Q repeatedly points out that UNITY is our most important weapon against the Cabal. United we win; divided we remain under the thumb of an Evil that is working to replace benevolent forms of Civilization with a permanent global tyranny.
A UNITED MANKIND is Kryptonite to the Cabal because, as Q puts it (in drop #2526 for instance), PEOPLE ARE INHERENTLY GOOD.
If they weren't, unity would do little to improve the world.
Here's the TL:DR on this essay:
- EVERYONE who follows Jesus' commandment to "Love one another" is part of a SINGLE FAMILY that, UNITED, will END the Cabal of Evil -- REGARDLESS of what formal religion, if any, they follow. LOVE and UNITY are far more important here than THEOLOGY, in part because theology is an attempt to describe a reality beyond human comprehension, and there will never be universal agreement on the topic.
Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion -- human religion -- but any number of faiths. -- M. K. Gandhi
I believe that EVERY True Religion (more detail follows) is, at least in part, an attempt to teach and foster emotional health (AKA love) and social harmony -- to, in other words, support the side of Good and to diminish Evil.
Q -- being an American-centric, US-military-aligned, and probably US-military created and run operation (see Drops #3854 and #4438, for instance. 126 drops include the term "military") -- is naturally Christian-centric. The terms "God" (265 drops) and "Christian" (8 drops) are well represented in the Q drops, while "Satanic" or "Satan" -- Satan being the prime Christian adversary -- is mentioned in 14 drops.
"Buddhism" and "Buddhist", on the other hand, are not mentioned at all, anywhere in the Q oeuvre. Nor are "Hinduism", "Jainism", or "Taoism". ("Islam" and "Muslim" are mentioned several times, and often with negative implications. More on this, perhaps, in another essay).
Do other religions than Christianity -- the ones I am calling "True Religions", including several not mentioned above -- make good allies? Are they compatible with the Earthly goals of Christians and do they fit well with the objectives of the Great Awakening?
They do. Judge for yourself:
First, I'll quote Jesus on HIS definition of "Christian" and what He called a new commandment -- which, in my unpopular opinion, encapsulates the essence of His ministry:
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
In HIS OWN WORDS (as reported by John and later translated into English), Jesus told us that "if ye have love one to another", you are His disciple -- WITHOUT ANY FURTHER QUALIFICATIONS. Whether you had ever met Him, or heard of Him, or consciously followed Him, He considered that you and He were both living as God intended.
Encouraging people to have love in their hearts was at the CORE of Jesus' ministry. He elevated LOVE and thus COMPASSION to an important, CORE principle. That makes perfect sense, because love is the foundation of healthy, appropriate behavior. As Romans 13:10 puts it:
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Do practicing Buddhists qualify as "Christian" under THAT definition? That is, under JESUS' OWN DEFINITION?
Yes, absolutely.
Buddhism does not include belief in a creator God, although Buddhism DOES include belief in a type of afterlife (re-incarnation) and other supernatural entities and realities.
Yet practicing Buddhists fit Jesus' own definition of His disciples: they "have love one to another".
There are billions of people who were raised in religions other than Christianity or who have never HEARD of Christianity; some Christians will tell you those people are going to Hell because they "don't believe in Christ."
I do not believe that either Jesus or our Creator is so cruel or senseless.
When Jesus talks about "little ones which believe in me", I am certain He isn't speaking about children who had met or heard about Him and "believed" in Him intellectually but rather Children who had LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS -- who believed and LIVED Jesus' core teaching even if they lived in a faraway land where the name "Jesus" had never been spoken.
Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. [KJV]
Side note: Jesus' clearly expressed concern for the loving, compassionate, and respectful treatment of CHILDREN is a critically important element of His ministry, because proper treatment early in life creates adults who NATURALLY have love for others, while sufficient trauma can mute access to that love or even over-ride it with anger and hatred. I believe Jesus' teachings in this regard have often been ignored or misinterpreted, sometimes widely and destructively (see the Spanish Inqusition, for example). END of side note.
Despite having no belief in a Christian-type creator God or any formal belief in Jesus, Buddhism IS, in my opinion, a worthy ally to Christianity because it teaches -- nay, insists on -- treating others with love and respect. Practicing Buddhists follow the "new commandment" that Jesus gave us, to "love one another."
