Guilty by association

they say keep your friends close and your enemies even closer but when the "good" guys find your enemy and you close by, surely you'll be found guilty by association...?

Nevertheless God forgives.

Until I was able to identify and confront the infinity irredeemable state of my being, I would always (quietly) believe I was better than someone else. Hence no need to empathise with or forgive those I considered less redeemable than myself, such as: corrupt police, murderers, dictators, bigots, etc blah blah blah. They deserve isolation. But honestly nobody can stoop as low as me... especially if i have a "good" excuse... like the preservation of my life/kid/culture/whatever.

Nevertheless God forgives.

If there is something that you have done and you can't forgive yourself for it, ask God.

1 John1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Matthew 6:14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Love Trumps Racism

Racism! ...it was like an Achilles heel. I fell for it, in the past. Some white person calls me nigger and they get my undivided attention. Why? Because I held held a grudge against white people.

Of course, I'd been subtly encouraged and conditioned to hold this grudge. How do you ask? Well, through constant humiliation of black people on TV (Yes Oxfam), legal deaths in police custody, the apparent difficulty in pronouncing my African name, while totally able to learn Chinese in 2016. lol. Indeed, the subtle PR and cultural campaign to slander black (and other) people continues (It;s not one sided, everybody does it). Last point, it's not difficult to find a black man in a western country called James Smith but you be hard pressed to find a white man living in Africa going by the name Babatunde Oyelowo. There's just no exchange culture, only resources.

...was it hard to pronounce that African name? :-) <3

Still, with all that said, I was the person holding onto this grudge against white people (among others) except for my mates who were/are all exceptional. <3

Nevertheless but the grace of Love/God, I am not here on Earth with you to take offence. I'm here to love (i.e., unconditionally empathise and forgive) you, even when you refuse to love me.

Why am i saying all this..? Well, Kanye, in the video tells his audience to stop focusing on racism but doesn't tell them what to focus on instead.

All I can tell you is that Love/God is what released me from my grudges fears and replace them with Love. Now where i held grudges, anger, hatred etc for others, I hold love for ALL people.

Before I sought retribution as part of a wider array of life's compensations, but honestly peeps, seeking Love/God is only fulfilling activity I've ever engaged in.... OK and watching someone try to eat a jam-filled-sugar-coated-donut without licking their lips until the donut is finished.

It is what it is.

Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Black Lives Matter / White Lives Matter / All Lives Matter

Ay Sal shared Fox 5 DC's live video.
19 November at 19:18 · 
The inevitable response to #blacklivesmatter.
This was always going to happen. You can't fight abuse with abuse. I'll say it again #alllivesmatter.
The point of the BLM movement was lost on these people. They looked at BLM message are heard "white people don't matter." So now #whitelivesmatter.
I think the BLM movenemt would have been better served by a different slogan like Blacks Lives Afraid.
That would have been a more honest expression.
It's never too late to love your neighbour, i.e., empathise and forgive unconditionally. Your #NeighbourLivesMatter <3
Love your neighbour <3

