This is an on going project of mine that i keep adding to every so often. Things I've learned throught my 38 years. Feel free to post opnions and conjecture, as it is well needed! lol
The rules of life according to me.
First Rule
People are Stupid. People will believe any lie because they want it to be true; or they're afraid that it's true.
Given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe its true, or because they're afraid it might be true. Peoples' heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.
Second Rule
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
Kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.
Third Rule
Freedom of choice does not equal freedom of consequence.
Life is driven by consequence and circumstance. The consequences of an action taken due to the circumstances that surround us causeing a choice to be made without forethought or regard to the outcome will result in disaster. Therefor choose wisely and know that whatever you decide to choose will have an outcome, either good or bad and someone must be held accountable for that choice. And if you choose not to decide know that you still have made a choice.
Fourth Rule
Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.
Fifth Rule
There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.
Sixth Rule
Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will
betray a lie.
Seventh Rule
The only master you can allow to rule you is reason.
The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. It is the foundation from which life is embraced.
Thinking is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts nor are they a means to discover them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality; it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss that we refuse to see. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. In rejecting reason, refusing to think, one embraces death.
Eighth Rule
Life is the future, not the past.
The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings, we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices.
Ninth Rule
"Bi airidh buadhachas!" -Scottish Gaelic Translation:
Deserve Victory!
Be justified in your convictions. Be completely committed. Earn what you want and need rather than waiting for others to give you what you desire. The world owes you nothing. Some are born unto greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them, but I must create greatness for myself!
Tenth Rule
A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy - to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. A thing is what it is, it is itself. There can be no contradictions.
Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.
In reality, contradictions cannot exist. To believe in them you must abandon the most important thing you possess: your rational mind. The wager for such a bargain is your life. In such an exchange, you always lose what you have at stake.
Eleventh Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.
Twelfth Rule
Love is an action.
Love is not just a feeling. It is a doing. To love some one enough that there is no limit to how far you will go or to what you will do to ensure their happiness and success is of the most Nobelists of all human traits. It requires energy, absolute commitment, and sacrifice. It takes twice as much from you to love someone completely as it does to hate someone completely. No one can feel the love you have for them. That is yours and yours alone. And saying the words, no matter how many times or how many ways, will never create those same feelings with in them. So love is judged by those who receive it solely by the actions of those that love them.
Thirteenth Rule
Water is wet. The Sky is blue. And WOMEN all have secrets. DEAL WITH IT!
Fourteenth Rule
Never focus on the PROBLEM, only the saloution.
The rules of life according to me.
First Rule
People are Stupid. People will believe any lie because they want it to be true; or they're afraid that it's true.
Given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe its true, or because they're afraid it might be true. Peoples' heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.
Second Rule
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
Kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.
Third Rule
Freedom of choice does not equal freedom of consequence.
Life is driven by consequence and circumstance. The consequences of an action taken due to the circumstances that surround us causeing a choice to be made without forethought or regard to the outcome will result in disaster. Therefor choose wisely and know that whatever you decide to choose will have an outcome, either good or bad and someone must be held accountable for that choice. And if you choose not to decide know that you still have made a choice.
Fourth Rule
Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.
Fifth Rule
There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.
Sixth Rule
Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will
betray a lie.
Seventh Rule
The only master you can allow to rule you is reason.
The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. It is the foundation from which life is embraced.
Thinking is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts nor are they a means to discover them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality; it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss that we refuse to see. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. In rejecting reason, refusing to think, one embraces death.
Eighth Rule
Life is the future, not the past.
The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings, we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices.
Ninth Rule
"Bi airidh buadhachas!" -Scottish Gaelic Translation:
Deserve Victory!
Be justified in your convictions. Be completely committed. Earn what you want and need rather than waiting for others to give you what you desire. The world owes you nothing. Some are born unto greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them, but I must create greatness for myself!
Tenth Rule
A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy - to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. A thing is what it is, it is itself. There can be no contradictions.
Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.
In reality, contradictions cannot exist. To believe in them you must abandon the most important thing you possess: your rational mind. The wager for such a bargain is your life. In such an exchange, you always lose what you have at stake.
Eleventh Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.
Twelfth Rule
Love is an action.
Love is not just a feeling. It is a doing. To love some one enough that there is no limit to how far you will go or to what you will do to ensure their happiness and success is of the most Nobelists of all human traits. It requires energy, absolute commitment, and sacrifice. It takes twice as much from you to love someone completely as it does to hate someone completely. No one can feel the love you have for them. That is yours and yours alone. And saying the words, no matter how many times or how many ways, will never create those same feelings with in them. So love is judged by those who receive it solely by the actions of those that love them.
Thirteenth Rule
Water is wet. The Sky is blue. And WOMEN all have secrets. DEAL WITH IT!
Fourteenth Rule
Never focus on the PROBLEM, only the saloution.
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