Evidence for that includes the Eightfold Path, a central tenet in Buddhism: (from https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/introduction_to_buddhism -- emphasis added below)
The Eightfold Path consists of three categories: moral conduct, concentration, and wisdom:
Moral conduct consists of:
1 right speech (refraining from falsehood, malicious talk, and abusive language)
2 right action (refraining from stealing, killing, and unchastity)
3 right livelihood (earning a living through proper means, not killing living beings, making astrological forecasts, or practicing fortune-telling)5
Concentration consists of:
4 right effort (energetic will to prevent or get rid of evil and promote goodness)
5 right mindfulness (to be diligently aware, mindful, and attentive)
6 right concentration (to rid oneself of unwholesome thoughts and achieve pure equanimity and awareness)6
Wisdom consists of:
7 right thought (selflessness and detachment, universal thoughts of love and nonviolence)
8 right understanding (understanding of things as they are, a full understanding of the Four Noble Truths)
There are similar teachings in many other religions. For instance (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism, emphasis added below),
The worldly concern of Confucianism rests upon the belief that human beings are fundamentally good, and teachable, improvable, and perfectible through personal and communal endeavor, especially self-cultivation and self-creation. Confucian thought focuses on the cultivation of virtue in a morally organised world.[13] Some of the basic Confucian ethical concepts and practices include ren, yi, li, and zhi. Ren is the essence of the human being which manifests as compassion. It is the virtue-form of Heaven.[14] Yi is the upholding of righteousness and the moral disposition to do good. Li is a system of ritual norms and propriety that determines how a person should properly act in everyday life in harmony with the law of Heaven. Zhi (智; zhì) is the ability to see what is right and fair, or the converse, in the behaviors exhibited by others. Confucianism holds one in contempt, either passively or actively, for failure to uphold the cardinal moral values of ren and yi.
Traditionally, cultures and countries in the Chinese cultural sphere are strongly influenced by Confucianism, including China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, as well as various territories settled predominantly by Han Chinese people, such as Singapore.
Any self-described religion that does NOT unreservedly support emotional health (AKA love), social harmony, and, in general, The Good, is a fraud and a danger to mankind. Certainly, any religion that advocates human sacrifice or forcible domination or mass-murder of "non-believers" is not a True Religion.
Of course, many groups and social movements that don't claim to be religions (e.g., Communism) are also dangers to mankind.
Likewise, any non-religious group that supports emotional health (AKA love), social harmony, and The Good is a positive element in the world.
Anything from a single person to a two-person friendship, to a family, to a global movement with millions of people can be a force for good.
Q qualifies in spades. Here's hoping that never changes ("Trust, but verify" -- that is a necessary on-going function, not just a saying from Ronald Reagan).
EARTHLY elements vs. OTHER elements
I am deliberating drawing a line between what I call the positive, Earthly elements of a religion and any other elements it may contain, typically including what I will call the supernatural, or rather the specific supernatural schema that members of the religion often consider the main and defining element.
Note that I am not taking a position on the correctness of any of these schemas; it's just that I don't consider them important in terms of fostering the unity of mankind that we need if we are to overcome the Cabal and to set the world right. -- which is exactly what we are trying to do. Without a high level of UNITY the job will never get done.
BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION (and hence not amenable to universal agreement)
I believe ALL the supernatural schemas in the True Religions -- God, the Great Spirit, the various pantheons of gods and spirits, the Tao, etc. -- are attempts to describe a reality beyond human comprehension which can only be grasped partially and metaphorically. Different cultures will have honestly created different schemas and metaphors attempting to describe the same truths, and many of those elements are described symbolically (for example: how long is a "day" in Genesis? Perhaps it is "24 hours" but many believe the term is used as a symbol for much longer periods of time).
EARTHLY CONCERNS MATTER (more than supernatural schemas and creation myths)
Regardless of the schema used for supernatural and world-creation myths, many religions (and other organizations) teach and support emotional health (AKA love), social harmony, and The Good generally -- they foster love for others, as Jesus taught His disciples -- despite differing elements in other areas.
Does it REALLY matter (to the state of the world) whether someone believes one world-creation story or another? Whether their view of the afterlife (or no afterlife) is the same as yours?
Because while most of us might want every person on Earth to have the same religion or paradigm we embrace, that's not going to happen -- nor should it. We aren't social insects, and where universally agreed upon facts are not available, differences in opinion are inevitable. (Even when facts ARE available and agreed upon, interpretation of what those facts MEAN can be all over the map: consider the absolute circus of quantum physics, for example. Multiple universes, or everything just probabilistic unless and until observed? etc.)
https://search.brave.com/search?q=multiple+universe+theories&source=web
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Probabilistic+Universe+Theories&source=web
The particular paradigm or religion someone embraces as a guide to life and an understanding of the world is far less important than whether that paradigm or religion strongly fosters emotional health, clear thinking, honest behavior, and love and respect for the rights of all.
And THAT is the essence of why UNITY is both possible and highly desirable, even aside from it being necessary in our fight to clean the Satanic and other Evil from this world.
FINIS
That's an interesting possibility. I don't think we would even recognize such an intelligence, just as we don't (well, we do now, sort of) recognize geological time and astrophysical time; human lives are too short. And mice don't understand quantum physics because their brains are much smaller than ours.
