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Only cowards foster a culture of fear because fear stems from insecurities rooted in past trauma, failures, harsh upbringing, or unreasonable perfectionism.

According to insights from Verywell Mind and Psychology Today, the main underlying factors include:

Childhood and Upbringing

- Lack of support: Growing up without enough love, praise, or positive reinforcement from parents makes it difficult to value oneself.

- Harsh parental pressure: Being pushed to meet impossibly high standards can cause a child to feel like a permanent failure.

- Abuse and bullying: Experiencing emotional, physical, or verbal abuse leaves deep scars and negative self-beliefs.

Life Events and Failures

- Recent rejection or failure: Losing a job, going through a breakup, or being rejected can trigger old fears and diminish self-worth.

- Past trauma: Experiencing frightening or unstable events shatters one’s basic sense of safety and trust.

- Perfectionism: Setting unreasonable standards guarantees ongoing disappointment and internal criticism.

Social and Cultural Pressures

- Excessive comparison: Constantly measuring oneself against others fuels feelings of inferiority.

- Social media: Curated profiles promote unrealistic standards that make normal life seem inadequate.

- Social anxiety: Fear of judgment or rejection causes isolation, people-pleasing, or overthinking.

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Any of these insecurities can lead to heightened anxiety and paralyzing fear; however, it is cowardice—running away, covering up, or refusing to confront insecurities and fears—that manifests as an insatiable desire to control others through fear. 

Over time, as fear and insecurities accumulate and paranoia takes hold, the perceived need to dominate others escalates, creating a situation akin to a Napoleon complex on steroids.

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Napoleon complex typically refers to a set of coping mechanisms driven by deep insecurity:*

• Compulsive Control: An intense, rigid need to dominate or micromanage social situations to mask vulnerability.

• Fragile Ego: Extreme sensitivity to perceived disrespect, teasing, or constructive criticism.

• Obsessive Competition: Viewing interactions as zero-sum games and constantly trying to "one-up" others.

• Grandiose Ambitions: Making dramatic gestures or boasting about achievements to seek external validation.

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Because fear, by nature, is a powerful emotion that can trigger intense anxiety and a constant sense of danger, it can also cause irrational behaviors as reason becomes overwhelmed.

When combined with insecurities and a reinforced Napoleon complex, the relentless drive to control and dominate grows, often with greater aggression, to hide deeper fears through cowardice—transferring that fear onto others.

The core issue lies in grandiose ambitions to seek ever-increasing external validation for mounting insecurities and fears. This resembles a Peter Piper complex—the delusional idea that escalating prompts will prove the impossible, especially in schemes like Ponzi schemes that lack any genuine foundation of reality, fact, or truth.

And like any Ponzi schemes or subprime mortgages, it may seem like a great investment at first, only to be wiped out later because it is unsustainable.

Therefore, do not be a coward and run from or cover up fear with aggression. Instead, be brave and deal with your fears and insecurities.  Otherwise, those manifestations of fear and insecurities in aggression will only harm others and themselves, and ultimately lead to disaster, catastrophic failings, and wipeouts.

*Referenced from Google AI search: Napoleon complex.

 

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What happens in a corrupt, toxic, and unsustainable system?

In a corrupt, toxic, and unsustainable system, institutional decay, resource depletion, and systemic collapse are the inevitable outcomes.* 

Because the system prioritizes short-term exploitation over long-term stability, it gradually burns through its financial, human, and natural capital until it can no longer function.*

Here is a breakdown of how these destructive dynamics play out across different levels of society, organizations, and ecosystems:*

🏛️ Institutional and Social Breakdown

• Erosion of trust: 

Citizens, employees, or members lose faith in leadership and rules, leading to widespread cynicism and non-compliance.

• Concentration of wealth and power:

Resources flow disproportionately to a small ruling class or elite tier, worsening inequality and starving the rest of the system.

• Talent drain: 

High-performing, ethical individuals leave the system to protect their well-being, leaving behind a concentrated pool of complicit or survival-driven actors.

• Loss of accountability: 

Rules are selectively enforced to protect the powerful while punishing whistleblowers, removing the system's ability to self-correct.

💼 Organizational and Cultural Toxicity

• Fear-based culture: 

Subordinates suppress bad news and manipulate data to appease leaders, resulting in terrible decision-making based on false realities.

• Internal warfare: 

Because resources are scarce or unfairly distributed, infighting, sabotage, and political maneuvering replace collaboration and productive work.

• Chronic burnout: 

Human capital is treated as an infinitely extractable resource, leading to physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion across the workforce.

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📉 Economic and Ecological Collapse*

• Asset stripping: 

The system prioritizes immediate extraction (e.g., over-logging forests, draining corporate cash reserves for stock buybacks) over reinvestment.

• Cascading failures: 

When one critical pillar fails (such as a major supply chain, a vital ecosystem service, or a central bank), it triggers a domino effect across interconnected sectors.

