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Fertilizer

And he spake this parable; “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none.
And he said unto the vinedresser, ‘Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it also cumber the ground?’
And he answering saith unto him, ‘Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit thenceforth, well; but if not, thou shalt cut it down'” (Luke 13:6-9).

Agriculture provided plenty of fodder for Jesus when it came to His parables.  Jesus perceived that there were many parallels between how plants develop and grow and how His Kingdom would develop and grow, and people readily understood matters of agriculture.  Here we have one such parable– one that you may not hear about as often as the others.

We expect fruit trees to produce fruit.  Yet we ought not expect excellent fruit to come immediately after such a tree is planted; according to the Law, the Israelites were to consider the fruit of a tree during its first three years as “uncircumcised,” the fourth year devoted to the LORD, and afterward the fruit could be eaten (Leviticus 19:23-25).

The master, therefore, comes to see the fig tree after its three years, and it has not produced any fruit.  Without fruit, the tree has no value, and ought to be cut down in his eyes.

Yet notice what the vinedresser tells him.  He confesses that the tree has not been productive, yet before any permanent decision is made, he makes a request to have one more year to “dung” it– provide fertilizer– and then see if the plant will produce its fruit.  If so, well and good.  If not, it can be cut down.

Parables generally have application to Christ’s Kingdom, and this one is no exception.  There is much to be gained here!

When people come to belief in Christ, it takes time for the proper fruit to be manifest (Galatians 5:22-24, Hebrews 5:14).  It takes time to grow in the faith.  Therefore, we should not expect mature “fruit” from immature “trees.”

Yet fruit is still expected.  What happens when there is no “fruit”– no indication that there is any growth in a young believer?  Should they be immediately cast out?

Absolutely not– we must apply the “spiritual dung,” that is, proper encouragement (Hebrews 10:24-25).  Sometimes growth does not take place because the proper nutrients are not present, and when nutrients are provided, the growth will come.

This is why it is so important for believers to encourage one another, building up the Body (1 Corinthians 12:12-28).  Yet it is not limited to believers.  Do we know people who are struggling to get through life, and who do not seem to be getting very far?  Consider how to encourage them.  Are there people in despair?  Seek to encourage them.

Encouragement is the fertilizer of life.  Use it bountifully among others, and see how much fruit can be borne!

Ethan R. Longhenry

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I'm thinking about spiritual manure, a term I created to describe spiritual nourishment or fertilizer or manna 

 

 

 

Spiritual Manna 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Even if you didn't succeed physically, you can succeed spiritually. 

Manna is different from mana potion. 

 

Love is the essence of all things.. Being successful physically doesn't matter. 

 

 

If you are successful in the world, in 

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Spiritual lessons that I learned today 

If you are successful in the world, it's good only if you are contributing to the physical beauty, if you are saving a life, if you are doing purposeful work, if you are contributing to survival, then yes you are Enriching the physical realm by your presence. 

But if you are contributing to the spiritual realm, you are serving a much higher purpose. 

You can enrich both the physical as well as the spiritual realms.. 

 

But your contribution to the spiritual is more important and valued. 

In a way spiritual beauty is valued over physical beauty. 

 

 

 

 

Spiritual lessons that I learned today 

The kingdom of heaven and the garden of reeds. The High Mountains all mean the same thing. They mean spiritual realm metaphorically. 

 

 

 

 

I will say the kingdom of Heaven is like a garden of fruits. Or garden of Apples. This is the higher realm, the higher plane or the higher kingdom. 

And the earth or physical realm is the lower kingdom or the lower plane. 

I will call the lower realm the garden of snakes. 

 

 

Garden of Fruits Vs Garden of Snakes. 

 

 

Spiritual lessons that I learned today 

The Patumba Cove is also similar to the idea of the kingdom of heaven, the garden of reeds or the garden of fruits 

 

 

 

 

 

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Spiritual lessons that I learned today

This is a deprived world. 

 

 

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Ok some fantasy part now 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Spiritual potion 

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I think its fucking time to go on a journey...

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1 hour ago, StudentOfLeove said:

I think its fucking time to go on a journey...

