A notable moment in time,

A homeless man looks to me and he says something like,

"God is going to know you by how many homeless friends out here you have."

I can see his aim at cleverness, and I hear his meaning,

I tell him, "You're going to love this. I heard this earlier today.

It doesn't matter if you know Jesus. It matters if Jesus knows you."

I watched the look of knowing light up in his eyes, and he looked at me and began to make statements that "we all love you".

What difficulty it is to be in the past!

These are the words of the Lord to the people of this past we are living in,

Told to be loving, so they try to be a little loving, a little here, a little there, to obey, obey, obey, line on line on line.

And they look, and say,

And I just look at them.

I told people that in the night, I was in this homeless area, I saw something that seemed exactly what you would imagine a human sacrifice would be like seeing.

I played it off, and said, well, it was probably just someone falling into a ditch, and maybe something fell into their arm or something.

The zombie people demonically crowding around her were probably just trying to help her.

You know what is interesting?

When you tell people that someone is being sacrificed,

being murdered, essentially,

well,

all the sudden,

they seem to think that someone should call the police and help that person.

It is interesting, Because there is a voice, a contagious voice, that has spread here in Portland, Oregon for many years, and if you catch it, these words come out of you,

And it always sounds the same,

Those words are,

"I wish all these homeless people died."

"We all deserve to die."

"I wish we all die soon."

"I pray we all die soon."

It's always the same voice. I've heard this come out of perfectly rational sensible folk,

and it doesn't fit their character, at all.

This voice is like a very specific meme, a repeated idea,

a very catchy, hypnotic, idea,

like a song is catchy and people repeat it.

This specific 'meme' is not held by the entire society, it's a smaller voice that seems to originate in the homeless community, and is rooted in hatred.

Why is it that the homeless are this problem to be solved, this thing you want moved out of your sight,

But one mention of sacrificing a single homeless person to death,

and suddenly you take an interest in the person's life?

It is slow, and awful, to the ones who have to watch it.

If you understand it well enough,

then you understand, that it has to get so much worse.

In some places, people think it is so bad.

There are demon-esque, zombie-esque walking around,

now the fentanyl is laced with new drugs,

now the drug is even more deadly, and it makes you even more sociopathic.

The homeless and crazy are seemingly everywhere in the city.

People think it is bad now.

It is not bad now.

It will be bad later.

The politicians and the people smart enough to take money,

they take money to figure out "how to solve this problem".

They will never solve this problem.

Anonymous: Do you see addiction as a disease, a sin, or something else?

I see addiction as a symptom of a psychological disease. Not as a personal psychological disease, but as one born of the "modern day".

Because people are not a problem.

Yes, we can systematically design a society that incarcerates the poor and gets them to work for free for the rich, of course this is possible. This is not a problem for the rich, but an opportunity to exploit.

For the society, this will not make the problem go away for the "middle class", for the common people.

In fact, the common people I expect will become more homeless.

You can already see what I'm saying will happen based on what I've said here,

The inevitable, is that the problem will grow bigger and bigger until something so horrific happens to a homeless person,

so against what should happen to a person on a fundamental human rights level,

that it will cause a change in the perspective of the society.

It has to be enough of a problem,

that the problem cannot be pushed away, shoved out of sight.

Right now, the problem can be moved away.

Once it is so bad of a problem that you cannot escape it even in your mind, when you close your eyes and see horrors of the problem and cry in your bed,

That is when the change happens.

One possibility of this could be in the scale of numbers of mass death from drug overdose.

Numbers do not tend to move people too much, as they become meaningless statistics,

but they can still have this kind of impact at a certain level.

A closed heart is able to say,

*"I hope all these *****y, bad, awful people die."

But if something horrible enough happens to those people,

the closed heart will be forced open,

as a person is fundamentally good natured in their real self,

they can only close their heart for so long, it cannot remain closed,

this is the eye of the heart,

and the second set of ears,

you can close your eyes and stop listening for a while,

But you cannot actually close your ears.

Once the sound is piercing enough, you will listen.

It's not too hard to imagine scenarios.

Right now two of the big shockers are,

Apparently, people have thrown the most basic human level morality out the window, and will do anything horrible to another person in order to score these drugs on the street.

]If you consider it, the avoidance of acknowledging the problem is no different than the way a person deals with problems on the personal level, avoiding them until they become unavoidable.

I have been thinking for a long, long time about what the real problem is.

Society at large will not be able to recognize this part of it, it is too conditioned.

Anyone with an understanding of freedom will see it, and know it.

It is simply that a society under oppression becomes sick and dies.

You cannot see oppression unless you know what freedom is.

I've said this many thousands of times,

Freedom is not the ability to take any choice.

Freedom is the psychological relief from oppression.

A new way I can model this and state this,

Is that freedom is when your behavior is unaltered and unaffected by an outside influence.

Oppression is what you feel when you walk outside.

If you feel constricted when you walk outside,

It's a measure of oppression.

Oppression is when you feel pressed in.

Oppression is when it feels like the outside world is pressing into you and pressing you down.

If you truly understand a human being,

You know absolutely that the inherent quality in a human being is joy.

The natural quality expressed out of a person, is joy.

Joy is essentially, the natural state. All feelings of freedom arise out of an intrinsic joy. You cannot accurately measure oppression simply by constriction, because when a person gets used to being oppressed, it becomes more natural and normal to them.

You can, however, easily measure oppression against the amount of joy expressed in a person. If you understand humans, you know too that the natural behavior of humans is laughing and singing and dancing.

Imagine you are on the street. And you are dancing around. Truly imagine this, in your life, for real. Not dancing professionally, but dancing happily, joyfully, idiotically. You are dancing in public and the neighbors can see you, then you go to the park and dance, in the middle of the road and dance, and finally into the city and dance, right in front of the rich establishments.

How does it feel when people look at you like this? How does it feel if you laugh boisterously and loudly and they can hear you? What does that feel like? What are they thinking about you? Is it positive or negative?

This is how you measure the oppression your society. Oppression is invisible. We call it psychological. It is invisible unless you can see it. It is measurable by how you perceive the world is for you, with you, or against you.

It is the enemy of humanity.

Society treats the symptoms of its own problem as if they are problems themselves.

Society treats homelessness like a problem,

addiction like a problem,

mental illness like a problem,

these are largely symptoms of society's problem, a problem of oppression.

A darkness covering the light.

Society treats depression as an individuated problem,

ignoring that depression is the passive form of aggression,

that we are psychologically pressed down into a passive state,

And ignoring the phenomenon which I believe is that,

Having depression is to be aware of a feeling which exists in the "collective consciousness".

What this means is that the feeling of depression is not actually individuated,

rather it is a sense that anyone who senses it is aware of.

If you understand what I am saying,

I am saying that the awareness of the state of society, the awareness of the oppression in society, could be interpreted by the individual as a feeling of depression.

If you investigate and break it down, you will see that this must at the very least be related to the truth of this matter.

This is because if you pick apart why a person feels depressed,

it will either be because they are unhappy with the state of the world they cannot change, or because they cannot escape the world they cannot change.

I feel that this quote could be said much clearer,

That the sight of a world in need of repair, is a depressing sight!

Similar to what is written about the homeless,

The depression is not the problem,

The fact that the situation is depressing is a problem!