RULE THREE
Serve a Master
There are things we can do for other people that we won't do for ourselves. If I made you a sandwich, I would toast the bread, grill the meat, dress it fully, and cut it into triangles. If I was making the sandwich for myself I would be tempted to eat the meat and cheese out of the deli-pouch and forgo the niceties. If I instructed you to kill a nun, you would be more apt to comply if I was threatening your daughter with some awful fate.
The real question is: how does one get to the place mentally where they are forcing people to do dreadful things like brutally raping and killing nuns when most people won't even make a proper sandwich for themselves?
The answer is: Serve a Master.
In our contemporary times the left and right hemispheres of most individual's brains work together through the corpus callosum, and so the contemporary vision of the Godhead is presented in this way. Thousands of years ago this wasn't the case. Most people secured their primary sense of identity in one hemisphere, and would hear the intrusions of the other hemisphere as DIVINE INSPIRATION.
There is a way to awaken the Godhead within you, and by serving it to also serve your own self-interest. You can also use it to revel in any number of pre-established gods. The choice is yours. I serve a man named Mr. Mordecai, who is also myself. Every action of every day is an act of devotion to my lord and master. This willfull bit of schizophrenia allows me to push myself further than I normally would, especially in the absence of working for people who are in any sense inspiring.
Individuals who do not know how to serve are ultimately of little value. Their expectations of the world are more likely to be at variance with reality, and if a person like this is your leader then you will need to work extra hard to project any meaning into your actions.
Whatever your master is, serve it well.
No one suffers a lousy servant gladly.
Serve a Master
There are things we can do for other people that we won't do for ourselves. If I made you a sandwich, I would toast the bread, grill the meat, dress it fully, and cut it into triangles. If I was making the sandwich for myself I would be tempted to eat the meat and cheese out of the deli-pouch and forgo the niceties. If I instructed you to kill a nun, you would be more apt to comply if I was threatening your daughter with some awful fate.
The real question is: how does one get to the place mentally where they are forcing people to do dreadful things like brutally raping and killing nuns when most people won't even make a proper sandwich for themselves?
The answer is: Serve a Master.
In our contemporary times the left and right hemispheres of most individual's brains work together through the corpus callosum, and so the contemporary vision of the Godhead is presented in this way. Thousands of years ago this wasn't the case. Most people secured their primary sense of identity in one hemisphere, and would hear the intrusions of the other hemisphere as DIVINE INSPIRATION.
There is a way to awaken the Godhead within you, and by serving it to also serve your own self-interest. You can also use it to revel in any number of pre-established gods. The choice is yours. I serve a man named Mr. Mordecai, who is also myself. Every action of every day is an act of devotion to my lord and master. This willfull bit of schizophrenia allows me to push myself further than I normally would, especially in the absence of working for people who are in any sense inspiring.
Individuals who do not know how to serve are ultimately of little value. Their expectations of the world are more likely to be at variance with reality, and if a person like this is your leader then you will need to work extra hard to project any meaning into your actions.
Whatever your master is, serve it well.
No one suffers a lousy servant gladly.
IAO
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