 

 

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Spiritual lessons that I learned today

 

The idea of 4 spirits 

The clean spirit 

The unclean spirit 

The faithful spirit 

The faithless spirit 

 

The clean spirit is the one without dissonance.. It's pure and clean. So it attracts Purity towards it. It's not immoral. It will find joy in little things. 

It is happy because it is without corruption. 

The unclean spirit is always in a state of restlessness because it's mind is filled with dissonance and hate and selfish goals. 

What you sow is what you reap.

 

If you sow hate in your heart, you can't get love. 

The faithful spirit has faith in God and so will find solutions to problems eventually

The unfaithful spirit will drown in despair  and be eventually destroyed. 

 

For a clean spirit we need a clean conscience. For a faithful spirit we need faith in God. 

The greatest evils in the world 

Money 

Capitalism 

Patriarchy 

Religion 

Competition 

Forced marriages 

Child abuse 

Drugs 

Slavery

Racism 

Police Brutality

Gun Violence 

Dangerous mindsets 

 

 

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Spiritual lessons that I learned today

I believe in karma. 

I believe in the justice of God. 

If God is true he will bring justice to those who call for him, to those who are without sin and still perished, to those who suffered innocently. To those whose bidding needs to be done. To those who have no fault. And to those who were wronged. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spiritual lessons that I learned today

This is a deprived world. So even if you lived a honest life and worked hard and did your best, you will never be rewarded. And you will never live in love, joy, abundance or richness (not fake richness or wealth but real abundance of resources), you will always be kept deprived physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. 

 

 

 

Spiritual lessons that I learned today 

 

The solution to problems of humanity is spirituality only. 

If everyone followed proper ethics and did what they were supposed to, then we won't have as much evil in this world and the world can be a happy place. 

 

 

https://www.jonbenetstruecasehistory.net/contents.html

 

 

 

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Spiritual lessons that I learned today 

 

His judgment cometh for all that suffer wrong 

 

 

His judgment cometh and that right soon

 

 

Ecclesiasticus 21:5 in the Catholic Apocrypha, "A prayer out of a poor man's mouth reacheth to the ears of God, and his judgment cometh speedily."

 

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Spiritual lessons that I learned today 

Part of fantasy writing 

Spiritual food or manure 

Spiritual potion 

Spiritual tea

Spiritual water 

Healers pack 

 

 

 

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My brain works like that. Like a lot of stuff that I write makes no sense when I read it.. 

But it's cryptic writing. 

The thing is I just write whatever comes in my head in the moment. 

Maybe it doesn't make sense right now but it will sense in the future when everything is put together and all the dots are connected. 

 

I have a psychic brain. So I get ideas as set of phrases and perceptions.. I never have like a structured thought 

 

Everything in my mind is chaotic and haphazard and for anything to make sense, I have to slowly navigate through my mental chaos and come to a point where I can put all the pieces together. 

My mind never works in a straightforward way. It's always scattered, clues here and there. 

I am a messy person 

 

 

 

Indeed. 

My journals are always chaotic and weird. 

 

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Spiritual lessons that I learned today 

That we should live in abundance 

Mentally

Physically 

Sexually 

Love-wise 

Resource - wise 

Socially 

Emotionally 

Spiritually 

 

That's where we derive our power from. 

The way this guy speaks is really funny 

 

 

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Part 1

 

 

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Informatively and perceptively

Informative wisdom and perceptive wisdom

 

I think what we learn in school and college through examination, observation and thinking and using mental faculties, I will call it informative wisdom or informative learning. 

People with such skills know the average truth. 

But some things people just know without textbook learning. Without observation. Without education. Also education enhances that, but sometimes can even impair that. 

I will call this learning through perception and psychic process. They know the greater truth. 

I will call this perceptive learning or perceptive wisdom. 

 

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What is karma? 

 

According to me karma is a burden of sins 

 

And burning the karma means reducing this burden. 

Compensating for it. 

 

Now a sin can be anything

It can be a crime 

I think even if the person has not explicitly suffered, it is still a sin, for example greed, let's say I cheat someone with my greed, now that person is very rich and so it doesn't matter if they lost a little bit of money because of me scamming them, but in my mind I have still committed a sin. In this case that person hasn't suffered much. Yet I think I have still committed a sin. 

