I've been doing a lot of reading lately - listening a lot to what everyone's opinions have been surrounding the stories of our lives - attempting to put the pieces together on where we all have gone wrong. I know...I know...it's not like a "Skywalker" to actually "listen," but hey, I'm trying, alright?
I believe we are in a "misplaced war." We keep placing the focus on each other...on our decisions, our mistakes, our successes, and our failures. We are forever furthering those actions, albeit whether or not they are good or bad, for future repetition, when we "glamorize" ourselves. I'm serious. I mean it, for each and every one of us - good and evil, big and little. Size and Sides matter not to the soul in need of inspiration.
We battle not against flesh and blood, but against the powers that be, the principalities of the air, the strongholds. We battle against the unseen and the spiritual. Therefore, why do we keep demonizing each other? We keep putting each other on either an extremely high and ridiculous pedestal where we can do "no wrong," or we are putting others so damn far beneath our boot that we make "shit beneath our shoe" look like a king in comparison.
What the hell are we all thinking? Seriously.
I don't know about you, but I've never heard of a successful "team" that ripped its own guts out. I've never heard of brothers that ate each other for breakfast like some fucked up version of a zombie apocalypse. When we seek blood, everyone loses. War is pointless. I said it before you all labeled me a "dark demon" and I'll say it until I'm blue in the damn face. WAR IS POINTLESS.
Seriously. Get the mother fucking XBOX and Halo it out until your eyes fry from the unchecked radiation levels of your technological devices, if you so feel the need for a cock fight. Destroying things never made us "men." You know what makes us men? Being strong enough to BUILD things, when there is nothing but sheet rock and no water to feed our fresh sprung seedlings. Having the balls to stand fearlessly in the face of terror and pure evil filth while we tell it where the hell to go. Placing our faith in our Creator, JEHOVAH, instead of placing our pride in our finite and flawed capabilities. Having hope in the Deus Ex Machina. Socking "Science" in the dick for chopping out the Spiritual from our education system and detailed analyses. Maintaining peace and contentment when the fires of Mordor rage and relentlessly beat our door, all the while pitching camp on our doorstep.
Who gives a fuck about them? Just open the door and step over the mother fuckers. Give them no time of day.
You know what else makes us men? Being able to admit we are far from perfect. Being able to confess that sometimes...just sometimes...we really DON'T have what it takes to handle all of this bullshit on our own...and that we really need each other. Being able to agree that our talents are "our talents," and although we will always do what it takes for as long as it takes, to be able to agree that we won't insist on doing what we "want" over what we "should do." Sometimes that means we have to give up a dream or two...but really...what IS our dream? The "thing" we are fighting for, or genuine contentment? See what I mean?
Hi. My name is Anakin Skywalker. I'm known as The Chosen One and a superior bad ass. And I have a confession to make. I'ld like to be the first to take a stand right now and say that, although I am talented, I am not talented enough without you...without ALL of you. I need you. Seriously. I need JEHOVAH and I need all of you. Please forgive me for being imperfect, but please understand that I am also human. Please also understand that, although you see me as a strong Force, and although you believe through logical deduction that I should be able to handle certain battles with a swift snap of my fingers and flick of the midi-chlorian wrist...I can't always win every battle I face. I wish I could. I wish that I could always be your hero...but sometimes...just sometimes...I need YOU to be my hero too. Sometimes I need your understanding, and sometimes I need your forgiveness, even in exorbitant amounts.
I'm willing to die again and again to save you...and sometimes, I'm gonna need you to be willing to do the same for me. Sometimes we will have to face insurmountable odds together, and sometimes we will be scared shitless, but I can guarantee that every time, so long as we all stick together, as so long as we let JEHOVAH lead our path, we will always lead and stand victorious over whatever battles and evil forces we face.
Truth.
It's not a matter of optimism. It's a matter of personal experience. It's a matter of the promises within the words of JEHOVAH Himself. And sometimes? I even find "my own lack of faith disturbing." Allow for me to assure you, every time I shirk away from faith, I reap the negative consequences.
Truth.
Join me, and help me break these cycles. Let's rearrange this barren black hole and make it a balanced and beautiful force of Light again in the Universe. Things don't have to be this way. They DON'T have to stay this way. We can overturn this negativity and shatter these strongholds. We can break down these mother fucking walls. We must believe. We must have faith. We must rise up. We must forgive. We must love again. And we must stand together.
And most importantly, we must not give up. No matter how bad the circumstances look. No matter how hard it gets. No matter how many tears we shed in secret places. If I've learned anything, it's that I can literally go from the depths of hell to the skies of victory in a matter of twenty minutes...so just hold on. Don't give up. It WILL be overturned...God will not let you be tempted or pressed past what you can bear...so don't EVER give up.
