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Gamer
Ted Annstrong
SPIAKS OUT!
Seeing Yourself Walk
By
1
n the investigation of a sensational
murder, polioe always look for the
motive.
Many times, in the ' 'who–
dun if' novels and mot ior¡ pictures,
the wri ter purposefully muddles the
entire complex plot with dozens of
seemingly irrelevant
lacts.
Usualty, the
actual criminal remains obscunad un–
til the very end. He becomesapparent
only when sorne hidden
motive
is
brought to light. Once the motive is
known. - perhaps it's greed. jeal–
ousy, lust, or revenge- the whole
picture becomes clear.
·
lfl this dog-eat-dog compet itiva
worldof ourswehave grownsoaccus-
- \OIJ\ed' to
evi/ motives on the part of
practically anybody from practically
any organization and from practically
any source - be it personal. social.
religious. educational, cultural, scien–
tific. or governmental - that most of
ushave adopted the idea that "there·s
noneed toworry- NOBOOY ishonest
anymore."
Afterundergoing theagonyof spi rit
that was Watergate and after having
suffered through the incredible social
upheavals of the sixties. with its race
riots. burning cities, campu$ rebel–
lions, shootouts between police and
paramilitary organizations. Ameri–
cans in panicular are understandably
equipped with a larga measure of
suspicion involving the
motive
ol any
group.
The blatant profit-seeking motiveof
the big cigarettecompanies. cosmetic
manufacturers. and producers of the
various and sundry items sensatio–
nallyadvertisedon televisionare pain–
fullyobvioustousall. Nomatter what
the potential serious - and possibly
deadly- consequences may be. this
particular sure-fire extra-long ciga–
rette is guaranteed to trsnsport you
into new horizons of bliss and delight.
The manufacturers. teamed up with
Madison Avenue of course, are will–
ing to bedaule the general public in
any fashion possible, including the
usual suggestive
poses
of hall-ciad
beauty queens, on order to instill the
lust for the product into unsuspecting
minds.
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lt's one of the games people p lay.
We all know that the prolit-seeking
motive is there, and that no matter
whatorganizations mighttell usabout
how they are actually in the business
trying to "help us· (such as the sav–
ings and loans ads or the ads from
your local bank urging you to open up
a regular passbook account). we nev–
enheless know better. They want our
money. But have you ever really
striven mightily to investigate YOUR
OWN motives?
We have all overheard the lun–
cheon conversations where people in
the booth NEXT to us were busily
gossiping about personal ities they
muruallyknew. Veryfewofusareable
to turn""thrmrrroraround and see in
OURSELVES that same incredible.
swelhng, egotistical. motive-glorily–
ong sell, exaltingsell, magnilying self,
perpetuating and promoting self.
preening, currying. combing, fond–
ling. stroking, petting, and otherwise
edoring selfl
Our motive. through much of what
we say. think and do, is to eggrandite
and exal t ourselvesl And at the root of
all this ishuman nature, which is. alter
all, vanity, jealousy, lust and greed.
1 t 's nowonder the Bible telis us that
human nature itself, the carnal mind
of man. is " deceitfulaboveall things"
(Jeremiah 17: 9).
We have "succeeded " in the ulti–
matecon gameof all - that of utterly
and totally deceivi ng ourselvesl
lt's a lot easiertoseethe motives of
others. They are totally transparent.
By assessing the shenanigans and
chicanery of big govemments; by
looking at the bewildering morass of
large-scale organized crime; by sus–
pecting the
illuminati
or sorne other
"worldwide conspiracy" behind
every social-economic movement; by
remembering all the dozens of con–
versations with friends who revealed
their pet methods of getting around
the law; by learning from a business
associate sorne lucrativa loophole
they discovered oo their income tax
reponing - by these and hundreds
of other methods, we all understand
that rhe average human being is pos–
sessed of a very large degree of dis–
honest motivation.
l t's no wonder we are so well
equipped to recognize these evil mo–
tives in others - we very likely have
plenty of them OUASELVES!
Today, a new " thing" is transcen–
dental meditation. ln an incense-filled
candle-lit room. a prsctitioner might
give to the questing student a "man–
trs, .. which may mean only an unin–
telligible bit of gibberish, a sound, a
name, or a meaningless series of
sounds. He is then supposed to repeat
th is "mantra" endlessly (and mind–
lessly). in order to transfix orto trans–
port himself into soma state of
"transcendental meditation."
Notwithstanding the claimed phys–
iological benefits (loweredblood pres–
sure. etc.). there may also
be
sorne
verydeleteriousspiritual sideeffects!
