Random thoughts, images, impressions, and feelings flow freely through the human mind coming into and out of our awareness in rapid succession. This universal human experience has been called a stream of consciousness.

In literature, stream of consciousness is a technique that reveals the flow of mental and emotional impressions that run through a character's consciousness, without regard to logic or the story line. A writer uses this literary devise to reveal inner forces that are influencing a character's emotions and behavior.

In the real world of our daily lives, we are all influenced by the flow of our consciousness. Thoughts and impressions encourage us one moment and torment us the next. We seem to be at the mercy of a wild inner river of randomness.

However, just as man has learned to tame wild rivers and use them to produce the positive energy of electricity; you and I can tame our stream of conscious and use it to produce joy, peace, love, and other uplifting and empowering emotions. We can choose, monitor, regulate, train, and direct our stream of conscious toward thoughts and impressions that make life wonderful.

I was caught in the rapids of a wild river once and it wore me out. I was fortunate to escape with my life. Being caught in the uncontrolled rapids of your own consciousness can be just as devastating. Perhaps it is time to tame your wild inner river.

A recent article in The Tennessean said: "Pope Benedict XVI has a new commandment for priests struggling to get their message across: Go forth and blog." The article reports on a message prepared by the Pope for the World Day of Communications.

In his message, the Pope said: "The truth which makes us free is Christ, because only He can respond fully to the thirst for life and love that is present in the human heart. Those who have encountered Him and have enthusiastically welcomed His message experience the irrepressible desire to share and communicate this truth."

Pope Benedict encourages priests and other believers to use the internet and social media as a way "to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources." He says: "Let us ask the Holy Spirit to raise up courageous communicators and authentic witnesses to the truth, faithful to Christ’s mandate and enthusiastic for the message of the faith."

Perhaps lovers of Jesus should heed the Pope's call. The internet has opened up a wonderful platform for people to proclaim what God has done and is doing in our world. The Apostles Peter and John said: "We cannot help but speak about the things that we have seen and heard." What an opportunity we have nowadays to blog about God and His amazing glory, grace, and love.

The movie Avatar portrays the way the Western world treated indigenous peoples as they took over their land, only this time it is occurring on another planet. The Eartlings want what the primitive Avatars have and are prepared to overpower them and kill them to get it. However, the primitives meet violence with violence and this time, through help from a few Earthlings, some animals, and their faith; the Avatars prevail and drive the invaders away.

The movie Invictus shows indigenous people coming to political power in South Africa through the election of Nelson Mandela as president after he spent almost three decades in prison. Mandela, despite all his years of personal suffering, shows love and forgiveness, and even supports the rugby team of his captors in order to rally the country in unity.

The movie Blindside shows a poor young African-American who is growing up on his own in inner city Memphis. A white couple ignore racial barriers, take him into their home, love him unconditionally, and adopt him. Their love changes the young man. He takes advantage of new opportunities and becomes an NFL player.

Avatar is fiction, but the type of violence and carnage that it depicts, has been committed and continues to be committed on Earth, bringing much death, pain, and human slaughter to our planet.

Invictus and Blindside, however, are true stories. Mandela proves that love and forgiveness will really work to help heal society. And the couple from Memphis prove that genuine love, that takes people in and treats them like family, will transform individuals.

Victorious verbage for you to view:

"Words can create rays of hope." --Donna Fargo

"Make your life a garden: propagate love, prune illusions, weed out distractions." --Tanya P. Shubin

"Self-reform is the answer to world-reform." --Sebastian Miklas

"Happiness is a dividend on a well invested life." --Duncan Stuart

"Always act from principle, never from impulse." --Ellen G. White

"Never for any reason must you sin." --Catherine of Siena

"I resolved to break up the barren soil of my fruitless brain." --Elizabeth Grymeston

"You can never get going without starting." --Myles Horton

"Guard your imagination as much as you possibly can so that no images harmful to the soul are impressed upon it." --Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain

The concept of equal rights doesn't equal endorsing wrong behavior. No one has a right to demand: "It is my human right that you accept, approve of, and applaud my behavior."

However, we all do have the human right to believe that some behaviors are immoral, even if society decides to publicly promote and parade those behaviors. No one can take away another's human right to make her/his own moral evaluations.

In human society we universally recognize the necessity to acknowledge moral restrictions and to place legal limits on some personal behaviors, even if the behaviors are genetic. For example, even if someone comes from a long line of child abusers, society maintains the right to tell him/her that it is morally and legally wrong to engage in the behavior of child abuse.

So why is this universally accepted human concept of setting moral and legal limits on certain behaviors, being thrown under the bus in our day? Why are speciific behaviors being singled out as beyond moral judgment?

Why does believing that certain human behaviors are immoral, subject the person who holds that belief in our day, to ridicule, accusations of being a hater, and the label of being prejudice? This makes no sense because every person reading my words thinks some (at least a few) human behaviors are immoral. Does that make each of us prejudice and a phobic? Of course not.

Every human has the right of conscience. And no person has a right to demand that someone ignore her conscience because her principles make them feel bad (or guilty).

The concept of equal rights should assure every human being the freedom not to be pressured to abandon her/his morals.