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ACIM Articles about Earth world hell and Suffering

18. The money problem

Thursday, Mar 06, 2025 734 words 3 mins 15 secs

Money is one of the devices that the ego has come up with. It uses it to evalute the "value and worth" of everything. It puts a "price" on everything that happens based on a hierarchy of illusions. It...

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17. If Earth is real then peace is impossible

Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 2049 words 9 mins 6 secs

If a person is a body, and the body dies, there is no denying the fact that the body is gone. If it is buried or cremated, it's gone. it's not coming back.

It does not matter how much...

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16. The fear of God induces suffering and death

Sunday, Feb 09, 2025 1320 words 5 mins 51 secs

"All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the FEAR OF AWAKENING. They are attempts to reinforce UNCONSCIOUSNESS out of fear of CONSCIOUSNESS."

The entire problem of the people of the world is that we're very...

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15. Dealing with grief and loss

Saturday, Jul 13, 2024 2101 words 9 mins 20 secs

All sense of loss arises from believing that a changing world is real. If it is real, and if something goes away, a part of reality has been lost. If it is real, there has been a real separation. And...

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14. Everything in the world will end, so let it go

Tuesday, Jan 30, 2024 1133 words 5 mins 2 secs2 comments

Everything in the physical world is temporary. It comes, it lingers a while, and then it goes. This applies to absolutely everything. Bodies, worlds, animals, foods, cars, birds, insects, bicycles, trees, you name it. It seems to begin, it...

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13. The journey of the soul

Saturday, Jan 20, 2024 1195 words 5 mins 18 secs3 comments

Very often, Jesus would say to me, "it's fine". And I would be like, "how is this fine?" I would be upset about something, there'd be some physical medical issue to deal with, some seeming tragic loss, something going wrong....

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12. Trying to find perfection in the world

Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023 983 words 4 mins 22 secs

There is a fundamental difficulty in choosing anything in this world. Everything in this world lacks everything else. Everything has taken a side, has separated itself off, has made itself different, and does not have what other things have....

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11. Becoming invulnerable to the world

Thursday, Jul 13, 2023 1129 words 5 mins 1 secs

In our default ego react-to-the-world mode, it seems that how we feel is dictated by what happens. The "hierarchy of illusions" tells us that something has a given amount of importance or seriousness and that we should have an...

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10. Stuck in false perceptions?

Sunday, Apr 02, 2023 594 words 2 mins 38 secs1 comments

"False perception", ie being heavily in your ego, is a state of imprisonment. It's a very closed way of looking at things, it cuts you off from the light, wraps you in heavy walls, and makes everything look serious....

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9. The darkness no-one wants to look at - everything in the world is hopeless

Tuesday, Jan 10, 2023 1969 words 8 mins 45 secs1 comments

Ok so Jesus lets the cat out of the bag in the section titled "The real alternative." Here he speaks of how utterly disappointing and hopeless the world is. He talks of how all the world's roads lead to...

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8. Feeling peaceful because the world sucks

Sunday, Jan 01, 2023 1365 words 6 mins 3 secs

I feel more relaxed and peaceful, which I think is a result of looking at the world's system of failure, unrelenting attack and constant problems.

There was always an effort to resist the world going wrong, a constant tension...

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7. The whole world entirely sucks

Saturday, Dec 24, 2022 651 words 2 mins 53 secs1 comments

I was thinking for a while that maybe certain people were inept. Maybe it was certain groups of people. Maybe it was medical people. And maybe it was the body. Maybe it was just some portion of things. But...

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6. The world is always a disappointment

Saturday, Dec 10, 2022 3569 words 15 mins 51 secs1 comments

"You do not really want the world you see, for it has disappointed you since time began."

Let me first just say that I don't intend for this to be a "negative" post. Nor is it being pessimistic. But it's...

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5. It's not just you - the world is difficult

Tuesday, Oct 18, 2022 560 words 2 mins 29 secs

Ok so you might be feeling like you're incapable, always making mistakes, are clumsy, can't communicate with people well, or problems just keep happening that you can't seem to solve. But it's not just you. It's a systemic problem of...

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4. Why is life here so difficult?

Thursday, Feb 18, 2021 560 words 2 mins 29 secs

Change the world? Well. As it turns out, its not possible to immediately materialize changes with the mind, unless of course you are more spiritually advanced. In this world, all things tend to be governed by the ego laws, and...

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3. Transcending the world of suffering

Saturday, Aug 17, 2019 454 words 2 mins 1 secs

If someone else is having a problem, and you feel concerned, there is something mistaken going on in your mind.

There is actually an ego reaction, based on the hierarchy of illusions, which says that based on the perceived severity of...

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2. If God made the world, God made death and suffering

Sunday, Jun 30, 2019 1791 words 7 mins 57 secs

And if God created bodies, death would indeed be real. But God would not be loving."

Let's just be clear about something here. God creates or extends reality. Everything real is within God's being. Everything real comes from His Will. Ok....

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1. Karma isn't real

Thursday, May 04, 2017 227 words 1 mins 0 secs

For karma to be possible, you'd have to believe that you are capable of really doing something to someone else.

The only thing that can ever really be shared is love. You are only ever attacking yourself. And you do not...

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