tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38330447923040622022024-03-17T14:13:49.553-07:003D: Daily Dose of Discernment© 2024 by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. Daily quotations cover topics crucial to your emotional and behavioral health, including emotional and psychological skills, psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, General Semantics, Eastern psychology and philosophy, meditation, flow, social commentary, responsibility, authenticity, identity, and the self. Visit https://kevinfitzmaurice.com or Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google Play for Kevin's 60 books & audiobooks.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-38626124944354172292024-03-17T14:12:00.000-07:002024-03-17T14:12:49.689-07:00Sensing Is Not Thinking: 03-17-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Sensing is not found in experience.</li><li>Sensing is not found in words.</li><li>Sensing is not found in thought-things.</li><li>Sensing is found in silence.</li><li>Sensing is found in direct contact.</li><li>Direct contact is found in silence.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-73303499423559477942024-03-16T10:54:00.000-07:002024-03-16T10:54:00.438-07:00Meaning Is Not Words: 03-16-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Words have no meaning of their own.</li><li>Meaning has no words of its own.</li><li>Meaning has no speech of its own.</li><li>Meaning has no thoughts of its own.</li><li>Meaning is not found in thoughts or words.</li><li>Meaning is found in experiences.</li><li>Meaning is the connection of experiences.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-49090800395647576762024-03-15T12:31:00.000-07:002024-03-15T12:31:00.892-07:00Nothing Cannot: 03-15-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Nothing cannot know nothing.</li><li>Nothing cannot do nothing.</li><li>Nothing cannot be nothing.</li><li>Nothing is beneath something.</li><li>Nothing is hidden from all.</li><li>Nothing is nothing to all.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-48667581247249817922024-03-14T21:47:00.000-07:002024-03-14T21:47:00.420-07:00It Is Nothing: 03-14-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>It is nothing because it does not matter.</li><li>It is nothing because it is based on blind doubt.</li><li>It is nothing because it is thinking, not experience.</li><li>It is nothing because it is thought-things, not reasoning.</li><li>It is nothing because no one will care in a hundred years.</li><li>It is nothing because it is just a fear, not a rational prediction or warning.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-79969673430833947392024-03-13T16:38:00.000-07:002024-03-13T16:38:29.616-07:00Nothing Never Does: 03-13-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Nothing is never serving anything because nothing has nothing to offer.</li><li>Nothing is never following because nothing has no being to follow with.</li><li>Nothing is never resting because nothing has no active or passive nature to rest.</li><li>Nothing is never retreating because nothing has no space and place to retreat from or to.</li><li>Nothing is never naked or vulnerable because nothing has no form that can be clothed or harmed.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-46698228654900072562024-03-12T15:58:00.000-07:002024-03-12T15:58:38.137-07:00Nothing Is Never Something: 03-12-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Nothing is not waiting because nothing has no sense of time, space, or being.</li><li>Nothing is not emptiness because emptiness is a space, and nothing has no space.</li><li>Nothing is not weakness because nothing has no form that can be either weak or strong.</li><li>Nothing is not stillness because stillness exists in contrast to sound, and nothing knows no sound.</li><li>Nothing is not peace because peace exists between different things and nothing is neither the same nor different things.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-22555141851123309082024-03-10T16:24:00.000-07:002024-03-10T16:24:46.564-07:00Nobodies Leave as Nobodies: 03-11-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>The world is full of nobodies trying to be somebodies and never arriving.</li><li>The world is full of nobodies claiming to be somebodies to rule over the other nobodies.</li><li>The world is full of nobodies pretending to be somebodies, hoping to one day believe their own lies.</li><li>The world is full of nobodies who eventually will arrive as nobodies when they die and get explained away as somebodies.</li><li>The world is full of nobodies imagining others are somebodies when they are also nobodies imagining others are somebodies.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-30890969851387796312024-03-09T15:35:00.000-08:002024-03-09T15:35:02.182-08:00One Is Only One: 03-10-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>One self, one God.</li><li>One love, one God.</li><li>One story, one God.