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What are the senses of humanity?

The Five Traditional Senses*

Sight (Vision):  The eyes capture light and convert it into images in the brain.

Hearing (Audition):  The ears detect sound waves in the air.

Smell (Olfaction):  The nose perceives chemical odors in the environment.

Taste (Gustation):  The tongue recognizes flavors such as sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami through taste buds.

Touch (Somatosensation):  The skin perceives pressure, vibration, texture, and moisture.

Sixth sense:  An intuitive or perceived ability to sense, feel, or know phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

Proprioception:  The awareness of the position of one's body parts in space.

Equilibrioception:  The sense of balance, regulated by the inner ear.

Thermoception: The capacity to perceive temperature changes, hot or cold.

Nociception: The perception of pain as a warning of potential physical damage.

Interoception: The detection of internal states, including hunger, thirst, or rapid heartbeat.

Because we are human, we do not solely rely on tangible senses.  We also rely on our intangible senses to understand the world and our purpose in it.

What are the intangible senses that are part of who we are and connect us to humanity?

Emotional senses of perception.

Emotion Perception*

Definition:  The psychological and biological capacity to recognize, identify, and interpret emotions such as love and fear in others.

Function:  It involves interpreting facial expressions, body language, vocal tones, and physical cues to understand another person's internal state.

Finally, the senses of spirituality.

What are the senses of spirituality?

Spirituality is not experienced through the five physical senses but rather via internal, psychological, and existential "senses" that connect us to something greater than ourselves.*

The Core Spiritual Senses*

Sense of Connection:  Feeling a profound link to nature, humanity, or a higher power.

Sense of Purpose:  Perceiving a higher meaning and direction in life's events.

Sense of Transcendence:  Experiencing moments that transcend ordinary physical boundaries.

Sense of Awe:  Feeling overwhelmed by the vastness and beauty of existence.

Sense of Inner Peace:  Attaining mental stillness and emotional harmony despite external chaos.

Sense of Unity:  Recognizing the fundamental interconnectedness of all living beings.

Consequently, when we neglect to incorporate all of our senses and to acknowledge the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of ourselves, we fail to live life to its fullest potential and to truly know ourselves.

What is that renowned quote from "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

What are the consequences of engaging in a hundred battles when fewer than a third of our senses are recognized, focused upon, understood, and appreciated?

How frequently do we ignore or attempt to eliminate our emotions, particularly fear, as if such an endeavor is feasible?

How often do we completely disregard our spiritual connections, especially those involving fellowship with humanity?

When making a first impression, how many individuals focus solely on appearance, attire, and social status, overlooking deeper qualities?

Furthermore, long after first impressions are formed, how many continue to perceive the initial image solely without genuinely understanding the person's inner character?

Therefore, should we not be apprehensive about the outcomes of a hundred battles?

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*Referenced from Google AI searches.

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Let's review the definition of gaslighting.

According to Google AI, gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation and emotional abuse where a person systematically distorts reality to make someone doubt their memory, perception, or sanity.

What Gaslighting Looks Like

Denying events: Claiming that a conversation, promise, or event never happened.

Trivializing feelings: Telling someone they are "too sensitive" or overreacting to a situation.

Blaming and deflecting: Shifting the blame for wrongful actions back onto the victim.

Rewriting the narrative: Insisting on a false version of events with absolute confidence.

The Impact: As discussed on Reddit, gaslighting goes far beyond ordinary lying or arguments because the core intent is to destabilize the other person's sense of truth.

Over time, it leads to severe self-doubt, anxiety, confusion, and a heavy dependence on the manipulator for a sense of reality.

Once gaslighting is identified, the dynamic of the manipulation shifts, and the focus turns to restoring self-trust, setting boundaries, and leaving safely.

Immediate Shifts and Realizations

Loss of power: Gaslighting loses much of its control the moment you name the pattern and stop questioning if you are crazy.

Validation: You begin to realize that your memory, feelings, and sanity were intact all along, which helps dismantle ongoing self-doubt.

Nervous system reaction: Your body processes the betrayal, moving from constant survival mode and confusion toward clarity.

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The funny thing about gaslighting is that the first victim is often the gaslighter, because of the sins and crimes committed in the belief that gaslighting will work on everyone, thus continuing long after it might have been effective.

Oftentimes, gaslighters are aggressors, wannabes, or traitors who need to cover up their insecurities, crimes, and shortcomings with lies and deception, just to convince themselves that their faults are not faults, their failures are not failures, and their ambitions are already achieved or achievable without consequences.

