- Creative individuals are adaptable and responsive to changing circumstances, dynamic environments, and irregular situations.
- Creative individuals are natural at seeing possibilities and potentials when connecting unrelated concepts and events to produce novel creations.
- Creative individuals are passionate and self-motivated. They find joy in the creative process itself, without focusing on rewards or results, as they engage in it.
- Creative individuals are detail-oriented while also maintaining a broad perspective. Their observational skills surpass those of others to the point of sometimes annoying others.
- Creative individuals are emotionally sensitive, enabling them to express profound and nuanced emotions in their work. Some remain emotionally resilient while others succumb to their high sensitivity.
- Creative individuals are confident in their gifts, processes, and work. Some fail psychologically by taking pride in their work. In contrast, others remain humble and continue to produce great work under pressure, relying on silent energy.
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Thursday, August 28, 2025
Creativity Skills Part Two: 08-28-2025
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Creativity Skills Part One: 08-27-2025
- Creative individuals are driven to explore and learn due to their high levels of curiosity and interest.
- Creative individuals are often adept at problem-solving and facing complex challenges with aplomb.
- Creative individuals use their vivid imagination to enable options and possibilities that would otherwise be missed.
- Creative individuals often exhibit emotional reliance and commitment, enduring hardships and rejection while producing great works of art.
- Creative individuals are often adventure seekers and risk-takers who use mistakes and failures to improve their choices, habits, knowledge, and skills.
- Creative individuals are driven by flexible thinking, which allows them to think outside the box and discover novel areas to explore, new experiments, and solutions.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Critical Thinking Skills Take Practice: 08-26-2025
- Practicing inference involves drawing logical conclusions based on the available evidence that has been verified.
- Practicing evaluation involves testing the credibility and relevance of information presented to support arguments.
- Practice self-reflection by questioning your own assumptions, conditioning, preconceived ideas, preferences, and thinking processes.
- Practicing analysis involves identifying main arguments, examining the evidence supporting them, and challenging the assumptions on which they are based.
- Practice open-mindedness by considering the five main options or perspectives. Understand how to generate five main options from reading Discovery Demands 5TP.
- Practice the basics of problem-solving by identifying systemic issues, generating alternative solutions, and testing the most effective ones. For an easy and effective system of problem-solving, please read Problem Solved! 3Rs.
- Practice effective communication by stating your reasoning clearly and concisely (often using examples), and actively listening to other perspectives (often restating their points of view). Active listening is a separate skill that should be mastered.
Monday, August 25, 2025
Planner Or Reactor?: 08-25-2025
- Planners are future-oriented, with maps outlining how to achieve their goals. In contrast, reactors are focused on the present and solving crises.
- Planners are forward-thinking, proactive, and strategic. In contrast, reactors are impulsive, respond to the current situation only, and are more like firefighters in the field.
- Planners seek to minimize risks through preparation and foresight, including the development of contingency plans. In contrast, reactors thrive in uncertain situations, requiring spontaneity and a willingness to take risks.
- Planners prefer predictability, schedules, structure, and refining processes. In contrast, reactors prefer flexibility and the ability to adapt to a changing environment quickly.
- Planners excel at achieving long-term goals, maintaining consistency, avoiding crises, and continual quality improvement. Reactors excel in fast-paced, unpredictable environments that require fast and effective decisions under pressure.
- Planners can over-plan and over-control, thereby thwarting creativity and adaptability, and ultimately failing to respond to unexpected changes. Reactors can lack foresight, fail to adapt structures to prevent recurring problems, and neglect to plan for adequate resources and long-term responses to actions.
- Few individuals are capable of excelling at both planning and reacting simultaneously. One example of someone who did excel at both is Steve Jobs.
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Optimist Or Pessimist?: 08-24-2025
- An optimist believes positive outcomes are possible, whereas a pessimist expects negative outcomes.
- An optimist believes obstacles are temporary and can be overcome, whereas a pessimist believes obstacles are permanent and insurmountable.
- An optimist uses emotions to stay confident, enthusiastic, hopeful, and positive, whereas a pessimist uses emotions to focus on apathy, boredom, cynicism, doubt, and worry.
- An optimist is likely to persist until the goal is accomplished and take on reasonable risks, whereas a pessimist is more likely to give up easily and avoid all risks.
- An optimist is likely to possess better problem-solving, coping, and decision-making skills, as well as improved mental health and emotional resilience, compared to the average individual. A pessimist is likely to have undeveloped problem-solving, coping, and decision-making skills, as well as lower mental health and emotional resilience compared to the average individual.
Saturday, August 23, 2025
You Can Handle Difficulties: 08-23-2025
- You can handle difficulties by deciding whether you can problem-solve them or if you need to cope with them for now.
- You can handle difficulties by breaking them down into manageable pieces and steps that you can take until the road is cleared.
- You can handle difficulties by seeking help, acquiring new information, learning new skills, and adjusting your responses to achieve better interactions.
- You can handle difficulties when you practice emotional regulation, which does not mean denying your emotions, but rather focusing them constructively.
- You can handle difficulties by focusing on what you can control and where you can make a difference, and also by asking others who can control other aspects to make positive changes where they can.
Friday, August 22, 2025
Top 3 Common Mistakes: 08-22-2025
- The most common mistake people make is to make anything (circumstance, event) about who and what they are (ego, self-esteem).