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Hamza Ahmad White lives matter now lol ridiculous. Most of us already know all lives matter that doesn't need to be said its already understood. It's not all lives being taken by police brutality with no justice, it's majority black lives that's why the BLM slogan/movement was created from what I understand, it don't really matter what hash tag is created fact of the matter is black lives are being taken and are under constant threat and It's wrong point blank period how there killing black people ontop of the bloody history of white people, so I don't get all this all lives matter and white lives matter bullshit. Exactly what are they protesting about?? What white lives are under threat here?? I don't understand how pointing out black lives matter means any other lives matter less. If white people where being oppressed it would be white lives matter but their not so its black lives matter only for me.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal Dude i don't know what to say bruv, you say you dont know why they are out there chanting #WhiteLivesMatters but this was predictable. I saw this protest coming since July.... meh
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Yvonne Ekpe
Yvonne Ekpe Well said. Of course all lives matter, there's no debating that but BLM because Black Americans are being 'racially' targeted. They're at this time in history endangered species in America.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal If there were no black people in the USA from tomorrow, by next week the war between the blue and brown eyed people will start to emerge. It's not about black and white is about fear and power. By Gods grace, I am not afraid to die, that fear only serves to endanger myself and my neighbour. 
Let's go further, if there were no black people on the face on the earth, there will still be war and man made famine.
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Yvonne Ekpe
Yvonne Ekpe And what's the cause of the fear? Who's allowing there to be fear? I mean I agree that black people can also be racist but that's in response to this deep rooted centuries long marginalisation due to ones skin colour. What's happening now in the US just shows that racism was only suppressed but never ended. I'm not afraid to die either but like it or not I'm very wary whenever I'm in the US. There's now this mistrust of white people even though I might not show it or act out cos of it. I can't help but wonder if the white person smiling at me in public isn't secretly wanting to assault me in some way. Or woild rather not have me in their country just cos i dont fit in skin tone wise. I'm not afraid but I cant help but be distrustful.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal Yvonne, I speak for myself because I can't speak for others - fear is the absence of Love/God (which is unconditional/eternal). If i am afraid it is because I am valuing life (and/or quality of life) over and above Love/God. 

I.e., for me Love/God is matters more than life. I'll go so far as to say that the point of life is to be with Love/God. 

But when my fleeting life matters more than Love/God, then all I have to contend with is death. When I value life over love, death becomes a disadvantage, the permanent and constant state of disruption and cancellation to the life I value more than anything else. When life is everything, death is the loss of everything. Loss is the absence of value; the inability to find value. Death is to be adrift. Like a lone shipwreck survivor adrift in the middle of an endless ocean. Death is isolation.

So the logical thing to do before isolation (death) is to satisfy every desire my body craves, by any means necessary.

However Love/God is connection, unconditional eternal connection. 

Fear is the absence of connection (Love/God).

If i fear something it is often because there is no connection. That's why people fear the unknown, i.e., that with which there is no connection.

I am not afraid of anything that God has made.


Ay Sal shared Fox 5 DC's live video.
19 November at 19:18 · 
The inevitable response to #blacklivesmatter.
This was always going to happen. You can't fight abuse with abuse. I'll say it again #alllivesmatter.
The point of the BLM movement was lost on these people. They looked at BLM message are heard "white people don't matter." So now #whitelivesmatter.
I think the BLM movenemt would have been better served by a different slogan like Blacks Lives Afraid.
That would have been a more honest expression.
It's never too late to love your neighbour, i.e., empathise and forgive unconditionally. Your #NeighbourLivesMatter <3
Love your neighbour <3

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Hamza Ahmad White lives matter now lol ridiculous. Most of us already know all lives matter that doesn't need to be said its already understood. It's not all lives being taken by police brutality with no justice, it's majority black lives that's why the BLM slogan/movement was created from what I understand, it don't really matter what hash tag is created fact of the matter is black lives are being taken and are under constant threat and It's wrong point blank period how there killing black people ontop of the bloody history of white people, so I don't get all this all lives matter and white lives matter bullshit. Exactly what are they protesting about?? What white lives are under threat here?? I don't understand how pointing out black lives matter means any other lives matter less. If white people where being oppressed it would be white lives matter but their not so its black lives matter only for me.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal Dude i don't know what to say bruv, you say you dont know why they are out there chanting #WhiteLivesMatters but this was predictable. I saw this protest coming since July.... meh
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Yvonne Ekpe
Yvonne Ekpe Well said. Of course all lives matter, there's no debating that but BLM because Black Americans are being 'racially' targeted. They're at this time in history endangered species in America.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal If there were no black people in the USA from tomorrow, by next week the war between the blue and brown eyed people will start to emerge. It's not about black and white is about fear and power. By Gods grace, I am not afraid to die, that fear only serves to endanger myself and my neighbour. 
Let's go further, if there were no black people on the face on the earth, there will still be war and man made famine.
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Yvonne Ekpe
Yvonne Ekpe And what's the cause of the fear? Who's allowing there to be fear? I mean I agree that black people can also be racist but that's in response to this deep rooted centuries long marginalisation due to ones skin colour. What's happening now in the US just shows that racism was only suppressed but never ended. I'm not afraid to die either but like it or not I'm very wary whenever I'm in the US. There's now this mistrust of white people even though I might not show it or act out cos of it. I can't help but wonder if the white person smiling at me in public isn't secretly wanting to assault me in some way. Or woild rather not have me in their country just cos i dont fit in skin tone wise. I'm not afraid but I cant help but be distrustful.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal Yvonne, I speak for myself because I can't speak for others - fear is the absence of Love/God (which is unconditional/eternal). If i am afraid it is because I am valuing life (and/or quality of life) over and above Love/God. 

