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Welcome! Are You ready to taste the sour truth? That's what you have to do if you want to embrace "LEMONISM". You must be now wondering "What the heck is Lemonism?" LEMONISM is not your ordinary belief system. Lemonism is not “just” a religion, or “just” a philosophy, but a combination of the two. Here is the interesting part about Lemonism. You don’t have to give up any of your old religious, political, or any other beliefs that you may have. The only thing you need to change is your way of thinking.

Lemonism is not about “over throwing” a current regime and replacing it with a new one; this has been tried hundreds of times and we are still having issues in today’s society. The causes of all the problems in the world is society itself. Lemonism is about learning how human society “really works”, and to connect all the common threads that are used to keep humanity in a evolutionary stalemate, mentally, physically, and spiritually, preventing us from reaching our full potential.

In order to truly understand Lemonism you‘ll have to “deprogram” yourself and unlearn what you been taught all your life, and then you’ll be able to further your achievements. You’ll end up uncovering all the lies and the fluff that could be possibly holding you back, which in turn, will make your life a little easier!

Some of you might be thinking, “Oh boy. Here is another radical nut with some new crazy ideas. Aren‘t there enough religions and philosophies in the world?” The answer to this question is that all the other beliefs mean well, and are not wrong necessarily, they just don’t put all the pieces together on the causes of society‘s problems. Some of the contemporary “New Age” religions, non profit orgs., and political parties believe that the only solution to the current problems of society is to combat it with their own beliefs, which they think is “right”, while everyone else who think differently is wrong. Lemonism doesn’t do this. Lemonism believes that there is truth in almost everything once you filter out all the “fluff”

This page is still under construction but for now read this page about the basic beliefs of Lemonism which inculdes "The 30 Basic Commandments of Citron" which is the foundation of Lemonism (check out the link on the top of this page). This is taken directly from my up coming book "THE BIBLE OF SOUR TRUTH". I already have the book printed but I'll publish it soon, in about 2 months or less. The Book will explain Lemonism in more detail, and at that time I will be accepting appilcations for memberships into C.O.S.T. Those who inquire about buying the book will get 50% off the cover price of 7.99 when I have it availble for sale. Also I'll have the newspaper started up. If you are insterested in joining C.O.S.T or have questions about Lemonism email me. An important thing to note, you don't have to be a member of C.O.S.T to be a Lemonist!

THE "SYSTEM" AND HOW IT WORKS

What part of human society is causing all the problems we are having today? I could list examples but I’ll let you use your imagination. The aspect that is causing all of our troubles is what I call the “SYSTEM” (typed out in CAPS).

The SYSTEM is anyone or anything that has enough power to control or influence people for self-gain. This doesn’t limit the SYSTEM to just one person, government, religion, political belief, economic system, or social group, but an amalgamation of all. Does the SYSTEM realize what it’s doing? Yes and no, and ultimately, the SYSTEM is a victim of it’s own devices. The SYSTEM is like the all powerful Drug Dealer who ends up addicted to his own product and is in denial about the whole thing even as he is beaten up by his supplier!

The SYSTEM works by manipulating people, which prevents most of us from reaching our full potential (those who do often have a hard time getting there).

How does the SYSTEM manipulate us common folk, preventing most of us from reaching our full potential? In order to understand how the SYSTEM controls us, you have to understand the two sides of the human consciousness.

THE BEAST AND THE INTELLECTUAL

The two sides of the human consciousness are the Carnal (animal) side, and our higher intellectual side. Those who ever took Psychology 101 would recognize this as the ego, superego, and the id. Over time I realized that a good handful of what I learned in psychology was a whole bunch of garbage, so I’m stating my own theory because I believe that the human consciousness is divided into two and not three (the ego, superego, and id). I’m not telling people to forgo modern psychology, I’m just giving my personal opinion on it.

The two sides of the human consciousness are necessary to our survival, and without them humanity wouldn’t be where it is today. I will now tell you my theory of how these two sides work.

The Carnal side of our consciousness, is our animal instincts and drives. As Humans we tend to forget that we’re animals too. A human being is basically nothing more than an animal with a higher level of consciousness, including higher spiritual and intellectual awareness (even though sometimes we tend to act like an animal with a lower state of consciousness).

In the Carnal side of our human consciousness, we have all the basic functions, such as eating, sleeping, defending (from threats or danger), reproducing...

Some of the basic emotions in the Carnal side of humans include hunger, fear, happiness, tiredness, pain, and curiosity. Any emotion or action you see animals have, humans have it too, but we don’t want to admit to it, because to do so would “degrade” our status on the totem pole.

