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GORMAN: Greetings, kids. It's good to be here. Nice to be a guest of honor instead of just the same old hum-drum routine teacher showing up again to chew the fat and work out the details of the work of the realm. I haven't any particular plan. I have no notes. No one's given me an agenda. Have you got something you'd like to talk about, Thoroah? Haven't had a good chat with you in a few weeks. How's it going?

GORMAN: Greetings, kids. It's good to be here. Nice to be a guest of honor instead of just the same old hum-drum routine teacher showing up again to chew the fat and work out the details of the work of the realm. I haven't any particular plan. I have no notes. No one's given me an agenda. Have you got something you'd like to talk about, Thoroah? Haven't had a good chat with you in a few weeks. How's it going?

THOROAH: It's going good, Gorman, thank you. It's good to see you again, too. The last month has been obviously one of the most difficult months I've had. Ever. I'm trying to be observant and I've tried to be rational. I'm trying to think positively. I'm trying to propose ideological ends to ethical things, and realizing the energies that are out there surrounding these events E2 80 93 just the energies that I come into contact with as I try to propose peace instead of revenge E2 80 93 which I never thought I would fin d in a position of having to do with my friends! E2 80 93 and the idea . .. I just sent a post out that in it's own way said that God didn't want us to kill each other, and yet God-fearing people somehow don't get that. They do want to defend going out in the name of religion, but . .. only if the do it in the name of religion, yes. There's a real psychological Catch 22 going on with this.

THOROAH: It's going good, Gorman, thank you. It's good to see you again, too. The last month has been obviously one of the most difficult months I've had. Ever. I'm trying to be observant and I've tried to be [[rational]]. I'm trying to think positively. I'm trying to propose ideological ends to ethical things, and realizing the energies that are out there surrounding these events E2 80 93 just the energies that I come into contact with as I try to propose peace instead of revenge E2 80 93 which I never thought I would fin d in a position of having to do with my friends! E2 80 93 and the idea . .. I just sent a post out that in it's own way said that God didn't want us to kill each other, and yet God-fearing people somehow don't get that. They do want to defend going out in the name of [[religion]], but . .. only if the do it in the name of religion, yes. There's a real psychological Catch 22 going on with this.

GORMAN: Oh, that's just a song they sing. It's like one of those tunes, you know, that gets going around in your head and you can't get it out? Insidious songs, usually. And this thing about hostilities and warlike behavior is one of those silly ditties that humanities gets between its ears every now and again and it rides the wave until its spent. The problem with those insidious tunes is they are a loud cacophony of tinny noises lacking harmony in the spheres but they create a peculiar hypnotic effect on those who are more warlike. So your resounding intonation is a sound offering toward stability and true tonal quality that would lead to sanity and rise t o wisdom.

GORMAN: Oh, that's just a song they sing. It's like one of those tunes, you know, that gets going around in your head and you can't get it out? Insidious songs, usually. And this thing about hostilities and warlike [[behavior]] is one of those silly ditties that humanities gets between its ears every now and again and it rides the wave until its spent. The problem with those insidious tunes is they are a loud cacophony of tinny noises lacking [[harmony]] in the spheres but they create a peculiar hypnotic effect on those who are more warlike. So your resounding intonation is a [[sound]] offering toward stability and true tonal [[quality]] that would lead to sanity and rise t o [[wisdom]].

THOROAH: Well, it has to be a pragmatic vision at the same time, not just idealism. It's like looking at what's going on right now. I have a feeling that those emotions, that song that we're singing, we're being led by the nose by a few people to E2 80 93 they're whipping us up into a frenzy, and my disgust is with our loyalty to those who are able to whip us up like that. I would like to see us escape that attraction.

THOROAH: Well, it has to be a pragmatic [[vision]] at the same time, not just idealism. It's like looking at what's going on right now. I have a feeling that those emotions, that song that we're singing, we're being led by the nose by a few people to E2 80 93 they're whipping us up into a frenzy, and my disgust is with our loyalty to those who are able to whip us up like that. I would like to see us escape that attraction.