I.e., for me Love/God is matters more than life. I'll go so far as to say that the point of life is to be with Love/God. 

But when my fleeting life matters more than Love/God, then all I have to contend with is death. When I value life over love, death becomes a disadvantage, the permanent and constant state of disruption and cancellation to the life I value more than anything else. When life is everything, death is the loss of everything. Loss is the absence of value; the inability to find value. Death is to be adrift. Like a lone shipwreck survivor adrift in the middle of an endless ocean. Death is isolation.

So the logical thing to do before isolation (death) is to satisfy every desire my body craves, by any means necessary.

However Love/God is connection, unconditional eternal connection. 

Fear is the absence of connection (Love/God).

If i fear something it is often because there is no connection. That's why people fear the unknown, i.e., that with which there is no connection.

I am not afraid of anything that God has made.

That's what fear is - it's the absence of Love/ God/ connection.


Ay Sal shared Fox 5 DC's live video.
19 November at 19:18 · 
The inevitable response to #blacklivesmatter.
This was always going to happen. You can't fight abuse with abuse. I'll say it again #alllivesmatter.
The point of the BLM movement was lost on these people. They looked at BLM message are heard "white people don't matter." So now #whitelivesmatter.
I think the BLM movenemt would have been better served by a different slogan like Blacks Lives Afraid.
That would have been a more honest expression.
It's never too late to love your neighbour, i.e., empathise and forgive unconditionally. Your #NeighbourLivesMatter <3
Love your neighbour <3

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Hamza Ahmad White lives matter now lol ridiculous. Most of us already know all lives matter that doesn't need to be said its already understood. It's not all lives being taken by police brutality with no justice, it's majority black lives that's why the BLM slogan/movement was created from what I understand, it don't really matter what hash tag is created fact of the matter is black lives are being taken and are under constant threat and It's wrong point blank period how there killing black people ontop of the bloody history of white people, so I don't get all this all lives matter and white lives matter bullshit. Exactly what are they protesting about?? What white lives are under threat here?? I don't understand how pointing out black lives matter means any other lives matter less. If white people where being oppressed it would be white lives matter but their not so its black lives matter only for me.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal Dude i don't know what to say bruv, you say you dont know why they are out there chanting #WhiteLivesMatters but this was predictable. I saw this protest coming since July.... meh
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Yvonne Ekpe
Yvonne Ekpe Well said. Of course all lives matter, there's no debating that but BLM because Black Americans are being 'racially' targeted. They're at this time in history endangered species in America.
Like · Reply · 3 · Yesterday at 08:06 · Edited
Ay Sal
Ay Sal If there were no black people in the USA from tomorrow, by next week the war between the blue and brown eyed people will start to emerge. It's not about black and white is about fear and power. By Gods grace, I am not afraid to die, that fear only serves to endanger myself and my neighbour. 
Let's go further, if there were no black people on the face on the earth, there will still be war and man made famine.
Like · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 09:07
Yvonne Ekpe
Yvonne Ekpe And what's the cause of the fear? Who's allowing there to be fear? I mean I agree that black people can also be racist but that's in response to this deep rooted centuries long marginalisation due to ones skin colour. What's happening now in the US just shows that racism was only suppressed but never ended. I'm not afraid to die either but like it or not I'm very wary whenever I'm in the US. There's now this mistrust of white people even though I might not show it or act out cos of it. I can't help but wonder if the white person smiling at me in public isn't secretly wanting to assault me in some way. Or woild rather not have me in their country just cos i dont fit in skin tone wise. I'm not afraid but I cant help but be distrustful.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal Yvonne, I speak for myself because I can't speak for others - fear is the absence of Love/God (which is unconditional/eternal). If i am afraid it is because I am valuing life (and/or quality of life) over and above Love/God. 

