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Posted by: babyloncansuckit ( )
Date: September 11, 2019 11:55AM
The prison of your mind

An oldie but a goodie:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VaRO5-V1uK0
Sean Stephenson explains the prison of your mind.
Mormonism is just one prison. After that there are others.

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Posted by: valkyriequeen ( )
Date: September 11, 2019 12:26PM
Re: The prison of your mind

IMO, truth is the key that unlocks your mind's prison and sets you free; not necessarily physically, but mentally and spiritually. The truth is the ability to see things crystal clear and it breaks the power that you mentally allow someone to hold over you, whether it's in the workplace, a cult, or someone trying to scam you with MLM's.
John 8:32 says it best: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free".

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: September 12, 2019 07:11AM
Re: The prison of your mind

I'll quibble a bit:

Feeling that you know a truth and believing that you are living that truth can be two different things.

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Posted by: Done & Done ( )
Date: September 12, 2019 10:22AM
Re: The prison of your mind

Have to agree, val. However, the truth sometimes is a little hard to come by. Escaping the prison of your mind is not being afraid to tunnel through a river of truths and lies; climbing a chain link fence barbed with facts that must be sorted.

And part of knowing the truth is knowing that you could be wrong--and understanding being mistaken is not a negative but a tool, an oar, even a balm.

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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: September 12, 2019 12:24PM
Re: The prison of your mind

Done & Done Wrote:
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> --and understanding being mistaken
> is not a negative but a tool, an oar, even a balm.


Very wise words. We live in a world of words yet are very real creatures of a natural world. The statistically significant probability that we will be mostly wrong more of our time is very high in my speculations.

Speaking of truth is even more prone to error especially using our modern understanding of truths of our human past. Socrates distrusted the written word for very good reasons.

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Posted by: Sumthing ( )
Date: September 12, 2019 08:59AM
Re: The prison of your mind

The prison isn't just your mind but this whole world. There are plenty of people trying to make the facility more secure right now.

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