The other side of humanity’s consciousness is our spiritual and intellectual awareness. We have plenty of animals that are really smart, but none of them (as far as we know), have a spiritual side that can understand the concept of God or a “higher power.” Humans also are the only creatures on this earth that have “moral values,” which animals don’t have. Animal societies have rules, and animals might be able to understand the basics of why the rules exist, but they don’t have the ability to determine if the rule(s) are right or wrong. Only humans can do this.

Since humans are animals, the carnal consciousness and our higher intellectual consciousness often over lap, producing new emotions, and actions not seen in other animals. Take fighting for example. Animals fight for territory, mates, or food. Humans fight for the same reasons animals do but we also fight and kill each other over ideals (of any kind). Animals don’t fight over principles, in other words, animals can’t fight for “democracy”. Most of the time, the human psyche tries to keep both consciousness’ in check. When one side of our consciousness have dominance over the other (or when we deny that one side exists, the carnal side usually), then we have psychological issues or behaviors that “normal people” would find inappropriate. Also we have problems when certain aspects of the two consciousness combine together in the wrong proportions (including aspects that shouldn’t mix). How all of this ties in with the SYSTEM? Well the SYSTEM and their power lies in exploiting the two conscious sides of humanity. The SYSTEM uses different tactics to infiltrate and influence, the lives and actions of mankind to suit their own egotistical needs. This is why we have problems such as racism, economic divisions, “world hunger”, terrorism, and the list goes on and on. The SYSTEM don’t want the common folk to become “too powerful”, so to keep the people in check the SYSTEM have developed some tactics to accomplish this. A few of the main tactics the SYSTEM uses are “divide and conquer “, and limit available resources, possibly preventing a person from reaching their full potential.

SELF-ACTUALIZATION, THE SYSTEM'S ENEMY #1

Have you ever heard of the “Hierarchy of Human Needs”? The “Hierarchy of Human Needs” is a theory by Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908-June 8, 1970), an American Psychologist. An informal definition of the Hierarchy of Human Needs is that all of a person’s needs are on a pyramid starting with the important basic needs (body functions, food, water) on the bottom, and the other needs following in ascending order such as safety, love, belonging, esteem, and on top is Self-actualization. Self-actualization is “the instinctual need of humans to make the most of their abilities and to strive to be the best they can. Self Actualization is the intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately, of what the organism is” At least that’s the best definition I got from Wikipedia, the on-line web encyclopedia.

Self-actualizating people are the ones who make improvements in society to make this world a better place to live. The self-actualizating person don’t always have to end up famous, or do anything on a global scale. The small changes these people accomplish are just enough to affect someone. What are some of the characteristics of a person who reaches the state of self-actualization? According to Abraham Maslow, self-actualizating people:
*Embrace the facts and realities of the world (including themselves) rather than denying or avoiding them.
*They are spontaneous in their ideas and actions.
*They are creative.
*They are interested in solving problems; this often includes the problems of others. Solving these problems is often a key focus in their lives.
*They have a system of morality that is fully internalized and independent of external authority.
*They have discernment and are able to view all things in an objective manner. Prejudices are absent.

After reading this you must be wondering, “Why would the SYSTEM want to stop people from accomplishing self-actualization?”; This is because the people who reach self-actualization are pretty hard to control, especially those who reach their fullest potential. The people who reach their fullest potential are the ones who accomplish major changes on a global scale. Because of all the road blocks the SYSTEM has, too few people ever reach their fullest potential. For example a man (let’s call him Joe) off the street wants to become president of the United States. Now Joe is fairly well educated and is a good guy with good ideas. Joe also meets all the requirements to run for president. But what Joe don’t know is that under the table if he don’t have money, political experience, and don’t have any connections, Joe don’t have a chance in hell to become president of the U.S. even if he is backed up by the whole town. This is an example of how the SYSTEM works. No matter what the SYSTEM does, you’re always going to have people that are going to beat the odds, and overcome all the challenges. Often enough, the SYSTEM needs these people to make “society better“, because some improvements can help the SYSTEM itself if the improvement can be manipulated to meet their needs. Other times if somebody manages to come up with something that is a total threat to the SYSTEM, and if the SYSYTEM can’t control it, they’ll smash it, and alter it to the point that it’s not dangerous. You see examples of this later in this book. I mentioned earlier that humans have two consciousness. The Carnal and the intellectual. The SYSTEM prevents most people from reaching their full potential by keeping these two sides of our consciousness out of balance. Most of the time this imbalance causes our Carnal side to become more dominate. This is good for the SYSTEM in many ways because sometimes the Carnal consciousness is easy to control, but only sometimes. The Carnal can start out as a controlled bush fire but can easily burn out of control if the wind blows too hard. This is why the SYSTEM have checks and balances to try to keep the Carnal consciousness in check. One of the many parts in the checks and balances of the SYSTEM is…religion. Religions are notorious for having people put a “tight leash” on their “carnal desires“. The SYSTEM knows this and tries to implant “moral obligations” in our intellectual consciousness to make us feel guilty if we indulge in our natural desires (what ever they might be). After a while people find out that satisfying certain desires aren’t wrong after all (this is only when this have been proven “scientifically“). The SYSTEM then have to change their tactics by loosing the leash a bit. The people think that they’re now “liberated”, but they are not because the SYSTEM still has control because they still subconsciously implant in people’s minds that doing anything natural or even slightly animalistic is wrong. Now the Carnal and the Intellectual are in conflict. This is one of the main reasons why people develop compulsions, which leads to a lack of self control, psychological problems, and a whole lot of other issues. One of the solutions to the manipulation of both our consciousness’ by the SYSTEM is to find the middle ground. Don’t forget, you are human and animal, and as a human, you can exercise more control and direction of yourself than an animal. Don’t do too much of anything. Be careful out there because there are certain “Carnal desires” that can ruin you mental and physically if you just let them run wild with no control at all. The SYSTEM knows that it has to keep the intellectual side of our consciousness under really tight raps. If the SYSTEM doesn’t control the intellectual consciousness, then people might start to think too much. The more limited someone’s thinking is the more easier they are to control. This is why the SYSTEM loves conservative people, because they actually help the SYSTEM accomplish its goals while remaining clueless to what is going on.

