Day 159: Ah, Christmas! Sweet Coping Mechanism of Capitalism

Ah, it’s that Christmas time of year again. You can tell by the Christmas music that’s playing everywhere on the radio, in stores, reminding you it’s that time of year to buy buy buy stuff. Every year, there’s the jokes about how early the Christmas music starts, and how annoying it is, and rolling of the eyes, like it’s driving us insane.

It really is a bizarre event, in so many ways, though I remember a time where I did somewhat accept this idea/event of Christmas, when I was a child, and it was something that happened every year, and you got to get presents, and so I figured, heck with it, I don’t care if this makes no sense, I want presents, and so I put my self interest before the truth.And that, is exactly what Christmas is all about! Christmas is a really hard pill to swallow, since it's all complete and total bullshit, and therefore is really a clear indication of the fucked up state that we as humanity are in. I mean, the fact that this whole Christmas ‘thing’ / ’episode’ / ’pandemic’, what to call it, takes place at such a vast level of participation, shows the extent of our brainwashing, and the extent of just what we’ll accept and allow to take place in this world, even when it goes beyond all common sense.

I mean, we think of this holiday as a ‘good thing’, a ‘beneficial’ and ‘positive’ thing, kind of like God, in how you’re not supposed to question it, because it’s just, well, ‘good’. I remember in my childhood, thinking Christmas was so weird. I mean, you’ve got grown adults, telling you fantasy stories about a fat man, that rides a flying sleigh, driven by reindeers, who lands on everyone’s roof, goes down their chimneys, and leaves shit in their house. It’s obviously total ludicrous bullshit, and it’s presented as if it’s real. This would not be defined as the actions of an intelligent species of beings. To take their young and give them information that is in total contradiction with how this physical reality actually operates. Look at the consequences of for example, Superman, where you have kids jumping off roves thinking they can fly. At Christmas we’ve got children putting out milk and cookies for some man to come to their house to give them toys. And then we teach them to not take gifts from strangers.

And that really illustrates the hypocrisy that is Christmas, that even though the world is going to shit, there’s massive problems everywhere, 75% of the population living in poverty, we string up some lights, tell fantasy stories to the children, buy lots of stuff to give to people in our lives, most of which isn’t needed or wanted but is given just because ‘it’s what you have to do’, ‘you’re supposed to give gifts’, ‘what will they think if I don’t give them a gift’, ‘I don’t want them to think that I don’t care about them and to think poorly of me’. Gift giving has become about maintaining your face, where it’s ‘I’ve got to find something for so and so’, not so and so needs this or that, so it’s not based on anyone actually needing anything, when there are billions in this world that do need, and are allowed to go without. While those of us in elite countries are busy trying to find stuff to buy for each other that no one needs, there are children starving to death. While we allow an economic system that allows poverty to exist, we at the same time participate in the bullshit of Christmas and pretend everything is great.

And we know it’s not. We can’t wait for the holidays to come around for a break from the monotony of the daily grind that we go through, busy all year round with our jobs that go to feed the system of consumerism and generate profits for a small minority of the population to live in luxury, while the rest slave away for jobs that are largely irrelevant to life and providing no actual benefit to humanity or life or the individual doing it, which is why it’s so hard to do those jobs. Who really wants to participate in something that in no way is of benefit to oneself and one’s reality and world, and only serves as a point of maintaining one’s survival. No wonder we can’t wait for a break. But it shows the extent to which we’ve accepted things how they are, they we accept the whole year of drudgery just for this little break, instead of realizing that life is such a drudgery because we not actually living for life, but are living as wage slaves to capitalism. And we’ll take these little positive fleeting moments, and use it to cope with our situation, instead of actually changing our situation. I mean, we must be really shit-scared to actually participate in a story about a fat man on your roof, not to mention the whole Christmas tree point, of cutting down trees en masse, which are also grown en masse for only this reason, to put them in our living room and string lights on it, and hang colored plastic balls on it, and make this ‘lovely’ decoration of lights that sparkle and make us feel entertained for a moment. All supposedly to celebrate the birth of Jesus. I mean, this is some really bizarre shit.

If Jesus could see this, what we’re doing in his name? What would he think about the cutting the trees down and hanging plastic balls on them I wonder. Such blatant acts of pure consumerism. What this shows is the massive education that’s required for humanity to understand our physical reality, and how best to live in it. I mean, here we find ourselves in this physical reality here with the animals and nature which we depend on to survive, and let’s see how we decide to interact with what’s here? Ah yes, let’s grow millions of trees, in order to cut them down to put in our living room and dress up with decorations that consume electricity and you don’t want the Christmas tree to just wilt and dry up right away, so you got to feed it water and there’s even chemicals you can put in the water to keep it greener a bit longer, because you want to milk the most you can out of it to keep that feel good feeling of ‘it’s Christmas time and everything is wonderful’ going for as long as possible, although the problems in reality never go away, and will be there still after all the lights come down and you’re hauling that tree out to the curb. Is this the way in which beings who respect the earth that provided us with live and existence, would treat nature? As a commodity for entertainment, for momentary distraction from the problems in the world that we never get around to facing and solving once and for all?

