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The god of this present, evil world is the false god of “Self”; that encourages, even provokes, to follow after the desires of the body, the covetousness of the eyes, and the pride of life associated with the love of money and accumulation of material possessions, and vain titles. It lives unto… and for… it-Self, loves to have its fragile ego stroked, and is ever-seeking after the praise of men for some vain-glorious performance or epic obedience… never the praise of God. See! They say, “Be the best version of ‘Yourself’,” and, “be the best version of ‘You’,” and, “‘You’… do ‘You’!”; because they love to play “dress up,” attempting to hide behind that exalted fig-leaf apron of theirs, which they have worked so hard to construct, over time, ever since they were little children… for fear of failure (and embarrassment) in the eyes of others! (*And they are still trapped, little children; yet now imprisoned, encased in much older, wrinklier meat-sacks.) Enter… the public school systems and Sunday morning social-clubs, called, “church”; where the true, and most epic, notorious, infamous brainwashing has been taking place, seemingly forever! Both are where, “It’s us, against them!” is ingloriously reinforced through the most stringent behavior modification, and… for a “grade”!! Yet, “the best version of ‘You’”… was a dead “you,” in the physically broken and torn, sacrificial and burnt body of The Lamb on His Cross; and yet, now, alive unto God through His Resurrection! But where is there any evidence of this Union, this Communion, this Peace?? Best version of “You”?? Are we suffering from spiritual schizophrenia; and if so, which “iteration of us,” which false identity that we are harboring, guarding, protecting… is presently willing to present itself, come forth, step forward, and to the forefront from among our Legion??
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