But what I actually think is that WE ARE THE WAY THE UNIVERSE HAS BECOME SELF-AWARE. OUR brains, with their captured bits of the Universal Consciousness, give direct, focused, self-aware access to everything the brain sees, learns, feels, and KNOWS. The Universe doesn't have eyes -- or didn't, until LIFE came along. And with human brains, it has all the intellectual awareness that we create as well. Our souls, our little walled-off bits of Universal Consciousness, merge back into that same Universal Consciousness when we die.
I don't know exactly what that means; for instance, I don't see a way for memory storage, and certain kinds of brain damage include memory loss, so without our physical brains being intact, what is left? Kastrup believes we continue on as identifiable entities after death; I'm not so sure. That could change; new knowledge ensures change, and I love new knowledge.
I love that idea and hope we can bring it to fruition.
TY Narg. BTW there is no book of facts out there that says that we are the only sort of life or even that carbon based life forms are the only places that where some sort of consciousness can reside. IDK if you ever took a course in plasma physics but it's so vast & complex that there are easily more types of interactions than possible with carbon based chemistry (at of course a very different temperature) There's also an incredible amount of unknows (at least nearly a 1/2 century ago when I took it) It's very likely to be able to contain some sort of intelligence. There are myths & stories the like. The whole genie in a bottle myths come from a belief that there are these jin or djinn roaming around that are made of 'smokeless fire.' For the ancients to call it 'smokless fire' they must have meant what we, today, call plasma since the flame of a fire is plasma. They not only have myths of them but they have categorized them into different types: the ifrit are the ones within fire, ghuls, are seem in deserts, marids, around water ( remember there are plenty of ions floating around near moving water so it might not be impossible to have an that sort of complexity ) There are many other types too & plenty of accounts of those that experienced them. This level of detail begs the possibility that there's something to it. Some seem to be able to call or conjure them, etc. I'm not very interested myself, except that, with so much folklore it's likely to be based on something. I'm just trying to make the case for non carbon lifeforms.
The sun would, of course, be a much better place for djinn to reside. Not just our sun but the almost endless number of stars. As a slight aside, bees in nature have a very complex language, it has been observed that they communicate distances to each other by the way that they wiggle & etc. Nevertheless, the hive of a multitude of these complex free thinking bees has a certain personality to it - ask any bee keeper. In a similar manor each star may have a hive consciousness & personality to it as well. This could explain things like astrology. Also not my point but I am pointing to the evidence of various different non carbon based consciousnesses that people have noticed in some way or another, enough that they tried to assign patterns or personalities to them.
The center of the earth is mostly molten iron & nickel, both of which have magnetic moments. It's not exactly a plasma but it certainly has complex properties to it that we don't understand yet too well. We know that in aggregate, they create the magnetic field we notice around earth, though we have no idea about the deviations of it & etc. We certainly don't know about little eddy currents in their of not only flowing material but of moving & changing electric & magnetic fields in every little square inch. In a similar way as plasma they are also incredibly complex enough to hold some sort of intelligence. If so, what would you think of the sorts of beings in that very dense metallic sort of place?
Wow. No, I've not looked into anything like that. I have read, over the years, various brief discussions of possible life-forms in ecologies hostile or outright lethal to carbon-based life-forms, but have never rabbit-holed the idea. Thanks for the brief overview. Plasma-based life-forms in the Sun are an amazing idea, and of course brings thoughts of whether their actions would influence or create solar flares or sunspots, for instance. Doesn't seem possible, but plenty of things people USED to think impossible are now known to be real, so who knows?
On a tangent: Your post triggered memory of the Rare Earth hypothesis, from a book I read in 2000 (the Amazon page says 2003 but that must be for whatever edition first got put on Amazon; my hardback copy shows 2000 as publishing date) -- Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Ward and Brownlee. It discusses the HUGE number of specifics needed for advanced, intelligent life to survive, including some I'd never have thought of. From the book jacket:
The book is an engaging read, if you're interested in the idea. Plenty of conversation about the idea on the Web, also, of course.
Makes sense, I read the little piece on Amazon & yes, though those conditions occur from time to time for them to occur that prolifically & for that duration of time to allow for the evolution of intelligence is probably what makes earth special. With my very little knowledge of plasma physics & astronomy, it would seem that conditions that stable & etc would be a lot more plentiful for plasma based intelligence than carbon based, in this universe where aggregate stellar mass dwarfs that of planetary (especially considering that planetary intelligence is pretty much limited to the surface area.) But then, that could be because of how little I understand conditions necessary for plasma intelligence to evolve.
My point on the end about the molten earth center is that, if intelligences could form & evolve under those they may seem 'heavier' more dense & gnarly. While intelligences that could form, for instance in the ionosphere might be more airy and light. If so this would correlate with what people have intuited over time by saying hell is down below & heaven above. I'm not attaching a particular morality to either but just the general thought of what sort of creatures people over time have believed to live in those domains.