Snapshots! Sight bites! Images like landing lights beside the runway when that giant airplane comes in for a landing but Instead of guiding the plane to its safe, secure touchdown on the tarmac, these images are the historic record of the takeoff, flight and crash landing of yet another empire in the lexicon of human endeavour.
History, as we know, repeats itself.
Times change, technology advances faster and faster, information expands exponentially and human nature stubbornly stays the same.
What the hell?
I’ll give it to you straight. We have failed the test. Not only did we fail the test but I bet you didn’t even know there was one did you? “Test?” You say. “ what test? What the heck are you talking about? No one said there was going to be a test” well I hate to break it to you but, yup, there’s a test. The fact that you’ve been too busy with paying bills and feeding kids does not excuse you from studying. Ignorance of the test doesn’t excuse you from being required to take it. It’s mandatory.
The course is called free will 101. The curriculum is universal. You will be given choices and required to take responsibility for the decisions you make. You will NOT be given accurate information as to what is the best decision for each choice you make. Choices made with insufficient or inaccurate information will be held as accountable and the resulting consequences will be binding. This is your life.
You are, however, allowed a redo. In fact you’re allowed as many redos as it takes to graduate assuming you live that long. Step one in preparing yourself to exercise your free will is learning to think.
“Whadda ya mean? I think all the damn time! I think so much my head hurts.”
Oh really? You do huh? Let me guess. Most of what you “think” about is justifying decisions you already made right? It’s about belief systems and reaction but it hardly constitutes thinking. Free will 101. It’s a simple course really. So why oh why are we failing so badly if we’re such great “thinkers”.
OK, it’s really not your fault.
You got mediocre training or perhaps no training at all. Remember your semester studying critical thinking? Remember you mom and dad explaining the process? No? I didn’t think so. Most of your education involved doing what you were told and giving correct answers on tests. You were conditioned but you were hardly taught to think. Soldier a shoots as instructed, soldier b returns fire. Neither questions his behavior. We justify it. And then when they return home the same soldiers end up wandering the streets like lost souls and commit suicide in record numbers because they can’t.
We get married and half of us end up in divorce court because we simply cannot think our way into a successful relationship. Why? Because no one taught us. Why did they not teach us? Because they weren’t taught either. My men’s team awakened me to dropping my anger towards my parents because they did the best they knew how to do. But I know. I know because remaining ignorant was simply too painful to me and I took on free will 101 with a vengeance.
Rule one in the study course is question EVERYTHING.
Thought…….that ***** just wants my money – she doesn’t love me at all – women are just users.
Hmmmmmm is that true? Or do I use money to manipulate her?
Hmmmmmm is that true? Or could it be I’m not being very loveable?
Hmmmmmm is that true? Or could it be that I’m setting myself up to being used because that justifies my belief system and allows me to be right?
I have no idea what your questions should be but I DO know you need to ask them to graduate and live your life on purpose instead of living it by accident.
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