I.e., for me Love/God is matters more than life. I'll go so far as to say that the point of life is to be with Love/God. 

But when my fleeting life matters more than Love/God, then all I have to contend with is death. When I value life over love, death becomes a disadvantage, the permanent and constant state of disruption and cancellation to the life I value more than anything else. When life is everything, death is the loss of everything. Loss is the absence of value; the inability to find value. Death is to be adrift. Like a lone shipwreck survivor adrift in the middle of an endless ocean. Death is isolation.

So the logical thing to do before isolation (death) is to satisfy every desire my body craves, by any means necessary.

However Love/God is connection, unconditional eternal connection. 

Fear is the absence of connection (Love/God).

If i fear something it is often because there is no connection. That's why people fear the unknown, i.e., that with which there is no connection.

I am not afraid of anything that God has made.

That's what fear is - it's the absence of Love/ God/ connection.

As for trust, well i trust God. If i see anybody public i smile first and genuinely because i love them they way God loves me (with unconditional empathy and forgiveness) EVEN if they secretly wanting to assault me. I forgive them, for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”[a] And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.) 
s for trust, well i trust God. If i see anybody public i smile first and genuinely because i love them they way God loves me (with unconditional empathy and forgiveness) EVEN if they secretly wanting to assault me. I forgive them, for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”[a] And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.)Ay Sal shared Fox 5 DC's live video.
November
The inevitable response to #blacklivesmatter.
This was always going to happen. You can't fight abuse with abuse. I'll say it again #alllivesmatter.
The point of the BLM movement was lost on these people. They looked at BLM message are heard "white people don't matter." So now #whitelivesmatter.
I think the BLM movenemt would have been better served by a different slogan like Blacks Lives Afraid.
That would have been a more honest expression.
It's never too late to love your neighbour, i.e., empathise and forgive unconditionally. Your #NeighbourLivesMatter <3
Love your neighbour <3

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Hamza White lives matter now lol ridiculous. Most of us already know all lives matter that doesn't need to be said its already understood. It's not all lives being taken by police brutality with no justice, it's majority black lives that's why the BLM slogan/movement was created from what I understand, it don't really matter what hash tag is created fact of the matter is black lives are being taken and are under constant threat and It's wrong point blank period how there killing black people ontop of the bloody history of white people, so I don't get all this all lives matter and white lives matter bullshit. Exactly what are they protesting about?? What white lives are under threat here?? I don't understand how pointing out black lives matter means any other lives matter less. If white people where being oppressed it would be white lives matter but their not so its black lives matter only for me.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal Dude i don't know what to say bruv, you say you dont know why they are out there chanting #WhiteLivesMatters but this was predictable. I saw this protest coming since July.... meh
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Yvonne
Yvonne Well said. Of course all lives matter, there's no debating that but BLM because Black Americans are being 'racially' targeted. They're at this time in history endangered species in America.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal If there were no black people in the USA from tomorrow, by next week the war between the blue and brown eyed people will start to emerge. It's not about black and white is about fear and power. By Gods grace, I am not afraid to die, that fear only serves to endanger myself and my neighbour.
Let's go further, if there were no black people on the face on the earth, there will still be war and man made famine.
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Yvonne
Yvonne And what's the cause of the fear? Who's allowing there to be fear? I mean I agree that black people can also be racist but that's in response to this deep rooted centuries long marginalisation due to ones skin colour. What's happening now in the US just shows that racism was only suppressed but never ended. I'm not afraid to die either but like it or not I'm very wary whenever I'm in the US. There's now this mistrust of white people even though I might not show it or act out cos of it. I can't help but wonder if the white person smiling at me in public isn't secretly wanting to assault me in some way. Or woild rather not have me in their country just cos i dont fit in skin tone wise. I'm not afraid but I cant help but be distrustful.
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Ay Sal
Ay Sal: Yvonne, I speak for myself because I can't speak for others - fear is the absence of Love/God (which is unconditional/eternal). If i am afraid it is because I am valuing life (and/or quality of life) over and above Love/God.

