OWEN BENJAMIN: It works for a while until you’re left detached from the Holy Spirit, from love, from the ability to self correct, from awareness, from connection. It’s what the Bible calls “Hell.”

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love".

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— Owen Benjamin 🐻 (@OwenBenjamin) August 13, 2025

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love". - Dostoevsky

This loss of self-respect and the inability to love lead to a descent into indulging in "passions and coarse pleasures" and ultimately "sinks to bestiality in his vices," a consequence he attributes to "continual lying to other men and to himself".

I see more and more of this. The economy of influence emphasizes branding, optics, and manipulation. (Lying)

It works for a while until you’re left detached from the Holy Spirit, from love, from the ability to self correct, from awareness, from connection. It’s what the Bible calls “Hell.”

The unforgivable sin in the Bible is the deliberate and continual rejection of the Holy Spirit. Truth. This creates a callused heart and a reprobate mind.

Even that concept has been morphed into meaning “you reject lord Jesus Christ as the one true god in the flesh full man full god.”

That’s not it. If you don’t feel that or believe that and you say you do, THAT is the rejection of the Holy Spirit. If you feel and see that that is true and you reject that, THAT is the rejection of the Holy Spirit.

Our creator does not require that we are right, he requires that we don’t reject truth to ourselves and others. How much we get to know or see is not up to us. But when we lie to ourselves and others, just like a limb without blood, it slowly looses feeling and dies.

The Holy Spirit is with us at all times. Everywhere and nowhere. Faith is accepting that we don’t ever want to reject that, even in moments of weakness when we crave control and think we know more.

Be good be true and be beautiful. In the service of others and the service of god, and then you will see that the entire time it was also in service of yourself.