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True and False Believers

Capitalists
believe in universal exemption
from Earth's resonant resilient wealth
of cooperatively-held holistic health.

Christians,
at our best,
believe in universal redemption
with EarthMother and LoveFathers'
cooperatively gracious compassion.

Buddhists,
at our most transcendent heights
and intimate depths,
believe in experiencing universal causation,
resonant correlations
of atoms and waves,
of staid matter and flamboyant energy
of space revolving place
and spiraling evolutions
causing effective sacred time:

Invested with transcendent
through intimate Earth,
natural vision
through spiritual listening,
polypathic thoughts
causing
and cooperatively caused by
polyphonic feelings.

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Sand Blown

Date: 6/25/2020 2:27:00 PM

could you be more specific....true and false believers means what....believers who are: true or false in nature, or both?....or, maybe they believe truths or falsehoods, or both?....or whatever... : ) stan sand

Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 6/25/2020 8:54:00 PM

My more specific responses are: True and false believers in compassion as healthier than dispassion. I might agree we believe in truths and falsehoods; so both--but definitely not "whatever" which heads toward cynicism, nihilism, individualism, relativism, subjectivism, which brings us back to cause for cynicism.