I.e., for me Love/God is matters more than life. I'll go so far as to say that the point of life is to be with Love/God.

But when my fleeting life matters more than Love/God, then all I have to contend with is death. When I value life over love, death becomes a disadvantage, the permanent and constant state of disruption and cancellation to the life I value more than anything else. When life is everything, death is the loss of everything. Loss is the absence of value; the inability to find value. Death is to be adrift. Like a lone shipwreck survivor adrift in the middle of an endless ocean. Death is isolation.

So the logical thing to do before isolation (death) is to satisfy every desire my body craves, by any means necessary.

However Love/God is connection, unconditional eternal connection.

Fear is the absence of connection (Love/God).

If i fear something it is often because there is no connection. That's why people fear the unknown, i.e., that with which there is no connection.

I am not afraid of anything that God has made.

That's what fear is - it's the absence of Love/ God/ connection.

As for trust, well i trust God. If i see anybody public i smile first and genuinely because i love them they way God loves me (with unconditional empathy and forgiveness) EVEN if they secretly wanting to assault me. I forgive them, for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”[a] And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.)

That's what fear is - it's the absence of Love/ God/ connection.

As for trust, well i trust God. If i see anybody public i smile first and genuinely because i love them they way God loves me (with unconditional empathy and forgiveness) EVEN if they secretly wanting to assault me. I forgive them, for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”[a] And they divided up his clothes by casting lo

Black Mirror - Be Brave and be free

Season 3: Episode 3

This episode of the show by Charlie Brooker is wonderful! If ever i saw a fictional story, in which the solution is to forgive and empathise with unconditionally - this is it.

NO SPOILERS included - this is not a review of the episode.

I always ask every I meet if they can think of anybody, dead or alive, that they cannot empathise with. Most people say Hitler. It's really shocking actually. But sometimes, just sometimes, people say something else...

I always ask people if there they keep any secrets from their friends and family. People often say yes. I don't bother to ask them to share their secrets but I do ask them to think about the reason why they keep those secrets. They don't need to answer... i know they keep the secrets because they are afraid of the consequences to telling the truth!

The consequences maybe that their friends and family can also think of somebody that they cannot empathise with and it might be you.

When you cannot empathise with and forgive unconditionally, people are bound to keep secrets from you in order to prevent you from condemning them. It's exactly the same as when you lie or omit thing from your friends and family... You also are prevent them from condemning you.

Isn't unconditional forgiveness and empathy sweet? That's LOVE my friends. To know that no matter what you have done in your life that there is forgiveness for you and empathy; LOVE <3

I speak for myself when i say there's nothing like it. No Shame.

Do not allow fear to reside in your life anymore.

Repent and be free. This is the only freedom that matters. It doesn't mater if you live in a "democracy," if you are still lying and omitting to the people around you - afraid that they won't love if they eve knew the truth.

John 8:36 New International Version (NIV) So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Matthew 6:14-15 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Let me tell you., I know fear and i know love the God. What ever you are afraid of let it go. You were never made to live lie. Think about how you detest those that lie to you.

Be brave and be free. <3