For example, Imperial Japan wanted to dominate all of Asia and eventually the world. Their propaganda was a highly organized effort designed to mobilize the domestic population, justify territorial expansion, and oppose Western imperialism. Believing that their propaganda and gaslighting worked, Imperial Japan estimated that the war and the subjugation of China would take about three months.

The same could be said of Russia, which believed in its propaganda and gaslighting the world into thinking it was a superpower, estimating that the conquest of Ukraine would take three days, at most ten.

What's worse, if those countries use psychics to predict the obvious or shallow outcomes, or provide whatever narrative you want to hear, then the future gaslighting results would be similar to gaslighting yourself about the future—especially if these outcomes are self-fulfilling with unseen realities, unsustainable consequences, and catastrophic failures.

Finally, ask yourselves why anyone would need to gaslight, and you will have your answer.

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What is it like to watch a misguided individual taking control of a racehorse and subjecting it to rigorous and often harmful treatments—such as radical treatments, infestation with parasites for increased agitation, administration of sedatives to induce unconsciousness, thereby endangering its health—and subsequently blaming the horse for failure and laziness because it succumbs to sleep or injuries well before reaching the finish line?

When the world's leading trainer consistently explains that inflicting harm on the horse is unacceptable under any circumstances, it is perplexing that this misguided trainer would believe a certain so-called 'horse' expert and owner of competing racehorses' assertions that harming one's own horse will motivate it to run faster; and that debilitating the horse, rendering it unconscious, will make it win races.

Because such abusive and unethical practices tend to result in detrimental outcomes, not positive results for the current horse and any subsequent horses.

Believe it or not, the root of the problem does not lie with the racehorse but with the ill-informed and reckless trainer.

If such methods were applied to children, it would be classified as severe child abuse.

What parent believes that physically assaulting their child, inflicting inflictions, and resorting to drugs that induce sleepiness, distractibility, and impaired concentration will lead to improvements in behavior or academic performance?

After those abusive practices drive children away or cause lasting harm, what reason do the abusers have to believe that genuine secrets or understanding were ever uncovered due to their continued harmful conduct?

How many races must be lost or remain unfinished, and how many racehorses injured and harmed, before this misguided trainer and other like-minded individuals recognize the error of their ways?

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What is often overlooked in the obsession with power and control?

What is commonly ignored in the pursuit of material wealth and worldly desires?

And what happens to those who constantly abuse power?

Those who do so will always follow Caesar's path, causing harm and becoming more shallow and self-absorbed in their own version of the Hunger Games, until most, if not all, of their humanity is lost.

Why?  Because what is truly sought is not spirituality, nor the way, the truth, and the life.

When someone never asks, seeks, or knocks to get closer to the Lord and connect with the Holy Spirit, that person will never find or be attuned to the Holy Spirit and the sacred divine.

Since we are born of both flesh and spirit, serving the idol Caesar means ignoring and abandoning the one true Master, the Lord, and thus never entering the kingdom of heaven, especially when we neglect our spirit through ruthless harm.

"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."                   

                                                                 - John 3:5-6

If we face life's challenges without considering the Lord or the Holy Spirit, and discard the fruit of the Spirit because they lack monetary value, power, or status, then we also discard priceless salvation and the very things that give life meaning and purpose.

Ultimately, we cannot take power or any material possessions with us when we die, and we cannot make wise decisions or live a meaningful and purposeful life without love and deep spiritual connections.

So, what is overlooked in the quest for power and control, wealth and conquests?

Everything and everyone that matters.

*Matthew 7:7

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Let me get this straight:  you think that pillage, plunder, and stealing from Peter to pay Paul is a sound business model?

And like the Nazis in World War II, forcing and coercing an economy built on an unsustainable cycle of hidden debt, military plunder, and extreme human exploitation that ultimately collapses into total ruin would eventually conquer the world?

Destroy America and its reputation, create a new world order based on aggression, plunder, and destruction, and it will enable you to conquer the world; but how long will this last after everything is consumed in plunder and chaos?

Lay waste to your assets and knock down all your dominoes, and your legacy of infamy would be everlasting in its notoriety.

Follow the Syria model—and it could all turn out differently?

Eventually, having the average person live on $40 to $120 USD per month and believing that people can sustain a warlike economy that maintains your standard of living, prestige, and standing in the world?

What colleges do you think your children and grandchildren could afford on less than $120 a month?

Or do you think that after a rapidly shrinking economy, unable to afford a Defense Department, social services, or anything else, you would somehow be richer with fewer customers who can’t afford anything—especially when the middle class is gone?

So, you think a dystopian society will bring a new era of prosperity amid endless conflicts, wars, and depravity?

And that your children and grandchildren would be safer and wealthier in unsustainable systems of perpetual violence and harm?

And you believe this is reasonable, sustainable, and a good practice?

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