Hidden dangers of teaching others: 1) you inspire faith and not intelligence and understanding 2) challenge of your teachings inspires denial and backfire effect 3) you are wrong Best to leave people alone unless they come to learn by themselves Best never touch anyone not capable of scepticism in the first …
Author: Janus
You’re Not An Exception
You’re not an exception. If you are – prove it ten times over. There are many flimsy reasons to believe oneself to be special but very few real ones. Check ten times before you dismiss a well-proven general rule. The reason to break all the rules is to break them, not your narcissistic whims …
Limitless Delusion
There’s no limit to delusion when you don’t test your believes against the real world. Inexplicably delusional delusion is simply an untested belief. Harbour beliefs long enough without testing them — and you WILL be crazy. The very definition of madness is this extreme divergence from reality. Seeing things? Hearing things? Your …
Agree With No One
To walk alone is to agree with no one. Even when you agree with someone. Wise can never truly agree with someone. For someone else’s truth can never be his own. Complete rebellion is pure aggression – without ANY aggression. The TRUTH is the single most contentious issue in the world. In …
Gratitude Is Consciousness
True Gratitude is not some trick. Trick in which you talk yourself into being grateful and feed that brain with serotonin. Gratitude is recognition. Recognition is consciousness. Gratitude is consciousness. Gratitude is recognition. Recognition of the fact of being alive, the experience of existence, recognition of What-Is. To be conscious is to be …
you didn’t earn it you took it
You didn’t earn it. You took it. Stop implying a sacrifice. It’s a choice. To even imply a sacrifice is to make life harder. Why does there have to be this dichotomy? you earning it / you not earning it you deserving it / you not deserving it you making it / you …
Dichotomy of “Following One’s Passions”
Following/ Not-Following one’s passions must be the most inimical false dichotomy there is. To follow one’s passion indiscriminately is to unawarely set oneself for a lifetime of failures and mediocrity — statistically unlikely ending with a miraculous success. To NOT follow one’s passion at all is to live a life of defeat, meaninglessness and …
Honesty / Meanness
Honesty can appear as meanness but meanness can never pass up as honesty – as some would like to believe. Is it integrity, valiant shielding of the truth — or is he just a mean person? Insecure person? Ambitious person? Angry person? If truth can’t defend itself then who are you to defend …
Effort To NOT Be Inauthentic
Outside inhibitions stifle inner expression. Authenticity may require reconstructing one’s entire method of communicating with the world. This can be arduous. Don’t confuse arduous with inauthentic. You’re not arduously trying to impress somebody. You’re arduously trying to STOP trying to impress somebody. Trying to stop behaving in a preordained way. One is so …
Warning About Virtual Reality
Some time from now we will have rehabilitation centres focused on RE-WIRING the utterly NUMBED brain and healing the FRIED synapses — from the years of electronic overindulgence. I will continue to rant about this because virtual reality is 100% a drug. It’s addictive, extremely pleasurable, it’s CHEAP, it’s an EASY escape— and it’s …