Amplified Feedback (1330 Words Long)

Loud speakers amplify both good and bad. However, Amplified Feedback generates a vortex that is annoying, and even destructive. Amplifying clean sound magnifies good, increases intelligence, and resonates beyond the ear and into the heart. This is a subject of symbolic Amplified Feedback that addresses the destructive condition of institutionalism, suggesting a way to minimize or even eliminate the condition, written in terms of loud speakers and microphones.

Loud speakers are simply magnifiers amplifying both good and bad alike. Feedback is a condition where destructive sound gets trapped into a loop. Sound enters the microphone, is magnified, and then output to the speaker, only to enter in through microphone again, to be amplified more, and more, and more, until the Amplified Feedback is so loud that it pierces the ear, or destroys the speakers. In this way Amplified Feedback generates a vortex that is annoying, and even destructive.

There are solutions to to breaking loops of Amplified Feedback. I am using the condition of Amplifying Feedback symbolically to:

• Identify common amplifiers,
• Recognize conditions of destructive feedback
• And suggest solutions to avoid destructive amplified loops

Common amplifiers are typically neutral (not good or bad). Money is a good example of a magnifier that is neutral. In the hands of drug addicts, money is destructive. When in the hands of the intelligent, intelligence is magnified. However, when in the hands of the greedy, greed is magnified. Freedom is also a neutral amplifier. Children given freedom from parental controls often self destruct when they are not equipped with responsibility and accountability to self-regulate. To a hard working, skilled and productive slave, freedom means a higher quality of life and goodness. However, to a recently released inmate who is angry and resentful, freedom is an opportunity for greater combinations of revenge and destruction. Rank or title is another neutral amplifier. To some it naturally produces pride and control over subordinates. To others it is an opportunity to serve, lift, and make the environment a better place for all. And to the resentful, it’s simply their turn to be on top of the bucket of crabs. Money, Freedom, and Rank are all merely amplifiers that magnify the heart of people. How they are used is dependent upon what’s in the heart.

Symbolically speaking, amplifying clean sound magnifies good things, increases intelligence, and resonates beyond the ear, and into the heart. Light cleaving unto more light is how scriptures refer to the condition of amplifying clean sound. It is additive and aggregative. It is eternally progressive: growing, then increasing, and finally being added upon.

In everyone’s life, each will face being magnified in some form or another, providing opportunity for the things within their heart to be amplified. What is then amplified is what is referred to as their “fruits.” Fruits are not what you simply say or proclaim to believe. They are more accurately how you live through the daily difficulties, not only to say, but also to do as you say. The effort of the gospel of Jesus Christ is to inform the heart by the words of Christ. When Christ’s words are truly the foundation of your heart, there will be moments where you are amplified by difficult circumstances. The difficulty is an opportunity to prove Christ’s words. Those who succeed will return good for evil. They are considered witnesses of Christ. They have a testimony of Christ. Those who say, but do not do, when faced with difficulty, will resort to false traditions of foolishness that only Amplifies Feedback.

This is a subject of symbolic Amplified Feedback intended to address the destructive condition of institutionalism. Humans are extremely social creatures, benefitting from family bonds, community cooperation, and fair trading practices as we interact with the world around us. However, corruption, apostasy, and eventual destruction is a result of institutionalization resulting in Amplified Feedback. Corruption relies on partial truths to generalize and justify a little sin. Apostasy solidifies the hardness of hearts as they adopt partial truths as acceptable, justifying their sins, and then enforce those partial truths as law. When enforced, societies Amplify Feedback, resulting in inevitable destruction.

Communism is an extreme example of a product of institutionalism, beginning with justified corruption through partial truths. Its Amplified Feedback has resulted in hundreds of thousands of murders, or destruction. Although communism seems to be the extreme example, it may be closer to home than you think. Consider the Jaredites and the result of their religious institutionalization, and the equivalent death tolls that reflect the death tolls of communism. The Jaredites were once led by the Lord out of the land of tower of Babel, to the Americas, a far greater land of promise. They were once in God’s favor. However, their institutionalization resulted in corruption, apostasy, and destruction. Likewise, the House of Israel, although freed by Moses from Egyptian bondage, they too suffered institutionalization, and as a result of corruption and apostasy,  the Jews killed Christ. We are not immune to the same patterns. Scriptures inform those who will live it’s principles, giving them the ability to recognize and avoid such Amplified Feedback. Breaking the destructive loop of Amplified Feedback will require a repentant people, who search the scriptures diligently, comprehend the scriptures, discern the truth of all things by the power of the Holy Ghost, and act in alignment to those truths. Institutional salvation cannot substitute personal righteousness.

Conclusion: Placing yourselves in question is the same as the frequently occurring nightmare of being found on stage naked, before a sold out audience. Adam and Eve were found naked in the Garden of Eden after partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. As gods, knowing good and evil, they were left exposed and fully aware of their nakedness. In their exposed condition, Satan was able to instruct them, telling them to clothe themselves in fig leaves. Fig leaves are hardly better than being naked.

Christ has given us hope in the condition of our nakedness. Before being cast out of the garden, Christ was given instruction to clothe Adam and Eve. He provided coats of skins and continues to offer more clothing, to be endowed in righteousness. The words of Christ in our scriptures is given to prepare us for being clothed in righteousness. Failure to understand its contents will prove you unable to be clothed. When properly clothed, all will be tested through difficulty. Difficulty amplifies the work you have invested in your heart by the sweat of our brow. Those who are clothed in the words of Christ (or endowed) will not suffer from Amplified Feedback, but will return to stand in the presence of Christ, having proven true and faithful in all things.

I advise you, do not follow prophets. Instead, follow Christ alone. Stand before God through your study of scriptures, to be judged of those words, and to repent in those areas that are un-clothe-able. That requires you to know His words and prove them by living according to them. You will be amplified and tested as an opportunity to prove yourself, showing if you are true and faithful in all things by how you face the opportunity of difficulty. Institutional prophet-following leaves you un-clothe-able, naked, with fig leaves.

If you find yourself spinning your tires, frustrated, and unable to escape the negativity handed to you in your marriage, your family, or your community, this may be an indicator of Amplified Feedback. It is what alcoholics suffer from. Drug addicts suffer from this too. Likewise, those who struggle with anxiety and depression repeat and amplify negative feedback loops. Although you may not relate to alcoholism, drug addictions, or those suffering from anxiety and depression on the surface, if you have any degree of Amplified Feedback it will still have the same effect of corruption, apostasy, and eventually it will prove destructive. Do not hide your sins beneath fig leaves any longer. Allow Christ to endow you, or in other words, allow Christ to clothe you.