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Let your anchor in life be truth. People are forever directing me to other blogs to read the words they have chosen as truth. However, what it seems they fail to realize is blogs are written by everyday people. Few are motivated by truth only opinion. Opinion, as defined by the dictionary is “the view somebody takes about an issue, especially when it is based solely on personal judgment.

Truth, on the other hand is a statement that corresponds to fact or reality. Now in order to form an opinion about something, you first have to have the truth about it because truth based on lies is not truth at all. In fact truth based on lies is manipulation which I see a hell of a lot of in today’s world and in a lot of the blogs I am directed to.

Manipulation is defined as an act to change or present something in a way that is false but personally advantageous. Those who are easily manipulated are said to be gullible. Gullibility is tending to trust and believe people, and therefore easily tricked or deceived.

This is where thinking for one’s self comes into play. Most things put forth are generally a mixture of truth and opinion. The key is to know what is true in order to discern what is opinion thereby lessening your gullibility and preventing you from being easily manipulated.

As I look around the world and see governments which are suppose to be designed for the benefit of the people yet the people suffer, living below the poverty level, inadequate medical care, unemployed, oppressed, without a voice of their own, while their leaders live a life in luxury and comfort, I have to ask how manipulated are the people. When I see a country like North Korea whose leader is a narcissistic dictator, I have to wonder how gullible the people are.

When I view the cover-up in Gaza and Iran as the powers that oppress the people fight hard to keep this oppression from the eyes of the world I feel I am witnessing how easily manipulated the people in these countries have been, how gullible they have been in following a leader that does not have their best interest at heart.

The Anti-Christ as many are beginning to refer to Obama as being giving false descriptions of what they claim are verses from the Bible to use as proof that Obama is indeed the Anti-Christ – however, these are opinions, motivated by the manipulative desires of the authors of such nonsense.

Rather than do a little research for themselves, people are inclined to believe what they read of others interpretations of the Bible. 1 John, chapter 2-4 discusses the antichrist as does 2 John, chapter 1 – “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”

According to this verse, there are many who are anti-christ in the word and have been throughout the history of the world since Jesus. Now unless you know the truth as it is printed in the Bible, it would be easy to manipulate you with words that are untrue like the words spoken in these blogs and forum threads that are claiming “Obama is the antichrist and I can proof it” – their proof is their words that they are quoting Revelations and anything else they can throw together to sound as though they are the true authority on the subject and their ‘opinion’ is the ‘truth’.

Again I reiterate, learning to think for yourself involves understanding truth and being able to decipher between truth, as you know it to be and opinion as used to manipulate. Now the other day, I got a rant from a guy who was down on God telling me that my belief in God was just that, a belief and he just happens not to believe, yet he tried to quote the Bible in reference to Obama saying he was “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” which is found in the Gospel of Matthew.

What I am talking about does not stop with religion, it relates to relationships, politics, friendships, work etc. There is not one amongst us who has not felt manipulated on one level or another in life however, the key is to learn from that encounter which does not seem to be happening as we become manipulated by one politician after another and enter into one relationship after another only to end up feeling used or being the user based on your knowledge that most people are easily manipulated.

Bernie Madoff was a master manipulator preying on the gullibility of many who obviously were not easily manipulated because they had achieved significant wealth and power yet, through lies he was able to gain their trust and manipulate them out of their cash for his own personal gain.

Politicians are manipulators by nature that is why each person needs to take the time to review the legislation placed before them before it is voted in as law. Do not rely on what other people say regarding the legislation, but instead, get your own understanding of the proposed legislation by taking the time to review it. It is easy to sit in judgment of anything or anybody but it takes an intelligent person to think for them selves based on truth.

Once you have an understanding of the legislation then you need to ask yourself are the objectives relevant and obtainable. While some may be obtainable, others may not be; then you have to ask yourself if those that are obtainable out weigh those that are not obtainable – you have to look at the total picture and decide if what needs to be obtained can be obtained.

As I watched the debate regarding the stimulus package, and now the climate legislation, I witness how with the stimulus package Republicans were calling the package ineffective however when asked to be specific they only came up with maybe 10 or 12 things that were truly ineffective yet, the way they expressed their dislike for the bill you would assume the whole thing was ineffective.

So it is with the climate bill. While I am not in total agreement with the bill, I do believe this bill is a step in the right direction. If they can come up with an alternative to that part of the bill that still allows for some companies to pollute the air but be penalized for the pollutions they emit while rewarding those that lessen their pollution, it would become a stronger bill because the key to the bill is supposedly to lessen the emissions that are affecting the environment.

The anti-christ is amongst us and has been, always, my worry is that like Bernie Madoff, one will rise up and captivate the masses who are too lazy to seek the truth nor the understanding as to how to discern the truth, but would rather follow those who have a personal agenda presented to you in the disguise of working in your best interest. Wise up people before the antichrist you are waiting for materializes and leads you to your self fulfilling prophecy of destruction and eternal damnation; which is where I see mankind heading.

And that’s the way I see it!!!!

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