</li><li>One virtue, one God.</li><li>One source, one God.</li><li>One energy, one God.</li><li>One somebody, one God.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-66072903681754909182024-03-09T15:31:00.000-08:002024-03-09T15:33:22.525-08:00Rely on God, Not Thinking: 03-09-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Humans must fall back on God, not thinking.</li><li>Retreat from the ego and receive from God.</li><li>Return to the source (God), and rest in God.</li><li>Good people want to fall back on God for support.</li><li>Evil people want to fall back on you and the world for support.</li><li>Evil people go forward to claim; however, the good go backward to give all glory to God.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-30033054487843322322024-03-09T15:28:00.000-08:002024-03-09T15:28:07.506-08:00Deserve to Do Bad: 03-08-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;">The excuse of negative is negative.</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>My country is racist, so I deserve to riot and loot to make things even.</li><li>I had a bad day at work, so I deserve to overeat and binge-watch Netflix.</li><li>My parents were cruel, so I deserved to rob and steal to make up for missed love.</li><li>I started disadvantaged, so I deserve to lie, cheat, steal, and sleep my way to the top.</li><li>My coach was abusive, so I deserved to be lazy and sloppy when I played this game.</li><li>I am a politician, executive, propaganda journalist, or social elite, so I deserve inside information to become a millionaire.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-36488195711898656822024-03-07T14:53:00.000-08:002024-03-07T14:53:20.401-08:00Self-Constructions Are Self-Frauds: 03-07-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Self-constructions (ego, mental objects, self-esteem) do not develop, form, or produce human nature.</li><li>Self-constructions (ego, mental objects, self-esteem) do not arrange, organize, or structure human nature.</li><li>Self-constructions (ego, mental objects, self-esteem) do not account for, explain, or describe human nature.</li><li>Self-constructions (ego, mental objects, self-esteem) do not approximate, correspond to, or resemble human nature.</li><li>Self-constructions (ego, mental objects, self-esteem) do not compose, comprise, constitute, or construct human nature.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-55464524223514999942024-03-06T14:35:00.000-08:002024-03-06T14:35:21.728-08:00Ego Complex of Prediction: Part 2: 03-06-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Stop the ego madness by realizing the ego is nobody: not a being but just dead concepts and images of a being.</li><li>Understand that the ego can do nothing because it is not a being, has no power, and cannot act.</li><li>Quit the game of judging who deserves what and start accepting winning positive hosted-minds all the time.</li><li>Realize that positive hosted-minds are always freely available for everyone.</li><li>Stop these three false expectations, judgments, and predictions: (1) I am the ego. (2) I deserve the negative because my ego is negative. (3) I will receive the negative whatever I do to prevent it.</li></ol><p></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;">(A full understanding requires the reading of <a href="https://kevinfitzmaurice.com/product/2-perform-use-2-minds/"><span style="color: #000087;"><i>2 Perform Use 2-Minds</i></span></a>.)</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-11447261370862860992024-03-05T17:17:00.000-08:002024-03-06T14:34:27.356-08:00Ego Complex of Prediction: Part 1: 03-05-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;">We want to predict the future because doing so is known to help us survive.</p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Step one: Some challenge, conflict, distress, disturbance, or stress (event) is noted that has the potential to produce negative consequences.</li><li>Step two: The ego is judged in relation to the existence of the event that occurred in step one.</li><li>Step three: The judgment is that the ego deserves to be negative. The reasons are that only a negative ego would receive the negative event, only a negative ego deserves such a negative event, such a negative event only happens to negative egos, and other superstitious beliefs and ideas about how the negative is your ego’s due.</li><li>Step four: Choose negative hosted-minds to match the negative ego: water seeks its own level.</li><li>Step five: You fail by using negative hosted-minds.</li></ol><p></p>