GORMAN: Yes, this is one of the failings of the faithful. They are sheep. They are easily misled. They are fearful and dumb. But you know the sound of the Voice of the Good Shepherd. If you stay in touch with him, you will continue to hear his counsel, his guidance, and you may stray into distant fields while keeping in contact with the Master such that you will be able t o bring some degree of stability to your surroundings, but only if you are tethered psychically, emotionally, spiritually to that song, that hosanna. You are right to be aware and mindful and alert and intelligent in your discourses with your fellows in this very important chronicle of events on your world. You will need to educate and direct some of those energies into a positive course of action, for there are those who simply must do something, even if it's wrong, and if they haven't got good leadership they will do a lot that's wrong, and this in the long run is okay but in the meantime is just another delay, it's just another side-step, it's just another generation lost to the vagaries of war that could be won to the light of truth if we didn't keep repeating that same insidious ditty. And so the thing we probably ought to do is look for some group purpose to espouse that would give credence and directed energy to these feelings that need to act. The problem is you haven't got clear-cut battle lines drawn. You can't say, "here's a line in the dirt, and the good guys are on this sid e of the line and the bad guys are on that side of the line." Your circumstances are far more complicated than that, for you are infested and infiltrated by those who would promote fear as compared to those who promote faith.

GORMAN: Yes, this is one of the failings of the faithful. They are sheep. They are easily misled. They are fearful and dumb. But you know the sound of the Voice of the Good Shepherd. If you stay in touch with him, you will continue to hear his counsel, his guidance, and you may stray into distant fields while keeping in contact with the Master such that you will be able t o bring some degree of stability to your surroundings, but only if you are tethered psychically, [[emotion]]ally, [[spiritual]]ly to that song, that hosanna. You are right to be aware and mindful and alert and intelligent in your [[discourse]]s with your fellows in this very important chronicle of events on your world. You will need to educate and direct some of those energies into a positive course of action, for there are those who simply must do something, even if it's wrong, and if they haven't got good leadership they will do a lot that's wrong, and this in the long run is okay but in the meantime is just another delay, it's just another side-step, it's just another generation lost to the vagaries of war that could be won to the light of [[truth]] if we didn't keep repeating that same insidious ditty. And so the thing we probably ought to do is look for some group purpose to espouse that would give credence and directed [[energy]] to these feelings that need to act. The problem is you haven't got clear-cut battle lines drawn. You can't say, "here's a line in the dirt, and the good guys are on this side of the line and the bad guys are on that side of the line." Your circumstances are far more complicated than that, for you are infested and infiltrated by those who would promote fear as compared to those who promote faith.

Now, if all of you who promote faith could set aside your ideological differences and get together E2 80 93 whether you are Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or whatever E2 80 93 it would give faith a great occasion to activate many potentials into actuals that could then help stabilize the global situation, perhaps even sufficiently that the temporary threat of world war is abated o r a plan is formulated, one in which you may participate. But this is the difficulty you all face. The prospective that someone else is making your decisions for you. That someone else is determining whether you will fight or play dead, negotiate, charge, be caught up in spy versus spy kinds of intrigues, be inducted into the biochemical warfare state of mind, or wonder if the man next door is as great an enemy as your greatest fears would allow . By not knowing, you keep fears alive, even though faith itself is largely a path of putting one foot in front of the other without knowing where you're going, you are at least in the company of divinity, whereas in your world an d with your leaders, you haven't got a good batting average and so it's hard t o know who to trust, how to follow. Haven't you got enough comrades to begin to promote the concept of defense as compared to offense?

Now, if all of you who promote [[faith]] could set aside your ideological differences and get together E2 80 93 whether you are Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or whatever E2 80 93 it would give faith a great occasion to activate many potentials into actuals that could then help stabilize the global situation, perhaps even sufficiently that the temporary threat of world war is abated o r a plan is formulated, one in which you may participate. But this is the difficulty you all face. The prospective that someone else is making your decisions for you. That someone else is determining whether you will fight or play dead, negotiate, charge, be caught up in spy versus spy kinds of intrigues, be inducted into the biochemical warfare state of mind, or wonder if the man next door is as great an enemy as your greatest fears would allow . By not knowing, you keep fears alive, even though [[faith]] itself is largely a path of putting one foot in front of the other without knowing where you're going, you are at least in the company of [[divinity]], whereas in your world and with your leaders, you haven't got a good batting average and so it's hard t o know who to trust, how to follow. Haven't you got enough comrades to begin to promote the concept of defense as compared to offense?

