the way

Author: MarkBruns

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                         <h1 id="program-yourself"><a class="header" href="#program-yourself">Program Yourself</a></h1>
-<p>The moments of your life develop you to become you. It's up to you to <strong>DEVELOP Your Life</strong> ... use all of the relevant tools, technologies, talents that you are blessed with.</p>
-<p>It's not easy ... mainly because you are competing against your ideal self, the perfect self that your Creator intended you to be. So, yeah, that's tough, because you can chase your ideal, you can rarely attain your ideal ... and it's IMPOSSIBLE to attain your ideal when you are comparing yourself to others. The way of ANCIENT GUYS is to never be distracted by comparisons or what others are doing ... to ONLY seek the will of the Creator. So it can be extremely difficult and even painful ... but life is still a ridculous blessing ... we are BLESSED to live in an age where <strong>we get to do things</strong> like master and wield information technology in order to understand its danger and misuse, as you INFORM ourselves.</p>
+<p>The moments of your life program you to become you. It's up to you to control those moments and <strong>DEVELOP Your Life</strong> ... avoid pursuing junk objectives or becoming a slave to possessions that behave liabilities, ie demand continual attention or payment ... develop only those aspects of life that perform as assets ... you can use all of the relevant tools, technologies, talents that you are blessed with, but avoid the gadgets that only cost.</p>
+<p>It is certainly not an easy task to develop one's life ... mainly because as humans, we are competing against our ideal selves, the perfect self that we could have been, with the perfect soul that our Creator intended us to exhibit. Of course, that competition is tough, impossibly daunting and every day is full of failures -- we can chase our ideal, we can rarely attain our ideal even for a few moments, but that is possible ... however, it is completely IMPOSSIBLE to attain one's ideal when one compares oneself to others -- the certain way to failure, although it can <em><strong>feel</strong></em> like measureable success, is to use any yardstick of materialist, affluent life as some indicator or measure of true success.</p>
+<p>The way of ANCIENT GUYS is ideal, because that way is to never be distracted by comparisons or what others are doing ... to ONLY seek the will of the Creator. So it can be extremely difficult and even painful ... but life is still a ridculous blessing ... we are BLESSED to live in an age where <strong>we get to do things</strong> like master and wield information technology in order to understand its danger and misuse, as you INFORM ourselves.</p>
 <p><strong>We GET TO use ridiculously capable technologies to program ourselves</strong> ...it's <em>GET TO</em>, not have to ... so <em>WITH GRATITUDE</em> ... you can choose to <strong>PROGRAM YOURSELF.</strong></p>
 <h4 id="the-conventional-wisdom-or-all-of-the-stuff-youre-being-told-is-not-just-mostly-wrong-and-possibly-bad-for-you-theres-a-good-chance-that-the-message-was-crafted-and-tailored-for-you-to-make-you-feel-powerless"><a class="header" href="#the-conventional-wisdom-or-all-of-the-stuff-youre-being-told-is-not-just-mostly-wrong-and-possibly-bad-for-you-theres-a-good-chance-that-the-message-was-crafted-and-tailored-for-you-to-make-you-feel-powerless">The conventional wisdom or all of the stuff you're being told is not just mostly wrong and possibly bad for you, there's a good chance that the message was crafted and tailored for you to make you feel powerless.</a></h4>
 <p>Stop watching or believing movies. Stop being programmed by fake shit, fake stories, fake actors, fake images. Start controlling how you are programmed. You cannot really resist being programmed or shaped by what you consume ... you are what you eat, in every sense of the word ... and you know that you are not going to stop eating. But you can be more mindful as you focus on discerning the will of the Creator and ask the Lord to bless each morsel you consume and consume each bite with reverence and appreciation for how it helps you become the being the Creator intended that you become. You can <em><strong>exercise</strong></em> rather than atrophise -- that extends to <em>exercising</em> better control over the moments of your day. You can use information technology to prepare your OWN programming.</p>

