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NORMAL AS ABNORMAL
By Richard L. Dixon
The question that is always asked, what is the truth? It is a question that has been pondered,
analyzed, and examined by the so-call experts for thousands of years. Many organizations,
governments, religious orders, and individuals have all laid claimed to what is the truth. What is
abnormal has been proclaimed normal and that which is normal has been cursed as abnormal. In
essence, the world as we know it has become even more confused in the complex webs of lies,
distortions, deceit, conspiracies, and half-truths. Its no wonder that John the Baptist stayed out in
the wilderness eating locust, insects, and wearing animal skin. The elite of that time considered
him a wild man of bestial nature. Could be that the elites who passed false judgment on him were
themselves wild men with bestial intentions but covered it up with a facade of fashionable
civility?
Is it possible that what they pass off as civilization was nothing more than anarchy to John the
Baptist? He had the hindsight to see through the phony airs and hypocrisy of the so called
educated men at that time. Unfortunately their education was one of ignorance, pride, and
selfishness. They expected the world to cater to them and not them to the world. In the end, they
killed a peaceful man from Galilee who dared to bring forth a gospel of truth, love, forgiveness,
Strangely enough we find ourselves in the same type of situation that is in direct comparison to
John the Baptist. We have an entrenched elite that tries to define truth to us in a confusing maze
of print media, the internet, television, digital, and government and corporate propaganda. Their
means is to misdirect, confuse, divide, filter, and dilute what is true. They have turned man
against his own kind in a bestial type of way. We view each other around the world with
contempt, suspicion, hatred, and animosity. We have killed and continue to kill in the name of a
false doctrine that we consider the truth but have no understanding ourselves. We have built
imaginary walls, fortresses, fences, and rivers to separate us from one another spiritually, and
psychologically. We don’t believe that God made man in his own imagine. We tend to think that
he made some men in his own image, and the rest we consider heathens outside of his majesty. In
essence, we have made a false truth a graven image unto ourselves. We have become demigods
of arrogance, pride, lust, and selfishness. We have glorified the powerful at the expense of the
needy and chastised the weak for not being strong like the morally corrupt.
Therefore, I would like to take a shot at the time as I see it. First I believe that God is indeed
coming back but not in the way that we expect him. He waiting on his children to grow up and
finally realize that we are all his creation regardless of race, creed, religion, sex, or national
origin. He is expecting the few of us who get it, to lead the rest of us to that truthful
understanding. He expects us to love one another in an intimate, nourishing, and caring kind of
eliminating poverty, curing disease, hunger, homelessness, and violence against the oppressed.
He expects us to establish schools, clean up the environment, house the homelessness, and give
jobs to the very deserving. He wants us to use our minds to reach for the stars again, explore the
universe, create some fascinating scientific discovery, compose beautiful songs, make wonderful
paintings, and write Nobel winning literature. God wants us to truly examine the inner souls of
our being to experience true love, respect, and humility towards one another. You see God is the
essence of true love because it has no boundaries and cannot be defined, typecast, or pigeon-
holed. Love is above all reproach whether it is physical, material, or mental. Love is not
oppression it is liberation of the soul, mind, and body. It transcends a physical bond such as sex
That is what real truth means to me. It goes beyond the avenues of normal and abnormal. I am
not expecting anyone to think like me and reach this level of understanding. No what is needed is
for the human race to slow down on its path of self-destruction and start growing up and act like
the creation that God intended for us to be. Maybe and just maybe when we do start to grow-up,
he will come back to see us and say you guys have finally gotten it right.