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    Healology
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    Healology

    By Criss Jami

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    Healology is 2 books in 1. "Healing Power" is a book of aphorisms all created in and beyond the world of philosopher Criss Jami. "Studying Christendom" is a book of poetry and a lyrical experiment birthed from the universe of songwriter Criss Jami.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCriss Jami
    Release dateJan 15, 2016
    ISBN9781311399625
    Healology
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    Criss Jami

    Criss Jami (birth name Christopher James Gilbert), born May 29, 1987 in Lynchburg, VA, is the author of several books, creator/designer of Killosopher Apparel, and the musician for the metal project Crymson Gryphon. He studied philosophy at George Mason University.

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      Healology - Criss Jami

      Copyright © 2016 by Criss Jami

      All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles.

      Published in the United States by Smashwords

      ISBN 1-5233-8723-8

      Healology

      Healing Power. Studying Christendom.

      Original Aphorisms & Poetry

      by

      Criss Jami

      Healing Power.

      Book of Aphorisms (part 1)

      Studying Christendom.

      Book of Poetry (part 2)

      I sit and ponder my existence: how I’m here, what put me here in these thoughts, these feelings, birthed from a timeless sleep, what it felt like, or rather the lack thereof, to not have been and now to ‘be’, and suddenly, I realize how absurd I am to exist, the fragility in my understanding of existence; I then wonder why the supernatural, the thought of other beings, of God or of gods, must be distinctly absurd - by which I am no longer sure. ‘If I exist and I have made myself absurd to me, then why not they exist while merely believed absurd by me?’ Perhaps it is true that in a wandering head, one full of wonders, the natural becomes supernatural and the supernatural becomes preternatural (or rational within the sights of discovery and explanation), just as the return home after a life-long journey feels, for a moment, foreign after the many experiences.

      Static people love to compensate for their inability to change themselves by always trying to change the world.

      The vision of the Progressive has often been but to walk forward while facing backward; the business of the Reactionary, but that of walking backward while facing forward; henceforth the fallout is oftentimes, and obviously enough, but the formulation and the construction of obstacles in life and hurdles on-site, as long as there are cliffs on edge.

      Imagine a personality so taking that others would pay their last simply to be in its presence. Then of course a number of people go for the polar opposite, too (the one not ‘as well’): the one so toxic, others would rather pay their last for it to go away.

      There are some who never try, get left behind, forever dying, they just sit it by on the sidelines while they criticize, hide and scrutinize; but then there are others who are tough enough, who stand to risk their wrongs, flying high, as they rise up in this life and thus, fight right through the lies.

      By some need to appear intellectual, non-thinkers will instantly and without question subscribe to the opinions of those they feel other people think are educated.

      On a social level, secularism is safe. As literally the world’s most fundamental conformist, the secularist wants to call himself a revolutionary all in the same. In most parts of the present world, rebellion against Christianity is not really much of a rebellion if one is to consider ‘rebellion’ something of a courageous sort or a bold act. Long ago Christ was crucified, and in some form or another, to this day, the scorn continues for ‘little Christs’. The world hates Christians, and according to Christ, it is supposed to hate Christians. A true Christianity is a true rebellion; and for one to be ‘freed from Christianity’ is for one to religiously conform to the pressures of the rest of the world, for one to be freed from freedom.

      Pride can make one a stronger person in the one sense, or so it is often believed, when based solely on the surface, but in the other, and much more frequently, a stronger devil. When pride is undeniably found out of an evil, it saves face by doubling down.

      ‘God helps those who help themselves’ is common sense, ‘God helps those who cannot help themselves’ is sound theology, and ‘God helps all the living’, a simple ideation.

      History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.

      In some countries, the strictly Progressive man reveals himself to be just as much as if not more prejudiced than the typical Reactionary. There is at times a sort of arrogant condescension in one’s gushing, bleeding-heartedness, in that, behind the mask of social activism, one is acting on behalf of one’s perceived ‘inferiors’. He may promote himself as the savior of the world; he may pat on the head all those he insidiously assumes to be the lesser, whether in status or class or ability, and treat them as helpless children: but the biggest danger of all is that by his own conscience he may feel for them, think for them, and thus, decide for them. It is with such, this artificial brand of empathy, and self-righteousness and narcissism, that we always naively yet so ignorantly pity ‘the others’, and ultimately, in our schemes to secure them, we merely hold them down.

      But what good is the popular opinion, if the lot of us just process like minions?

      The poorly sophisticated, since many of us are, as presumed to be, lacking in good arguments, we are then prone to being well-versed in insults.

      Mock and ridicule men who refuse to use reason and logic; use reason and logic against men who know only how to mock and ridicule.

      Our entire lives we witness individuals, the ones who break some of the most culturally sensitive moral codes, ruined permanently by the media - i.e. shamed ruthlessly by the masses - i.e. dragged horribly by the village. While this is often intended to serve as a deterrent for the rest of us not to do anything too stupid, many of us choose to do stupid things anyway; and surely it is because the lot of us regard it simply as a challenge to bravery and a temptation to try to rise above or sneak past the law, to outsmart the justice system: I’m afraid the notion ‘It’ll never happen to me’ is one of mankind’s greatest hits.

      Other than out of a pure curiosity and the aim for veracity, or perhaps for educational purposes, why should it matter to you the color of Jesus? Would you love Him and what He has done for you any more or any less? If so, that would be idolatry.

      Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers...and all those who know the difference.

      Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.

      One can only return to the fact that even the most ordinary, good-hearted, intelligent people are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. And this comes from the realization that there are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly inane, we may actually on occasion feel insane for not believing them; and that is probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt we self-doubt, we convince ourselves into lame passivity and blind acceptance, we tell ourselves, ‘Maybe I’m just missing something here.’

      Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

      Fanaticism can often be a normalized phenomenon, and the unwritten recipe suggests that it starts and ends with absolute certainty. If you are always certain about everything, you might just live in an echo chamber, or there might be a lack of ideological diversity among your sources and friends. Only, there is no size limit to this echo chamber as long as there is consensus: and the bigger the chamber the more solidified the fanaticism, and the more solidified the fanaticism the more the outlier will be seen the liar and the fanatic.

      "Christ is our Friend; He is also the Righteous King. God is our

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