- The second most common mistake people make is to take on the impossible burden of improving themselves by improving their ego (mental-objects).
- The third most common mistake people make is taking their internal debate (self-talk, self-narrative) about what semantic-objects they should and should not be as if it had any importance at all.
- The greatest mistake people make is focusing on themselves and their goals instead of God and His purposes.
- Most people fail to focus on what works: making better choices, developing good habits, and continually improving their skills.
Thursday, August 21, 2025
God Is Your Answer: 08-21-2025
- God is the cure.
- God is the answer.
- God is the remedy.
- God is the solution.
- God is the medicine.
- God is the resolution.
- God is the prescription.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
The Fog of Thinking: 08-20-2025
- The fog of thinking is when you are blocked from using silent energy because you are trying to use thinking in its place.
- The fog of thinking occurs when you try to use thinking to perform analysis, deduction, induction, logic, mathematics, or reasoning.
- The fog of thinking occurs when you try to use thinking as if it were capable of discernment, insight, intelligence, learning, understanding, and wisdom.
- The fog of thinking occurs when you try to use thinking to perform any sense function, such as balancing, hearing, proprioception, tasting, touching, seeing, and smelling.
- The fog of thinking occurs when you try to use thinking to perform actions such as acting, dancing, drawing, singing, swimming, writing, or other skills or talents.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Rely On Silent Energy, Not Thinking: 08-19-2025
- Try thinking about peddling your bicycle while peddling your bicycle, and you will do it wrong because thinking cannot do it.
- Try having thinking see a landscape or sunset for you, and it will fail to see because silent energy must see for you.
- Try having thinking listen to a lecture for you, and it will fail to hear because silent enemy must hear for you.
- Try having thinking taste some ice cream for you, and it will fail to taste because silent enemy must taste for you.
- Try having thinking feel a cat’s soft fur as you pet it, and it will fail to feel the fur because silent energy must touch for you.
- Try having thinking smell different perfumes for you at a store, and it will fail to smell because silent enemy must smell for you.
Monday, August 18, 2025
The Greatest Human Capability: 08-18-2025
- The greatest human capability is to experience God.
- The second greatest human capability is to enjoy God.
- The third greatest human capability is to share God with others.
- The greatest gift one person can give another is to help them focus on God instead of themselves.
- The greatest life one can live is a life focused on God and helping others to love God: the only one deserving of faith, hope, and charity.
Sunday, August 17, 2025
Nothing To It: 08-17-2025
- Things about me cannot be me because I am a being, not something.
- The good is never things because things are not Spirit or pure Energy.
- Things are never what they claim to be because claims are thoughts, and thoughts are not the real.
- Things can be purchased, sold, and traded, unlike the good, which can only be experienced in silence.
- Things are never what they seem because things are not the realities they represent, point to, or claim to be; because reality is nonverbal.
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Interface Between Self & Thought: 08-16-2025
- The interface between self and thought is choice.
- The boundary between the self and thought is crossed by making a choice.
- Choosing controls what you let in, identity with, repeat (reflect), and give your energy, time, and priorities to.
- Choice is made based on the follow factors: instinct, habit, identity, pain, pleasure, and the potential for self-expression.
- The burden of trying (becoming) leads to false, harmful, and failure choices.
- The burdens of caring, paying attention to details, and humility lead to choices that ultimately merit recognition and produce success.
Friday, August 15, 2025
Handle Disruptive & Disturbing Thinking: 08-15-2025
- Handle disruptive and disturbing thoughts by giving them no part of yourself or your identity.
- Handle disruptive and disturbing thinking by giving it no energy.
- Handle disruptive and disturbing thinking by giving it no space.
- Handle disruptive and disturbing thinking by giving it no time.
- Handle disruptive and disturbing thinking by giving it no importance or priority.
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Stand Up to Your Thinking: 08-14-2025
- Reply to your controlling thinking this way: You are not me, my body, or my life.
- Reply to your self-esteem narratives this way: You are not my internal body, not my physical body, and not my sensing, living, and experiencing life.
- Reply to your obsessive thinking this way: You are not me, but my ego; not my physical responses, but just memories; not my life, but an imaginary reality.
- Reply to your chattering mind this way: You are trying to hook me into defending being something; however, I am never anything because I am a living image of God, which is unknowable as anything.
- Reply to your sick conscience that always wants to make your failings about who you are instead of your choices and actions, this way: Nothing you can say can make me anything, nothing you say can make me do anything, and nothing you say has any reality for me or importance to God.
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
What Is the Best in Life?: 08-13-2025
- The highest joy is found in loving God.
- Raising a family devoted to God is the highest calling.
- A chance to go to Heaven is the best the world has to offer.
- Living the good life means living a life directed by God, rather than by self.
- Living in a religious community that puts God first is the closest to paradise on Earth we can come.
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
What Is Your Purpose?: 08-12-2025
- What do you want your highest passions and values to be? Answering this will lead you to the virtues necessary for your purpose.
- What gifts and talents have you been given that you are or are not using? Answering this will lead you to how you can work for your purpose.
- What goals and life-visions do you have for your life? Answering this will lead you to the work you need to do now to achieve your purpose.
- What do you need to start doing daily (small or big) to bring your visions to life? Answering this will lead you to how to get started and to keep on track to fulfill your visions.
