Getting Past The Grandfather Generation-57-ThePeacefulRevolution.com

The characteristics listed below are the dominant patterns of The Grandfather Generation

People of the Grandfather Generation believe that humans are outside of and separate from God -- separate from Creator -- separate from the source of Creation. http://www.Truth-Seeker-Truth.info ²

The belief in separation from Creator/God is the biggest and most destructive illusion of all time. Two parallel illusions go hand in hand with this one:

The belief that humans are separate from each other.

The belief that humans are separate from Nature.

The latest scientific evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that everything and everyone is intimately interconnected. The belief in separation leads to still more serious illusions:.

The belief that the Earth is ours to do with as we choose -- that human beings can destroy the Earth without reaping the consequences.

The belief that the universe, the Earth, and human life can be divided into neat little pieces and each piece can be handled separately. The belief that our social, economic, political, and environmental problems can be dealt with separately.

The evidence indicates that everything is intimately connected to everything else, that everything is part of a unified, interdependent whole, that every action alters the the entire system. Chief Seattle - The Web of Life ²

The belief that activities are open ended. People of the Grandfather Generation function on the common belief that activities are open ended -- that activities have distinct beginnings and ends -- that one can sow without reaping -- that one can act without producing a reaction -- that one can destroy without consequences -- that dumps, rivers, and your neighbors yard are good places to deposit trash and toxins.

The overwhelming evidence indicates that the Earth is a closed system -- that everything is recycled. Activities which appear to be open ended are actually portions of closed cycles. The evidence clearly indicates that everything moves in spirals, and in cycles. Human actions commonly return to their source in one form or another. The evidence indicates that every result is actually a cause in the next round. Life on Earth is a closed system. Everything affects everything else. From the cosmic / spiritual perspective everything is a part of a grand, unified whole.

The people of the Grandfather Generation believe in gender superiority. The belief is that men are more important than women. Me first. I'm more important than you are. In some belief systems, women are still considered to be little more than property.

The people of the Grandfather Generation believe in racial superiority. The belief is that members of the white race are biologically superior to all other races.

The evidence clearly exposes that racial superiority is false. Differences come from culture, education, tradition, beliefs, attitudes, et cetera.

The mind-set of the Grandfather Generation is flooded with war, fighting, conflict, and suffering and is obsessed with winning or losing. Senator John McCain is a classic example of this. His entire persona is built on war, fighting, conflict, and suffering.

Those that hold the "us against them" mentality believe that war, fighting, and conflict are ways of resolving problems. Sharing and cooperation are good only if the sharing and cooperation clearly and serve the sharer's own, short-term, best interest.

The people of the Grandfather Generation believe in scarcity. There is not enough for everybody. Life is a zero-sum game. If I am to have, then someone else must do without. Survival of the fittest. Because I have the money, I am the fittest.

The people of the Grandfather Generation believe that one person can gain at the expense of another, that everybody else is expendable, that profits are more important than the well-being of the people.

The people of the Grandfather Generation believe that violence solves problems. He who is the best at doing violence wins.

The evidence tell us that violence does not solve problems. It makes things worse. Your are invited to read two quotes for R. Buckminster Fuller.²

In the United States, one of the dominant philosophical beliefs of the Grandfather Generation is that a person can act like a Christian on Sunday and behave like an atheist for the other six days.

Hypocrisy is an overwhelming element of the Grandfather Generation. Many will talk pious religiosity and walk the exact opposite.

The evidence indicates that the dominant males of the Grandfather Generation practice atheism six days a week. This indicate that that a large portion of the those who control the world believe that human beings only live once on Earth and then cease to exist. If these people really are Christians, why are they running the world as if the atheist belief system was the real truth?

The Christian portion of Grandfather Generation believe that: 1) Humans are their physical bodies,² 2) Every human was magically created by God at conception,² 3) Humans live only once on Earth and then go somewhere else forever.

Members of the Grandfather Generation control the main concentrations of power in the entire world. Lies of omission ² are one of their major tools of control. They even hire people to tell distorted stories that leave out critical pieces of the truth. They are called "spin doctors."

In their endeavor to control the world, the Grandfather Generation considers money to be the most important factor. Millions of people have had their health, their safety, their well-being, their families, and even their lives sacrificed for the sake of showing a profit on the next quarterly report.

People in the Grandfather Generation are very likely to embrace one of two opposite beliefs. One is the blind religious adherence to whatever religion their parents taught them. It doesn't matter what the religion is, it's dominant belief is "One way my way." "Our way is the only way." Their personas is built on a very conservative, Grandfather Generation, religious philosophy that adamantly believes in numerous unprovable religious stories -- stories such as God's Conception Magic Act ² and The Rapture.² The other "unprovable certainty" is the religious belief called atheism. (See the paragraphs below.)

Duality rules the lives of those in the Grandfather Generation . It's black or white. It's us against them. If you are not with us, you are against us. Winners and losers. Guilty or innocent. Red states or blue states.

The people of the Grandfather Generation cannot admit that they don't know the truth about God.

The people of the Grandfather Generation would rather spend gargantuan efforts to defend the lie rather than admit to being wrong. The Roman Catholic Church demonstrates this. Here's just one example: What Is Life?²

People of the Grandfather Generation believe that their version of the truth is correct version, the only true version, that everyone else is wrong.

Those in the Grandfather Generation believe that their way is normal, that everyone else is strange. This is called ethnocentrism.

The evidence indicates that we are all normal, and at the same time, we are all strange. As the old saying goes, "There is nothing unique about being unique."

The people of the Grandfather Generation will not accept anything new until it "bits them in the butt." The deadly serious problem of Global Warming is an example of this mentality. In spite of the now-overwhelming evidence, the members of the Grandfather Generation who are in leadership positions (October 2008) still deny its existence, poo poo it, or fight the required changes.

The focus of those in the Grandfather Generation is primarily on the short term -- the next quarterly report -- "not on my watch" -- deficit financing -- producing millions tons of nuclear waste that has a half life of 50,000 years -- environmental destruction -- "let the next administration handle it."

With regard to religious beliefs, those in the Grandfather Generation pretty much divide themselves into two divergent groups with only a small minority in between. One faction believes that what their parents taught them must be true. These are the mindless true believers in this or that religion. These people's lives are run by dozens of unprovable stories -- stories such God is an angry, fickle, vindictive, superhuman being who lives in the sky above the clouds of planet Earth -- stories such as God's Instantaneous, Supernatural, Transcendental, Conception Magic Act.²

At the other end of this belief pattern are those who reject organized religion as "the opiate of the masses." They deny the existence of a Creator. They believe that this one life here on Earth is all there is to human existence. They may actually participate in a religion but they do so for reasons other than to connect to God. Also many profess to be religious but act as if atheism were the true assumption.

The vast majority of these people already have all the answers. They're stuck in their own belief systems. They refuse to listen to anybody who does not wear thousand-dollar suits. Speaking of suits, the dominant males get to change the color of the phallic symbol that they wear around their necks, (the necktie) but other than that minor change, every one of them wears the same uniform -- the business suit -- the higher the rank, the more expensive the suit.

Most of those in the Grandfather Generation reject the views of a relatively small minority of their generation that acknowledges Universal Spirituality. ² These who acknowledge Universal Spirituality believe that an infinite, unknown, consciousness is the source of the universe.

When one examines the above illusions, it becomes obvious why the world is in such critical condition.