In order to continue on a path of growth, the word "own" and the word "serve" must be synonymous. They must only differ in connotation from the words "love" and "fear", which themselves are synonyms, differing only in connotation.
I serve and love another god. He owns me, I fear him. Try that again using the transitive property and the above paragraph.
This is not the heartsick ramblings of a little girl. This is the realization of a god. We fought a mighty battle, and we both were victorious. We stood together before, now we move forward together.
God bless, but only if you're deserving.
In order to be a god, one must first have been a man or a woman. In order to be a man or a woman, one must first murder the child within. If you're unsure what this even means, or whether you have done so, I suggest starting with Jungian archetypes. I don't agree with the content, but the structure taught me a way to look at myself, and others, and know something about them that I hadn't been able to discern before.
Look at yourself. Be honest.
20100505
Being a god is becoming mainstream.
Even Oprah advocates active will to create and change your world.
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Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
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Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
Understand Mu
Understand mu before you create anything. -Autexousious
The following is an excerpt from the Principia Discordia
= ZARATHUD'S ENLIGHTENMENT =
Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his followers.
One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She was contentedly grazing.
"Tell me, you dumb beast." demanded the Priest in his commanding voice, "why don't you do something worthwhile. What is your Purpose in Life, anyway?"
Munching the tasty grass, The Sacred Chao replied "MU".*
Upon hearing this, absolutely nobody was enlightened. Primarily because nobody could understand Chinese.
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Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
The following is an excerpt from the Principia Discordia
= ZARATHUD'S ENLIGHTENMENT =
Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his followers.
One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She was contentedly grazing.
"Tell me, you dumb beast." demanded the Priest in his commanding voice, "why don't you do something worthwhile. What is your Purpose in Life, anyway?"
Munching the tasty grass, The Sacred Chao replied "MU".*
Upon hearing this, absolutely nobody was enlightened. Primarily because nobody could understand Chinese.
--
Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
20100502
Laws of Thought
Anyone who has taken a logic course, computer programming course, and many who have taken a philosophy course, (along with self-taught students of logic) will recognize the Laws of Thought.
A) The law of identity (A=A)
B) The law of non-contradiction (A =/= ~A)
C) The law of the excluded middle (A or ~A, but not both)
I want to be clear... This is dogma. It is not objectively true. In fact, there has been great and solid arguments against them. In the time of Parmenides and Heraclitus, it was argued that the formulation of the "law" of non-contradiction was a disgraceful step away from true science, which was based on sensory experience. Heraclitus argued that since things change, not only may they contain their negation, but that they MUST! But, Parmenides wanted to know things, and know them for certain. Unfortunately, the things we encounter in our lives are neither fixed nor certain, and many of them contain irreconcilable contradictions.
Pythagoras wanted certainty, too. Mathematics gave him these. And Plato retreated to otherworldly forms, which do not and can not exist in this realm. It was Plato who put the first restrictions on the law of non-contradiction, "in this respect" or "right now" or "at this place" which others were happy to grant him, as these restrictions made it so that the law of non-contradiction could only describe the tiniest, most insignificant specks of what any given thing "is" or "is not".
(Paraphrased from here, which goes into much more recent and thorough objections to all three laws)
What I'm getting at here is that the people who are the most difficult to talk to about shaking off dogma and living "outside the box" and being creative and furthering our species (no, the whole world) are those who seem to think themselves removed from dogma. Those who are convinced that their religion is not dogmatic, and that there are no rituals, and that everything they believe is objective fact. They tend to be atheists.
Now, I've already stated in an earlier post that I think that the similarities between atheism and autotheism are too significant to ignore, and that there is a kinship between the belief systems. However, I have never met someone who believes themself to be a god, without realizing that they create their own myths, legends, ritual, et cetera. I have never, personally, met an atheist who believes that the scientific method is a ritual, or that the above mentioned laws of thought are dogmatic, or that there is any belief that comes out of science that is a problem to accept (because everything that comes out of science is equally subject to testing and failure).
Dogma is generally defined as "prescribed doctrine", or the stuff you believe because some authority told you to. Science has no "authorities", according to these atheists I have met, and you only choose to believe what is verifiable. I don't know a single atheist who is also a scientist and only believes what they, themselves, has verified. On the other hand, I know two research scientists who work at Virginia Tech who are deeply spiritual and generally doubt the results of their own research.