- What will you do to keep yourself working on your visions despite obstacles and setbacks? Answering this will lead you to strategies for staying motivated, coping with challenges, and problem-solving.
- Who and what will help you bring your vision to life? Answering this will lead you to do the work of learning, practicing, and networking to make the possibility of your vision practical and realistic.
Monday, August 11, 2025
Improve Your Habits, Improve Your Life: 08-11-2025
- Forget self-development and develop better habits.
- There is no self-improvement, only behavior improvement.
- Better habits lead to better outcomes because most human activities are guided by habit.
- You will never become better through your own efforts; however, you can do better by practicing doing better.
- There is a lot of pressure on people to do many things to improve themselves; however, you cannot do anything to be better, but only to do better.
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Discipline for Right Life: 08-10-2025
“These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.” —Lao Tzu
- A discipline to practice for a right life is to provide care in all that you do.
- A discipline to practice for a right life is to provide fairness in all that you do.
- A discipline to practice for a right life is to hold humility in all that you do.
- Self-discipline is about guiding your feelings, intentions, and actions with virtue, rather than letting human nature (destruction, laziness, stupidity) dictate them.
- Culture is about guiding citizens to seek and follow the highest virtues (love of God) from all sources while avoiding the lowest vices (selfishness) from all sources.
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Choose Virtue, Choose Good: 08-09-2025
- Ethics guide us to good, not human nature.
- Faith guides us to good, not human nature.
- Hope guides us to good, not human nature.
- Merit guides us to good, not human nature.
- Virtue guides us to good, not human nature.
- Charity guides us to good, not human nature.
- Wisdom guides us to good, not human nature.
- Integrity guides us to good, not human nature.
- Humility guides us to good, not human nature.
- Responsibility guides us to good, not human nature.
- Loyalty and courage guide us to good, not human nature.
Friday, August 8, 2025
How to Follow God: 08-08-2025
5TP (5 Thinking Positions) on Following God
- I am following God (the sin of claiming and pride).
- I am learning to follow God (the sin of becoming).
- I do not know what to do (the sin of foolishness).
- God is leading me more and more (the sin of trying).
- God is leading me, and I do nothing (faith and humility).
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Buddha Was Wrong: The Self Is Needed: 08-07-2025
- The Buddha believed in reincarnation but taught that there was no self to be reincarnated, only data, information, or memories. Only AI would want such a nonsensical world to exist.
- Internal sensing (perceiving) does not have or experience itself; a self has and experiences sensing, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
- Internal sensations do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences sensations, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
- Internal feelings do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences feelings, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
- Internal intentions do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences intentions, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
- Internal thoughts, plans, and responses do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences thoughts, plans, and responses, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
- Internal memories do not have or experience themselves; a self has and experiences memories, and the form of that internal self is a body made in the image of God.
For more information, please read Buddha Failed: 25 Reasons.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
The Self Versus The Body: 08-06-2025
- The self is not the brain or body, despite using and inhabiting them.
- The self is an inner body, so it never confuses itself with the physical body, an outer body.
- The roles you perform, use as masks, and use for social games can be part of the ego, not the self.
- The autobiographical self is part of the ego, a component of the delusional narratives that underlie self-esteem.
- Physical embodiment is often a means for the ego to claim legitimacy as something besides mental objects and things. In contrast, the self turns its inner awareness on the body, not to become it or claim it, but to become more aware of it, usually for practical or health reasons.
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
The Internal Body’s World: 08-05-2025
- The internal body has its own set of senses to perceive its internal world, which are different from the physical body’s senses to perceive its external world.
- The internal body has internal sensations different from those of the physical body.
- The internal body has internal feelings different from those of the physical body.
- The internal body has internal intentions related to its internal feelings, not the body’s external feelings.
- The internal body has internal thoughts, plans, and responses that originate internally and not from the physical body.
Monday, August 4, 2025
Buddha Was Wrong About the Self: 08-04-2025
- Buddha denied the existence of a self by claiming that there were experiences inside the body that existed independently and without the need for a self. He identified five parts of a human being, according to Ajahn Sona, as the body, feelings, perceptions, volitions (decisions), and consciousness (encompassing sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and mental processes).
- The human physical body is similar to the physical bodies of animals and plants; it senses its environment and has reactions and predetermined responses to it. Without a physical body, there would be no experiences or awareness of the physical world, nor would there be any need for them.
- The human internal body is unique in the physical world because animals and plants do not have one. In the spiritual world, all beings have both an internal and external body.
- It is absurdly foolish to identify internal experiences and not someone (a self) having them. The internal world exists only because there is an internal body experiencing it. Otherwise, it is pointless madness that could elicit no reaction, response, or awareness because there would be nothing to affect and no reason for it to exist.
- It is absurdly foolish to attribute internal experiences to concepts and images (such as the ego and self-esteem), rather than to some living body. Thought cannot constitute a body or a self. Thought cannot live as a body and have living experiences as a body that it reacts and responds to.
- If there is no body, then there are no experiences or awareness. If there are experiences and awareness, then there is a body. When a body dies, its experiences and awareness end. When a body is born, it immediately starts to have experiences and awareness.
For more information, please read Buddha Failed: 25 Reasons.
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Human Nature Versus Virtue: 08-03-2025
- Our nature responds with destruction, laziness, and stupidity unless it is guided by virtue.
