How would you share the Good News to the Self-Entrapped?

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The constrained one does not realize that, in respect of its predicament,
its own conceptualization of reality:
- is the cause - and is what will keep it constrained,
- is the solution - but only if it would re-conceptualize.

How would you communicate to the self-entrapped i.e. the conceptually ossified
the Good News: the solution for deliverance is in them?
 
EddieC said:
Watch this gif: https://files.catbox.moe/n46kgr.gif.

The constrained one does not realize that, in respect of its predicament,
its own conceptualization of reality:
- is the cause - and is what will keep it constrained,
- is the solution - but only if it would re-conceptualize.

How would you communicate to the self-entrapped i.e. the conceptually ossified
the Good News: the solution for deliverance is in them?
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What exactly are you trying to convey?
What you present here is a little too abstract for anybody to work with I think, esp if you are looking for answers or ideas.
This sounds more like a situation where someone who is trapped in negative thinking goes to see a therapist and after some time, if the the client is willing and open and the therapist is insightful, the client may learn to think less rigidly or absolutely, and thus be less "self entrapped" to use your phrase. Otherwise I think what you are saying is too abstract and vague to help anybody develop anything like anything like a concrete or action oriented answer for you... hope this helps, but I don't even know if what I thought about this even maps on to what your thoughts are or what your question is.
 
The constrained one - the monkey in the trap - would tell you: its constrainment is not abstract at all - it is quite real !!

What would anyone say to that?
 
EddieC said:
The constrained one - the monkey in the trap - would tell you: its constrainment is not abstract at all - it is quite real !!

What would anyone say to that?
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Me thinks the question is your problem....younseem to have your psyche rapper around a desire you cannot get out of the jar.

Could it be your assumption that they are is because you are looking in a mirror?
 
EddieC said:
Watch this gif: https://files.catbox.moe/n46kgr.gif.

The constrained one does not realize that, in respect of its predicament,
its own conceptualization of reality:
- is the cause - and is what will keep it constrained,
- is the solution - but only if it would re-conceptualize.

How would you communicate to the self-entrapped i.e. the conceptually ossified
the Good News: the solution for deliverance is in them?
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It is really the story of Faith. God sends a Messenger, the majority are trapped in their own perceptions of reality, some get born again and see through the eyes of the Messengers.

What Faith and which individual/s can claim they have not become self entrapped? It could very well be the world is chocker full of the blind leading the blind or the dead burying the dead.

Regards Tony
 
EddieC said:
How would you communicate to the self-entrapped i.e. the conceptually ossified
the Good News: the solution for deliverance is in them?
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Good News! As fake as any Fox News (that is what I have hear people say). 'Deliverance' and 'ever-lasting life'. Tribalists, Muslims too are doing the same thing. Stop fooling people. What is your evidence?
Tony Bristow-Stagg said:
It is really the story of Faith. God sends a Messenger, the majority are trapped in their own perceptions of reality, some get born again and see through the eyes of the Messengers.
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Nobody gets born again. Stop fooling people.
 
EddieC said:
Watch this gif: https://files.catbox.moe/n46kgr.gif.

The constrained one does not realize that, in respect of its predicament,
its own conceptualization of reality:
- is the cause - and is what will keep it constrained,
- is the solution - but only if it would re-conceptualize.

How would you communicate to the self-entrapped i.e. the conceptually ossified
the Good News: the solution for deliverance is in them?
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As good a metaphor as the monkey trap example is for numerous things, I'm not sure I see how it fits here... or even quite what you are comparing it to. What exactly ARE you comparing the trapped monkey to? People, I suppose. The Jar? The treat? Somehow in there your idea of what you think people believe about reality... corresponds to one of those things... eh, I'm not really seeing it here. It doesn't line up for me.
 
I think this TRIES to explain this concept as an object lesson. Sorta works.

This helps a little too


Although these videos explain the concept a little more on the nose I think...
I still don't see...
Well..
I'm just not sure what this has to do with the original premise on this thread... What is the premise exactly?
 
Your original question doesn't make sense, that's why I'm asking.

Maybe be a little more explicit about
WHAT do you consider the good news? (The Christian Gospel is sometimes described that way, is that what you mean? Or do you mean something a little different or very different? Spell it out!)
WHAT DO YOU MEAN by "self-entrapped?" What is an example of that? I think you're being too vague.

And like I said, the monkey in the trap I don't think is a good metaphor for what you are trying to say... but I cannot be sure, because I am not sure of quite what you are trying to say. You aren't saying it plainly enough.
 
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