Forgiving The Unforgivable - Bulger killers

The vicious murder in 1993 of toddler James Bulger by two 10 year old boys is undoubtedly the most heart-breaking crime committed in the UK in recent decades. Everyone who knows of this story has strong feelings about it in their hearts, how could we not? 
But have we forgiven the little boys who did not know what they were doing, or have we instead consigned their souls to an eternity of ‘evilness’ from which there is no escape?
If we are finding the process of forgiving to be difficult, presenting untold and continuous opportunities, then it is possible that we have not really understood what the liar is. True forgiveness is a side-effect of understanding what the liar is, and needs no extra effort. When we understand what the liar is we are left with no option but to forgive every living soul that exists. And there is no effort in this either, it is simply a state of being. We do not have to ‘work’ at forgiveness. We are simply left with no other way of thinking about all life than that it is, at the root, innocent and free from suffering.
If forgiveness is difficult then we must have decided that there are some things the liar tells us that we like and do not wish to disbelieve, even though they are lies. This allows it to keep control over our minds. We may have eliminated some false thinking but parts of the liar’s theology remain, and if the tiniest bit of it remains reasonable we will struggle to find our way out of hell. 

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Two little boys near Liverpool in England, one afternoon in 1993, decided that they would steal a tiny child away from his mother and take him out of the shopping centre they had been playing and stealing in. These two little boys were extremely troubled and had already experienced a level of suffering in their short life spans of which, I hope, the majority of the good folk of England have not had experience.
When you forgive it must be total if it is to be real. You cannot half-forgive a person without maintaining the world as it is. There can be no half-forgivenesses because there is no order of difficulty in miracles.
They led him around for a while and, after a moment of grace was afforded them in which they could have chosen to have left him alone to the wild vicious world, they eventually found a quiet place and began to physically abuse and torture him.



God is ALL. There is nothing that is not God. However, the liar in our minds has us believe that there is no God and instead that we are alone, separate, isolated and fearful. This is not true, but as long as we believe we are alone, separate, isolated and fearful, the world will continue to be as it is.
Whatever fear had been experienced by these two boys in their lives, and whatever extra fear was inspired by their meeting, was given expression in the brutal murder of the innocent 2 year old James Bulger on the train tracks that bitter February afternoon in 1993.
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If God exists as the liar defines Him then God is split in the same way we are.

Fortunately this is not possible. God loves ALL. God loves the murderers, the rapists, the paedophiles and the polluters in EXACTLY the same way He loves us. There is no difference because there is no order of difficulty in miracles. 
If I can forgive, wholly, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables by understanding that there is NO WAY they could have known what they were doing that winter’s afternoon, then I am free, they are free, we all are free.

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The British press had a field day, as you might imagine they would. The British press have been operating at the liar’s behest for a long time now - perhaps that is a separate post - except to note that the media can only echo the liar in our own minds, and how could it not? The liar was insisting that these two little boys should be condemned to an eternity of ‘evilness’, branded as such, never to be saved.
When wee James became unconscious after repeated beatings, these two little boys thought they might bring him back to life with a battery, like one of their toys. This fact was not mentioned at trial, interestingly.
We were angry, we were raging and we wanted blood. We got as close to it as we could in that the courts of England tried these two little boys as adults. They were sent down and we all got our pound of flesh. 
A pound of flesh is a legal right – albeit in this case rather manipulated because trying the boys as minors would not have had the same liar-appeasing powers. A pound of flesh may be legal but it is always unreasonable. Remember, pounds of flesh were every one of us sent to the gas chambers, every single one. This was legal in Germany at the time. Remember? Do not forget.
Since 1993, this horrific story regularly comes up for examination, because we did not heal our minds through vengeance and we will never be at peace by punishing perpetrators. One of the boys broke his parole recently by having looked at child pornography. The other boy fares better by all accounts. Whatever goes on, the work is not done in the national psyche and we all need healing.
Love is love. It does not change. It does not condone or support destructive actions. But it does maintain itself towards the doer of destructive actions, regardless of what they have done. The only way we can solve the riddle and the pain of our world is by extending love.
If miracles have no order of difficulty, then our mind’s projection of the reality of Great Spirit into the liar’s domain (our world) must maintain the model of ‘no order of difficulty’. This means that there can be no order of difficulty in error either. This means that whatever we do when we know not what we do has the same outcome. From here, we cannot blame another person for destroying the world because I am destroying it in exactly the same way as they are.
Little James Bulger was my brother too and my heart breaks that he was killed in such a way. My heart breaks that my mind under the liar supports a world in which killings like this are reasonable and yet horrifically unexplained when they happen close by to us.
James Bulger was an innocent and the liar must destroy innocence. For these two other innocents, Robert and Jon, the fact that their minds had become seduced by the liar to such an extreme degree meant that the death of an innocent, on that afternoon, offered an escape for them from the intolerable madness we are all experiencing to some extent, that none of us deserves. In the same way, we all wantonly killed the Christ that afternoon around 2.30pm,2000 years ago.


For the parents of little James, I’m so sorry we live in a world like this. But all I want to do is to show everyone the way out of this world, and I think I can do it. 

If James's life has meaning in this world, it is to bring us an understanding of why we are all so upset and distressed, all of the time.
 
The door of forgiveness, of freedom, is open. Let us walk through, hand in hand; you two, I, James, Robert, Jon, and all of humanity. Let us be healed, softly and quietly. 

With your blessing, we might finally save the world.

Thank you for your time.


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