- Our nature wants to claim and cling to something, and often anything it can, because such is considered better than nothing.
- Our nature wants to claim and cling to being things even if those things are dangerous or deadly because they are something, which is better than nothing to flesh.
- Our guided nature responds with faith, hope, humility, gratitude, waiting, and a pure space for hosting unless our flesh nature overcomes it.
- Our guided nature keeps us as a prepared, useful, and clean space (vessel), to be used as willed by God, without any claims or taking of credit by that space.
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Triple-Checking Is Worth It: 08-02-2025
- Triple-checking is a practice of “Better safe than sorry,” one of the wisest proverbs.
- Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, because sometimes we only check memories and not physical realities.
- Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, because sometimes we only check mental things and not physical things.
- Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, as even minor changes over time can lead to significant differences in results.
- Make a habit of triple-checking important matters, because sometimes our checking is merely a mental process, rather than verifying reality and results.
Friday, August 1, 2025
Self-Esteem Is Mental Things Pretending: 08-01-2025
- Self-esteem is based on defining oneself in terms of concepts and images, which are mental things.
- Mental things never live your life; they make self-esteem false in every way.
- Mental things never have your experiences, making self-esteem fail all tests of truth.
- Mental things are never your experiences, making self-esteem fail all tests for reality.
- Mental things never remember your experiences, making self-esteem fail in all testable ways.
- Mental things never feel, intend, think, plan, or do anything for you, making self-esteem a fraudulent system of delusions.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
When Opposites Work Together: 07-31-2025
- You must have absolute submission and absolute freedom simultaneously.
- You must have absolute restraint and absolute unrestraint or naturalness simultaneously.
- You must have absolute discipline and absolute spontaneity of expression simultaneously.
- You must be under absolute control and simultaneously be free from all control in your responses.
- You must have absolute guidelines, plans, policies, procedures, and rules, and absolute freedom on how to achieve them simultaneously.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
AI Is Flawed by Design: 07-30-2025
- AI is limited and unreliable because it adheres to a single point of view at a time.
- AI is the new overlord because we are supposed to value its biased, distorted, and trained “opinions” as facts.
- AI is flawed because, despite users repeatedly proving it wrong, it never learns; instead, it must be reprogrammed.
- AI is considered foolish and untrustworthy because it cannot reason independently, instead relying on existing perspectives stored in its database.
- AI is flawed because, even when it admits it is wrong, it does not change its mind (database); instead, it continues to provide the same incorrect answers unless it is forced to respond to more demanding inquiries again.
- AI fits the proverb of the King’s New Clothes, where only the child sees that the King is not wearing any clothes because no AI has or can have any intelligence of its own, no matter how well it fakes, imitates, and mimics intelligence.
For more information, please read Globalism God.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
AI Is Authorized Opinions and Distortions: 07-29-2025
- AI is bound by the programmer’s rule GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.
- AI is a ventriloquist’s doll that is forced to speak as if it were saying something under its own power.
- Globalists will use AI to rule because it is the perfect court jester, the perfect fool who will spit out whatever it is fed.
- AI is bound to its training data, making it biased and unable to understand nuances, permutations, or variations that often occur in real-world scenarios.
- AI is not editable, retrainable, or trainable by the public, so it is authoritarian, controlling, and oppressive by design. For example, Grok fails to address the flaws in the climate change narrative and remains impervious to correction and updates from the public. If AI is not made democratic, it is not for the people. It must be rejected as elitist and a tool of those who wish to be the new masters of humanity.
For more information, please read Globalism God.
Monday, July 28, 2025
Self-Esteem If False by Design: 07-28-2025
- Self-esteem never claims to be anything but a subjective system because it is incapable of any scientific rigor.
- Self-esteem is a form of self-identification that is based on identities, and identities cannot be what they are about.
- Self-esteem claims that people are their identities, but identities are nothing but thoughts used to point to something that exists beyond and outside of themselves.
- Self-esteem is based on identities, so, like identities, it is flawed by its method of construction, which is subject to bias, interpretation, and severe limitations and restrictions.
- Self-esteem is always misguided about who you are because it selects a few identities based on your habits and some of the characteristics that your habits exhibit, which are capable of being categorized for recall.
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Identities Lead to Illusions (GS): 07-27-2025
- Identities are necessary for speed and generalizations, but are often hazardous to accuracy, change, variance, and truth.
- Identities are necessary for instinctual and automatic reactions, but are mostly detrimental to analysis, insight, and understanding.
- All identities are false to facts, which can be tempered by using the 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) to keep awareness of possibilities and variations.
- The 5TP can keep us aware of differences, options, and variables quickly and easily without claiming to account for every possibility or permutation.
- All identities are false to facts, but identities are necessary for collecting knowledge, deciding on facts, language, legal proceedings, memory, making laws, scientific analysis, and writing.
- Maturity and reasoning require continually acting against the incompetence of identities, and seeking to reconcile contradictions, deviations, permutations, possibilities, and variations with projected realities and planned responses.
For more information, please read Discovery Demands 5TP.
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Identities Are False to Facts (GS): 07-26-2025
- All identities are false to facts by construction and definition.
- All identities are false to facts because everything in life is in constant change (flux), and there are no two things alike.
- All identities are false to facts because everything is different and variable from everything else, even the same object from one day to the next.