Christmas is just another bandaid we use to make us feel good about life, while letting life go to shit, and this why we don’t want to let go of Christmas – because it’s become our coping mechanism, and if we let that go, then what can we use to hide from ourselves and our responsibility for just a little longer? If we didn’t have the coping mechanism of Christmas, then we might have to actually face the reality of how crappy we are allowing life to be, the worldwide suffering we’re allowing to take place, and then we’d have to change ourselves and how we’re doing things. Oh wait, but then we could actually solve these problems once and for all! I mean, how is it even possible that we get excited about the prospect of getting gifts one time out of the year, because we don’t already have the best of everything. What if we all had the best? Would we care then about gifts? Would it even be relevant?

The very idea of giving gifts has become just a trick of consumerism, where instead of giving ourselves as a whole, in our entirety, the gift of the best life possible in all ways, the best house, the best food, the best car, the best nature, we settle for a jackpot system where we’re not simply guaranteed the best in the first place, but can only hope to get it, but we never do, as for most the best is not affordable, this done to make the most profit possible, so this Christmas, the real gift to give ourselves is an Equal Money System, where the gift we give to ourselves will be the gift of life, the gift of the best life possible, where life can be enjoyed all year round as life will no longer be enslaved to profit, and we won’t have to ‘settle’ for a false holiday that is just about creating a good feeling in ourselves, as that feeling never lasts and we’re back to the same reality again, facing the same problems, only worse, because the more we ignore them the more they grow, so time to get out of the fantasies and finally apply a real solution that makes life enjoyable as a living reality.

Thus instead of having a Christmas holiday built on consumerism in total disregard of the planet, as a reaction to how we’ve accepted our current reality where we get tired of the year round drudgery that we’ve accepted life to be in the current system, rather change the reality by changing the system, changing the source of the problem, and then we won’t feel the need for such an elaborate distraction from the suffering we’re allowing, as we’ll prevent it from being created in the first place. Prevention is the Best Cure.

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Day 42: How I’ve Sabotaged Myself: Spirituality as The Search for 'Something More'

I was disappointed with myself and my life/my world and this entirety of existence, as so many of us are, no matter how successfully we’ve hidden this from ourselves, in order to cope with the way things are, because we’ve accepted the belief that things won’t/can’t change and that there’s nothing ‘little old me’ can do to change the world/my reality.

So within this, we begin to seek out experiences that are ‘more’ than how we’re currently experiencing ourself – within the belief that there just has to be more to life ‘somewhere out there’,  ‘this can’t be all I am’ or ‘all there is to life’.

And it’s within this desire that we are driven to search for more, but since all that is here is the physical reality as it is, as we’ve accepted and allowed it to become, and as we’re not creating it to be anything ‘more’ than what it currently is – there is nothing ‘out there’ as ‘more’. So, for us to ‘find’ something that is more, we have to actually delude ourselves into thinking we’ve found some ‘higher experience’, and to do this we have the mind consciousness system, through which we can generate energetic experiences within ourself, and when we attach or attribute that feeling to something outside of ourself, within our reality, then we think we’ve ‘found something special’ – as it apparently gives us this ‘exciting’ energetic feeling within.

So, it was within this belief that things outside myself are be responsible for how I experience myself within myself, that I sought for things in my reality that would give me ‘positive’ experiences, where I could feel excited, like ‘there’s something more to life after all’ – yet within this I never once considered the common sense that in order for there to be something ‘more out there’, we’d have to be creating it, and thus it’s pointless to be searching for ‘something out there’, the point would be to get busy expanding myself and my reality through actual action and self expansion – which would mean no longer accepting myself as limited within ‘what can little old me do?’ and all the various excuses/justifications as to why we must simply accept the world the way it is, and ourselves the way we are, and that change would be so difficult that it’s not even worth to attempt it.

Of course within this, we are actually creating and justifying our own limitation.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that there is nothing I can do to change/have an impact in the world, or in my world as my environment and the beings and forms I interact with, or the world within myself, as what goes on within me, within my mind and within my human physical body.  

