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Date Posted: 13:39:48 01/12/04 Mon
"Our problems begin when we try to solve our own problems(playing God) instead of seeking understanding."
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Exactly. You can't solve your own problems anyway (I never could). You might spend years finding this out (as we all have) by stubbornly trying your own "solutions" over and over again, as though you have the answer. But no matter what you do none of your solutions work, because the problem lies in your nature, not in the symptoms (or the problem itself).
Sooner or later you will be FORCED to see the humbling, humiliating truth about yourself and your futile efforts to fix things using your own "mighty power". That is the moment of truth which determines your fate (and separates the wheat from the chaff) because some people cannot abide admitting there is a God has all the answers and they don't or they are answerable to something greater than themselves: these are the egomaniacs who don't care about right, wrong or that anything higher than themselves, they just want their way - as though that is the whole point of life, and nothing more. Such are the minions of hell, doomed to extinction.....
But those of us who can admit we're sorry and we got it wrong (often *deliberately* wrong) can be brought back into the fold because we can say. "God, you have the answer: I don't and I am sorry for thinking I did". The pain of that is worth it, e.m. - it's really a small price to pay to find something worthwhile (probably the *only* thing that *is* worthwhile and actually works). The only thing that is in pain is your false self anyway (your ego).
"Now my question is: If you just observe the addiction,
what is it you are supposed to understand?"
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That you preferred your way over God's way (you made a wrong choice). That you don't have any of the answers (let alone all of them). That you secretly thought in your heart of hearts that the law did not apply to you (you could get away with it). That instead of 'getting' the message the pain was trying to convey to you, you preferred to block it out and not listen. And that you NEED God if you are ever going to make it "all work" or find your way out of this mess.
If you can admit that (and we're all as guilty as anybody else and have gone through the same process) then you are on your way, heading in the right direction.
Don't resent the suffering, we all deserve it really, because of the choice we made - *choosing* our own way over God's way at some point or other, quite consciously. Think back over your own life and there is a point where you've done that - we all do - so there is really no excuse.
"Are you suppose to see what caused the addiction"
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Yes. But the most important thing is WHY you fell : Roy put it beautifully on a show the other day "you should be glad this person took you for all you got, because you learnt something about yourself and your character weakness, so you actually gained from the whole experience if you can see that" (not his exact words, but words to that effect). So the system works !
It's the same with addiction : there has to be something IN YOU willing to receive it (the drug, the food, whatever)for you to be an addict : that weakness is what you need to see. God wants those character flaws and weaknesses addressed before you die. OK, so you're not perfect, but you should be moving in that direction...
"and understand the things leading up to the addiction?"
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Same as above : if it was trauma that was "the cause", then granted you need to see what other people did to you which caused you to be the way you were (or are). But in either case (trauma or selfish addiction) what you need to look at more than that is what IN YOU caused you to fall. Without that you could not be made an addict. I have never smoked a cigarette or taken drugs in my life and you could not make me, because I don't have it IN ME to want such things : they are of not interest to me whatsoever).
This "cause" in you is what needs correction, not other people or things. You can't fix them anyway, and "fixing" them won't fix you either. So look to correcting (or allowing to be corrected) what is wrong with you.
Then no matter what anyone does to you (right or wrong), you become a better person - they can't hurt you, not really. In other words, evil can be made to serve good.
And as a bonus you get to watch it become frustrated and burn as it is made to serve good contrary to it's wicked intent. That is one of the few ways you can strike back legitimately at evil. Make it burn, as Roy says.
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