Guilt triggers all the emotions
Because of our conflict between what we know and our habitual patterning, we become both defensive and aggressive. Guilt promotes pride, anger, fear, jealousy, ignorance…and if we are not aware of this, we are stuffed!
To accuse others of being sinners is a cheap magician’s trick. The lost sheep have to seek redemption and salvation…funny, that!
All we have done is to forget our true nature, and need to recognise it.
So why use the word “sinner”?
Sinner: wrongdoer, evil-doer, transgressor, offender, criminal; archaic miscreant, trespasser, reprobate.
It begs the question, whose side are they (the accusers) on?
And how long has this been going on?
Why do we queue up to be made to feel guilty? Because, as long as we then admit our sin and are thus cleansed, we can go about our daily business..until next time, when we admit our sin and are cleansed and can thus go about our daily business…
This way, we don’t have to resolve anything for ourselves. It is similar to abusive relationships, where we feel safe, because of a belief that they care about us.
Know thyself = know it yourself.
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Collective Scapegoatism…….get them young and they will not know what happened or how it was done to them……
Hello Rob,
Exactly! It creates traumas that affects us later on in life.
Tony
Seems I’ve spent past 35 yrs working on undoing the intentionally caused damage done to me in the first 15. Although I know I too carry a small part of the responsibility for that damage…I always did what I had to do to survive each day, and every uncomfortable/ungodly situation that sadly found myself involved with by bad decisions resulting from limited info/knowledge , but mostly just a victim of circumstances that were not in my control or best interests . ” the creation and indoctrination of the family scapegoat ” just exactly like how the Jesuit controlled churches cause collective scapegoatism !
Now that pandora’s box is open…lets all take a good long look at it’s contents and inspect them all and throw out the useless evil/negative contents !