John Ellis
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Gratitude — What is it?
A conviction of humility, this is gratitude.
A conviction of our conscience that we have received more than we deserve.
An idea impossible for man to understand, as nature has given humans an ingrate conviction that we deserve all things. It is almost as if the purpose of earth is to show that in a world full of ingrates, the ultimate conclusion has to be extinction by global warming, a genocide by Covid 19 or by 4,000 nukes loaded and about to fire.
For Job is long dead and we have yet to see someone take his place.
“Is Job grateful for nothing?” Satan replied. “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
For with Job, gratitude was automatic, as he had been given a conviction of conscience that he deserve nothing but death.
For the Law of life that preserves and protects perpetual life, it can only be fulfilled by everyone having compassion and giving charity in a way that best produces a grateful response. And though we humans do so love fiction novels, fiction movies and paid actor politicians that enslave us by fiction, there is no more perfect way than gratitude “to self actualize, to be all we can be” and to achieve full and perfect happiness for all.
Problem is, since the Dark Ages, there has not been one organized religion that teaches a true concept of gratitude, with every concept of morality being so corrupted as to teach some form of pride. And that is why, from birth to death, all of our acts of caring and giving accomplish nothing more than to inflate pride.
Truth is, before gratitude would replace excessive wealth as the controlling factor over society, everyone would need an attitude adjustment such that they desired only enough for a comfortable life. A conscience such that most guilty did they feel whenever they missed an opportunity to give all they can give.
And that is why government enforced socialism makes having compassion, giving charity and being grateful, surely a morality impossible to accomplish.
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Gratitude — Destroyed 338 times by the Bible
For in the ancient Greek scrolls of the Old and New Testament, the thought of gratitude is taught a total of 338 times. But, zero times in the Bible
PRIDE — Bible
“I always thank God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus.”
1 Cor 1:4
GRATITUDE — Ancient Greek
“Most grateful to the Lord am I in an ongoing way concerning you, because of the self-sacrificing grace of God that has come to life within you through the Lord Christ Jesus.” 1 Cor 1:4
Ancient Greek Scrolls
“’Now which of them will love him more?’ Simon replied, ‘I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled, who had a bigger debt of gratitude’” Luke 7:42
“And you will be blessed. Although the poor cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” For any man who dies with no one owing him a debt of gratitude, he is one who felt no gratitude toward God.” Luke 14:12
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Gratitude is always towards something greater than us — which is precisely why God is the first and foremost recipient of it — who then rewards us with more BECAUSE we are grateful. Therefore, if we feel undeserving, we will tend to get less. I have heard many a spiritual teacher say this, and this truth has often been apparent in my life. Meanwhile, you are trying to posit gratitude as a kind of diminishment for us, rather than the spiritual elevation it actually is. Yes, there is indeed humility in genuine gratitude, but you are somehow adamant in your… Read more »
“Gratitude is always towards something greater than us”
Above is a fake morality called capitalism, for Paul Martin is of the more intelligent upper-half of society, and the reason they have no gratitude for all their manual labor being done for them by the 50% working poor, this is because of:
GOLDEN RULE
We who are more intelligent have the pleasure of enriching ourselves upon the misery of those with less education, less wealth or less whiteness of skin.
“God… rewards us with more BECAUSE we are grateful.”
Nature’s God is owed our undying gratitude because supplies us with all things necessary to live, move and have our being. But, that has absolutely nothing to do with how we humans should treat each other.
For starter, you are dead wrong in claiming that some humans are greater then others, and because of their greatness they deserve our gratitude even though they do nothing of benefit for us. Are not all humans equal?
“The more kindness and generosity we manifest
towards others, the more it returns to us”
Quite the reverse in this world. For most everyone is born an ingrate thinking they deserve everything, thinking they deserve to be rich and when your gifts start to inflate their ego toward astronomical, it is past time to move on.
“be careful not to tempt God, for if you are
not grateful He will make sure you get nothing.”
Gratitude is not a material thing that we trade with God in exchange for material wealth. For gratitude is an affectionate emotion that springs from a conviction of conscience, a realization that you have received more than you deserve and more than those who have nothing, such that you strive to give what you can to those who have less.
Such a perverse concept of God you have, thinking that he uses carrots and sticks to motivate.
NO EQUALITY — PERFECTION IN A CARING SOCIETY For if everyone had equal intelligence, giving them an equal ability to gain wealth, then we would have no opportunity to feel compassionate, no motivation to feel charitable and no need to feel grateful. A loveless, no affection and emotionally dead existence and nothing being accomplished except to seek all pleasure and avoid all pain. And so, if everyone desired to keep only enough for a comfortable life, wealth could no longer control every aspect of our being, and with everyone doing what would best produce a grateful response, hunger, global warming and… Read more »
AND SO, is God a dictator who uses a fake gratitude to fool us into doing only good, by obeying his Law of good? NOT SO, for how can God be faulted for giving us a greater desire for gratitude, happiness and life, than for sin, suicide and death? — For surely, if everyone had equal intelligence giving them an equal ability to gain wealth, then we would have no opportunity to feel compassionate, no motivation to feel charitable and no need to feel grateful. A loveless, no affection and emotionally dead existence, with nothing being accomplished except to seek all… Read more »
Just as I predicted, with my article attracting only 1 comment and ending up with -5 points, not only is the world void of gratitude, it has zero desire to learn the reality of it.
For reality is everything that is not fiction, truth is the thing that exposes fiction and the greatest fiction of all time is the illusion that gratitude is pure fiction.