• Total collapse or revolution: 

Eventually, the system reaches a tipping point where the cost of maintaining the status quo exceeds the resources available to sustain it, resulting in a sudden crash, bankruptcy (in dire cases, total economic collapse), or social uprising.*

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And what happens when your kids and grandkids grow up and enter this system?

*Referenced from Google AI search, “What happens in a corrupt, toxic, and unsustainable system?”

 

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Why have there not been any prophets since biblical times?

*According to major religious traditions, there are no longer universally recognized prophets like those in the Bible because divine revelation is considered complete and preserved in sacred scripture.

The Completion of Scripture

• Finished revelation: 

Mainstream Christian theology teaches that God's message was fully expressed and finalized through Jesus Christ and the writings of the New Testament.

• No further need:  Because believers now possess the completed Scripture as a standard for faith and practice, authoritative, foundational prophets who bring brand-new truths are no longer necessary.

• The Jewish perspective: In Judaism, traditional teaching holds that the era of formal prophecy (the spirit of prophecy) concluded with the final early prophets (such as Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi) at the dawn of the Second Temple period.

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Therefore, for Judaism, formal prophecy ended 430 to 520 years before Jesus Christ.  

And for Christianity, aside from Latter-day Saints, formal prophets were no longer recognized after the early churches and Jesus Christ because revelation is considered complete and preserved in the Bible.  

Let us first define the meaning of the prophet.**  

In the Bible, a prophet is a person chosen by God to serve as His spokesperson and direct representative on earth.

Core Meaning and Words

• Spokesperson for God:  The Hebrew word for prophet is navii, which means one who is called to bubble forth or utter a message.  The Greek word prophetes means someone who speaks out or interprets the will of another.

• Other Titles: Prophets were also called "seers" (ro'eh or hozeh) because they received divine visions, or "men of God" (ish-ha'elohim).

Main Roles of a Prophet

• Forthtelling (Truth-Telling): Most of a prophet's work was speaking God's truth to the people of their own time. They called out sin, condemned idolatry and injustice, and urged people to obey God's laws and care for the poor.

• Foretelling (Predicting the Future): 

Sometimes God revealed future events to prophets. This included warnings of coming judgment or promises of a future Savior and peace.

• Acting as Ambassadors:  They carried divine authority, meaning they did not share personal opinions. Instead, they delivered the exact message God gave them, often starting with phrases like "This is what the Lord says."

True vs. False Prophets

• True Prophets: Were directly called by God, filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke messages that always aligned with God’s revealed truth.

• False Prophets: Claimed to speak for God for personal gain, power, or popularity, telling people what they wanted to hear rather than the truth.

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For there not to be a prophet since biblical times means that, since then, God has stopped choosing a person to serve as His spokesperson and direct representative on earth.  

How likely is it for the Lord to stop communicating with us, stop having a direct representative during each Age? 

And just because the churches do not formally recognize prophets, does this mean that they stopped coming to humanity?  

Finally, how would we know the Second Coming of Christ is near or even here, or, importantly, recognize the Antichrist falsely presenting himself as Christ?

Over two thousand years have passed; why have we not become more enlightened in the teaching of Jesus Christ and fulfilled the prophecy that the meek shall inherit the earth (Matthew 5: 5, Psalm 37:11)? 

Because the prophetic voices of the Lord have been silenced and overlooked, and closed off to the next stage of spiritual evolution: preparing for the Second Coming of Christ.  

Much like John the Baptist prepared the way for Christ, we must also prepare the way for Christ and Jesus's Second Coming.  

Otherwise, we would be easily led astray by the Antichrist and hinder Christ.  

Churches have failed miserably to follow the natural progression of prophetic prophecy and to maintain continuous communication with the Lord and humanity, which is why some of the faithful believe that God is silent and does not communicate or intercede in human affairs. 

Moreover, churches have failed to emphasize the utmost importance of purity of heart for seeing the Lord ( Matthew 5:8 ) and communication with the Lord through the Holy Spirit and enforcing divine law, especially when it comes to the desecration of the temple of the Holy Spirit.  

For even if there are prophets in the world today, those who could have been prophets would be corrupted into impurities of heart, never to see or hear divine words or connect to the Holy Spirit, and therefore can never speak as representatives of the Lord.  

Furthermore, the practice of not recognizing unforgivable sin as unforgivable and the bypassing of redemption through the forgiveness of sin prior to full repentance and atonement is completely unacceptable, for it completely prevents salvation.

In addition, the grievous malfeasance of teaching that we are all sinners when we are not all sinners, as we are not all liars, is complicity in sin, and again fails to emphasize the importance of not sinning and repenting and atoning.  

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We must prepare the way for Christ and the Second Coming, and begin to hear once again the Word of the Lord on earth.  

The church must find and formalize prophets pure of heart who can see and hear the Lord and pave the way for Christ's Second Coming, discern and defend against the Antichrist, and teach new ways of understanding the Lord in spiritual enlightenment and purity of heart.  