THE RADICAL,ENEMY # 2
The opposite of the conservative people are the independent thinkers, the objectionists, and the realists. In everyday terms we call these people “radicals” and “trouble makers.” Remember the qualities of the self-actualizers? Most of these people have that “radical” personality; They are also the ones that “stick out” a lot, seem a little “strange” or “they do they own thing.” The SYSTEM watches out for these kind of people because they have the potential to cause them problems in the future. The SYSTEM combat these “radical” people by brainwashing the common masses into a certain way of thinking, so when somebody sticks out from the norm, these people get harassed or look down upon one way or another. Eventually the “strange” person start to feel “odd” themselves and then change their behavior or actions to what is “normal” (or tries to). As a result of all of this the “radical” people usually have a harder time going through life. In grade school they are usually teased for being “too smart” and “too strange” and all their lives the radical remains alienated from the mainstream no matter what they do. As the radical continues to desperately try to fit in with the normal crowd, they are doomed to failure. The radicals often drop out of school and end up dropping out of life, ending up worse off then they were before. If the radical manages to “hang in there” they still have it hard. A good number of the radicals might even end up on psychiatric drugs because the SYSTEM tells them that they have a chemical imbalance in their brain! This is how the SYSTEM accomplishes it’s mission. Now here is the good news. For every radical that falls under the SYSTEM, there is a radical that makes it through life and can’t be brought down. A few handful of the radicals even become famous and make big changes in the world in which all of humanity can benefit from. Most of the radicals that “squirt lemon juice in the eye” of the SYSTEM don’t try to change the world. They make life better for themselves and the people they care about. These radicals know that they “stick out” and make no attempts to be one of the herd. Most of the radicals that are successful take advantage of anything that can help them (unfortunately some of these radicals do things that are illegal). Some of the more creative radicals develop their own morals, and ways of do things. This is usually based on the radical’s own life experiences because they know the difference between what’s on paper and it’s practicality in the “real world“. This is how the radical combat the SYSTEM, even though they don’t know it! There are always going to be people who will rise above the influence of the SYSTEM. If everyone were to blindly follow what ever rules the SYSTEM tell them to follow, then we’ll still be living in the “dark ages”. The SYSTEM knows this, and they know that it’ll do them no justice to stop every single person that is a potential threat to their regime. The only thing the SYSTEM can do is to limit the number of radicals who reach self-actualization, and control the ones who do. As long as the SYSTEM continue to prevent people from reaching their full potential then humanity as a whole will only accomplish limited levels of enlightenment (e.g. intellectual, spiritual, technical,); This seems like a hopeless situation, but as long as we have radicals and free thinking people, the SYSTEM will always have their hands full. Now if each person in the world uncovered the lies of the SYSTEM then their regime will collapse. Humanity will no longer need to live in the animalistic “survival of the fittest” mode. Lemonism will expose some of the major areas that the SYSTEM manipulates, give tips to combat the SYSTEM by helping a person do away with implanted learned behaviors that will prevent them from achieving their full potential. We all know that the goal of eventually becoming a free-thinking, free-living society with realistic non hindering rules and beliefs are a long way off. But Lemonism is a way to start. Get ready to taste the sour truth!

F.A.Q. Coming soon.