It's a beautiful Day!
It is amazing, incredible, and all things good.
While we may be born with a name, such as I was, we have the freedom to redefine ourselves based on our own knowledge, experience, wisdom, and intuition. This is the essence of Microdacism, the Thoughts of Microdac.
Microdacism is about empowering everyone to Think. To think for yourself.
Break the shackles of intellectual slavery and spiritual imprisonment and Think for yourself.
Like the universe, I have an insatiable appetite for knowledge. I eagerly embrace wisdom regardless of its source and generously share what I have, including knowledge.
Though non-religious, I accept knowledge from Confucious, Socrates, Marcus, The Buddha, and yes, Immanuel.
I have learned that we humans have been blessed with intelligence that allows us to access wisdom gleaned from any source.
We must only be brave enough to shed parochialism and absorb our divinity.
FEAR is the biggest handcuff to life and living. Overcome that fear taught by others, and you will then be FREE to know and accept the truth. Another word for fear is religion.
It is amazing, incredible, and all things good.
While we may be born with a name, such as I was, we have the freedom to redefine ourselves based on our own knowledge, experience, wisdom, and intuition. This is the essence of Microdacism, the Thoughts of Microdac.
Microdacism is about empowering everyone to Think. To think for yourself.
Break the shackles of intellectual slavery and spiritual imprisonment and Think for yourself.
Like the universe, I have an insatiable appetite for knowledge. I eagerly embrace wisdom regardless of its source and generously share what I have, including knowledge.
Though non-religious, I accept knowledge from Confucious, Socrates, Marcus, The Buddha, and yes, Immanuel.
I have learned that we humans have been blessed with intelligence that allows us to access wisdom gleaned from any source.
We must only be brave enough to shed parochialism and absorb our divinity.
FEAR is the biggest handcuff to life and living. Overcome that fear taught by others, and you will then be FREE to know and accept the truth. Another word for fear is religion.
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00:00It is Sunday morning, and I would like you to watch a video, form some opinions, and
00:19then share your opinions.
00:22That would make me very happy, and it would also educate us all.
00:26After all, together we learn.
00:30It is Sunday morning.
00:34And it's called, Build Your Church.
00:41Now there's a saying in the Bible about, upon this rock I will build my church.
00:50Because a rock is one of the most stable things that we can think of on the earth.
00:55It is natural, it is natural.
00:58So the saying is, upon this rock I will build my church.
01:02This is how Melanie is going to take that phrase.
01:06Okay, I'm going to build my own church.
01:11It's not going to have a religious name.
01:13It's not going to have a dogma that's acceptable to masses, or unacceptable to an equal amount
01:21of masses.
01:23And has nothing to do with Melanie's church.
01:27Melanie's church consists of two things, because I prefer simplicity when I kid.
01:34The first thing is my faith.
01:36I have faith and a power higher than myself.
01:41You call it God, Allah, Mohammed, you know, it doesn't matter the name.
01:47You can call it energy.
01:48You can call it source.
01:51You can call it whatever name feels comfortable for you.
01:56But the first one is faith in something bigger than myself.
02:02That I want it to be divine.
02:05I don't want it to be a smarter human.
02:08I don't want to believe in a smarter human.
02:11I want to believe in something that's beyond humanness, beyond the limitations of humanity.
02:20So the first thing in my church, in Melanie's church, is faith.
02:24My faith.
02:25What is comfortable for me, what makes sense to me.
02:29The second thing in my church is my desires and my dreams.
02:35Because my church includes God and me.
02:39It doesn't contain anybody else.
02:42It's a communication between the two of us.
02:45I have the faith.
02:47My part and his part is helping to unfold my dreams and desires.
02:54So we're in partnership.
02:57So that's my definition on church.
02:59Now I want to tell you a cute story.
03:03I did outside sales for the company that I worked for.
03:06And so that means I got in a car and actually went to see the client.
03:09And I would go, you know, I did it five days a week.
03:17And as an example, a car.
03:19You know, cars have problems.
03:21You know, alternator goes out, you have flat tire, you have blah, blah, blah.
03:26Things go with it.
03:27And as a female, I don't get involved with that.
03:31I have my car serviced on a regular basis so it doesn't cause me problems.
03:35This one little story I'm going to tell you
03:37is that I was in a city that was approximately 25 miles from where
03:45the business was that I worked at.
03:47So I'm coming back and it's going over some large bridges with water.
03:53And as soon as I get into the parking lot of the company I'm working for,
03:58my tire on the back driver's side goes flat.
04:03Right there in front of my eyes.
04:05I get out of the car, look at the tire, and it goes down.
04:08I went, whoa, what happened with that?
04:15So I'm thinking, as soon as I saw it, I went, this is not a coincidence.
04:20This just, I didn't pick up a nail in this parking lot when I got here.
04:25That isn't it.
04:26I've had this flat tire.
04:28How come I didn't have problems?
04:30Because I visualized, and she does it all the time, I have an angel.
04:34We all have angels.
04:36I've named my angel as Gracie.
04:38So Gracie has long, red, blonde hair, wavy, and it's long and she flows.
04:45And she sits on the top of my car.
04:47So whether I'm going 65 or I'm going six miles an hour, it doesn't matter.
04:51She's on top.
04:52So she protects me.
04:53I believe that.
04:54I believe in divine protection.
04:56So she protects me.
04:57So she's in my car.
04:59She's the one that kept that tire with air in it until I stopped.
05:03There is no doubt in my mind, I had a flat tire 25 miles ago.
05:08But she kept me going until I stopped the car.
05:14And where I stopped the car, I could get help.
05:16So the story is Gracie, my angel, on top of my car.
05:21Now the last one is to show you that I do have a sense of humor.
05:26In 2021, I got another dog, who I love dogs.
05:31And this time, I got myself a standard poodle.
05:35Never had a poodle before.
05:36They're smart.
05:38Smart.
05:38So I'm a single girl and I'm watching TV.
05:42And I yell at the TV, oh, use your common sense.
05:46I'm talking, I'm yelling at the TV.
05:48She lifts her head.
05:49She says, well, you know, mommy, it didn't used to be called common sense.
05:53It didn't used to be called common sense.
05:56And of course, I burst out laughing.
05:58I said, OK, Ziva, what did it used to be called?
06:02She pauses a moment.
06:03She says, poodle sense.
06:08Anyway, so I go, oh, Ziva.
06:11She says, mommy, now you know we're one of the smartest breeds that there are.
06:15Why wouldn't it be called after us?
06:17But then the German Shepherd heard about it.
06:20And then the Great Dane heard about it.
06:23And the Pekingese heard about it.
06:24And they all want to be named after them.
06:26And then that wasn't enough.
06:27Then the cows heard about it.
06:30And the goats heard about it.
06:32And the horse, horse sense.
06:33All the animals heard about it.
06:35They wanted to be named after them.
06:37She said, mom, that didn't work out.
06:38So it went back to common sense.
06:40But it used to be poodle sense.
06:46As you know, not being religious has been an asset to me.
06:52Because I'm not beholden to any founder, any myth, any doctrine, or any dogma.
07:00I am then free to be the vehicle or the vessel to be used to impart whatever
07:08the spirits want me to say.
07:10And I've also said quite often that the Bible is a good book to have
07:16around as literature, as literature.
07:20And I have been inspired by the Bible.
07:24Two books in particular, Sirach and the Proverbs.
07:29They are wonderful.
07:31If you read nothing else, those two books will guide you for the rest of your life.
07:38You don't need to read anything else.
07:42Thank you, Melanie, for having the courage to be yourself and to think for yourself.