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It may not yet be clear to you that there is a vital need for you to build your own basic or fundamental foundation from which to then proceed down a good path, but this part of this book intends to leave no room for doubt left in your mind as to that vital need.
There is no way for you to know the difference between people who will hurt you and people who will help you if you don't know where you stand.
If you don't know better, you can't know better.
You have to start somewhere and if you don't take control of the direction you are going then someone else will take control of the direction you are going, and if that is your choice, to let someone else control the direction you are going, you will be going in a bad direction.
Bad people make other people do bad things.
That is what they do.
Good people do not make other people do anything.
Bad people start fights.
Good people know better.
Bad people plan on starting fights.
Good people know better.
Bad people want to hurt innocent people.
Good people know better.
If you are not yet standing on a good foundation, a bad person will build a bad foundation under you.
Good people do not build foundations under people. In order to remain good a good person has to know how to avoid having bad people build bad foundations under good people.
Why?
Too many bad people will cause the destruction of all human life.
You can't know better, if you don't already know better. If you don't already know better, you have not built up a good foundation. If you do not already know better it may be possible, remotely possible, for you to know that you are standing on a bad foundation that was built under you by bad people.
Remember the concept of sympathy. A person can know another person, better.
A good person can know another person is a bad person.
A good person can know another person is a good person.
A good person can know another person is a good person working on a bad foundation.
A bad person can know as much, and even more, than a good person.
If a good person wants help from another good person, think, use your own brain, can a good person build a good foundation under another person?
No. I said no. Does that mean that you will know better? Can I make you know better? I don't want to make you know better. I don't know how to make you know better. I can offer my answer.
No. No, no, no, a good person cannot build a good foundation under another good person. It is not possible.
I cannot answer that question for you, and I will not tell you the good answer, because I can't, because I know better, because I know that you are the only one who has the power to invent good things, you are the only one who has the power to produce good things, and you are the only one who has the power to maintain a good life. If you can't, you can't, too bad for you. I can offer my answer.
No.
You, or each of us, each person, has the power to do good, and the power to do bad, and that is a fact, and I know this, and you may not know this, and bad people know this, and to say otherwise is false, to believe otherwise is bad, to know otherwise is deception. If my words deceive you, to make you accept my answers, you will be disarmed, as your power of judgement will be compromised. I don't want to do that, I am warning you against that, and you can know better yourself, or not.
It is deceptive for one person to build a foundation under another person.
Look at your foundation.
Is it true?
Who is going to tell you that your foundation is true?
Me?
I'm not selling snow balls to Eskimos. A bad person has as much power over a good person as a snow ball has a chance in hell, so long as a good person still commands the power of will, accurate judgement, and determination to be good, to know better, to know that life is good.
A good person has to allow a bad person in, a good person has to accept the power of a bad person, a good person cannot, by their own power be led, or tricked, or fooled into being a bad person, it is impossible, as I see it. You may know better.
If you do bad things, you do bad things. You can build a bad foundation. You can build a good foundation. A bad person may help you nurture bad thoughts, but that does not change the facts, and the facts are easy to see, they are your thoughts. You can know better.
Each moment in your life is a power struggle between bad things, or entropy, or evil, or The Devil inside you, and good things, or ectropy, or good, or God within you, and there is only you in charge during each moment. If you are not in charge: who is in charge?
If you, that thing that makes you unique, that thing that is only you, and that thing that is no one else, if you have no power left, then you are not you.
Are you confused?
Where are you right now?
Are you you?
Find you.
Call it meditation.
Call it prayer.
Call it intuition.
Call it whatever works for you to find you, and once you have found yourself, think, and use your own brain, and then use that power once you have control of it, and do something.
Who is making you read this?
I am not.
I don't have that power.
Are the bad guys making you read this, because you are scared, because you want to know better, because you want to avoid any more progress down the road to the scary places?
They are not making you read this, how can they, so long as you are still you?
You, once you are you, once you control what you do, will do what you decide to do, and no one else can.
If you have no clue, as to what I'm saying, then are you good, or bad, and how did you get to that point? Who has been in charge of where you go?
Why did you allow yourself to get to a bad place, if you are in a bad place?
How can you know who to trust, if you can't trust yourself?
Can you trust that you will do bad things, is that the foundation you are on?