But the point is. all of us seem to
want to know more about what is
inside of usi We want to understand
o
u
Asnvesl But the process of discov–
ering our own true salves - looking
introspectively inside our own hearts
andminds- can
be
themost painful,
and yet also the most constructivo.
process you will ever undergo. (How–
ever, it should by no means bring
about a state of mindless bliss{J
1nave olten speculated that it is a
wonderful thing that the van ity that
can cause us to consider ourselves to
be the most imponant thing. object
being, physiological anatomical
structure, item for discussion, or ob–
jectof concem on the laceof the eanh
(and for that matter in the entirety of
the universo) does not produceobser–
vable physiological symptoms, such
as ugly and grotesque wans or purple
splotches. 11it did, we would alllook
l ike the most ugly, toadish com–
bination of the beast (in the story of
Beauty and the Beast) and the drsgon
at the end of St. George·s spear.
lt is onlywhen we can finally "step
aside"
andwatchourownselves
pass
by - that is, to come to that unique
experience which the Bible calls re–
pentance and conversion during
which we look deeply inside our own
hearts, understand how truly ego–
tist ical and vanity-ridden we are, and
begin to changa our l ives - that we
can be truly free from all this pre–
conceived assigning of MOTIVES to
other peoplel
Only then does the bíblica! state–
ment, " To the pura all things are
pure, •· finally come true.
What about you? Have you ever
real/y investigated your own motives
in everything you think, say and do?
Have you ever triad 10 fathom the very
ultimate motivation for the concepts
you hold to be trua? Have you ever
really stepped aside and watched
yourself walk by - seeing yourself
quite literally as others see you?
When and if you ever accomplish
such a feat, you will finally be on the
way toward the greatest form of fre&o
dom of all - freedom from
your–
sel f.
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Women'sYear
In Mexico
by
Daniel M. Roben
MEXJCO
OTY,
July
1975
Amidst the nostalgic srrains of
t-as
Golondrinas
(''The Swallows," Mexico's
traditional farewell song), the decade's
most controversia( intemational a(fair
carne to an uproarious end. The scene
was remi.nisceot of the biblieal passage
abour the Tower of Babel, as a myriad
of languages welled in
lO
a
single strange
discordant roar.
To
!hose
of us whoobserved the meet–
ings and
analyzed
the nsolutions of
this
rwo-weck confereoce. the feeliog was
one of dead seriousness on the part of
most .of the
6,000
female and
240
male
panicipants from
133
nalions. Undoubt·
edly this world conference was the most
ambitious of tbe many U.N.-sponsored
conferences.
lt
had the mosr speakers,
received tbe most media coverage. had
rhe mosr panicipants. employed the
greatest number of services.
was
the
most costly, and produced the most
paper (over two million pages wonh).
Tbe
Thalle
of Womea's Year
Thc tri-fold tbeme of the Women's
Year and its conference was apUy sym–
boli.zed by the conference emblem: a
dove of peace with a womao's sign and
the mathematical sigo of equaüty.
Taken 10gether, these symboli.zed the
three themes of equaüty, developmcot,
and peace.
As
a wbole. the confereoce
was succeufu.l in reaehing momeniOus
decisioos in
aU
three
ofthese arcas.
The most far-reaching advances were
in the arca of
dewdopment.
While the
delegates of lhe industrialized nalions
were content to bring 10 Mexico the gos–
pel of tbe American dream and the
American way of Jife, womcn of the un–
derprivileged nations of the world had
theor flrsr real chance 10 get together to
demand sometbing bold aod toraUy new
- called lhe lntemalional Ecooomic Or–
der - which would force a more equi–
rable dtStribulion of the world's wealth.
Their inilial declaratioo of lhis new or–
der was approved under the auspice& of
theU.N.
Reaclions to such radical propo5als
largely depended on the delegate's
home nation. Many delegates from
bighly developed lands proclaimed the
confercoce as nothing but a "rotal fa.il–
ure."
while the delegates from tbe
Third
World thougbt ir a "resounding suo–
cess." lt was reaUy
aU
a mancr of eco–
nomic perspective.
AUNot Perfecl al Confcreoce
The same arguments, piclcetings,
flared rempcrs, and seiJ\sh chauvinism
which are present at most men's oonfabs
also alllicted the women's conference.
These scandalous aspecrs of tbe
womco's conference have received their
share of world pubücity. Who hasn'r
heard of the "radicalesbians" lobbying
ror the universal acceptance or thcir
strange aberration? Who hasn't been
sbocked by the organized prostitutes'
claim
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the tiUe of"professionals"?
The scandalous shout.ing down of
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