Beliefs

 There are the beliefs you are programmed with as a child.

Then there are the beliefs that your experience teaches you from the beginning of your life in the womb.

Then there are the experiences you have throughout your life.

What do you do with all this?

I think it depends upon the person.

I'm amazed I'm still alive at 78 especially after all I have been through in my life.

However, it's true I didn't have to go to the Viet Nam War because I had already almost died of Concussion Seizures caused by rock climbing when I was 9 years old.

So, the very thing that almost killed me between 10 and 15 is what saved my life so I didn't have to either die in Viet Nam or have PTSD the rest of my life from watching people die there.

So, unlike many men my age 78 I didn't have to suffer or die or get PTSD from the Viet Nam War when the Draft was still a real thing for young men since at least the beginning of World War II until maybe 1974?

I just checked it ended in 1973 when I was 25 years old.

So, what do I believe now?

 I believe God saved my life through those seizures that almost killed me so I could have a somewhat normal life and get married and have children and start businesses along the way and travel the world.

This is what I believe right now.

By God's Grace 

If we are really honest with ourselves about all this:

People believe in God and or religions simply because they inherently know that they wouldn't survive without these beliefs. I personally have always wondered how people survive while believing nothing not even in themselves.

And it's true often people Don't Survive with nothing at all to believe in.

And especially growing up before the 1970s and 1980s you couldn't really trust modern day medicine either because you had doctors on TV in Commercials telling us that it was okay to smoke cigarettes because they smoked too as doctors and so then a doctor would light up a cigarette and smoke it in front of people. But now, they have people smoking cigarets from a. hole in their neck because of Throat and lung cancer which is more realistic.

So, literally the ONLY thing people around the world had that they could trust before the 1970s and 1980s was believing in God and Religion. 

Then in 1985 in December I went to India to Bodhgaya and there was initiated along with 500,000 others into the Kalachakra Tantra. I also observed faithful Tibetan Buddhists there from Deep into Tibet that knew that the Chinese would never let them go back home to Tibet so they were going to have to stay in India or Nepal or other Free Country because they could never be allowed to go home ever again.

But, it was their devotion to their religion of Tibetan Buddhism that really touched my heart.

I learned during that week that one doesn't necessarily have to believe in God to become enlightened and to have compassion for all beings.

This helped me a lot in life even though I will always believe in God because my physical survival always depended upon this growing up in the 1950s. Believing in God for me means I'm never really ever afraid of death so death is sort of like Going to Sleep "To Sleep Perchance to dream" as Shakespeare once said.

It's not that I relish the suffering that might come along with dying it's that death itself does not scare me really at all. And for me, this is the best part of believing fully in God.

Then, when Archangel Gabriel gave me the gift of conscious soul Travel in my early 20s I experienced how a soul can separate from the physical body at which point no one could tell me that we don't have souls because I had already seen for myself that we do and that our bodies are only like cars we drive around in with our souls.

By God's Grace

Beliefs

There are statements about people in the U.S. wondering about Putin's sanity. I don't think this kind of talk is very useful. Whenever you deal with people speaking other languages you are going to run into this. English has it's biases and so does Russian and every other language. Sociologically, it just isn't useful to call Putin "delusional" when his beliefs likely are held by many people in his country today still.

It would be like calling some people on Fox News delusional because they hold some beliefs because they might be too conservative for most people to deal with. Unless they are brandishing a weapon ( and Putin by the way is brandishing thousands of weapons presently) Fox News extreme beliefs are only words. The same is true of Putin unless he starts unleashing bullets and missiles. So, calling someone with thousands of loaded guns and missiles "delusional" doesn't solve any problems it just makes the situation worse and likely this will only piss him off more.

Also, this situation is a lot like if was Putin messing with Cuba, Mexico or Canada. The U.S. would get pretty pissed off about that just like Putin is now regarding the U.S. and EU in Ukraine. So this is important to think about too.