As your doctor, therapist, and friend, I suggest that you consider your dogmatic assumptions. What are they, where do they come from? If you can't come up with any, you're so deeply steeped in your dogma that you have come to believe that you have none. If you can't come up with 15, go talk to a clergyman of any belief system you do not belong to (DON'T BE RUDE, most of the time they're tickled that someone is interested) and ask them questions until you identify 15 or more things that you don't believe and then figure out why you disagree, if you disagree based on information some enigmatic "authority" gave you, you may be finding your dogma. If you are unwilling or unable to find a clergyman, try a magazine or website. If you yourself are liberal, try Reader's Digest (one of the most widely read conservative publications in the world, despite the fact that they will not identify themselves as conservative). If you are conservative, try Democratic Underground (who may or may not appreciate me sending conservatives their way, but I think that the folks I know over there would appreciate me trying to shake up unchallenged dogma in anyone, even them, if they took time to think about it!)
This is the point, dogma is inevitable, we are going to believe stuff based on what "science has found" or what the "pope decrees" or what the "reliable sources" say. We all are. Dogma is only really dangerous when it goes unchallenged and untested. If we accept what "science has found" then no new science ever happens. (Some of the most interesting science I've been learning about recently is based on using plants as lie detectors, because plants may have the ability to pick up emotional signals broadcast by people, animals, and other plants around them. The implications of this are huge, if it's reliable. But, if the scientists working on this had accepted the dogma of plants being largely unaware of their surroundings, these questions never would have come up).
Believe something different. For example, if you have (up to this point) accepted those laws of thought as immutable, believe that everything contains it's contradiction, all the time. Everything red is also not red, every father is also not a father, etc.
A) The law of identity (A=A)
B) The law of non-contradiction (A =/= ~A)
C) The law of the excluded middle (A or ~A, but not both)
I want to be clear... This is dogma. It is not objectively true. In fact, there has been great and solid arguments against them. In the time of Parmenides and Heraclitus, it was argued that the formulation of the "law" of non-contradiction was a disgraceful step away from true science, which was based on sensory experience. Heraclitus argued that since things change, not only may they contain their negation, but that they MUST! But, Parmenides wanted to know things, and know them for certain. Unfortunately, the things we encounter in our lives are neither fixed nor certain, and many of them contain irreconcilable contradictions.
Pythagoras wanted certainty, too. Mathematics gave him these. And Plato retreated to otherworldly forms, which do not and can not exist in this realm. It was Plato who put the first restrictions on the law of non-contradiction, "in this respect" or "right now" or "at this place" which others were happy to grant him, as these restrictions made it so that the law of non-contradiction could only describe the tiniest, most insignificant specks of what any given thing "is" or "is not".
(Paraphrased from here, which goes into much more recent and thorough objections to all three laws)
What I'm getting at here is that the people who are the most difficult to talk to about shaking off dogma and living "outside the box" and being creative and furthering our species (no, the whole world) are those who seem to think themselves removed from dogma. Those who are convinced that their religion is not dogmatic, and that there are no rituals, and that everything they believe is objective fact. They tend to be atheists.
Now, I've already stated in an earlier post that I think that the similarities between atheism and autotheism are too significant to ignore, and that there is a kinship between the belief systems. However, I have never met someone who believes themself to be a god, without realizing that they create their own myths, legends, ritual, et cetera. I have never, personally, met an atheist who believes that the scientific method is a ritual, or that the above mentioned laws of thought are dogmatic, or that there is any belief that comes out of science that is a problem to accept (because everything that comes out of science is equally subject to testing and failure).
Dogma is generally defined as "prescribed doctrine", or the stuff you believe because some authority told you to. Science has no "authorities", according to these atheists I have met, and you only choose to believe what is verifiable. I don't know a single atheist who is also a scientist and only believes what they, themselves, has verified. On the other hand, I know two research scientists who work at Virginia Tech who are deeply spiritual and generally doubt the results of their own research.
As your doctor, therapist, and friend, I suggest that you consider your dogmatic assumptions. What are they, where do they come from? If you can't come up with any, you're so deeply steeped in your dogma that you have come to believe that you have none. If you can't come up with 15, go talk to a clergyman of any belief system you do not belong to (DON'T BE RUDE, most of the time they're tickled that someone is interested) and ask them questions until you identify 15 or more things that you don't believe and then figure out why you disagree, if you disagree based on information some enigmatic "authority" gave you, you may be finding your dogma. If you are unwilling or unable to find a clergyman, try a magazine or website. If you yourself are liberal, try Reader's Digest (one of the most widely read conservative publications in the world, despite the fact that they will not identify themselves as conservative). If you are conservative, try Democratic Underground (who may or may not appreciate me sending conservatives their way, but I think that the folks I know over there would appreciate me trying to shake up unchallenged dogma in anyone, even them, if they took time to think about it!)
