The Army of Love is not a list nor an actual military organization. This is a metaphor being used to mobilize people in to action to change themselves and the world around them through love, kindness, compassion, caring for one another, positive thinking, community involvement, volunteering, focusing on your family, demanding world peace, caring for the environment, caring for animals etc. This also includes becoming aware of and helping others realize that the world around may not be as it seems, that there are groups trying to gain control over us, that there intentions are nefarious and that these individual have been deceiving us. They are involved in ALL governments and they use journalism, TV, Music, the education system, food, water, climate change, and anything they can to keep us distracted and blinded. I am not sure where this idea of a list came from but that isn't what is going on. No one wants you to put your name to anything, move to anywhere, take up a weapon. What you are being asked to do is care for YOURSELF, your friends , your neighbours, your family, your community and ultimately the world. If every single person started to change their perceptions, change how they view themselves and others, change what is determined to valuable (money, materialism, vanity, sex VS love, compassion, tolerance, understanding) this world would be a much better place.
From The Heal The World Foundation Website - Founded by Michael Jackson
http://www.michaelsarmy.org/
Michael's Army
The following is an example of what Michael might have told his fans:
TO MY FANS, my Family....We must build up an Army.
YOU are my soldiers of love. My character army.
We are at WAR and we need to prepare ourselves.
The War is World Chaos.....
The battles are famine, poverty, crime, abuse, homelessness, illiteracy, moral ignorance and moral apathy.
All the factors or elements of a world that prevents peace within it.
To WIN a war, you must first come to realize you are actually IN a war!
Then, you must come to know and recognize your opponent! This opponent has many titles, but the ones we will use here are as follows:
* Poor Character
* The Adversary
My army, you must arm yourself with the appropriate shields, swords and gear to properly defend and defeat the Adversary during each battle in your life.
THE CHOICE TO DO RIGHT OR WRONG IN EACH MOMENT OF YOUR LIVES...WILL DECIDE YOUR FUTURE!
A man who brings a knife to a shoot-out will not survive.
So I ask: What can we do to change the tide of our character war? We must do the following:
1. We must arm ourselves and FIGHT!
2. Learn the character laws that govern us and actively look out for the best interests of others.
3. Learn to strategize against our opponent
4. Learn and study our opponent's movements and take measures to counter him
5. Unite with the Army against him
Help us WIN this War.....
We MUST improve our character by arming ourselves with reliable weapons and armament, the extensive array of virtues that make up good character. As Gandhi said
"We must be the change you wish to see in the world"
We can be Victorious. We MUST be Victorious!
So, please, go ahead and be that change!
The keywords here are "character improvement":
* Individual character improvement
* Reproducible improvement
* Global improvement
Bad Character vs. Good Character
A person's character is near synonymous with his spirit.
So, when we battle the adversary to improve our personal character, we are not only engaged in a spiritual battle, but a much broader spiritual war that ripples around the world. This war has has been with us from the beginning of time, but today we could simply be seen to be in a kind of ice war; people's hearts are icing over and need to be defrosted.
In every war, there is an army of good guys and bad guys and in the war against evil on Earth...Michael's Army are the good guys!
In THIS WAR, our opponent (the Adversary) not only promotes the vices that make up poor character, but he himself is the embodiment of these vices. An example of such vices include
* selfishness
* envy
* greed
* fear
* doubt
* intolerance
* unkindness, etc...
All vices enslave people, making them less able to serve and to ultimately receive the joy experienced by both giver and receiver.
The goal of the adversary is to delude mortal man into digressing his character; improved character being man's ONLY chance of enduring happiness. Often people do not literally believe in the Adversary, so they do no see the need to defeat it.
The the remedying of the overall damage done to our communities by our embracing a wide range of vices is then often made the sole responsibility governments as the pews of churches empty and people live increasingly only for themselves. Police forces grow and legislation becomes increasingly complicated as still more people look for ways to skirt the law for their own ends.
One at-risk person who deliberately cultivates his conscience, will, for example, now be less likely to incur the financial cost of being pursued by police, processed through the courts, and warehoused in jails.
The Adversary's building His OWN ARMY......
To defeat this formidable opponent, we must not remain tepid in our pursuit of LEARNING ABOUT THE STRATEGIES ON HOW TO BEAT HIM AND all the ways we can progress our individual and collective character.