And also? Most importantly? We must not blame each other for the "turbulence" we hit along the road. Lets use my past as an example here. If I was far too young to become a "master" and be given the responsibilities of the rest of the leaders, then I was far too young to be blamed for everything that went to hell amidst one of the worst and most corrupt uprisings that we were ALL victims of. Lets face it. There are laws against such things now. I can only imagine that they were created in accordance to the ridiculousness of this logic. The fact that one man...one scapegoat...one YOUTH...could be blamed for everything, without a conversation...without question...without logic...without deduction...is the exact reason that the Dalai Lama preaches against the follies of hate and lust in his book "How To Be Compassionate." It's this desire to elevate or demonize everyone that destroys us all. By shifting the responsibility onto just ONE person, we eliminate the potential for solving the problem so that nothing like this can ever happen again.
Immean look at what just occurred with Kylo Ren. Once again, we have a repeat performance...and why? Because not ONLY was I, his relative and therefore personal influence upon his fragile spiritual life, blamed for everything, the story of what actually went down had been lied about and glamorized in order to lay an unstable foundation for his future battles with the Light and Dark Sides of the Force. It's this overemphasis and grandisement of the powers of the Dark Side that leads those who are sensitive to it to be influenced to turn that direction. They are young and immature. They don't understand that "this too shall pass," just like a really bad fucked up case of puberty. They begin to feel overpowered by this negative energy that they have yet to understand, all the while lacking the maturity and guidance to truly and deeply know that they can stand up to it, beat it, and tell it to go fuck itself.
To be perfectly honest, it's very difficult for youth who are Force sensitives. I feel like it's important at this point, with the little bit of experience and wisdom that I have, to emphasize on some of these details for all of you at this point, in order for many future problems to be averted.
The reality is this: Force sensitives have incredibly strong senses. Sounds obvious, doesn't it? And yet, every time we see it come to fruition, we chastise religiously and with a ferocity of a g*ddamn bear at the outletting of such senses. Lets be clear...Force sensitives will push the limits. They will be overly angry to the point that it scares the fucking shit out of you. They will say things that terrify you. They will want to fuck every legal adult in sight. They will cross lines that you draw. They will swear as the day is long, in a way that could only put Popeye to fucking shame. They will try to fix what they see is wrong with the system...with "your" system. They will choose expression over rote action. They will choose the life of an artist over the machine-like "nine to five" grind. They will rise and they will fall. They will cost you more financially than any other mediocre idiot you could kick out the fucking nest. They will question ethics, law, morality, and the way the world turns.
But at the end of the day? They're gonna save your life.
Therefore, LET THEM GROW. Let them learn a little. Don't be so scared when they press the boundaries. It is the only way that they can healthily find themselves. This may sound contradictory to your "psychological expert analyses" but allow me to ask you, have you yet succeeded in knowing how the fuck to deal with any of us? Have you helped avert the problems or have you partially been to blame for bringing them on yourselves?
Think.
When you overreact, when you severely scold, and when you withhold a Force sensitive from doing exactly what he or she feels that he or she must do when the UNIVERSE (not you...but the Universe) insists that it must be done, you inhibit who they are meant to become. You literally STOP the process. You inadvertently teach them that what they believe is wrong and what you say is always right...and since what you are saying happens to contradict with what the Force is telling them, they are "forced" to pick between fulfilling their destiny and "obeying" you. And lets face it...obedience ordinarily wins. Why, you ask? Are you not the idiots who wield the power of the physical pain that can be inflicted upon our bodies for "not" listening to you? Are you not the ruler over our food supplies? Are you not the ones who set out to say that we are incapable of caring for ourselves, all the while usurping our funds for your own gain and elevation of your own pride and control, in order to "force" us to do what you want us to do anyway? And all the while...did you EVER stop to wonder why, even though the Universe has sent us here to fix things, NOTHING changes and NOTHING gets fixed?
It ain't rocket science, you high minded geniuses, you.
Take a look at what happened with me and Obi Wan for a second. Because of discipline and because of rules, I did not listen to the dreams that I was having for over a month in regards to my mother. Obi Wan Kenobi knew of these dreams. He insisted that "dreams do pass." I was told to stick to my responsibilities and get over it. To not let the "Dark Side" of the Force manipulate my dreams and my actions.
Sadly, I listened to the advice of man over the advice of the Force. And the consequence of it? I lost my mother. Had I listened to my dreams and ignored the unnecessary rules and poor advice given to me by the "experts," she would still be here today. We all know these blatant and obvious facts. It is the fact that contradictory instructions from my "masters" were being forced as precedent over the actual Force that set me off down a negative spiral...and the death of my mother was one of the last and final straws. Do you not all see how ALL of this could have easily been averted if those in power would have not been prideful? If they would have been wiling to rework their manmade system with what the Universe delivered unto them in order to heal them?
Healing takes change and an acceptance that a change must take place, as well as an allowance for that change to take place. That's the reality of the situation, folks. We must learn to embrace each other, once again, as brothers and sisters, to allow and forgive our differences, to learn to enjoy our differences, to give each other space and room to grow, to actually encourage each other's growth, to praise attempts and even the failures, to use the failures as kind guidance...these are the things we must do. No "buts" about it. We must. This is where the "war" is...it's amongst ourselves and our inability to accept each other and allow each other to grow and become who we are meant to be. That's unacceptable. So let's take up our cross and actually fight the right battle this time around.