This is the point, dogma is inevitable, we are going to believe stuff based on what "science has found" or what the "pope decrees" or what the "reliable sources" say. We all are. Dogma is only really dangerous when it goes unchallenged and untested. If we accept what "science has found" then no new science ever happens. (Some of the most interesting science I've been learning about recently is based on using plants as lie detectors, because plants may have the ability to pick up emotional signals broadcast by people, animals, and other plants around them. The implications of this are huge, if it's reliable. But, if the scientists working on this had accepted the dogma of plants being largely unaware of their surroundings, these questions never would have come up).
Believe something different. For example, if you have (up to this point) accepted those laws of thought as immutable, believe that everything contains it's contradiction, all the time. Everything red is also not red, every father is also not a father, etc.
20100430
Got me thinking
My last post got me thinking about other ways I have actively willed my body to change. I was going through my notebooks from the past few years and found mention of my eyes.
Early in my experimenting with "mental body mod," my eyesight was rapidly worsening. I was getting new prescriptions for glasses twice a year, even three times one year. I started to regularly (several times a day, for 15-45 minutes, every day) take off my glasses and intently try to focus on something just barely beyond my range of focus, usually a pen or other handy object. When I was able to successfully focus on it (which was rarely, at first) I tried different methods of inducing physical pleasure. The more intense, the better. I incorporated everything from chocolate to orgasm for this part. Within a few months, I visited my optomitrist. He did the regular checks, and then did them again. He was delighted to tell me that, not only had my eyesight not worsened, but he wrote me a new prescription that was weaker than before (telling me not to get new glasses unless I started having headaches). Another six months, another appointment: no change from previous prescription (no improvement or decline). One more time, a year after I started doing the exercises (although I hadn't been doing it as often) my eyesight was stable. I had been expecting to be legally blind by that point. Now, several years later, still no significant change to my prescription!
Again, there's nothing solid to say that I didn't simply mature and my eyes stopped changing of their own accord. There's also nothing to say that I did not affect physical change based on my mental will.
Think about it. Try it (not just once, make it nearly habit!) and let me know whether you have more situational evidence!
Cheers!
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Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
Early in my experimenting with "mental body mod," my eyesight was rapidly worsening. I was getting new prescriptions for glasses twice a year, even three times one year. I started to regularly (several times a day, for 15-45 minutes, every day) take off my glasses and intently try to focus on something just barely beyond my range of focus, usually a pen or other handy object. When I was able to successfully focus on it (which was rarely, at first) I tried different methods of inducing physical pleasure. The more intense, the better. I incorporated everything from chocolate to orgasm for this part. Within a few months, I visited my optomitrist. He did the regular checks, and then did them again. He was delighted to tell me that, not only had my eyesight not worsened, but he wrote me a new prescription that was weaker than before (telling me not to get new glasses unless I started having headaches). Another six months, another appointment: no change from previous prescription (no improvement or decline). One more time, a year after I started doing the exercises (although I hadn't been doing it as often) my eyesight was stable. I had been expecting to be legally blind by that point. Now, several years later, still no significant change to my prescription!
Again, there's nothing solid to say that I didn't simply mature and my eyes stopped changing of their own accord. There's also nothing to say that I did not affect physical change based on my mental will.
Think about it. Try it (not just once, make it nearly habit!) and let me know whether you have more situational evidence!
Cheers!
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Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
20100429
Something practical
I have spent a lot of words here talking about head-in-the-clouds philosophical approaching-dogmatic largely useless stuff. I've had a very practical, down-to-earth day, and feel like sharing that!
About a month ago I injured my shoulder. It was a whole lesson in godhood. (And being home hopped up on pain killers was the perfect time to start blogging!) I could have avoided the injury, but I doubted myself! I know this sounds fluffy again, but that's what happened. I have, through study and practice of martial arts, taught my body how to do some precise physical motions, including several styles of rolls. These are useful for everything from escaping from someone attempting to hurt you to cracking that one tight spot in your spine. I had one such spot in my back from work, and began to fall intothe roll. At the last second, I thought, "that's not how you do it..." and made a conscious adjustment to my body placement. Suddenly, all of the momentum that wa supposed to be horizontal, parallel to the ground, was redirected straight into the ground. I knew before I even hit the ground that it was all wrong, but neither my body nor my mind was quick enough to make the correct readjustment. I knew by feel the right way, but had not practiced how to recover from doing it the wrong way.
