How We Think, Matter
“Don’t tell yourself anything more than what the initial impressions report. It’s been reported to you that someone is speaking badly about you. This is the report—the report wasn’t that you’ve been harmed. I see that my son is sick—but not that his life is at risk. So always stay within your first impressions, and don’t add to them in your head—this way nothing can happen to you.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.49
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The Republican Party (which is run by the elite, Tea Party Movement, and other non-American ideologies), the news media, and the fake actors on social media platforms want you to overreact. Why? When we do, we are not free in our thinking. We are forced to be cowards. Only knowing and applying the reality around us will allow Americans to apply the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America.
31 So Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you live by what I say, you are truly my disciples. 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32, GOD’S WORD Translation)
That is why I am disgusted when the media news and everyone else deliberately and repeatedly calls our government a Democracy. They can be very similar, but where it counts, they are not of the same color hue (https://www.diffen.com/difference/Democracy_vs_Republic | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFXuGIpsdE0). The key is looking at the root word. If you call it a blue, red, or white table, it is still a table. If you call our government a Democratic Republic or Republic-Democracy, it is still a Republic. The right word should be a Constitutional Republic. Every American 18 years or older are allowed to vote. That has to do with our Constitution — NOT A MAJORITY RULE!
Back to the quote above, "This is the report—the report wasn’t that you’ve been harmed." We hear Republicans lie so far in the left-field about the Democrats it is far outside the game itself. The Democrats at least have an agenda for the American people. Donald Trump is still the head leader of that party, but he is on so many criminal charges, I need to use someone's fingers and toes to count them all — the number is rising nearly every day. Americans must see past the brown smoke screens they [The Republican Party and lackeys] constantly put in front of us. Reality is not as dark once you allow the sun to shine through your point of view/thinking.
No one can predict the future. We can only live in the moment and do so as if it is our last. "You have been trying to reach many things by taking the long way around. All these things can be yours right now if you stop denying them to yourself. All you have to do is let go of the past, trust the future to providence, and direct the present to reverence and justice." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.1
There are no magic words, wands, etc. to live. Each one of us must work hard through discipline, and continue going forward. Even through spirituality/religion, it takes discipline to achieve. Allowing political partyism, religious leader, or whomever to manipulate, you are no longer free. Instead, you are a slave to a lie!