What leads to direct suffering? 

Crime..... 

Crime is a form of evil. 

Now evil leads to direct suffering. 

But sin might not lead to direct suffering, although it can cause indirect suffering in the long run. 

An example can be a cult. 

Now let's say, in that cult, you are used as a pawn to make money. Although you are not directly suffering, but you are not able to experience real joy or real living because of the constant pressure to make money. I will call this a sin. 

Sin, according to me means anything that is toxic, bad, harmful, wrong whether it is evil or not. 

For example capitalism. It doesn't look evil. Because it's a white collar evil. 

Like Charlie Chaplin said in the Great dictator, that there is a greater evil in the world than murder, rape and serial killers. 

Capitalism is indirectly taking many lives. 

Generations and generations of lives indirectly destroyed. 

This is a sin 

It's not visible like evil. 

Greed is a sin 

Jealousy is a sin 

Jealousy causes indirect harm to people. 

It's a sin 

This is bad karma. This is karma. 

 

 

In essence anything can be a sin 

 

Anything that deviates you from the real path or the true path is a sin 

In essence we are all living in sin. Because we are all diverted from the path. We are all walking on paths created by materialism 

 

What happens to places where there is a concentration of sin? 

Those places turn into hell holes, misery pits, death chambers, suffering boards. 

Centuries of sin turn them into places of chaos. And karma keeps building up. 

Freedom is only when the burning of this past karma happens. 

You bring God's light in that place. 

You bring God's path in that place 

 

You bring God's food in that place 

You bring God's love and joy in that place. 

You bring God's wisdom and knowledge in that place. 

You bring God's laws in that place 

You bring God's truth in that place. 

You bring God's divinity in that place 

 

You bring God's prayer  in that place. 

You bring God's abundance in that place. 

You bring God's protection in that place. 

You bring God's intelligence in that place. 

You bring God's blessings  in that place. 

You bring God's compassion in that place. 

You bring God's prosperousness in that place 

You bring God's faith  in that place 

You bring God's hope  in that place 

You bring God's wholesomeness in that place 

 

You bring God's forgiveness in that place 

You bring God's kindness and mercy   in that place 

You bring God's strength in that place 

You bring God's nourishing in that place 

You bring God's justice in that place. 

 

You bring God's fruitfulness in that place 

 

You bring God's healing in that place. 

You bring God's grace in that place. 

You bring God's embrace   in that place 

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On 8/31/2020 at 6:08 AM, Preety_India said:

 

 

I had started the thread Toxic Masculinity. I don't know if this is an after thought to that.. 

Just as there is Toxic Masculinity there is Toxic Feminity as well. 

I think there are many aspects here. 

From both sides, patriarchy as well as feminism. 

I will touch on them one by one. 

Toxic Femininity and Toxic Feminism are two different things in my opinion. 

Also toxic feminism is ≠ feminism as many men like to put it out there. 

This whole negative connotation attributed to feminism hurts feminism and feminist movements which are not traditionally "man-hating" movement as a lot of the men like to parade it out there.. These are genuine movements meant to liberate women from the shackles of evil patriarchy and orthodox oppressive patriarchy and to empower women so they can live their life in peace. 

Such movements are important at least in third world countries where women are not even considered humans. 

So ridiculing such progressive movements or painting them in a bad light hurts the cause of women. 

You do realize that it's mostly women who get oppressed in major parts of the world. 

Maybe you don't see as much oppression in the West but the whole world is not the West. Majority of the world is poor and in poor countries the treatment of women is appalling. 

So always understand how you express your ideas and your connotations and how they can negatively impact legit movements in this world against injustice and oppression. 

Now I want to give some examples of toxic femininity and toxic feminism. 

Feminism should be about Empowering women. Educating them. Giving them the tools for a healthy independent survival, and creating an environment and a system which is healthy for their growth and not oppressive, liberating to their expression and a system where they won't feel terrorized. 

A woman does not have to live in constant fear of a man. Such a system is rotten at its core. It's evil patriarchy nonsense 

A woman needs a fairly gender neutral balanced system. No male domination bullshit. That's what feminism should be about. 

