Déjà Vu ~ Times II: Echoes from History?

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Echoes from History?

At some point truth seekers will probably encounter the prolific and vociferous Mark Passio. Does he speak truth? I suppose that is for each of us to discern, but I do find it curious that a man who seeks to help re-establish a sense of “true care” in the world, repeatedly uses the phrase “I don't care” — mostly in reference to those who don't accept or who criticize his proclamations of truth. He claims that a unified consciousness is required to move this planet to a new level of spiritual maturity; that numbers matter; that the true great work is to “get others to abandon false religious beliefs¹ and grow in consciousness”²; and that those who refuse are “the real enemy of mankind.”³ Does this philosophy not hold individual growth hostage to a collective mandate and lead inevitably to the very tirade we encounter at

Mark Passio New Age Mind Controlled Golemised Trolls
(Time 1:25:27; particularly first 15 minutes) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Ntsc7AaUw&t=1243s

Where have we heard this sort of demonizing before? in recent history? Listen to the first 15-odd minutes and we hear his anger and disgust: that the appallingly ignorant are not humans, but animals; that 90% of the world have no clue; they are the idiots of this world; they are like degenerated animals; they are the ones keeping this prison world going; they are degenerated, loathsome, retarded creatures; not humans, but things; they are causing the continuance of slavery that tortures him so. He does not soften his vitriol (or body-function references), but glories in them.

So if violence is to cause harm to an innocent person, and force is a rightful, lawful response to such violence (as he claims⁴), how near are we to claiming that the “appallingly ignorant” are causing violence to our right to a unified consciousness? and that force is a rightful response to ending the ignorance of these animals / things?

This is only the beginning of the flags that I see in the “truths” of Mark Passio. YES, he has some great insights and criticisms, but in coming weeks I will try to delineate some of the other flags of caution.

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1. Passio claims all religions are a form of slavery, and that a belief in the need for salvation or a savior is the worst form of mental bondage.See Mark Passio New Age Mind Controlled Golemised Trolls (about minute 12:00) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Ntsc7AaUw&t=1243s
2. Natural Law, Part 3, circa 2:15:00 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=204aGDVa3Vw (Mark Passio - Natural Law Seminar - New Haven, CT - Part 3 of 3)
3. Natural Law Part 3, circa 2:23:00
4. Natural Law Part 3, circa 0:30:00

Revolving Accounts

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us." (Old Testament Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)

"Dwell in the past and you'll lose an eye. Forget the past and you'll lose both eyes." (Old Russian Proverb)

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“No Comments” Rationale

1) Time & more needful priorities;
2) Problems observed with many open-comment blogs as so bluntly expressed at http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/comment-policy/
3) People are free to post divergent or convergent views on their own blogs;
4) Learning from comments here would be preferable, but— (see 1, 2, & 3).

Brief note to the OFFENDED: Just because allowing "comments" is a blogger's option, it does not mean every blogger must conform to the "expectations" of others. Every soul can consult the Spirit and decide what is best and right in their circumstance. And if one has a blanket policy not to read another's work because there is no opportunity to comment, it seems one has closed oneself off to potential guidance of the Spirit. Besides, in this world of "overwhelm," the guidance of the Spirit is the best resource we have to lead us to things of importance in our unique life. So, if you have found your way here, perhaps there are a few things of import for you here. I try to trust the Spirit to lead me likewise to things of import within my purpose and priorities.

My World / TransWorld View

▪ Truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come; (Doctrine and Covenants Section 93:24)
▪ If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed. (J. Reuben Clark)

▪ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (New Testament 1 Thessalonians 5:21)

▪ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.(New Testament Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13; 3 Nephi 13:24)
▪ See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.(New Testament 1 Thessalonians 5:15)
▪ For that which ye do send out shall return unto you again, and be restored; ... (Book of Mormon Alma 41:15)
▪ Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend. (Book of Mormon Mosiah 4:9, emphasis added)
▪ ... the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. (New Testament 1 Corinthians 1:25)
▪ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Old Testament Isaiah 55:8 - 9)
▪ ... the Lord doth grant unto all nations, of their own nation and tongue, to teach his word, yea, in wisdom, all that he seeth fit that they should have; therefore we see that the Lord doth counsel in wisdom, according to that which is just and true. (Book of Mormon Alma 29:8)
▪ The Bible is true, as far as it is translated correctly. Some things are to be understood literally; others metaphorically or symbolically.
▪ God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat; a Liberal nor a Conservative, just as Christ was neither a Pharisee or Sadducee. [For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round.(Doctrine and Covenants Section 3:2)]
▪ Life is an escalating series of tests.
▪ “...we will be asked again and again to release the parts of our lives that mean the most to us.” (Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts, p. 76; also preview lives of the prophets and saints.)