Prick
About the book
The realm of ethics--- right and wrong--- has persisted throughout history with the greatest confusion and superficiality. What’s more it has always been viewed as an ‘ivory tower’ issue reserved for those that dedicated their time to deep, profound thinking that really wasn’t applicable to living a normal, natural life for the average man. In this book my viewpoint is exactly from the position of the average, everyday person dealing with everyday problems. In taking this viewpoint I offer a practical means for all people to understand themselves and the world they live in regardless of what level of society they occupy.
The human condition can be said to be composed of the attitudes and values the majority of people hold. I expose the fundamental nature of the human condition and the reasons why it exists as it is. I also show how to change it, one person at a time, into the type of society we would all love to live in.
There are three major areas I cover in this book: relationships of you with yourself; relationships of you with other people; and lastly, a set of guidelines dealing with true good called the golden rules. By understanding these three areas you will gain the knowledge necessary to obtain your happiness and remove the shadow of doubt from the basic issue of what is right and wrong.
For as long as I can remember I have held the notion that I could know everything. Growing up on a small farm outside of Chicago my childhood life was normal enough and didn’t involve much negative experience. Even then, however, at the age of seven I knew I would need philosophy to understand life and how it worked. I never thought that I would have to discover it for myself. I thought, at that early age, that philosophy was known and the way to be happy was all figured out.
After serving in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and beginning my adult life I rekindled my nearly forgotten desire for philosophy. I studied Ayn Rand for fifteen years and applied her ideas to my life but it wasn’t until I found Gods channeled ideas that I got the whole picture of the human condition. Between these two sources and my own power of reasoning I hammered out a body of knowledge that cuts to the bottom line of the important issues man faces. I now live in a state of knowing the fundamental nature of life and consequently have found my happiness. My childhood premise of needing philosophy turned out to be true after all.
These two opposing goals---independence and tribalism---are the two major motivators of mankind; independence being good and tribalism being evil. In the first one, the mind and the will are allowed for; in the second one, the mind (without reason) is allowed but the will is to be held in denial.
What this means, practically, when you prove this to yourself to be true, is that when you view another person you may very well be viewing a member of the net of tribalism who cringes from independence himself and will use all the tricks available to him to stop you living in free will. The reason he hopes to do this is he doesn’t think you can stand up to his power trips, which amount to making you feel fear, pain and guilt. It is the will/emotions that feel the attacks of the tribalist and it is through this means by which he thinks you will give up free will. However, just you knowing their ideal of tribalism is as phony as a three dollar bill is a big help because you know the score of what and why it’s going on. Thus the tribalist can no longer get you with guilt---you know he’s using false guilt and you don’t buy into it. So you have the guilt issue taken care of. Next comes feeling fear of the tribalist.
The most fear will come up from seeing the naked face of evil. That’s OK, feel the fear in response to tribalism and express it to yourself. After you move this fear enough you will be able to see this without getting more afraid because you already moved the fear of it. Then when you learn that the tribalist is upholding the false morality there is nothing to be afraid of since he is a phony, in fact, feeling contempt for him is probably going to be one of your feelings for him. The pain of his attacks completely evaporates when you learn psychological independence and stop buying into otherism.
If his attacks hurt then this is a sign that you are not being independent. I have practiced this independence myself and for a long time, at first, his attacks hurt. Now, I say ‘let the trips fly’ I am invincible to them and feel no pain here.