This isn't quite all. I immediately stood up, thinking that that hurt a whole lot, but it'd stop hurting soon. And I executed another roll, perfectly. Flawlessly!
And then I sat down on the mossy area nearby and, until I tried to move, thought the my shoulder was going to just be badly bruised and very very sore. Then I went to stand up... I stopped short of even moving my arms to balance myself.
I did get up, very carefully. And I went to bed, lying very very still. I knew that when I woke up, I'd be fine.
That being said, when I woke up I had tears in my eyes and I started to sit up, but the shift in position shot paralyzing pain from my shoulder to every other inch in my body. It's not quite the worst pain I've felt, but it wasn't good.
I woke up my love and asked him to see if it looked like I'd dislocated it. Nope. But it wa rather swollen. He insisted on taking me to the doctor, where they did x-rays and gave me good pain meds. Turns out I had managed to separate the three bones that make up the shoulder so that there was an extra inch in every direction. They told me that it could take months to heal and be fully useful.
Today, I painlessly and strongly shoveled several tons of gravel and manually moved large stones. And the doc says I'm healing up nice and solidly, much faster than expected.
I have been using my body awareness, self-massage, and meditation techniques to will extra blood circulation to the area, will swelling to stay down. I used several different techniques to focus on minimizing swelling, encourage the bones to migrate and the muscles to tone. It's only situational evidence that any of that works, but it gave me belief in my godhood out of one of my least godly acts recently.
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Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
About a month ago I injured my shoulder. It was a whole lesson in godhood. (And being home hopped up on pain killers was the perfect time to start blogging!) I could have avoided the injury, but I doubted myself! I know this sounds fluffy again, but that's what happened. I have, through study and practice of martial arts, taught my body how to do some precise physical motions, including several styles of rolls. These are useful for everything from escaping from someone attempting to hurt you to cracking that one tight spot in your spine. I had one such spot in my back from work, and began to fall intothe roll. At the last second, I thought, "that's not how you do it..." and made a conscious adjustment to my body placement. Suddenly, all of the momentum that wa supposed to be horizontal, parallel to the ground, was redirected straight into the ground. I knew before I even hit the ground that it was all wrong, but neither my body nor my mind was quick enough to make the correct readjustment. I knew by feel the right way, but had not practiced how to recover from doing it the wrong way.
This isn't quite all. I immediately stood up, thinking that that hurt a whole lot, but it'd stop hurting soon. And I executed another roll, perfectly. Flawlessly!
And then I sat down on the mossy area nearby and, until I tried to move, thought the my shoulder was going to just be badly bruised and very very sore. Then I went to stand up... I stopped short of even moving my arms to balance myself.
I did get up, very carefully. And I went to bed, lying very very still. I knew that when I woke up, I'd be fine.
That being said, when I woke up I had tears in my eyes and I started to sit up, but the shift in position shot paralyzing pain from my shoulder to every other inch in my body. It's not quite the worst pain I've felt, but it wasn't good.
I woke up my love and asked him to see if it looked like I'd dislocated it. Nope. But it wa rather swollen. He insisted on taking me to the doctor, where they did x-rays and gave me good pain meds. Turns out I had managed to separate the three bones that make up the shoulder so that there was an extra inch in every direction. They told me that it could take months to heal and be fully useful.
Today, I painlessly and strongly shoveled several tons of gravel and manually moved large stones. And the doc says I'm healing up nice and solidly, much faster than expected.
I have been using my body awareness, self-massage, and meditation techniques to will extra blood circulation to the area, will swelling to stay down. I used several different techniques to focus on minimizing swelling, encourage the bones to migrate and the muscles to tone. It's only situational evidence that any of that works, but it gave me belief in my godhood out of one of my least godly acts recently.
--
Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
20100425
Me, you, us, god, identity, power, and control.
As a god, you must realize something. You are in control. If you don't do something about it, then no one is in control.
One of the fears coming down through generations is a god who created the world, and then forgot about us or died or is for some reason absent, powerless, or disinterested in the world.
Is this the world in which you want to live? Those things of which you choose to be aware are the things of which god is aware (whether you buy wholesale my ads about you being god, and me too). If you choose to ignore something, you have removed god's awareness of that, and god can not act on it. Try and become what you already are.
