For a long time, I\u2019ve been challenged to leave behind regrets, resentment, and blame.\u00a0 These have been my nemeses.\u00a0 Last weekend, on the way back from one of my several mile jogs, I began linking together in my mind images from my past.\u00a0 I suddenly saw what I had to do.\u00a0 In my artwork eight years ago, four years before I had seen any of the Prime Literature, and while I was still in High School, I had drawn several pictures and made a painting on which I explicitly questioned (what?). . . I questioned the ubiquitous dishonesties and suffering in families, romances, and the senselessness of certain events in the world.\u00a0 At the time, I merely wrote \u201cWHY\u201d on my painting.\u00a0 It was not a reflection of explicit, reasoned thought, but instead a desperate plea.<\/p>\n
Now, eight years later, I\u2019ve come back to painting, and this time with a clear Vision of what I want to present.\u00a0 At the same time that I could now be beginning to bring some profound satisfaction and self-esteem into my life through my own efforts, I also see a bit of a threat to that enjoyment.\u00a0 What is this that distracts my attention and vexes my Spirit?\u00a0 Has an inanimate object, a mosquito, or a penguin become god?\u00a0 Has a human individual\u2019s life become worthless?\u00a0 This is what I hear and see either implicitly or explicitly around me every day.\u00a0 It is a poisonous atmosphere to be breathing.\u00a0 I hope that big ugly monster that is rearing its head and poking its claws into every facet of individuals\u2019 lives across the globe, and across the span of all of human history may finally be slain, and that we may live in a Twelve Visions World (a free and self-leader world).<\/p>\n
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