Thursday, May 4, 2017
Psalm 32, 10
If you avoid God, and follow Satan, joy and peace will not be your lot: "Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but kindness surrounds hi who trusts in the Lord."
Being Hurt
All people hurt others, and all are hurt by those around them. These are just facts of life.
To apply the Golden Rule to this hurt factor, all I can recommend is that we defend ourselves against hurters, and be cheerful, determined and resolute to survive being hurt.
And we must make sure that personally we minimize hurting others.
To apply the Golden Rule to this hurt factor, all I can recommend is that we defend ourselves against hurters, and be cheerful, determined and resolute to survive being hurt.
And we must make sure that personally we minimize hurting others.
Do You Know?
You cannot access, and you cannot judge if you do not understand what you are appraising. What you do not understand, you cannot judge or comment on with intelligence and credibility.
Monday, May 1, 2017
Who You Know
Everyone is familiar with that cynical, popular adage that it is who you know, not what you know that gets you ahead in this world.
What evidence is there that this adage describes social reality? I have done know research or read sociological treatises or studies on the subject, but anecdotal input, my own experience, observations and hunches suggest that it is largely fact.
The who-you-know part of the adage alludes to the majority, nonindivuators and group-livers. They have not done much or know not very much, but they are the vast majority and they run things. They have it all sewed up, and have no incentive to change anything. Those that join, suck up, sell out and say yes to all group ideas are the ones invited in, and are moved up the ladder to wealth, position and social prosperity.
Those that conform not, think for themselves and do on their own, will be kept back and down, For them social and career advancement is slow and painful at best. The individuators are the what-you-know aspect of the adage.
When joiners sees the brutal rejection and mistreatment of the advanced loners that is dished about by the cruel, corrupt mob, they fall quickly and quietly into line--even joining in persecuting the dissidents to curry insider rewards and favor--and that is the intent meted out by the majority upon all stragglers and malcontents.
The what-you-know crowd lack access, sponsorship, equal opportunity, money, power, adulation, positive feedback, recognition, etc. They are kept down and back.
Thus, the sleeping, mediocre majority hold back human advancement, much retarding the humanitarian march to enlightenment and earthly Nirvana.
What evidence is there that this adage describes social reality? I have done know research or read sociological treatises or studies on the subject, but anecdotal input, my own experience, observations and hunches suggest that it is largely fact.
The who-you-know part of the adage alludes to the majority, nonindivuators and group-livers. They have not done much or know not very much, but they are the vast majority and they run things. They have it all sewed up, and have no incentive to change anything. Those that join, suck up, sell out and say yes to all group ideas are the ones invited in, and are moved up the ladder to wealth, position and social prosperity.
Those that conform not, think for themselves and do on their own, will be kept back and down, For them social and career advancement is slow and painful at best. The individuators are the what-you-know aspect of the adage.
When joiners sees the brutal rejection and mistreatment of the advanced loners that is dished about by the cruel, corrupt mob, they fall quickly and quietly into line--even joining in persecuting the dissidents to curry insider rewards and favor--and that is the intent meted out by the majority upon all stragglers and malcontents.
The what-you-know crowd lack access, sponsorship, equal opportunity, money, power, adulation, positive feedback, recognition, etc. They are kept down and back.
Thus, the sleeping, mediocre majority hold back human advancement, much retarding the humanitarian march to enlightenment and earthly Nirvana.
Unfit Evermore
You, that sleep and group-live and lie to live and live you lie in your benighted filth, sickness and sin, are unfit evermore to pass judgment against great souls. Yes, to be great is to be misunderstood, and the sleeping mob are not capable of passing sane, precise, sound, just judgment against what they do not and cannot understand.
Loners, especially maverizing loners, well understand joiners, so they can pass judgment upon them in a fairly truthful way.
Joiners have not the right or capacity to judge developing loners, because they have no inkling as to how individuating loners roll.
Loners, especially maverizing loners, well understand joiners, so they can pass judgment upon them in a fairly truthful way.
Joiners have not the right or capacity to judge developing loners, because they have no inkling as to how individuating loners roll.
Outsider Philosophy
I was looking at an article on the Internet about Eric Hoffer-it may have been Wikipedia--and the writer noted that just as folk/amateur/autodidact artists are a category in the art world referred to as art outsiders, so Hoffer is self-taught and thought up and wrote outsider philosophy.
Ever and anon, the experts get it right, and this time they did. Hoffer is a genius and a fascinating, original thinker and ponderer. I have long realized that his conscious determination to remain a loner and outsider was the heavy, bitter, lonely price that he was willing to pay so that he could dedicate his life to his philosophy. He worked hard to remain a loner.
This practice of his is the route that all budding individuator's must travel along. Unless the liberated, and alive, thinking maverizer is able to fend off all group-entanglements, plots and attacks to immerse him back into nonindividuation and mediocre, pampered, shacked living, he will group-live again, and walk among the living-dead once. The zombies will have pulled him down and back in, lest his outsider creativity illustrate for a bewildered, lost, frightened, misinformed humanity, the way forward.
Ever and anon, the experts get it right, and this time they did. Hoffer is a genius and a fascinating, original thinker and ponderer. I have long realized that his conscious determination to remain a loner and outsider was the heavy, bitter, lonely price that he was willing to pay so that he could dedicate his life to his philosophy. He worked hard to remain a loner.
This practice of his is the route that all budding individuator's must travel along. Unless the liberated, and alive, thinking maverizer is able to fend off all group-entanglements, plots and attacks to immerse him back into nonindividuation and mediocre, pampered, shacked living, he will group-live again, and walk among the living-dead once. The zombies will have pulled him down and back in, lest his outsider creativity illustrate for a bewildered, lost, frightened, misinformed humanity, the way forward.
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