In the great words of Christopher Robin, "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
The day you believe that is when you realize infinity. Once you do that, and I do that, then We are God. Each person who chooses to identify Self with Other is one more aspect of God. If the identity is true and sincere, this god may be wrathful, and may be merciful, and may not make any sense sometimes, but it is a god I can get behind and worship with my whole self, knowing that this god has my best interests, and the best interests of every creature and thing there is in all of existence...
ok, sorry, off the soap box now.
What do you think? Any reasons you want to tell me I'm totally off my rocker? Or can I do anything to help you to believe that belief is a tool that you control, and if you don't control it, then it will control you (and, transitively, control god)? Any comments, questions, concerns, insults, compliments, flames, or non-sequitors?
One of the fears coming down through generations is a god who created the world, and then forgot about us or died or is for some reason absent, powerless, or disinterested in the world.
Is this the world in which you want to live? Those things of which you choose to be aware are the things of which god is aware (whether you buy wholesale my ads about you being god, and me too). If you choose to ignore something, you have removed god's awareness of that, and god can not act on it. Try and become what you already are.
In the great words of Christopher Robin, "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
The day you believe that is when you realize infinity. Once you do that, and I do that, then We are God. Each person who chooses to identify Self with Other is one more aspect of God. If the identity is true and sincere, this god may be wrathful, and may be merciful, and may not make any sense sometimes, but it is a god I can get behind and worship with my whole self, knowing that this god has my best interests, and the best interests of every creature and thing there is in all of existence...
ok, sorry, off the soap box now.
What do you think? Any reasons you want to tell me I'm totally off my rocker? Or can I do anything to help you to believe that belief is a tool that you control, and if you don't control it, then it will control you (and, transitively, control god)? Any comments, questions, concerns, insults, compliments, flames, or non-sequitors?
20100416
Long line of folks...
The following is from a conversation transcript with a friend while we were discussing godhood. Some of the content is repeated, but I kind of like the way I put stuff.
I follow a long line of folks claiming to be god, so far I have been neither executed nor institutionalized. I also don't deny the possibility that anyone else can be god, simultaneously, nor do I doubt that many others already do. In fact, my beliefs on this matter seem to align very closely with atheist claims about godhood. I simply reverse it into a spiritual context (god = anyone who wants to work to claim godhood) rather than a nonspiritual one (god is no one). I also don't hold it rationally inconsistent that both of these are simultaneously true. Along with many other prima facie contradictions.
Now you've got me rambling. In the same way that you might feel badly for doing something, even though you don't think you've done anything wrong per se... I identify, as a god, with everything and everyone I encounter. I am equal, identical, with my car, as well as the squirrel I ran over. A wrong done by accident is a wrong to my own person. I identify with people who inspire nothing but disgust in me... A wrong to a despised person equals a wrong to my own person.
Considering this identity alongside Rawls' veil of ignorance... If I can truely manifest godhood within myself, I have neatly attained the position of ignorance that Rawls' believed to be tantamount to ethical behavior. In this case, though, I don't have to consider the theoretical matter of "what if I didn't know who I was in the situation?" because I don't. My awareness may be centered in this body, but my consciousness is not centralized.
Anything conscious of it's own being is identical to me and my consciousness, though awareness may differ. "whatever you did not do for the least among you, you did not do for me"
Looking at different religions' scriptures is fun from this perspective too. Considering my perceived distinction between things indistinct, the christian trinity is interesting... The Everything, the aware creature with corporeal body, and the nothing. Father, son, ghost. Mind, body, "spirit".
If you want something interesting to do for a day, a weekend, or the rest of your life: try suspending your belief that you are not god... keep in mind what you've learned so far in life, and don't completely disregard those lessons (you shouldn't sit in traffic and expect the car not to harm you, etc). But forget that you're not god, don't just pretend you believe, use the tool of belief and be god. If the belief is not useful to you, discard it and try something else.
--
Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
I follow a long line of folks claiming to be god, so far I have been neither executed nor institutionalized. I also don't deny the possibility that anyone else can be god, simultaneously, nor do I doubt that many others already do. In fact, my beliefs on this matter seem to align very closely with atheist claims about godhood. I simply reverse it into a spiritual context (god = anyone who wants to work to claim godhood) rather than a nonspiritual one (god is no one). I also don't hold it rationally inconsistent that both of these are simultaneously true. Along with many other prima facie contradictions.
