Know Thyself - Open Memoir - Emergency Room Experience...

You know, folks, I realize at this point of my life, that I, for whatever reason, have learned all I need to know about myself--NOT! But, I do think that I have an edge--an advantage over many people. And that is that I've been a natural-born learner, a reader, and a logical evaluator... So naturally, that I know Myself--it is Me--the person I know who I am. I also know that the person I know as ME oftentimes is never really shared in order to relate to others... Much of that is my fault at this time. But the reason I withhold myself is because nobody wants or is able to actually listen...

Like the song, people these days are talking without hearing and people listening without speaking. Indeed the world has created this environment of communication that is now so stifled, that it allowed a small minority to decide it was time to take action to--control that silent world and take it for their own...

And it is going on right now! But slowly, there are small rays of sunshine coming through through people speaking out, whether in actual protests, or in individual situations and conversations... I found myself in such a situation beginning Monday and is still going on as of today. I wanted to document, to share my thoughts because I know, especially after these past few days, that something is even more wrong than we can identify and try to "fix"... Right now, even though Jesus asks it of us, we are being prevented from loving our neighbors in both concept, but more importantly in reality...

I don't know how many pages/posts this will take, but as I thought about it, I knew that I had to start from the past to ensure what I am trying to reveal and share in my biography...

Being a reader all of my life and learning much from books and/or songs, somewhere along the line I learned and accepted a principle upon which I wanted to live my life. Know Thyself. (At the bottom of this post is just a few examples of the references that can be found to learn the early development of the concept which is now simply known as "Know Thyself." Two words, so simple to memorize. Yet, for many to actually understand and even more difficult to implement. We need to know and recognize if it is our fault and decide whether we want to do something about that fault. I'll be sharing one mistake I made which was amplified greatly and to my own detriment. Yet I acknowledged it and worked to move on... 

I am not like God, who declares to all - I AM and in the way of His Love, we all know exactly that it is True AND He Knows each of Us as a unique individual... I know He knows ME personally!

All of the children's songs I learned, loved, and memorized as a child, however, told me that very clearly. And accepted it as Truth... Reading books only served to strengthen and believe that Truth.

But I have also learned over many years that we really never know other people so well that we can believe that we can "allow" and "share" ourselves with others... At my age, it has dwindled down to 1. 

This video is older, but reflects exactly what you might call, the first on a List (we'll name is later). It is Selfishness. All of us, for our own protection and fear, start our lives selfish. If you are hungry or afraid, you have learned to trust Mommy or another individual to provide that needed security... But as the video illustrates, when as adults, we are still, often, selfish.  In the video, a majority of individuals in one community had all heard a danger warning that told them to find shelter. Only one man had actually prepared in advance for such an emergency. While, instead of trying to get to another shelter, all the neighbors turned on the one family, to the extent they destroyed the entrance, so that, if death came, they'd ALL die. Now, that's the highest level of selfishness possible--and just as crazy!

The majority of U.S. citizens recognized that, beginning in 2015, we somehow gained a pathological liar that was so bad that many kept count of the lies, as president. We watched the damage, especially the January 6th attack on the 2020 election... In the second term, the chaos, damage, and illegal actions began so quickly due to Project 2025 and big money providers behind the scenes, that we may never be able to even return to the point where we were when Biden left office. Trump has made a mockery of the presidency and not surprisingly succeeded in dividing the country severely. The damage to individual citizens ranged from catastrophic to even death by murder. The result of the unauthorized war attacks has ultimately, and finally, forced our allies to NOT be responsive for fear of a major world war, as well as to protect their own countries.

The administration has been relentless in attaching the balance of freedom of the United States as a diversified, fully functional country with ongoing and increasing successes in the world. Through cooperation and support when possible. Thousands of effigies of the president has been made  and publicly displayed across the world... Worse, though, is that his cult group has destroyed the prestige and respect of countries and people across the world. We are no longer the land of the Statue of Liberty which offered so much, including freedom.

Still worse is that many millions of our citizens were seduced by lies, including by religions figures, which by his second term, has done great harm to most of those who originally voted for the republican party representatives. The entire governmental structure is now corrupted and no longer servicing the United States of America.

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Know Thyself (John 6:22-71) The first principle for saying, “No” to people-pleasing is to know human nature. The second principle is to know your own identity. Jesus refused to be made an earthly king because he knew who he was (John 6:15).

... a philosophical Delphic maxim which was inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek precinct of Delphi. The best-known of the Delphic maxims, it has been quoted and analyzed by numerous authors throughout history, and has been applied in many ways. Although traditionally attributed to the Seven Sages of Greece, or to the god Apollo himself, the inscription likely had its origin in a popular proverb.

Proverbs 27:17 (KJV)  Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. 💡 Explanation This verse means that just as one piece of iron can be used to sharpen another, people can help improve one another through meaningful interaction, encouragement, and challenge.

"It belongs to all men to know themselves and think well [sōphronein]" (DK B116).[13][c] According to classicist Charles H. Kahn, this fragment echoes a traditional belief that "know thyself" had an essentially similar meaning to the second Delphic maxim, "nothing too much"; both sayings might be considered alternative ways of describing the virtue of sophrosyne (lit. "soundness of mind").

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To be continued...

God Bless

Gabby