Who is going to help you, when you need help, and when you ask for help, if all that you have done so far, up to now, is to wander aimlessly at the direction of someone else, as you were led to believe that you are not the only person who can control what you do?
If you have been led by someone else, or many other people, up to now, what will you do now, now that you know better about who has power over what you will do?
How can you know the difference between someone who is going to help you and someone who is going to hurt you if you do not know better than knowing you are the only one who has power over what you decide to do, only you, no one else?
How about another illustration?
I'm going to get help from Henry again, but please know better than to think that Henry is a bad person, as I borrow Henry to play the bad person again.
To set the stage this time it may help to imagine yourself in place of Joe, you can borrow my shoes, you can stand in my shoes, you can sympathize with Joe, but be careful, don't allow yourself to get too caught up in it, don't grow weak with Joe, as Joe is weakened by Henry in the illustration as we paint this movie picture.
Henry made way too many drugs and Henry does not have enough people who want those drugs so Henry decides to call up Joe. See if Henry can get Joe to buy some drugs.
Ring, ring, ring. Let's see if Henry can get Joe to do bad things, OK?
Henry:
"Hi Joe."
Joe:
"Hi Henry."
Henry:
"I have too many drugs and not enough people buying them, want any?"
Joe:
"What do those drugs do?"
Henry:
"They help you."
Joe:
"Ok, how much does it cost?"
Henry:
"10 bucks"
Joe is connected to Henry in that illustration. Joe has the power to not answer the phone in the first place. Joe has the power to hang up on Henry as soon as Joe knows who is connecting to Joe. Joe has the power to trust Henry, and to trust what Henry has to say, and then Joe has the power to agree to do what Henry suggests, and Joe has the power to learn from that experience.
Joe can learn, in time, to know better, to know if the drugs help Joe.
Joe can learn, in time, to know better, to know if the drugs cost Joe only 10 bucks, and not a penny more that 10 bucks.
Does Joe know that his life is better? Does Joe know that the standard of living is going up, because of those drugs, life is better, and does Joe know that the cost of living is lower, because of those drugs? Was Henry telling the truth?
Henry calls Joe back, a week later.
Henry:
"Hi Joe, it's me Henry again. I still have too many drugs and not enough customers. Do you want more, and do you know if anyone else wants these drugs?"
Joe:
"Henry. I lost my job. I lost my wife. I lost my family. I've lost all the credibility I ever had with everyone I know. I've been stealing for drugs, and other bad things. Your drugs cost more than 10 bucks."
Henry:
"Is that a no?"
The illustration offers to you a viewpoint that intends to show how life moves from one time to the next time. At one time Joe made a decision, because Joe was Joe at that time. Joe didn't know better. Henry may have known exactly what was going to happen to Joe, so Henry knew better, but Henry did a bad thing even though Henry knew better. Joe didn't know better.
Henry decided that 10 bucks was good, a good thing for Henry.
Then time passes.
Then, later, Joe may or may not still be the same Joe as before. Joe may have lost his power in a significant way, and Joe may have become very weak as a result of a very bad decision.
After time passes Joe is still Joe, but time has passed, old Joe, then new Joe. Joe now knows better, or Joe is now too weak to know better, but Joe is still Joe, only Joe, the only Joe that counts, the only power that can say no, or yes, the only power that can do good, or bad, same as before, same as now, same as forever, so long as Joe is alive.
I can't speak for anyone, not even me, as to what happens after life.
If time confuses you please know that you are not alone.
You may find help with those things that are confusing, like time, if you look for help, but be aware, please, that other people may want to hurt you, and they may want to tell you lies, and if you believe in the lies told to you, then that is bad for you. You will be weaker, and you are the only one with the power needed to make you stronger.
You may then choose to make yourself stronger at the expense of someone else, and if that is what you choose to do, you will know of the need to keep that a secret.
A secret deception.
It will be your secret, only yours, until your victims know better, if that is what you decide to do with your time on earth. I know better. I know better than to believe in the lie that someone else makes you do bad things, if you do bad things. I know better than to believe in the lie that you are powerless to know better, if you are not powerless to know better. I will eventually know, by what you do, and not by what you say, that you are no friend of mine, if you resort to lies, as a means of gaining at the expense of the innocent people you target.
Time will tell.
Friend from foe.
[Joe 09/23/2011]
[10-10-2011]