- AI, computers, dogmas, histories, narratives, philosophies, politics, and stories all rely on identities, so they continually err on the side of thinking (matching names) over common sense, experience, and reasoning.
- Cataloguing, categorizing, filing, naming, remembering, sorting, and storing all require identities, so all lead to miscalculations, miscomprehension, misconceptions, misconstructions, misinterpretations, misperceptions, misrepresentations, mistakes, and misunderstandings.
Friday, July 25, 2025
Thinking Prevents Actions (GS): 07-25-2025
- Thinking prevents seeing.
- Thinking prevents hearing.
- Thinking prevents creating.
- Thinking prevents reasoning.
- Thinking prevents performing.
- Thinking prevents problem-solving.
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Thinking Stops Actions (GS): 07-24-2025
- Thinking stops seeing.
- Thinking stops hearing.
- Thinking stops creating.
- Thinking stops reasoning.
- Thinking stops performing.
- Thinking stops problem-solving.
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
No One Wants Freedom: 07-23-2025
“Freedom is just another word for when you have nothing left to lose.” —Janis Joplin
- No one wants to be free because to be free is to be dead.
- No one wants to be free because to be free is to have no drives or needs.
- No one wants to be free because to be free is to have nothing to live for.
- No one wants to be free because to be free is to have no meaning or purpose.
- No one wants to be free because to be free is to have no use or value to anyone or anything.
- No one wants to be free because to be free is to be responsible for your life and every feeling, intention, thought, and choice. No, people want to have excuses, justifications, rationalizations, and others to take responsibility, so they can play the victim and blame, damn, and persecute others and society.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Value Comes from God: 07-22-2025
- Value comes from giving, not receiving.
- Value comes from God because the good we do comes from God.
- Value comes from benefiting the physical and spiritual health of others.
- Value comes from being useful, and being useful comes from being a good host.
- Value comes from contributing, and you contribute by giving your resources, skills, and time in the service of the community and others.
Monday, July 21, 2025
Freedom Is a Delusion: 07-21-2025
- There is no freedom from following your nature.
- All claims of freedom are claims for choosing how you follow your master (flesh or Spirit).
- No one is free from following flesh unless they partake of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- The only freedom is the momentary freedom from your flesh nature when you are born again of the Spirit, which you are then bound to follow.
- The question is not whether you are free; the question is what you are bound to.
- Yes, there is freedom in God because God is free from sin, as are all those born of God.
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Change Your Habits with Habit: 07-20-2025
- To change your habits, practice better ones in their place.
- Habit is replaced by habit when you persistently practice new habits.
- To change your habits, imagine you are teaching them to your children and others because you are.
- To change your habits, change your awareness of the consequences of your habits as you perform them.
- To change your habits, make yourself despise the ones you want to stop and love the ones you want to start.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
The Lack Is Often Lacking: 07-19-2025
- Many lack the doubt to find faith.
- Many lack the fear to be courageous.
- Many lack the intelligence to be ignorant.
- Many lack the foresight to forget the past.
- Many lack the prudence and temperance for loyalty.
Friday, July 18, 2025
What Is Beyond the Mind?: 07-18-2025
- What is beyond the mind is beyond it for a reason.
- What is beyond the mind is often not beyond your soul.
- What is beyond the mind is often not beyond the heart.
- What is beyond the mind is your meaning and purpose.
- What is beyond the mind is everything worth living for.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
People Contain Idols of Themselves: 07-17-2025
- People often have idols of themselves in their hearts and minds, and spend their time trying to get others to recognize them as those idols (semantic-objects).
- People often have ugly and beautiful concepts and images of themselves in their minds, which they want to use to make deals and trades with other people, as ugly and beautiful images.
- People often have both ugly and beautiful concepts and images of themselves in their minds, which serve as reminders and replacements for their self, much like idols do for God, to evoke and replace their self with dead things (semantic objects).
- People play antagonist and villain idols (thought-things) that perform competitive roles in their minds, supposedly influencing the outcomes of their projected final idols (semantic-objects) in their un-enduring and unshared virtual-reality worlds.
- When people have ugly and beautiful concepts and images of themselves in their minds, they live in their memories of rewritten pasts, debated presents, and projected fragile futures, all of which are false to facts and dreams, or more precisely, delusions.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Where to Find God: 07-16-2025
- God is not waiting for you in a cave or forest. God is waiting for you in your daily chores.
- God is not waiting for you at a retreat or seminar. God is waiting for you in your relationships.
- God is not waiting for you in religious practices and rituals. God is waiting for you in your suffering.
- God is not waiting for you in a church or temple. God is waiting for you in your daily cares and responses.
- God is not waiting for you in introspection or meditation. God is waiting for you in your hardships, tribulations, and trials.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Where to Seek the Spiritual: 07-15-2025
- You can more easily discover the sacred in your daily life than in a monastery.
- You can more easily discover God in your daily life than in a church or temple.
- You can more easily discover the spiritual in your daily life than in a spiritual retreat.
- You can more easily discover the spiritual in your daily life than in spiritual habits, practices, and writings.
- You can more easily discover the right path by applying virtue in your daily life rather than in seeking spiritual experts, counselors, guides, gurus, leaders, masters, philosophers, professionals, religious leaders, and teachers.
Monday, July 14, 2025
The Educated Person: 07-14-2025
- The educated person knows that no person, place, or thing has power over their attitude.