You will never know if you do not ask, seek, or knock ( Matthew 7: 7-12 ).  

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

The Golden Rule

12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

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*Referenced from Google AI search, “Why have there not been any prophets since biblical times?”

**Referenced from Google AI search, “Define the meaning of prophet.”

 

Doubt and disbelief go hand in hand.  

Doubters may ask, if God exists, why do bad things happen? How can God let it happen?

If God created us, why do some people commit horrible, heinous, depraved crimes against humanity?  

All good questions that can be easily answered when found.  

For instance, some may doubt the existence of karma or divine retribution. Yet retribution is a natural result of negative harm and destruction until ruination, where systems become unsustainable and inevitable collapse. 

The same is the progression of sin in sinners, where the negative harm to the soul destroys the humanity within and the fruit of the Spirit until the soul becomes unholy and unable to receive love and peace, grace, and the Holy Spirit, causing separation from humanity and God in spiritual death.

When the separation from humanity and the Lord occurs, each choice that follows becomes progressively negative, ignorant, and wrong.

For example, if given a choice of whom to follow, a teacher or a pirate, a sinner would most likely choose a pirate. Much as when Pontius Pilate gave the mob a choice of whom to set free, Jesus Christ or Barabbas, and it chose Barabbas.

Doubt would naturally occur when people make bad choices resulting in tragedies and horrific consequences.  

The why usually lies in fear or running away from and covering up fear and insecurities, which causes aggression and harm, especially when seeking to control the fear inside instead of facing the fear within.  

When all people can see fear and the consequences thereof, it blots out hope and disbelief in anything better, or higher grace sets in.  Then again, the fear takes over, and self-destruction in sin or harm feeds in.

Unfortunately, fear manifests itself in aggression and sin; horrible, heinous, and depraved harm and tragedies will occur, and repeatedly occur until stopped either through destruction or redemption.

Doubt and disbelief go hand in hand, and so do love and peace go together to overcome the fear which leads to doubt and disbelief.  

We need only to choose love and peace, and the natural state of grace will allow enlightenment and faith to follow.  

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How do you fulfill your stewardship duties without good deeds?

How many good deeds did Jesus perform in his lifetime?

*The Bible does not specify an exact total of good deeds or acts of kindness Jesus performed, but it specifically records 37 distinct miracles during his public ministry. [1, 2]

Recorded Miracles and General Acts

While 37 specific miracles are carefully detailed in the Gospels — such as healing the sick, calming storms, and feeding large crowds — the Bible notes these represent only a portion of his actions.

General Healings:

The Gospel accounts often summarize uncounted acts by stating that Jesus healed "multitudes" or "all who were ill" in various towns.

Theological View:

The final verse of the Gospel of John (John 21:25) states that if everything Jesus did were written down individually, the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.*

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Despite all Christ's good deeds and miracles, it did not prevent the high priests of Jerusalem and Pontius Pilate from crucifying him.

Nor did it stop the Roman soldiers from mocking and humiliating Jesus by:

dressing him in a scarlet or purple robe, 

placing a crown of thorns on his head, 

holding a fake scepter in his hand, 

bowing to him while sarcastically calling him the "King of the Jews," 

physically abusing him by hitting him with their hands and flogging him over the head with a reed,

and humiliating him by publicly stripping him and crucifying him on the cross, which was designed to strip victims of all human dignity, leaving them exposed and publicly shamed.**

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Yet through the ages, people remember Christ’s teachings and his love and kindness, not his humiliation or shame as the Romans intended; instead, they disdain the infamous Roman soldiers, Pilate, hypocritical priests, and Judas who led Jesus to his death.

As in all humiliation, the victims suffering at the hands of abusers are the fault of the abusers, guilty of immense cruelty and sin; and the shame and dishonor rest solely with the abusers, not the victims.

Though the fate of those infamous soldiers is unknown, the high priests Caiaphas and his father-in-law Annas, and their dynasty, died in disgrace and infamy.

Whatever the fate of those involved in crucifying Christ, their ultimate destiny is probably not heaven, for theirs is a life marked by crimes against humanity and the Lord.

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Finally, some argue that salvation comes through divine grace and faith, not deeds; but how can you receive grace as a gift without a heart of service that prepares you to sow the seeds of grace through good deeds?

In other words, without the expectation of earning grace, but receiving it through humble service and good deeds, one may better understand and receive grace.

Conversely, one could argue that if you’re unwilling to perform good deeds or lack a heart of service, how will your heart be open enough to receive divine grace and faith?

Performing good deeds is an essential part of good stewardship and turning Christ's teachings into action.

It is also a key step in fulfilling your purpose in life with a humble heart capable of receiving divine guidance, grace, and faith.

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*Referenced from Google AI search: “How many good deeds did Jesus perform before death?”

**And how Roman soldiers crucifying Jesus also humiliated Christ.