The Painting

We all are painters.

When we are born we receive an empty canvas of our life and a palette.

We put different colors of paint on the palette, mix them, and choose the colors we apply on the canvas to create the painting of our life.

Yet by what standard do we make our choices?

When we look in the mirror, we want to see the reflection of a free, autonomous individual.

We want to see someone who is able to make independent decisions.

Yet if we take a really close look at the reflection in the mirror of our lives, do we see truly autonomous individuals making independent choices?

How do we know anything?

Isn't it by observing it in relation to a standard we can use to measure and give it a place?

How do we know the grass is green?

Because we have been given a standard with names for certain colors, and when we say the grass is green we express our knowledge of the standard we have been taught.

We give this color a place in the entirety of the spectrum of color in accordance with the standard we have been taught.

This is the problem.

We cannot know anything other than by standards which have been given to us which allow us to place everything in the perspective of those standards.

If we then substitute the absolute standard of YHWH by standards created by man, who is subject to a dualistic creation and therefore carries corrupt standards in his psyche, then by judging and assessing something in accordance with these man-made standards our knowledge and outlook on life will reflect the values of those standards.

In other words, if we use corrupt standards, our views will reflect this corruption.

We paint the canvas of our life in the wrong colors and wrong shapes.

If a prophet does not reference to YHWH's standards, then inevitably his prophecies will reflect the corruption present within his reference standard.

The main characteristic of false prophets is that they have substituted YHWH's standard of truth with man-made standards they refer to as truth, and as a result their prophecies lie.

They may predict a few things accurately, but their prophecies in their totality show the evidence of  corrupt standards.

To be able to detect their corrupt standards you must have a standard of truth which allows you to accurately assess the standards of the false prophet.

Lacking this standard of truth, you may end up painting your own canvas with the colors of the false prophet.

To be able to paint our life in the colors of the vision YHWH had in mind for us when He created us, it is important to embark on the quest for YHWH's standard of truth.

The closer we are to envisioning this standard, the more accurate we are in painting our lives in His true colors.

The further away from YHWH's standard of truth, the more obscure and obfuscated our painting becomes as it reflects false standards we used to create the painting.

Our problem is our belief in false standards.

The human robot is created by a conditioned response to accept false standards as his own, reducing him to a robotic cog in the great wheel of deception.

The robot is set up to follow orders and bow before titles of authority.

They take up their rank in the big wheel, and if they are obedient robots they move up the ranks to create more robots as cogs in the great big wheel which makes the earth system of slavery move around and yield its harvest of souls.

Robots have handed over their painting and let the deception behind the great big wheel dictate the colors and shapes of their painting.

They have been conditioned to learn to paint exactly within the lines, thus creating a painting in the image of the false standards of the authority figures they were subject to.

Robots learn to conform and bow before authority regardless of the nature and integrity of that authority.

As a result they receive rewards: a place in society, honor and esteem from men, awards and medals, diplomas, commissions.
Or the robots learn to become a manifestation of authority in the system of the big wheel themselves through rebellion and carving out a new system of cogs within the setting of the big wheel.

They have to trade in the quest for YHWH's standard of truth and supplant it with man-made standards, which include standards of religions.

Whereas robots paint their canvas in colors of conformity, the rebels paint their canvas in contrasting colors.

Rebellion and conformity are fruits growing on a tree which grew out of the seed of dualism, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Although different in their colors, both rebellion and conformity produce the same painting.

You are probably familiar with negatives of photos.

The negatives are exactly the same as the photos, only the appearance of colors on the negative is the opposite of the colors on the photograph.

However, although the negative looks very different than a photograph, if you print a photo out of the negative you will suddenly discover that the print shows the exact same image with the exact same colors as the photograph.

This principle also applies to conformity and rebellion: rebellion is just the negative of the photo of conformity.

All too often people fall prey to the dynamic force which creates an expression of the dualism of conformity vs. rebellion, a force which begets its power from our emotional reactions.

Mind you, this force is not equal to our emotional reactions, but it feeds upon them.

It's the force which has blossomed in the form of our pride, our need to be gods instead of serving Him.

Being exposed to a religious veneer without the true depth of the Spirit behind it ends up as an enticement to rebel against the veneer, OR, to conform to it due to suppressed guilt rising out of hating the hate-object for the falsehood of the veneer.

The rebel not only rejects the veneer because it fails to comply with what it purports to be, but also the core values of the veneer are all too often thrown out along with the mask.

That is the very thing which causes the hypocrisy of a religious veneer to be passed on to the rebel.

The self-righteousness behind the veneer of the religiosity gives way to the veneer of the prideful self-righteousness of being right in the rebel.

Rebellion out of anger against what is wrong does not make you right.

Rejecting falsehood because you love and embrace the standard of YHWH is what makes you right.

Both reject, yet whereas one still contains the poison which produced the hypocrisy, the other lacks that poison because it could not enter the soul.

Control is exercised through both conformity and rebellion over the ones who conform or rebel.

The control consists of acceptance of that which the conformist seeks to imitate.

Yet the control also extends into the rebellion against perceived hypocrisy.

Through his reaction against hypocrisy the rebel allows an external source to determine his direction in life and shape his attitude and his beliefs which are derived from standing in reaction against something or someone.

"You say there is a god while I can see enough behind your mask to tell me that you really live as though there is no god? You secretly do things which you publicly denounce?

You're just lying and everything you say is a lie, and I will do my best to strip away this veneer which lies to me and speak the truth: there is no god and your values are just a demonstration of your lackluster showmanship!"

Our emotions are like the colors we apply to the canvas.

The danger of emotions is that they can make us feel right about our belief in wrong standards because of the chemical reality they produce in our body.

To react angrily against something makes you feel right in your anger, but feeling right does not make your standards right.

To paint YHWH's vision of our life on the canvas in the exact right colors we must learn to function from YHWH's standard.

There IS NO other standard.

There is only ONE standard of YHWH, who is the only Source of existence.

The millions of deviating standards are just expressions of different ways in which one can deviate from the one true standard, and they are simply trap-doors created to lure us into non-existence.
The deviations are just the by-product of the dualism of good vs. evil.

When we are able to relate everything in our lives to YHWH's standard and give them a place in accordance to this standard, we are free to apply the exact right colors on the canvas and begin to paint the true vision for our lives.

As long as we use false standards as our frame of reference, we will paint a robotic pseudo-vision on the canvas in the drab colors assigned to us by these false standards.

When we look in YHWH's mirror, we realize that we are not autonomous.

We all exist in relation.

Question is: to what standard do we relate?

Because this standard determines the quality and color of the vision we paint on the canvas of our life.

The art of life is about learning to recognize and abandon false standards by identifying with YHWH's standard only.

There is no other standard.

All standards which deviate from YHWH's standard automatically fall in the category of corrupt standards.

Because YHWH is the ultimate standard of knowing, and there is no other way of truly knowing anything other than by YHWH's standard.