Tag: evangelists

Zealots

Posted on by philipdodson

When we become super enthused by something, especially when it makes a big difference to us, when we feel like it is a great revelation…like the eureka moment that answers everything for us, we then become evangelical.

However, often and with good intentions, we want to bring this to others so much that we lose sight of that just because it was our revelation or realisation that it must be for others too. We make the assumption that others are experiencing or needing the same as us.

What can happen is that our fervent desire to adhere to something can lead us to become a zealot. Our zealous beliefs lead us to become completely inflexible, we lose the ability to understand others and instead of being inspiringly evangelical about something we become harsh and repel others. 

When we lose the ability to see others and accept that they are on their own path and journey, which is not ours to alter, interfere with or judge, then we lose connection and our inflexibility becomes an inhibitor to ourselves.

When we become zealous we lose our ability to be compassionate and most importantly with ourselves, which is then reflected in how we treat others.

Often the resistance that we receive from others only magnifies our own zealous and inflexible behaviour further. We must learn to be compassionate with ourselves if we are to break out of this cycle.

Kindness to ourselves is vital otherwise when we become a zealot with ourselves we significantly impact our self-worth.

WTF happened to hope?

Posted on by philipdodson

What the FUCK happened to hope, idealism and belief in making a meaningful difference for humanity?

It got flushed down the toilet by the greedy, profit-driven industrial machine and its owners, who bought the politicians, bought the schools, the lawyers, the banks, the shares, in fact, the whole lot. Then turned us into compliant cogs in their machine. They have been controlling us with their ‘religions’ and myths of money, capitalism, democracy, certainty, and offering us trinkets in order to consume shit we don’t need.

They have created hate, cynicism, judgement, war, poverty, criticism, and division so that we fight each other and ignore what they do.

Well, it is enough, we want to live with hope, ideals, love, kindness, compassion, empathy and we want to see a world free of greed, judgement, hate, anger, cheating, manipulating, shitting on people and killing them too.

It’s enough.

Hope lives on, for example, Corbyn, he’s the start of a new hope, he is something different in a field of dull black and white, bland, safe, politicians, all offering the same dreary compliant life of debt and slavery for most, JC is offering a new hope, and once you have a why, once you are prepared to be different, sticking to your values, and once you can inspire people, they become your evangelists, they become the people who spread the word for you.

Look at the surge in turnout in the UK election.

We need to all rise up and be counted and back hope, back people who are prepared to stick to their values and be prepared to stand out from the crowd. We need them more than ever to help us overcome the industrialised machine that has turned us all into debt-laden compliant slaves of their myths and system.

Rise up, become a leader you want to see or become an evangelist for someone who inspires something different. We have a responsibility to ourselves and the human race to act.

Hope is there if we choose it.