I’ve been writing this column now for a couple of months, and I have to say the responses I’ve received so far have been rather interesting. Some of the responses have been good while others have not been so pleasing. There does, however, appear to be some amount of confusion and misinterpretation about what I have to say.

I realized this when I received a letter from a religious organization, seem to believe I am preaching some self-glorifying doctrine that encourages people to live by anarchy, creating their own personal moral standards. It claims that I want to be God. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. How it lambasted me didn’t bother me as much as the troubling idea that perhaps many more were receiving the same impression. I would like to take this time to clearly state the stance or message I am trying to promote in this column each week.

I can sum up what I want to accomplish by a often quoted Biblical passage, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. There is not much to what I have to say. It is a rather simple goal though at times it could be quite difficult. This world is inhabited by a vast number of apathetic individuals that are full of a self-hatred unimaginable. I’m not quite sure why this state exists. I have my theories, but I don’t have time or space to discuss them now. This apathetic self-hatred has been poured out into society, creating, a hell on Earth. Racism, violence, rape, murder, and child, spousal, and drug abuse not to mention countless other crisis are just a little too much common place for me-call me crazy.

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I believe these aliments can be rectified by taking a vested interest in self. To learn to control and master yourself can begin by becoming spiritually closer to God, as you know him (for after all it is all the same God), and respecting your mind, body and soul by extinguishing the negative aspects within us all. When I say in my articles worship the God within what I mean is that we all contain a piece of god within us since we were all created in His likeness and image.

After we begin to master self we need to master our surroundings by extinguishing the negative aspects in society. This can be done by simply taking the time to love and raise your family, contribute and take responsibility for what happens in your community, and respecting each other, especially the women in this world.

There are certain social issues that I personally find troubling that will often be discussed in this article, the two big ones being civil rights and sexism. There are many ways that the above ideas can be accomplished. I don’t expect everyone to agree with what I have to say. Beliefs differ but there are some basic wrongs that can’t be argued with. All I’m working for is to try and get people to act like human beings. I don’t think it can be argued that the days we live in now are dark and trying. If we don’t wake up as a whole and begin to act civilized, we risk losing our minds, hearts, souls and planet.