If the benign virus of love were activated and installed in your hearts and souls, you would go out to greet your neighbor in the spirit and break down cultural boundaries in the search for the divine that indwells all your neighbors. Intimacy in the spirit is a sure-fire guard against terrorist attack for the love of God is enough to overpower that which would bring har m to you, unless it is something that cannot be reasoned with. If it is completely without God-consciousness, if it is cosmically insane, if it is something that will take the spirit, drain it from you and leave you an empt y shell, if it's purpose is to deplete the joy of living from your heart, it will need to be stamped out, as ruthlessly as you would work to stamp out cancer or addiction. Persistence and consistency - all of you working together in the same grand psalm against the tinny hollow clanging of the empty bells of fear.

If the benign virus of [[love]] were activated and installed in your [[heart]]s and [[soul]]s, you would go out to greet your neighbor in the spirit and break down cultural boundaries in the search for the divine that indwells all your neighbors. [[Intimacy]] in the spirit is a sure-fire guard against terrorist attack for the love of God is enough to overpower that which would bring harm to you, unless it is something that cannot be reasoned with. If it is completely without [[God-consciousness]], if it is cosmically insane, if it is something that will take the spirit, drain it from you and leave you an empt y shell, if it's purpose is to deplete the joy of living from your heart, it will need to be stamped out, as ruthlessly as you would work to stamp out cancer or addiction. Persistence and consistency - all of you working together in the same grand psalm against the tinny hollow clanging of the empty bells of fear.

Spread the word! Give credit to your fellow warriors for peace. God is on your side. (Pause) At least he's on my side! I have seen to it that he and I are good co-workers, and when I forget, he reminds me. If he doesn't remind me, my trusted peers will. And this is one of the benefits of operating in such a conglomerate as these United Midwayers who are embarked upon uplifting Urantia to a state of light and life.

Spread the word! Give credit to your fellow warriors for peace. God is on your side. (Pause) At least he's on my side! I have seen to it that he and I are good co-workers, and when I forget, he reminds me. If he doesn't remind me, my trusted peers will. And this is one of the benefits of operating in such a conglomerate as these United Midwayers who are embarked upon uplifting [[Urantia]] to a state of [[light and life]].

How good it is to feel the influence of the Platoon in your neighborhood. The Progress Platoon. What tales they have to tell! What entanglements and pursuits we have all been engaged in, in our various and sundry fields of interest. And it's a joyous time indeed for all of us who are workers in th e field, to finally be activated and to be mindful of and working with an assortment of mortals who are attempting to work with us as we attempt to work with them. (Pause) What else?

How good it is to feel the influence of the Platoon in your neighborhood. The Progress Platoon. What tales they have to tell! What entanglements and pursuits we have all been engaged in, in our various and sundry fields of interest. And it's a joyous time indeed for all of us who are workers in the field, to finally be activated and to be mindful of and working with an assortment of mortals who are attempting to work with us as we attempt to work with them. (Pause) What else?

THOROAH: I don't have anything. Maybe Gerdean does.

THOROAH: I don't have anything. Maybe Gerdean does.

THOROAH: Which one?

THOROAH: Which one?

GORMAN: That theme of a faith safe place. She is an idealist, don't forget. Even though the most ideal are ultimately impelled to become pragmatists in putting the gears in motion to bring about the desired idyllic effect. And so we are not dreamers, we spiritual aspirants, but true cogs in the wheel rolling on to manifest destiny.

GORMAN: That theme of a faith safe place. She is an idealist, don't forget. Even though the most ideal are ultimately impelled to become pragmatists in putting the gears in [[motion]] to bring about the desired idyllic effect. And so we are not dreamers, we spiritual aspirants, but true cogs in the wheel rolling on to manifest [[destiny]].

 

===Closing===

===Closing===

Well, gang, I have had fun. All of this is another opportunity to get to know you better and you to know me better, for relationship to develop, in order for our relationships to make sense and have meaning in the super-consciousness, that true battlefield of fear and faith which will always be won because, in the end, God is all there is. Later!

Well, gang, I have had fun. All of this is another opportunity to get to know you better and you to know me better, for relationship to develop, in order for our relationships to make sense and have meaning in the super-consciousness, that true battlefield of fear and faith which will always be won because, in the end, God is all there is. Later!