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by Angel » Fri Jul 07, 2023 6:55 am
This is why it's so important to understand what "the spirit", aka "elevation emotion", really is.
What times has everyone felt gloom - perhaps when reading a newspaper article, or the bad feeling that comes when someone is in pain - perhaps a car accident, or news someone has cancer, or lost a job, or troubled marriage. - to not feel gloom is to not care.
Gloom means you care about others, it doesn't mean you should avoid something.
"gloom" isn't something generated by Satan, or by god - feeling gloom around someone with cancer or other situation doesn'tmean God's spirit has left. "why has God abandoned me?" Gloom doesn't mean something is evil, person with cancer isn't evil, a person who has lost a job, or lost home to natural disaster, or is refugee- these people are not evil, and the gloom that can surround these circumstances isn't an indication of wrongdoing. Religion teaches the bad feelings that are created from painful circumstances = God doesn't love you anymore, god has abandoned you, it is victim blaming at its worst. To take whatever bad situation is happening, and add on -
Avoid anything/anyone that doesn't make you feel the elevation emotion often adds increased pain to those who need support the most.
Teaching people to shun others in pain - "excommunicate", just don't communicate with them anymore. Bishopric abused their kids? Shun the kids, shun the kids mom, avoid any downers. This is so destructive and sad.
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Angel on Fri Jul 07, 2023 9:56 am, edited 7 times in total.
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