Feminism should be about abolishing male domination. Men cannot decide how women should live their life. Just like women don't decide how men live.. 

Also feminism should not be about establishing female domination because any domination is bad 

An equal system where powers are balanced and no gender is dominating over the other 

 

Expecting a woman to be sweet at all times. Expecting her to be a graceful angel delicate and sweet and polite.

 

 

This is toxic femininity. 

 

Just like with toxic masculinity, men are not allowed to be men, they are not allowed to express sadness or fear, in a similar way women are not allowed to express rage and anger. 

Rage and anger is also an emotion just as any other human emotion like grief, pain, fear, sadness, shock etc. 

Men are not allowed certain emotional expressions because it's considered weak or lame if they express themselves openly. This is inhibiting to them. 

In a similar way when a woman is not allowed to express rage and anger and outrage its inhibiting to her 

A woman is expected to simply swallow her anger and not express it even if her life is in danger. 

She is labeled "angry", mocked, ridiculed and shamed if she gets angry. 

So if I get sexually harassed, I'm not supposed to be angry or express my outrage? 

This is toxic femininity. It's completely to express any emotion which is invoked by the situation, be it male or female 

Women too get stressed out. They suffer too. They are humans. And just like humans they can have moments of tantrums, fits of rage, moments of impatience and distress which can pour out as anger and not so pleasant reactions.. 

To ridicule a woman for her natural emotional expressions is to dehumanize her. To consider her less of a human. 

 

Women feel pain too. And often this pain is expressed as anger. 

 

 

Expecting a woman to be a Saint. 

This is another example of toxic femininity. A woman is also a human, not just a woman. She is not to be completely 

In this category, men enjoy a lot or leverage and privilege over women.. 

You must have heard the phrase "men will be men" or "boys will be boys" being casually thrown around. 

 

If men can be men, then why can't women be women? 

 

Why can't women get away with doing wrong things. Why can't women have character flaws? 

And by wrong things I don't mean serious criminal things. I mean everyday character flaws. The regular character flaws. 

Why are women put on pedestal and then expected to act like a Saint? 

Does such treatment and double standard respect the humanity of a woman? The answer is no. 

Basically what this means is that women will be judged severely even for minor things. Such "saintly expectations" means a woman will be observed through a microscope, her every flaw will be magnified 1000 times. She will be shamed for 

In other words she has to be perfect or else she is not a woman 

 

Granted that moral values are to be expected from women, but they should be expected in equal measure from both men and women in a similar manner. 

By this I don't mean that women should be let off with for serious bad behaviors. But they should not be shamed for little things or demonized for things that are minor flaws of human nature. 

For example if a man gets drunk, it's no big deal. If a man acts selfish or gets greedy its no big deal. If a man acts bossy then no big deal. But if a woman acts selfish, then she is the most evil. If she got drunk, then she is the worst of all. 

This is nothing but toxic femininity by placing very high expectations on women to the point where they cannot be themselves.. 

 

Expecting a woman to be hyper sexual or else she is a prude. 

This is a general tendency in western countries 

This is the Madonna whore complex. If she is shy and docile and not being sexual enough, then she is a prude. Why can't she just be herself? 

Does a woman need to run around naked to prove that she has a vagina or to prove that she feels sexual? 

Her sex and sexual freedom is her business. 

Same with expecting a woman to be conservatively dressed or act very strict and not be sexual at all 

This expectation is found in countries where female sexual repression is very high. Generally eastern countries. 

If the woman is expressing her sexual side, then the men assume that she is a whore, she is asking to be raped, she is giving signals that all kinds of misbehavior is okay, or she is not supposed to act sexual. This is called repression and control.. 

A woman is free to express her sexual desires however she wants. If she doesn't like to dress provocatively, then it's her choice, she is not a prude for that. Her sexual ethics or styles are different. If she likes to dress provocatively, again it's her choice to express her sexuality. She is not a whore for that. 

True freedom and liberation lies in a woman's expression without being labeled for it 

 

 

Some serious cringe 

This is toxic femininity but not toxic feminism.. Just an example

This behavior coming from women is very toxic. Rape is a serious crime and to expect to get raped. It's messed up.