<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;">(A full understanding requires the reading of <a href="https://kevinfitzmaurice.com/product/2-perform-use-2-minds/"><span style="color: #000087;"><i>2 Perform Use 2-Minds</i></span></a>.)</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-39494731796741473382024-03-04T14:06:00.000-08:002024-03-04T14:06:55.567-08:00Trying Is Doubting Success: 03-04-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Trying is faith in fear and doubt in God.</li><li>Trying is hope in failure and charity for failing.</li><li>Trying is based on doubt, not faith, which dooms it.</li><li>Trying is negative in the beginning, middle, and end.</li><li>Trying is the opposite of the spiritual practice of waiting on God.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-65788515649272295452024-03-03T15:49:00.000-08:002024-03-03T15:49:40.414-08:00Murder with Categorizations: 03-03-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>When you categorize someone, you negate them.</li><li>When you categorize someone, you thingify them.</li><li>When you categorize someone, you turn them into capricious thought-things (dead reified thoughts).</li><li>When you categorize someone, you turn them into arbitrary mental objects (dead self-constructions).</li><li>When you categorize someone, you no longer have to consider what they think and feel as a human being because they are just a placeholder and object now.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-26181157748688936192024-03-02T14:07:00.000-08:002024-03-02T14:07:52.230-08:00Magical Self-Improvement Destroys: 03-02-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>When you present me with the devices and instruments of your self-improvement, I see beliefs in mind-over-matter and philosophical Idealism.</li><li>When you present me with the mechanisms of your self-improvement, all I perceive is a whirlwind of wishes and wants wrapped in the cloak of magical thinking.</li><li>When you present me with the formulas and procedures of your self-improvement, I see a false psychology that is not only misapplied and misunderstood but also untested, potentially leading to delusions.</li><li>When you present me with the techniques and technologies of your self-improvement, I see a disconnect between what exists along the way (covering your immorality) and the expected results of being a higher being.</li><li>When you reveal the methods of your self-improvement, I discern a misguided belief that the mere accumulation of physical and mental repetitions can somehow summon external forces potent enough to transform you.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-12291241547981803592024-03-01T15:05:00.000-08:002024-03-01T15:05:23.294-08:00Science Is Categorically False: 03-01-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Science is the worship of categorical thinking.</li><li>Science is the belief that categorical thinking can replace facts and reality.</li><li>Science is the belief that categorical thinking can replace evidence and experience.</li><li>Science is the belief that categorical thinking can replace knowledge and knowing.</li><li>Science is the belief that categorical thinking can replace intelligence and understanding.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-72002223887610876772024-02-29T16:03:00.000-08:002024-02-29T16:03:15.646-08:00The Work of Waiting: 02-29-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>When you wait on God, you must have faith in God to wait on Him.</li><li>When you wait on God, you must have faith in the goal you seek to relieve suffering and promote spiritual health.</li><li>When you wait on God, you must have hope in the goal you seek to relieve suffering and promote spiritual health.</li><li>When you wait on God, you must have charity for God, which means you believe God is good and desires good.</li><li>When you wait on God, you must keep your eye on the prize (the good gift from God) that will relieve suffering and promote spiritual health.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-58784082484666874642024-02-28T17:02:00.000-08:002024-02-28T17:02:46.955-08:00Hypocrisy Begins at Home: 02-28-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>You complain when countries don’t follow the highest moral principles during wars; however, you do not follow local safety laws when driving your car because it is inconvenient.</li><li>You complain when countries don’t follow the highest moral principles during wars; however, you cheat on your taxes and do and receive work that is not taxed by hiding it from the government.</li><li>You complain when countries don’t follow the highest moral principles during wars; however, you steal supplies from work, waste work time on personal matters, and don’t care if you can’t get caught.</li><li>You complain when countries don’t follow the highest moral principles during wars; however, you do not follow them when it is merely inconvenient to you, for example, not recycling paper or using plastic when other options are available.</li><li>You complain when countries don’t follow the highest moral principles during wars; however, you run a restaurant and feed your community white rice and bread, which contribute to the epidemics of diabetes, obesity, and other health problems.