Education Not Always Educational: 04-24-2026

1. Education that focuses on knowledge produces uneducated people.
2. Education that focuses on experience produces competent and sometimes skilled workers.
3. Education that focuses on both theory and practice produces educated and sometimes wise people.
4. Generally, the more educated you become, the less educated you are because the less you rely on experience and the more you rely on verbal knowledge.
5. Generally, the more educated you become, the more you live in verbal worlds and ignore physical words. Such education often leads to the promotion of policies, political programs, and virtuous-sounding causes that do more harm than good because there is no concern for measuring historical, current, and long-term results.

You Cannot Do It Alone: 04-23-2026

1. You alone cannot stop a river, the wind, or your thinking.
2. You alone cannot steer a river, the wind, or your thinking.
3. You alone cannot control a river, the wind, or your thinking.
4. You alone cannot change a river, the wind, or your thinking.
5. You, with the help of God, can stop, steer, control, and change your thinking.

Stop Claiming, Start Living: 04-22-2026

1. We say surrender to God like there is any other power you can surrender to.
2. We say surrender it to God, but this assumes you were ever in control when you cannot be.
3. We say turn it over to God. Only, you never had, and never will have, it; only mental objects representing it.
4. You host ideas of control that control nothing.
5. You host ideas of trying that try to do nothing.
6. You host claims of abilities and powers you are incapable of.
7. You might appear to others to have power or control; however, you have none of your own.
8. When you try to do, all you do is make noise with children’s toys.

Knowledge Is Not the Answer: 04-21-2026

1. Knowledge is not the practice of doing something.
2. Knowledge of all the theology of a religion does provide belief or faith in that religion.
3. Knowledge of all the parts and processes of the human body does not make you a doctor.
4. Knowledge of how to build a house does not magically convey the skills necessary to build one.
5. Knowledge of all the parts and processes of any form of government does not teach you how it works.
6. Knowledge of how something works is not the same as knowledge of how to operate it, for example, a sailboat.
7. Knowledge of all the parts of an engine does not provide an understanding of how the engine works or how to fix it.
8. Knowledge of all the parts and processes of the making and performing of music does not teach you to be a musical composer or a musician.

Knowledge Is Not the End: 04-20-2026

1. Knowledge is not it.
2. Knowledge is not skill.
3. Knowledge is not ability.
4. Knowledge is not the answer.
5. Knowledge is not intelligence.
6. Knowledge is not understanding.
7. Knowledge is not compassion or love.
8. Knowledge is not faith, hope, or charity.

Appearances Are Deceptive (GS): 04-19-2026

1. The role is not the actor.
2. The costume is not the actor.
3. The clothes are not the person.
4. The cover is not what is covered.
5. The purchase is not what was sold.
6. The appearance is not what is inside.
7. The advertisement is not the product.
8. The package is not what is packaged.
9. The decorations are not the decorated.
10. The product is not what was promised.
11. The hiding place is not what is hidden.
12. The paint is not the wall that was painted.

7 Steps to Resigned Death: 04-18-2026

1. First, you were a unique space, place, time, and seat of energy that you abandoned.
2. Second, you envision yourself as a mannequin, a movie screen, a whiteboard, tabula rasa, an uncarved block of wood, an unformed statue/picture, all of which can be understood as an unformed mental object, ready to be projected onto.
3. Third, you create a story by imagining this subject object (unformed mental object) as something in the past, present, and future.
4. Fourth, you argue and worry about which concepts and images put over these subject objects are true and which work against the appearances you want to present to the world.
5. Fifth, you submit to projecting one or a series of images for the sake of worldly appearances.
6. Sixth, you adjust the projections as needed to achieve the desired effects you seek from others.
7. Seventh, you devote your life to perfecting, projecting, and protecting the appearances that you desire.