ShadowTheRaven said:
I'm going on ten years. Although I've seen the forum change time and time again based on its average and active membership, for the worse in my opinion which causes me great concern about the welfare of our people.
This organization has helped me develop the philosophy of bettering oneself and the lives of people around us. On the surface it seems simple. Don't do drugs, don't commit any crime, don't be a dick to people. They are, always have been, and always will be good principles to follow. I've grown to be more mature compared to when I started and for that, I thank you all.
What I'm concerned about is the quality which seems to be getting worse. I remember back years ago when we were still on Yahoo, people were having in-depth discussions, conversations, and learning about subjects like Kundalini and transforming our soul. Do we even talk about that anymore? Or have certain controversies in the past steered us into a different direction than where we were going originally?
This organization has done well to cater to multiple languages, but the main forum is still littered with broken English, unintelligible threads, and questions even a beginner could answer if he/she simply read the main website. I fear that we are starting to hold quantity over quality instead of vice versa. However I recognize the sheer amount of effort Cobra puts in to moderate the site and while I can't fully understand the weight on your shoulders, I know it must be a lot for you, if you're reading this.
One other concern is the slow creation of our own dogma and culture. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this organization solely intended to keep minds open and based on the learning and application of advanced spiritual concepts, and not to establish a culture of militarism and facades especially along long-term members? I understand we are fighting a war, but are we being totally consumed by it that there's virtually no talk upon bettering the self as well as fighting the war?
I know this is an often asked question but...where's Pythia? I looked forward to her posts as well as the rest of the clergy from years past but now it seems that there's just silence among the usual tumult and background noise of this forum. It's not just my personal direction I'm worried about but the community as a whole. I'm no genius, nor can I claim an expert level of understanding on things, but I've been here long enough to get a sense of nostalgia to the point where I'm asking "Where did all the time go?"
I'm not very active on this forum anymore when it comes to making threads and posts, but I wish everybody here prosperity and long life.
Congratulations on your ten years, yet I can hardly congratulate you on your level of advancement and understanding. This post is filled to the brim with much required cleaning.
The basics philosophy you got from this "organisation" as stated by you is only what would be required to get from a normal formal education and if not common sense at least. So no need to stick together normal maturing to the real purposes of JoS teachings, which of course can start from the bottoms of kindergarten, but required to level up to the highest standards.
Back in the day of Yahoo, there were extreme amounts of deluded people, and wanna be magician of tv sets, multiplied by ego preachers. Now if you really observe these subjects are not on the discussion side anymore as a "tale" or "novel" but only as "instructions" and real practical appliance to achieve what is already organically dependable upon the individual.
More so than that, our side got so stronger that our need of great discipline, secrecy and higher understanding among us made sure that we really discern between truth and false and get to the real way of learning spiritual disciplines. Spiritual and sacred manifestations come only after great discipline, discipline which is the perfecting of the masculine, and that is military.
In order for you to have a cake of spiritual information, even if not used by you, spiritual soldiers must fight curses and create the path of such existence for yourself. Militarizing an "organization" that is spiritual is only the manifestation of the real advancement of said group.
You are just nostalgic of your own motivation when you were reading and imagining things, and now when brutal practicality is in front of you to use and confront the effort required, your mind and emotional nature shows weakness, more so than that gives opportunity for the enemy to manipulate and justify your thoughts into subversive ways, as this whole post is.
Pythia is nobody's business, and this play card of the enemy is long smoked. Actual advanced individuals don't even care, and why that so? Because they know Satan and the Gods, and they know the chain of command and seriousness of spiritual reality.
The times are over when petty tryouts of the enemy such as these can succeed, among us now there are great people with great abilities. Besides this our Gods never been so close to us and our aims and eternal biding to the truth never been so strong. It is actually the reverse of your opinion and linking that to your 10 years of activity, while newbies might read your post demoralizing them, of a great and truthful hard path, is beyond petty and enraging.
Keep your problems to yourself and if not, have some responsibility when showing them and trying to get indirectly helped.