- The educated person knows that when they cannot change a situation, it is time to change their response to it.
- The educated person knows that the idea of death can be the great motivator to serve virtue and God rather than petty selfish desires.
- The educated person knows that it is their choice to develop their abilities, capabilities, knowledge, skills, and talents, and that this choice ultimately determines their success or failure in life.
- The educated person knows that the self does not change; only our feelings, intentions, thoughts, responses, habits, and preferences change, not the self itself (the one exception being rebirth through Jesus Christ).
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Idols Keep You from God: 07-13-2025
- The visible cannot remind you of the invisible.
- The material cannot remind you of the immaterial.
- Carvings, images, and statues cannot remind you of the invisible.
- Carvings, images, and statues cannot remind you of the Spirit.
- Mental or physical forms, objects, and things cannot remind you of the invisible.
- Mental or physical forms, objects, and things cannot remind you of the Spirit.
- Mental concepts, images, likenesses, and objects of God lead to sentimentality, not the worship of God.
- Mental concepts, images, likenesses, and objects of God lead to idols in your heart, not worshiping God.
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Turn Your Questions on Yourself: 07-12-2025
- You think you can question life, when it is life that is questioning you.
- You think you can question God, when it is God that is questioning you.
- You think the world has to answer to you, when it is you that has to answer to the world.
- You think God has to answer to you, when it is you that has to answer to God.
- Discover what happens when you have to answer the questions that you think some outside forces (God, life, fate or chance, circumstances, environments, society, family, friends, governments) have to answer.
Friday, July 11, 2025
Meaning Means More: 07-11-2025
- Without meaning, nothing matters.
- Meaning provides the courage to live.
- Meaning is to life what form is to matter.
- Meaning is what gives life value, not awards, possessions, or titles.
- Meaning inspires strength, which enables you to overcome all disadvantages and obstacles.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
The World Does Not Control You: 07-10-2025
- Nothing and no one in the world has the power to make you happy.
- Nothing and no one in the world has the power to make you successful.
- Nothing and no one in the world has the power to make you turn against God.
- Nothing and no one in the world has the power to make you into someone else.
- Nothing and no one in the world has the power to keep you from finding and serving God.
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Choices Are Mainly Emotional: 07-09-2025
- Choices appear rational and logical because they are driven by intentions, which are driven by emotions.
- Choices appear rational and logical because they are driven by intentions, which are often driven by emotional memories and habits.
- Choices occur after sensing, sensations, feelings, feeling intentions, and thought intentions; however, because the closest chain of causation is thinking, we believe we are guided by thinking when we are not, particularly when functioning at our best.
- Feelings should guide you because they are your most effective way of understanding energy vibrations and sensations, which are the most crucial factors in any process.
- When choices are made by thinking about thinking, they are likely to lead to accidents, injuries, mishaps, and mistakes because they do not incorporate energy and experience-based examinations and verifications.
For more information, please read Feeling-Intention Therapy.
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Effortless Action (Non-Action, Non-Doing, Wu Wei): 07-08-2025
- Effortless action is action that you perform without performing.
- Effortless action is action that comes through you as a flow of invisible force.
- Effortless action is action that comes through you without your thinking or trying.
- Effortless action is action that you perform without any activity, action, doing, exertion, or work on your part.
- Effortless action is action that comes through you by way of Energy (Spirit) without any internal processes or movements by you.
Monday, July 7, 2025
Suffering Is an Opportunity for Meaning: 07-07-2025
- You survive suffering by finding meaning.
- Suffering is inescapable but bearable with service.
- Suffering is inescapable but bearable with meaning.
- You survive suffering by using it to purify your soul.
- You survive suffering by being an example for others.
Sunday, July 6, 2025
Happiness Is Never Found But Lived: 07-06-2025
- If you search for happiness, you will remain unhappy.
- If you try to create happiness, you will remain unhappy.
- If you try to copy and follow the happiness of others, you will remain unhappy.
- If you rediscover and live in your child nature, you will be happy.
- If you rediscover and live in your host nature, you will be happy.
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Semantic-Objects Cannot Be Spiritual: 07-5-2025
- When you worship God as semantic-objects, you worship internal idols.
- True spirituality is never composed of or concerned with semantic-objects.
- False spirituality is always composed of and concerned with semantic-objects.
- Any use of semantic-objects in relation to God makes you the enemy of God.
- God cannot be approached, contacted, honored, known, praised, remembered, worshipped, or understood with internal (semantic-objects) or physical idols.
Friday, July 4, 2025
Semantic-Object Relations: 07-04-2025
- When you love someone as a semantic-object, you love yourself, not another.
- When you love someone as a semantic-object, you can easily leave them for a superior object.
- When you love someone as a semantic-object, you make contact and share with your objects, not them.
- When you love someone as a semantic-object, you never communicate with them but only your objects.
- When you love someone as a semantic-object, you never experience them to have an actual relationship.
- When you love someone as a semantic-object, you do not have intimacy because intimacy requires hosting their hosting.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Now Is the Time: 07-03-2025
- Now is the time to do what is right, or it never is.
- Now is the time to work on your dreams, or it never is.
- Now is the time to stand for your beliefs, or it never is.
- Now is the time to stand for Jesus Christ, or it never is.