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-26602541634950305252024-02-27T16:17:00.000-08:002024-02-27T16:17:43.179-08:00Wait on God, Not Yourself: 02-27-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Why is waiting on God hard or not working? Because you rely on an objectified good, not God.</li><li>Why is waiting on God hard or not working? Because you want to claim you do the good, not rely on God to do it.</li><li>Why is waiting on God hard or not working? Because you are mistaking trying to do or be good for waiting on God to do the good.</li><li>Why is waiting on God hard or not working? Because you want to become the good, not submit to God as the only good.</li><li>Why is waiting on God hard or not working? Because you want to appear as the good for your pride (ego, self-esteem), and waiting on God requires only God to appear as the good.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-74995282069780009022024-02-26T14:50:00.000-08:002024-02-26T14:50:22.396-08:00The Battle Is God’s: 02-26-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>I handle it by asking God to handle it.</li><li>My work is to have faith, hope, and charity for the work of God.</li><li>Repair your roof because you can; stop trying to repair your thoughts because you can’t.</li><li>You think you are striving and struggling to be good; however, all your striving and struggling is to die as idols (self-constructions).</li><li>You believe you are pulling and pushing on your thoughts to improve them; however, all your so-called efforts are just thoughts of pulling and pushing, not actual pulling, pushing, or work.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-6991244381412403032024-02-25T15:22:00.000-08:002024-02-25T15:22:56.395-08:00Whining & Damning Bigger Problem: 02-25-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Whining, blaming, and damning the past will not change it.</li><li>Whining, blaming, and damning the present will harden it, not soften it.</li><li>Whining, blaming, and damning the future will not prevent it.</li><li>Whining, blaming, and damning the possible will not prepare for it but might prepare to make it worse.</li><li>Whining, blaming, and damning the predictable are not proactively preparing for it but might be a way to prepare to succumb to it.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-6748666314157830662024-02-24T13:33:00.000-08:002024-02-24T13:33:52.313-08:00Science Has Become Anti-Science: 02-24-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Science continues to find more code in nature (cells, DNA) but unthinkingly refuses to admit or recognize the coder.</li><li>Science has become so narrowly defined in academia that it is no longer science because it now refuses to follow where the evidence leads.</li><li>Science is bigotry because it limits reasoning to nature and the five senses when other disciplines, such as history, consider more than material causes.</li><li>Science has become anti-intellectual because it refuses to consider information arriving from outside the self-imposed blinders of nature and the five senses.</li><li>There is no necessity for the necessity of survival in nature (Darwinian falsehood) because matter naturally seeks disintegration without an outside influence.</li><li>Science does not even understand gravity because the laws of gravity describe some features but provide no understanding or explanation of the gravity mechanism.</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-38969342976166086992024-02-23T17:06:00.000-08:002024-02-23T17:06:31.574-08:00Stimulation Is Motivation: 02-23-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>Your motivation is to seek, know, do, and be stimulations (vibrations).</li><li>Something is important to you because it is important to your stimulation (arousal, excitement).</li><li>To know why something is important to you, ask how it is important to your stimulations (sensations).</li><li>Does it increase or promise to continue your stimulations (impressions, experiences, feelings)?</li><li>Does it bind, capture, cause, claim, contain, identify, own, or trap stimulations (energy waves) for you?</li></ol><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3833044792304062202.post-8893674987062815042024-02-22T11:13:00.000-08:002024-02-22T11:13:07.776-08:00End the Focus on Garbage: 02-22-2024<p style="font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li>You are a garbage collector because you don’t take out the trash; you save and revel in it.</li><li>You are a garbage collector because you don’t burn or bury garbage; you savor, share, and spread it.</li><li>You are a poop sniffer because you don’t flush poop away; you keep thinking about it far past reasonableness.</li><li>You are a poop sniffer because you don’t flush poop away; you keep ruminating on and making it important.</li><li>It is bad enough that you gather your own garbage and revisit your private garbage museum regularly; however, you also gather other people’s garbage in another museum that you also frequently revisit.</li></ol><p></p>
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