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 <div style="break-before: page; page-break-before: always;"></div><h1 id="program-yourself"><a class="header" href="#program-yourself">Program Yourself</a></h1>
-<p>The moments of your life develop you to become you. It's up to you to <strong>DEVELOP Your Life</strong> ... use all of the relevant tools, technologies, talents that you are blessed with.</p>
-<p>It's not easy ... mainly because you are competing against your ideal self, the perfect self that your Creator intended you to be. So, yeah, that's tough, because you can chase your ideal, you can rarely attain your ideal ... and it's IMPOSSIBLE to attain your ideal when you are comparing yourself to others. The way of ANCIENT GUYS is to never be distracted by comparisons or what others are doing ... to ONLY seek the will of the Creator. So it can be extremely difficult and even painful ... but life is still a ridculous blessing ... we are BLESSED to live in an age where <strong>we get to do things</strong> like master and wield information technology in order to understand its danger and misuse, as you INFORM ourselves.</p>
+<p>The moments of your life program you to become you. It's up to you to control those moments and <strong>DEVELOP Your Life</strong> ... avoid pursuing junk objectives or becoming a slave to possessions that behave liabilities, ie demand continual attention or payment ... develop only those aspects of life that perform as assets ... you can use all of the relevant tools, technologies, talents that you are blessed with, but avoid the gadgets that only cost.</p>
+<p>It is certainly not an easy task to develop one's life ... mainly because as humans, we are competing against our ideal selves, the perfect self that we could have been, with the perfect soul that our Creator intended us to exhibit. Of course, that competition is tough, impossibly daunting and every day is full of failures -- we can chase our ideal, we can rarely attain our ideal even for a few moments, but that is possible ... however, it is completely IMPOSSIBLE to attain one's ideal when one compares oneself to others -- the certain way to failure, although it can <em><strong>feel</strong></em> like measureable success, is to use any yardstick of materialist, affluent life as some indicator or measure of true success.</p>
+<p>The way of ANCIENT GUYS is ideal, because that way is to never be distracted by comparisons or what others are doing ... to ONLY seek the will of the Creator. So it can be extremely difficult and even painful ... but life is still a ridculous blessing ... we are BLESSED to live in an age where <strong>we get to do things</strong> like master and wield information technology in order to understand its danger and misuse, as you INFORM ourselves.</p>
 <p><strong>We GET TO use ridiculously capable technologies to program ourselves</strong> ...it's <em>GET TO</em>, not have to ... so <em>WITH GRATITUDE</em> ... you can choose to <strong>PROGRAM YOURSELF.</strong></p>
 <h4 id="the-conventional-wisdom-or-all-of-the-stuff-youre-being-told-is-not-just-mostly-wrong-and-possibly-bad-for-you-theres-a-good-chance-that-the-message-was-crafted-and-tailored-for-you-to-make-you-feel-powerless"><a class="header" href="#the-conventional-wisdom-or-all-of-the-stuff-youre-being-told-is-not-just-mostly-wrong-and-possibly-bad-for-you-theres-a-good-chance-that-the-message-was-crafted-and-tailored-for-you-to-make-you-feel-powerless">The conventional wisdom or all of the stuff you're being told is not just mostly wrong and possibly bad for you, there's a good chance that the message was crafted and tailored for you to make you feel powerless.</a></h4>
 <p>Stop watching or believing movies. Stop being programmed by fake shit, fake stories, fake actors, fake images. Start controlling how you are programmed. You cannot really resist being programmed or shaped by what you consume ... you are what you eat, in every sense of the word ... and you know that you are not going to stop eating. But you can be more mindful as you focus on discerning the will of the Creator and ask the Lord to bless each morsel you consume and consume each bite with reverence and appreciation for how it helps you become the being the Creator intended that you become. You can <em><strong>exercise</strong></em> rather than atrophise -- that extends to <em>exercising</em> better control over the moments of your day. You can use information technology to prepare your OWN programming.</p>

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 # Program Yourself
 
-The moments of your life develop you to become you. It's up to you to **DEVELOP Your Life** ... use all of the relevant tools, technologies, talents that you are blessed with.
+The moments of your life program you to become you. It's up to you to control those moments and **DEVELOP Your Life** ... avoid pursuing junk objectives or becoming a slave to possessions that behave liabilities, ie demand continual attention or payment ... develop only those aspects of life that perform as assets ... you can use all of the relevant tools, technologies, talents that you are blessed with, but avoid the gadgets that only cost.
 
-It's not easy ... mainly because you are competing against your ideal self, the perfect self that your Creator intended you to be. So, yeah, that's tough, because you can chase your ideal, you can rarely attain your ideal ... and it's IMPOSSIBLE to attain your ideal when you are comparing yourself to others. The way of ANCIENT GUYS is to never be distracted by comparisons or what others are doing ... to ONLY seek the will of the Creator. So it can be extremely difficult and even painful ... but life is still a ridculous blessing ... we are BLESSED to live in an age where **we get to do things** like master and wield information technology in order to understand its danger and misuse, as you INFORM ourselves.  
+It is certainly not an easy task to develop one's life ... mainly because as humans, we are competing against our ideal selves, the perfect self that we could have been, with the perfect soul that our Creator intended us to exhibit. Of course, that competition is tough, impossibly daunting and every day is full of failures -- we can chase our ideal, we can rarely attain our ideal even for a few moments, but that is possible ... however, it is completely IMPOSSIBLE to attain one's ideal when one compares oneself to others -- the certain way to failure, although it can ***feel*** like measureable success, is to use any yardstick of materialist, affluent life as some indicator or measure of true success. 
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+The way of ANCIENT GUYS is ideal, because that way is to never be distracted by comparisons or what others are doing ... to ONLY seek the will of the Creator. So it can be extremely difficult and even painful ... but life is still a ridculous blessing ... we are BLESSED to live in an age where **we get to do things** like master and wield information technology in order to understand its danger and misuse, as you INFORM ourselves.  
 
 **We GET TO use ridiculously capable technologies to program ourselves** ...it's *GET TO*, not have to ... so *WITH GRATITUDE* ... you can choose to **PROGRAM YOURSELF.**