i read something like this in thoreau: The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines… office-holders — serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few — as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men — serve the state with their conscience also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it… All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable… What makes this duty the more urgent is that fact that the country so overrun is not our own… Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary… separating the diabolical… from the divine… Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What i have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn… at once effectually withdraw… support, both in person and property, from the government… if one HONEST man… were actually to withdraw from this co-partnership and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”
“Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison… they who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time in accumulating property… But the rich man… is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue… The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor…There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly… just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor… to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person or property but what I concede to it… progress toward a true respect for the individual… to regard the individual as the basis of the empire.”
we are coming to another revolution, perhaps this time, it will be Complete. “That government is best which governs not at all… and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have… most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient… only a mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it… a government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice.” this of course refers to human governments. ABa’s Rule Is Complete, Irrefutable, Established Law Of LIFE pervades every thing. when peoples are governed inwardly by Conscience, Rightfulness, Beneficence, we may reach what thoreau is talking about. “A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men… Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.”
i was sitting across from patient day before doing head to toe exam for monthly monitoring. he appears to be coherent but something was off. as much as he seemed adamant about his right to refuse health, he also seemed addicted to junk foods stashed away in his room. when issue of healthful living is addressed, he raises his hand in defiance and wave refusal to any counsel. in such cases, i believe he is really enslaved, addiction driving his behavior because he seemed not to be able to live without such harmful substances. what he really needs is a break from such dependence. i do not know that someone who is suffering addiction, rather enslavement, is capable of pulling themselves out of habituation. that is why many addicts go to rehab to rid the dependence. his body desperately wants to heal but his addiction will not allow slave freedom from devotion that is ruining his health. i feel if he, his family, caretakers watched the movie fed up, also hungry for change, perhaps they may choose differently, armed with knowledge about enslaving addictions to adulterated junk foods.
chemical companies apparently are doing the same thing with junk foods as they did with cigarettes, claiming harmful addictive substances in their fake foods are not harmful when we have rampant sickness caused by eating of such adulterated products not fit for human consumption, toxic to our systems, detrimental to healthfulness. most people do not know what they are doing when they consume such things, end up fat, sick, nearly dead, feel powerless against their addiction. this is normal, we have been deceived completely. only now that we witness destructive harm in our children fed on this diet of junk foods do we realize consequence of inferior choice away from natural, disconnected from LIFE. it is still perhaps not too late to make a different choice, to choose LIFE instead of death. when someone chooses death, it is abnormal, irrational, as if driven to decision thinking that death is LIFE when it is not.
perhaps my patient may still have a chance for Revival. i see his true spirit desire release from bondage of dependence but he is possessed by his habit, unable to speak Truth. he needs a little help, perhaps a lot of help, to reverse effects, some of which are permanent, causing damage to his person, but nonetheless, reversal may be possible. addicts cannot remain with the very substances of their dependence, they must be separated from them so that there is Room Made for Recovery. they have lost all control, inhibitions, reason, to even have a choice against harm to themselves. that is why most the time, it is family and friends who have to step in to help them because they can no longer separate themselves from harmful things they are addicted to. alcohol, drugs we understand, food is a whole other issue, seen as nourishment but in reality, adulterated foods today are essentially chemical drugs laced with refined ingredients that take away will power against them, enslaving entire nations to consume them at will for harm. this is how producers of such substances profit, by enslavement.
i see a ray of HOPE, when someone is given opportunity to Rest from such substances, consuming instead nourishing natural whole real foods, no longer craving this junk. i witness jacob in a little over a week transformed, calmer, off his antidepressant, vibrant, smiling, happy, energetic, learning to cook, clean, absorbing massive amounts of information on healthful living, surrounded in support of nature. city living is hard on the person, someone like jacob is subject to so many disadvantages, stress, abnormal things disconnected from nature. until one has a chance to come away and Rest in ABa’s Restoration, it is hard to know the difference between Truth, Reality or falsehood because the latter is pandered as truth when it is a lie of deception. we each have a choice, ABa Effecting Goodwill Of LIFE for our Renewal, Given tools, Made Room for in Freedom Of Decision, Choice In Freewill. my patient may seem to act like he is free to choose to eat all the junk food he wants but he is not free at all to leave it, because of his addiction to it. jacob had opportunity to leave his environ to come here to live with us for 12 days, in this time is Restoration to Healthfulness.
perhaps my patient will still have time, he still has LIFE yet, when he is dead, there will be no more time to choose. maybe that is why opposer of LIFE desires death for all, it ends our Free Choice, also proclivity for enslavement, because it keeps a person from having Freedom Of Decision. i feel grateful for ABa’s Deliverance, Liberation Of Joyfulness, Complete Freedom In Salvation Of LIFE GIVER. we are created to be Free, Open, Alive, Breathing, Spirited. opposing principle hates Freedom and seeks destruction of LIFE. we have a choice, choose LIFE, Best, Finest.
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