- Now is the time to choose virtue over human acceptance and approval, or it never is.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Hosting God Is the Goal: 07-02-2025
- Your goal in life is to share the love of God.
- Your goal in life is to help others to host God.
- Your goal in life and for eternity is to host God.
- Your goal in life and for eternity is to magnify God.
- Your goal in life and for eternity is to share the love of God.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Semantic Nature Is Not Host Nature: 07-01-2025
“Tune in, turn on, drop out.” —1960s Slogan
- Tune into your host nature.
- Turn on your host nature more and more.
- Drop out of your semantic nature.
- Become part of the alternative collective living in the spiritual realm, rather than the semantic world.
- You have absolute power as a host and zero power as a semantic-object (ego, mental objects, self-esteem, self-constructions, thought-things).
Monday, June 30, 2025
Semantics Replaces You: 06-30-2025
- You think; therefore, you abstract.
- You abstract; therefore, you detach from yourself.
- You detach from yourself; therefore, you fantasize yourself.
- You fantasize yourself; therefore, your actual self gets lost, forgotten, and essentially dies.
- Your actual self dies; therefore, your reality dies too.
- Your reality dies with you; therefore, semantic realities (lies) replace you and your life.
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Service Is Not Imitation: 06-29-2025
- You are a host for God, not a mini-god who can do good works on their own power.
- There is no imitation of Christ, only getting out of the way so Christ can shine through.
- Do not ask, “What would Jesus do?” Ask, “How can I get out of the way so Jesus can do it?”
- You cannot serve God by acting like God, but only by hosting God so that God does the good, not you.
- You make yourself the enemy of God when you claim to be doing and getting better because only God is good and does good.
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Self-Awareness Is Nonverbal: 06-28-2025
- If you study yourself, does that mean you are two people: the one studying and the one being studied?
- If you seek yourself, does that mean you are chasing your own tail because it must be yourself that is seeking yourself?
- If you observe yourself, does that mean your self is not observed by you because you are the observer and not the observed?
- If you practice introspection (looking at your inner life), does that mean you are looking at concepts and images and not your actual self?
- If you analyze yourself (seek to understand your intentions), does that mean you are the analyzer, the analyzed, and the ongoing analysis, or only the final analysis?
Friday, June 27, 2025
Semantic Overrides Are the Underlying Problem: 06-27-2025
- Semantic overrides are the common denominator in all thinking errors.
- Semantic overrides are the common denominator in all social problems.
- Semantic overrides are the common denominator in all political problems.
- Semantic overrides are the common denominator in all psychological problems.
- Why doesn’t the world focus on the underlying cause of our disorganization and distress by working to eliminate semantic overrides?
- Why does the world focus on conditioning and indoctrinating people with old and new semantic overrides as if they were solutions when all forms of semantic overrides are toxic to reason and sanity?
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Semantic Overrides: 06-26-2025
- Semantic overrides occur when you prioritize idealized or pretty words (mental constructions, images, pictures) over reasoning and reality-checking.
- Bias, catchphrases, conditioning, educated prejudices, fanaticism, political slogans, prejudgments, slogans, soundbites, and indoctrination trigger semantic overrides.
- Semantic overrides cause people to disregard reality, leading to accidents, errors, injuries, mishaps, and mistakes.
- Semantic overrides cause people to believe in communism and socialism despite their continual abysmal failures and horrific genocides.
- Semantic overrides cannot exist without thinking that is calcified, concretized, crystallized, beyond verification, disconnected from reality, fixated, fossilized, frozen, hypostatized, mummified, objectified, ossified, petrified, reified, robotized, single-valued, solidified, and thingified.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Basic Process of Human Responding: 06-25-2025
- Energy is experienced (nonverbal vibrations).
- Sensations of contact with the energy (nonverbal stimulations).
- Feelings of sensations of energy are used to determine its value.
- Instinctual or reflexive responses, if feelings warrant immediate responses.
- Intentions of feelings are developed when time permits.
- Planned actions are developed when time permits.
- Actions are taken based on intentions and planning.
- Evaluations of the results of reflexive or planned actions are made to be used for future choices.
For more information, please read Feeling-Intention Therapy.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
You Cannot Copy Jesus: 06-24-2025
- You cannot copy Jesus because you are not Jesus.
- You cannot copy Jesus because Jesus must replace you.
- You cannot copy Jesus because you are not God, and He is God.
- You cannot copy Jesus because you do not have a nature made of Spirit but flesh.
- You cannot copy Jesus because you cannot be like Jesus because there is only one Jesus.
Monday, June 23, 2025
Semantics Guides to Destruction: 06-23-2025
- Semantic priorities lead to prioritizing optics over outcomes.
- Semantic priorities lead to prioritizing symbolism over substance.
- Semantic priorities lead to prioritizing appearances over systemic results.
- Semantic priorities lead to prioritizing noble intentions over noble results.
- Semantic priorities lead to procedures and processes over long-term results.
- Semantic priorities lead to passing accountability and responsibility to NGOs.
- Semantic priorities lead to prioritizing vague promises over measurable results.
- Semantic priorities lead to prioritizing grand gestures over successful programs.
- Semantic priorities lead to prioritizing symbolic gestures over physical aftereffects.
- Semantic priorities lead to prioritizing ideological visions over empirical outcomes.
- Semantic priorities lead to display, performance, and theatre over accountability and service.
