Time is on my side
"There is always something happening. People don't always see it or understand it.... or accept it."
Above is a quote from the movie Fallen with Denzel Washington. Denzel's character is a police officer and he has been on a case of a killer who taunted him with clues. He gets the guy and finds out that this guy really isn't a guy but a demon name Azazel who possesses people and commits murders. Anyway that quote has me thinking today.
How much truth is in that statement is amazing. I'm not just talking on a metaphysical level either. We have contact with people everyday that we may not even notice. I think sometimes it's that we don't want to see. There are things that people tell us that we don't want to hear. Maybe not hear so much as accept. These things that we chose not to see, understand or accept can be simple to absolutely shattering to us. That is why we don't. We get in a comfortable place and some people refuse to move from it. Some people refuse to see because they fear where it may lead them. It could lead them away from that familar territory that keeps them safe. It could make them a mark for people who fear change. It could change their whole world.
If we accept that there are other dimensions beside our own you are branded crazy. Well except in some circle of people. What if someone came up to you and said, last night while I was out enjoying the night sky I saw a space ship. Not only that but they came down and made contact with me. How would you react? It's a hard call to say how you would respond. If someone said they saw a ghost you'd probably be able to accept that. What if someone said that God/dess had spoken directly to them, just as if someone had been standing in front of them. Would you think they were nuts?
I've come to realize that though I've felt like I was pretty open to many things I still held/hold onto some old programming. Yep, there is still programming left in my brain that my parents put there. I guess I was lucky in the fact that my parents believed in UFO's, spirits and such but still they had put limits on it for me. The interesting thing is I've believed that there was more out there than my parents spoke of. You know seeing some of the sci fi movies and stuff, there were things that made me go you know I think there is something to this. You know I had a little harder time accepting that there were demon possessions than I had with believing that demon were around? I think it was a part of me that early on associated possession with Christianity and I never believed in Christianity. I remember as a child the few times that I went to church thinking the preacher had it wrong. I would hear an inner voice telling me this and then I'd just go to sleep to avoid hearing anything else he said. Keep in mind I'm not saying that Christianity is wrong but it is not right for me. I feel like there is probably some really cool stuff in the Bible but I'm not sure I want to emerse myself that deep into it. I think the problem comes in where a person tried to put into words something they really couldn't understand. Then along the way people changed things because it was in their best interest. It all has to do with what we put into it. Our thoughts, our belief and our acceptance.
Above is a quote from the movie Fallen with Denzel Washington. Denzel's character is a police officer and he has been on a case of a killer who taunted him with clues. He gets the guy and finds out that this guy really isn't a guy but a demon name Azazel who possesses people and commits murders. Anyway that quote has me thinking today.
How much truth is in that statement is amazing. I'm not just talking on a metaphysical level either. We have contact with people everyday that we may not even notice. I think sometimes it's that we don't want to see. There are things that people tell us that we don't want to hear. Maybe not hear so much as accept. These things that we chose not to see, understand or accept can be simple to absolutely shattering to us. That is why we don't. We get in a comfortable place and some people refuse to move from it. Some people refuse to see because they fear where it may lead them. It could lead them away from that familar territory that keeps them safe. It could make them a mark for people who fear change. It could change their whole world.
If we accept that there are other dimensions beside our own you are branded crazy. Well except in some circle of people. What if someone came up to you and said, last night while I was out enjoying the night sky I saw a space ship. Not only that but they came down and made contact with me. How would you react? It's a hard call to say how you would respond. If someone said they saw a ghost you'd probably be able to accept that. What if someone said that God/dess had spoken directly to them, just as if someone had been standing in front of them. Would you think they were nuts?
I've come to realize that though I've felt like I was pretty open to many things I still held/hold onto some old programming. Yep, there is still programming left in my brain that my parents put there. I guess I was lucky in the fact that my parents believed in UFO's, spirits and such but still they had put limits on it for me. The interesting thing is I've believed that there was more out there than my parents spoke of. You know seeing some of the sci fi movies and stuff, there were things that made me go you know I think there is something to this. You know I had a little harder time accepting that there were demon possessions than I had with believing that demon were around? I think it was a part of me that early on associated possession with Christianity and I never believed in Christianity. I remember as a child the few times that I went to church thinking the preacher had it wrong. I would hear an inner voice telling me this and then I'd just go to sleep to avoid hearing anything else he said. Keep in mind I'm not saying that Christianity is wrong but it is not right for me. I feel like there is probably some really cool stuff in the Bible but I'm not sure I want to emerse myself that deep into it. I think the problem comes in where a person tried to put into words something they really couldn't understand. Then along the way people changed things because it was in their best interest. It all has to do with what we put into it. Our thoughts, our belief and our acceptance.
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