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that there is nothing ‘more’ to find in this reality, and within that to not consider that I wanted to ‘find’ something more ‘out there’ as I didn’t want to actually have to do the labor/effort required to actually change this world and reality into ‘more’ than it is now, but was looking for instant-gratification, as I’ve been conditioned to believe that to be instantly gratified will lead to actual satisfaction as a part of the brainwashing done to create humans into zombies that only buy and consume and look to avoid what appears to take effort, and thus within this- 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that I am disappointed with my world and this reality because I am not actually taking the effort to actually make something of this world and of myself, but am accepting myself and the world as limited, and thus I am the very cause of my disappointment in this reality – so, to continue in this pattern of not taking action, of avoiding effort, and looking for instant gratification, and the acceptance of not doing anything, of not considering what I’m capable of  – is actually the cause of my disappointment.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to realize that - I- am actually causing my disappointment in the world, where instead of changing myself I am remaining within limitation, and within this I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see that this serves consumerism and greed as I will be dependent on outside sources to ‘entertain’ me as distracting me from my own disappointment, instead of becoming the solution of myself of actually looking at, what am I able to do in this world, what is necessary to make a change in my world and reality, and realizing that I could change myself within no longer accepting and allowing myself as not able to ‘make a difference’ in this world, and giving in to thoughts as justifications like ‘well, no one else is doing anything, so why should I? It won’t make a difference, I’m just one person’ – within this not considering that I followed the examples of others within my world within accepting limitation, and thus I can stand as an example for others in not accepting limitation.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that there is no point to not do everything I can to change myself and change this world, as if I am really wanting the world to be ‘more’ than it is – I have to make it so, by growing and expanding myself, and within this I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that the state of the world is actually the reflection of myself where who I have accepted and allowed myself to be is what I have accept and allow to exist in this world.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that everything that is here as this world system we created – where if you take away humanity, it all disappears, and thus it is all of us creating it, as the accumulated effort of each and every individual here, and thus it is each and every individual that must change for this world to change, and that means I must change.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that I am the creator of what I experience within myself and thus nothing that I come across/interact with in my world/this reality is actually responsible for creating what I feel within myself or how I experience myself, and that it is actually me that is creating the experience of excitement when I come across something in my world that I perceive to be ‘more’ or ‘special’.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not notice how when I come across something in my reality that seems to be something ‘more’ or ‘special’ or with some added ‘meaning’ or special ‘significance’ to it, that I am actually creating that perception through/within my desire to find something more, within convincing myself that what I see is actually more than what it simply is – where for example, I might interpret a flashing light in the sky as a ufo, or a strange footprint as belonging to an alien, or a brush of wind as being ‘god reaching out to touch me’, or wondering of the significance of staring at the clock when it is exactly 3:33 or 11:11.

I commit myself to when I notice that I am making more out of something that is here, and to breathe, stop, and bring myself back to reality, so that I can stop manifesting the consequence of not taking action in my life and accepting and allowing myself to settle for distractions that I come up with in my mind and literally have to convince myself to believe, so that I can instead become the solution to the disappointment with reality that I am trying to distract myself from/cope with – and thus solve the problem once and for all and no longer be enslaved within a cycle of acceptance of myself and this world as limited where I am ‘unable’ and ‘incapable’ of change and action and of really truly living.

I commit myself to realize that I am the cause of/am responsible for every reaction/feeling/experience that takes place within me, and thus I commit myself to realize in the moment that I am experiencing a reaction to something, whether positive or negative, that I am the creator of that reaction, and that I can actually stop that reaction, by remaining here with/as breath and utilizing the tool of self forgiveness to support and assist myself to no longer validate and participate in the reaction, and within this, taking back my self direction and self will, to no longer be a victim of my own manipulation, wherein I utilize manifestations outside/separate from myself to induce certain chemical reactions within my human physical body, so that I can have a certain feeling experience within myself, which I am creating in the first place, at the expense of my body as the mind consciousness system utilizes the resources of the physical body to generate and produce the feeling experiences.

I commit myself to developing and expanding myself as a real being in actual reality, instead of limiting myself within self beliefs of limitation, so that I will no longer be disappointed with myself for accepting myself as limited, and thus become the solution as self will, self movement, and self direction to become a force and presence in this world that can have an impact in manifesting where the human is supported to grow and live and explore one’s potential, instead of a world where the human is supported to remain enslaved to self-imposed and self-accepted limitation, to feed the greed as an instant-gratification seeking consumer that will buy buy buy to try to fill that void that self is creating in the first place.

I commit myself to seeing the world as it is, and not coloring it through my minds ‘I’ to paint a pretty picture over the Reality that I have accepted and allowed to exist, so that I can face the reality I have created and in that face myself and investigate myself to see how what I accept and allow within myself is how I manifest this world , and within understanding how I create what is here and manifest my reality, I can then correct every part of myself through which I’ve manifested a world of limitation, to rather create a world where actual Life exists, where Life actually grows and expands, not diminish within limitation.

I commit myself to realize that the world seems limited as a reflection of my own accepted and allowed limitation, and thus I stop searching to find something ‘more’ out there, but look within myself to root out all the limitation I exist as, to no longer manifest the world as limited as the reflection of who I am.

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