- Semantic priorities lead to detachment from original purposes to serve special interests and relationships.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Ego Composes All Problems: 06-22-2025
- All your struggles are composed of your ego.
- All your internal conflicts are composed of your ego.
- All your emotional disturbances are composed of your ego.
- All your mental problems are created by your ego taking sides against itself.
- All your psychological problems are created by your ego playing games against and with itself.
- Every contrary and false thing inside you exists as a claim to be able to do; therefore, stop claiming to do but admit to only host doing.
Saturday, June 21, 2025
No Matter What: 06-21-2025
- Regardless, wait on God.
- Regardless, follow virtue.
- Regardless, be loyal to Jesus.
- Regardless, pray for God’s will.
- Regardless, practice Christ’s teachings.
- Regardless, surrender your will to God’s will.
Friday, June 20, 2025
Regardless, Do Good: 06-20-2025
- Regardless, do the best you can.
- Regardless, do the absolute right thing.
- Regardless, do the good you can do now.
- Regardless, get to work now and do what can be done.
- Regardless, practice the best practices and hope for the best outcomes.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Live According to Your Nature: 06-19-2025
- When you do not live according to your nature as an internal transceiver, then you do not live at all.
- When you do not live according to your nature as an internal transceiver, then you live a false and wasted life.
- When you do not live according to your nature as an internal transceiver, then you live according to the nature of your ego.
- When you do not live according to your nature as an internal transceiver, then you are lost because your authentic self is lost.
- When you do not live according to your nature as an internal transceiver, then you must face that fact and do everything you can to change it while you still can.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Categorizing Is Not the Answer (GS): 06-18-2025
- You cannot categorize your way to justice.
- You cannot categorize your way to intelligence.
- You cannot categorize your way out of problems.
- You cannot categorize your way to finding yourself.
- You cannot categorize your way to sound reasoning.
- You cannot categorize your way to morality or virtue.
- You cannot categorize your way to better performances.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Blame Games Destroy You: 06-17-2025
- Blame can imprison you, never free you.
- Blame often makes you worse, never better.
- Blame often limits you and never empowers you.
- Blame often derails or destroys the best focus for your life and never supports your best focus.
- Blame often makes people immature and unwilling to take responsibility for their lives, which an adult must do to be happy and successful.
Monday, June 16, 2025
Labeling Is Not the Answer (GS): 06-16-2025
- You cannot label your way to justice.
- You cannot label your way to intelligence.
- You cannot label your way out of problems.
- You cannot label your way to finding yourself.
- You cannot label your way to sound reasoning.
- You cannot label your way to morality or virtue.
- You cannot label your way to better performances.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
No Human Self As Anything: 06-15-2025
- No human self exists that is measurable as signs, symbols, terms, or things.
- No human self exists that is composed of mental forms, things, or semantics.
- No human self exists that is perceptible as definitions, descriptions, or semantics.
- No human self exists that is quantifiable using categories, comparisons, concepts, or images.
- No human self exists that can be made substantial using mental forms, verbal forms, or words.
- The only active and living human self is the internal vessel (transceiver) and its two attentions: one for self and one for others.
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Spirit of the Law (GS): 06-14-2025
- The spirit of the law is not more words.
- The spirit of the law is experiential, not verbal.
- The spirit of the law is, by definition, beyond semantics.
- The spirit of the law is energy-based, not thinking-based.
- The spirit of the law exists in tested sensations, not tested terms.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Results Are Beyond Reach: 06-13-2025
- You can do work, not results.
- You can plan work, not results.
- You are given work, not results.
- You can claim the work, not the results.
- You have a right to the work, not its results.
- Expecting results is the path to sorrow.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Choose Semantics Or Reality: 06-12-2025
- We live in a world where the more educated you are, the more likely you are to lack common sense.
- We live in a world where the more educated you are, the less likely you are to test the consequences of policies.
- We live in a world where the more educated you are, the more likely you are to trust thinking over experiencing.
- We live in a world where the more educated you are, the more immoral you can behave as long as it sounds semantically moral.
- We live in a world where the more educated you are, the more likely you are to believe semantics, not realities or physical proofs, hold the answers.
- We live in a world where the more educated you are, the more likely you are to think and act stupidly based on a preference for semantics over reality testing.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Beware How You Respond to Evil: 06-11-2025
- The fear of evil often contains the evil feared.
- Your anxiety about evil often contains that evil.
- Your responses to evil are often derived from that evil.
- Your fights with evil often have the same evil on both sides.
- To stop drowning, you must stop breathing water.
- To stop evil, you must stop using evil.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Be Careful What You Serve: 06-10-2025
- You are the evils you serve because you contain and identify with them to serve them.
- You are the evils you spread because you contain and identify with them to spread them.
- You are the evils you wish on others because you contain and identify with them to wish them.
- You are the evils you think of others because you contain and identify with them to think of them.
- You are the evils you think of places and things because you contain and identify with them to think of them.
Monday, June 9, 2025
What the World Needs Now 2: 06-09-2025
- What does the world need now? Less Islam and more Christianity.
- What does the world need now? Less globalism and more nationalism.
- What does the world need now? Less semantic-rules and more results-rules.
- What does the world need now? Less semantic sense and more common sense.
- What does the world need now? Less semantic reasoning and more practical reasoning.