No Fucking Problem (How to Fix Everything)
Hello My Friend,
The other day I was listening to one of my favorite songs by the band Suicidal Tendencies. It’s a song called “No Fuck’n Problem.” It’s on my morning playlist along with some other inspirational songs to get me all revved up for the day.
The song is right up my alley as far as its message of Faith in Love, Goodness, and Righteousness goes, and it got me thinking: is it possible to not have any problems?
I know that may sound like a dumb question because the answer seems so obvious - of course you can’t not have any problems. That’s just stupid. I thought it was dumb, too...until I thought about it some more. Now I’m starting to wonder if maybe it’s not so stupid after all.
The idea of a ‘problem’ starts to lose its potency, its scariness, as you get deeper into your spiritual journey of enlightenment.
I think, as Suicidal Tendencies preaches, that it might be possible to live life without problems...but if you want to get rid of your problems, you’ll have to exchange them for something else.
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There are many approaches to dealing with problems, a million different gimmicks, plans, formulas, etcetera to cure, repair, or solve any and all situations that you may run into. Each of them that works does so only because the solution has within it that ‘something special’ that speaks to those who ‘needs’ this solution at this current moment. But each and every solution has, at its core, the same seed the allows for the opportunity of the problem to be solved: Faith.
Sure, that sounds stupid, too, I know. How can faith be the solution to any problem? Well, let me answer that with another question: how does anything get solved? Or how does anything change? By something different happening, by doing something different. And what is implied in doing something different? A different result. And if you are changing to make something better, then you are doing so in faith; with the presumption that your actions will manifest themselves in a positive end result; that a solution is possible and it’s the solution you truly desire. Otherwise, why make any effort to change at all, why do anything differently if there was no faith in your ‘new’ action to bring about the end results that are more desirable and acceptable to you?
If your positivity were pointless then we, as a race of beings, wouldn’t be aware that positivity were even a thing. But through our evolution we have learned that good things bring good things, and so we have come to have faith in good - whether or not we want to admit it. We all, deep down, believe in Good as the solution to all problems, and eventually this truth becomes self-evident.
It may not sit well with everyone, but if we believe in Good, it is a given that we must believe in God because God is Goodness. That’s what God is: that which is Good.
I know there are a lot of atheists who will deny God at all costs - even at the cost of reason. I was one of them. I thought God was the dumbest idea EVER. I really did. I knew about Good and Bad, but I never strived to be Good; I never tried to make Good my intent, all the time. I mocked God to no end, and ridiculed anyone who said that they believed in God. I was merciless in my (internally-voiced) critiques and the tearing down of other belief systems. That was until I figured out what God was. Then I saw there error in my ways, and I actually learned how to learn. And the only way to learn is to reconcile yourself to the fact that you may have to give up what you think you thought was the truth and exchange it for The Truth. And that isn’t the easiest thing to do.
To give up what we want to believe, what we are comfortable and accustomed to believing and what we have been conditioned to believe is very, very hard. It’s so hard that hardly anybody does it. And the ones that do do it are either praised as geniuses or ridiculed as crack-pots, but only in opening ourselves up to greater and greater Truths, higher and higher levels of understanding; only by shedding the skin of our old ideas, truths, and realities for the the new shiny ones - the new ones that will soon become too tight to hold us and will fall away, too - can we come to grow in knowledge and wisdom. That’s what Enlightenment is all about. Enlightenment isn’t an end goal, it’s not a destination. Enlightenment is the never-ending discovery and awe of the wonder of ever-increasing Beauty eternally flowing through, over, and around us as we learn more and grow in our comprehension and realization of our ever-strengthening Truth: that all is Good and All is God.
And so, back to Faith. Faith is the starting point for solving all of your problems. And all Faith is Faith in God; all Faith is Faith in Goodness, in Rightness, in Correctness, in Harmony, in Truth - the Truth the sets you free.
Once you know your problems are solvable then you can work on solutions. But if you think that there are no solution for your problems, then you will not do anything differently because there is no point. And this is why so many problems grow so exponentially bigger when we refuse to even acknowledge that a change is possible - when we lose hope.
It is really, really hard to have Faith when you’ve lost all hope. But it’s not impossible. If it weren’t possible, then life would have extinguished itself a long time ago. The fact that we are all right here right now is proof that God is alive and working Its magic through us; that Life, your Spirit, is eternal and It’s using you right now to express itself. And what do you think your Spirit wants to do today? Fuck around and cry about how bad shit is? No. It doesn’t. Does it want to find all the reasons why something won’t work, isn’t possible, and therefore will never change? No. It’s doesn’t.
Your Spirit wants to live Itself as much as possible through you, It wants to maximize your potential so that It can reach back into Itself and feel Itself Alive through the sensory faculties you offer It. You’ve been possessed by Yourself and Yourself isn’t going to settle for just a little bit - it wants it all: all that it can use to grow in Love, Goodness, Creativity, and Life - and you are the vehicle hit has at Its disposal. And if you let the Spirit of Love guide you in all of your decisions, you will soon find that what you use to call problems very quickly become the fuel you use to achieve your goals. As John Lennon said, “There are no problems. Only solutions.”
And this is why I aways say that you need to stop fucking around and get yourself a God. Because recognition of God is the fundamental step that precedes all happiness, fulfillment, success, prosperity and joy. It the preemptive solution to any ‘problem’ that may arise.
To not even contemplate that this idea might be true is to waste your time and energy on fruitless pursuits that will never yield the results you expect them to if you do not have a ‘personal’ relationship with God - which, when it comes down to it, is simply knowing yourself and who you are in relation to everything else that Is. And everything is One. But that’s not necessarily the easiest thing to do if you aren’t ready to trade who you think you are for who God knows you are; if you aren’t ready to become a Self-Inflicted Savior.
So, yeah, it is possible to live a life with no problems IF you have a God.
After getting yourself a God, when you encounter a problem, you can confidently, triumphantly quote the song and say, “I rise above and watch you fizzle. No fucking problem at all.”
Until we meet again, my friend, think good thoughts.
All my love,
Rev. Shakes Spear
7-14-24