In this case the women are okaying wrong behavior. 

It's a different thing if they wanted him to be dominating in bed. 

But such an outright expression and using the word rape in this context is very inappropriate.

 

 

Womanhood and femininity does not lie in being a male. Of course a woman is totally free to be whatever and however she chooses to be. But the notion that a woman should be a man is a bit strange one. It's almost as if men said they wanted to be women. Can you see how odd that would be. Now this particular thought is strictly in context of men and women and not transgenders because trans people are allowed to be the opposite gender if they want to be. But this is outside of that context. To tell a woman that she has to be a woman is basically an assault on her womanhood. Why can't she be allowed to be herself? 

Do we expect men to be women? Then why expect a woman to be a man? 

Am I not a woman if I can't lift 20 pound weight. Do I stop being a woman if I cannot do things that men can easily do. 

It hurts feminism to say that every woman should work like a man. A woman may choose to not work and be a homemaker or do her own thing. Her preferences shouldn't be questioned. That's not called freedom. Freedom lies in being able to do what you want to do in life, how you want it and living your life by your own terms.. 

Empowering women is very different from forcing women. Empowering is giving them tools and resources and forcing is making rules and applying pressure. 

This is very nicely illustrated in this video by Christopher Hitchens. 

 

 

 

 

The Misuse of sexual powers 

When I showed this to my boyfriend he said, "she is not a woman. She is a boy who was born without a d*ck." 

In a sense yes. Womanhood does not lie in exploiting your sexual attractiveness in evil ways as a means to an end, to achieve something dangerous. Sexual attractiveness in both men and women is meant for romance and dating and relationships. And not as a weapon to get things done. Such women are a representation of toxic femininity. 

 

Giving more value to sexual attractiveness over moral character. 

I remember a few months ago I was watching a video of 2 teen girls who murdered their friend in cold blood. And I read a comment on the video from a man. He said he would totally do her, one of the killer girls because in his eyes she was totally hot. 

 

I pointed out to him how inappropriate it was to overlook that she participated in a gruesome murder and only focus on her looks. And he said he didn't care what she did as long as she was attractive. This is a problem. This is another example of toxic femininity where the only expectation from a gender is good looks and nothing else. In this case this toxicity is encouraged by such men.. 

Such men that you will come across that will find Jodi Arias attractive and would want to date her even after knowing what she did.. I cringe at it. 

Now the opposite is also an example of toxic femininity. Just reverse the gender roles. You have women who used to write love letters to Ted Bundy, fantasizing him. The world's most famous serial killer. This is another example of toxic femininity. Because such women encourage toxic men or toxic male behaviors. 

 

 

I think a lot of the times, women get away with such behavior just because they are women, somehow they can't do any wrong, or if they did, it's justified in some manner. Often times women justify their torture and abuse in the name of motherhood. 

A mother is not exempt from judgement just because of motherhood. 

A woman should not be exempt from judgement and punishment just because she is a woman. Granted that she can be let go for common human flaws and errors, but serious crimes and criminal behaviors  and dangerous behaviors should call for action and punishment 

Maternal abuse is just as common as paternal abuse but society finds it difficult to accept because somehow mothers are examples of divinity. This is a dangerous illusion. 

Women are equally capable of evil just as men 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toxic femininity is a woman lying about rape, tricking a man into raising a child that isn't his, hitting a man, lying about abuse to get custody, marrying a man solely for money, playing manipulative games to get her way, cheating in a marriage and expecting the husband to put up with it etc etc etc

 

 

 

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I was thinking about patriarchy the other day and how it creates a toxic environment. 

But I think certain aspects of patriarchy can be good. Like control on prostitution. 

I think I would like to imagine my own version of patriarchy which is both good and necessary. 

I will call this interventional patriarchy. This is my own term.. 

 

What this means is that the men only interfere when needed. 

For example when a woman does things that are harmful or toxic, for example maternal abuse, that's when men interfere and object to it. 

And supportive patriarchy. 

Supportive patriarchy means it's supportive of women and children.