On a search of Google adwords I find that those two topics each get 185 MILLION searches a month. I realized yesterday that those two questions are what I started looking for answers to thirty years ago.\u00a0 I realize now that I have found the answer to those question, found it to perfections, and so therefore I have something to offer those 185 million people who are still searching for answers.<\/p>\n
Which is why I am re-dedicating my website, Yesness.com to answering these question.\u00a0 Starting today I will just be focusing my blogging efforts on these questions.\u00a0 I suspect that from time to time I will post on other topics but they will go to my personal blog, JimFreedom.com\/blog.<\/p>\n
I am sure there are many people out there who might read this and will be wondering why I would think I know something about love, for they might think I have no clue what love it.\u00a0 After all, I have never had a romantic relationship that has lasted even a year and I have had very few relationships.\u00a0 PLUS, I am one of the biggest assholes that many people who know me have ever known, so how could I say that I know anything about love?<\/p>\n
I think that question is funny.<\/p>\n
I imagine going into a Christian church and asking, “Was Jesus a loving person?”\u00a0 I am sure that virtually everyone there would say that YES, Jesus was not just a loving person but the very incarnation of love.<\/p>\n
Yet, if you asked the religious people of Jesus’ time if Jesus was a loving person they would say, “HELL NO”, for to them he was Satan incarnate, he was mad, crazy or possessed by demons.\u00a0 To use modern language they would say that Jesus was an asshole extraordinaire.\u00a0 Which is why the religious people wanted Jesus dead, because he kept pushing their button or “bearing witness to the truth” of how they were conditioned to ABUSE THEMSELVES and lie to themselves about it by blaming other people for their own emotional behavior.<\/p>\n
Jesus then went on to talk about blessedness, which was the theme of his whole Sermon on the Mount.\u00a0 One of the things he said there was, “Blessed be those who do not take offense at me,”\u00a0 which put the onus of responsibility for being offended back onto the one who is offended.\u00a0 Then Jesus went even further and said, “Take cheer, for I have overcome the world,”\u00a0 which means that you could not push Jesus’ buttons and piss him off the way he could piss off the religious people’s buttons.<\/p>\n
So Jesus was not just pointing out that people had been programmed to abuse themselves emotionally, but he cared enough to show them that there was a way out of that abuse.\u00a0 He loved those people who were persecuting him, enough to take their hatred yet he still tried to inspire them to get free from the unhealthy\/unholy habits.<\/p>\n
That is what I do and that is why some people still see me as an asshole who knows nothing about love.\u00a0 I may not yet be as big an asshole as Jesus was, but I aspire to and to even go beyond where Jesus went.<\/p>\n
What I have learned is that when I was like everyone else I would abuse myself emotionally all the time, which lead me to experience this world as HELL, but when I learned to be honest with myself and to love myself I was then able to see, appreciate, enjoy and love ALL that life had to offer, which makes my experience of life heavenly.<\/p>\n
I have learned how to love myself in the presence of whatever the world is offering and I feel that skill is valuable enough that people will come to my website\/blog to hear what I have to say about it.<\/p>\n
I would love to hear what you think about this.\u00a0 Please post your comments wherever you read this.\u00a0 Your criticism is VERY valuable to me, for it enables me to improve my method of communication and service to others.<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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