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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> ... it's not easy; it's extremely difficult and even painful to master and wield information technology in order to understand its danger and misuse, as you INFORM yourself.</p>
+<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>**We GET TO use ridiculously capable technologies to program ourselves...**GET TO... so <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>
 <p>It's on you to <strong>refuse to abdicate your sovereign authority to INFORM your life</strong>. If you abdicate this authority, you give in to the thinking those who say that you're obsolete, (ie, those who say that AI will take jobs like your, then take lives like yours) or that that you're irrelevant, (ie, those who predict a world of superabundance, where machines handle Reality, while you get to handle the remote on your entertainment gadget or transportainment vehicle).</p>
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 <p><strong>BUT WHAT ELSE?</strong></p>
 <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> ... it's not easy; it's extremely difficult and even painful to master and wield information technology in order to understand its danger and misuse, as you INFORM yourself.</p>
+<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>**We GET TO use ridiculously capable technologies to program ourselves...**GET TO... so <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>
 <p>It's on you to <strong>refuse to abdicate your sovereign authority to INFORM your life</strong>. If you abdicate this authority, you give in to the thinking those who say that you're obsolete, (ie, those who say that AI will take jobs like your, then take lives like yours) or that that you're irrelevant, (ie, those who predict a world of superabundance, where machines handle Reality, while you get to handle the remote on your entertainment gadget or transportainment vehicle).</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** ... it's not easy; it's extremely difficult and even painful to master and wield information technology in order to understand its danger and misuse, as you INFORM 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.
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+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.  
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+**We GET TO use ridiculously capable technologies to program ourselves...**GET TO... so **PROGRAM YOURSELF.**
 
 #### 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.
 
