatoform) Disorder (11/9/11)
5) Daytona Beach News Journal Interview (11/5/10)



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