Now you've got me rambling. In the same way that you might feel badly for doing something, even though you don't think you've done anything wrong per se... I identify, as a god, with everything and everyone I encounter. I am equal, identical, with my car, as well as the squirrel I ran over. A wrong done by accident is a wrong to my own person. I identify with people who inspire nothing but disgust in me... A wrong to a despised person equals a wrong to my own person.
Considering this identity alongside Rawls' veil of ignorance... If I can truely manifest godhood within myself, I have neatly attained the position of ignorance that Rawls' believed to be tantamount to ethical behavior. In this case, though, I don't have to consider the theoretical matter of "what if I didn't know who I was in the situation?" because I don't. My awareness may be centered in this body, but my consciousness is not centralized.
Anything conscious of it's own being is identical to me and my consciousness, though awareness may differ. "whatever you did not do for the least among you, you did not do for me"
Looking at different religions' scriptures is fun from this perspective too. Considering my perceived distinction between things indistinct, the christian trinity is interesting... The Everything, the aware creature with corporeal body, and the nothing. Father, son, ghost. Mind, body, "spirit".
If you want something interesting to do for a day, a weekend, or the rest of your life: try suspending your belief that you are not god... keep in mind what you've learned so far in life, and don't completely disregard those lessons (you shouldn't sit in traffic and expect the car not to harm you, etc). But forget that you're not god, don't just pretend you believe, use the tool of belief and be god. If the belief is not useful to you, discard it and try something else.
--
Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
20100414
Identity vs. Equivalence
Equality does not necessitate identity. Things not the same can be equal, or equivalent. Perhaps equivalence is greater still than true equality.
Sometimes double standards are not only acceptable, but good and necessary.
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Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
Sometimes double standards are not only acceptable, but good and necessary.
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Consider yourself god and you gain dominion over your world.
20100409
Prescription.
The majority of our actions can be traced back to a subconscious desire (for freedom) in conflict with habit, an obedience to inherent fatalism which hangs on "good and bad" actions already committed (in past existence) against a preserved morality and whose reaction gives expression as spontaneity, involuntariness, autonomy, the deliberate, etc., as the chance arises.
-Spare
Austin Spare, Jacob Moreno, Robert Wilson, the cabbage/robot fallacy, the archer's target fallacy, Apple's advertising (if not their policy), Jesus, the Dalai Lama, etc. All suggesting that maybe, perhaps, sponteneity (breaking habit, think different, desire for freedom, and so on) plays a key role in improving the quality of life among individuals and groups. All hinting that the things we believe (and for what reason? because we haven't been taught to believe any other way) need to be examined.
Think about everything you DON'T think about. This is what you do habitually while you're thinking about other things. Everything from how you sit, through the tone in your voice when you speak, what brand of toothpaste you buy, who you seek for legal of medical advice, to what you accomplish in your dreams, and what you do for your livelihood. Of all of these things you do, how many of them were intentionally created by you? How many did you accidentally create through not-considering? How many were intentionally created by someone else?
How many do you like?
None of these are necessarily wrong, mind you.
These are the things that are literally running your life while you're busy with other things.
I would suggest, as your lawyer, doctor, therapist and life coach, that you should think about these questions for no less thanten twenty minutes each. Then practice being different.
You are what you practice every day. -Ghandi
-Spare
Austin Spare, Jacob Moreno, Robert Wilson, the cabbage/robot fallacy, the archer's target fallacy, Apple's advertising (if not their policy), Jesus, the Dalai Lama, etc. All suggesting that maybe, perhaps, sponteneity (breaking habit, think different, desire for freedom, and so on) plays a key role in improving the quality of life among individuals and groups. All hinting that the things we believe (and for what reason? because we haven't been taught to believe any other way) need to be examined.
Think about everything you DON'T think about. This is what you do habitually while you're thinking about other things. Everything from how you sit, through the tone in your voice when you speak, what brand of toothpaste you buy, who you seek for legal of medical advice, to what you accomplish in your dreams, and what you do for your livelihood. Of all of these things you do, how many of them were intentionally created by you? How many did you accidentally create through not-considering? How many were intentionally created by someone else?
How many do you like?
None of these are necessarily wrong, mind you.
These are the things that are literally running your life while you're busy with other things.
I would suggest, as your lawyer, doctor, therapist and life coach, that you should think about these questions for no less than
You are what you practice every day. -Ghandi
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