Stone #7: Biggie Discovery: The Bible is right: You can't serve two masters (Mathew 6:24 KJV)

First Stones NewsLetter

‘… let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone …’  Christian’s Holy Bible, Book of John 8:7

by Gary Dean Deering, caster of first stones

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Some say the Cultural Wars will be won by Reason

Some say Faith

From what I know of my Christain upbringing

If Reason loses, we are all f*’d

ref: Gary’s Prayer from the last Millennium

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Notice the 2007 date. Update-to-NOW follows after: that is, what—if anything—have I learned since, and what—if anything—can you learn now?

For example: maybe psychhological growth and development—after a certain age—is not dependent on the t-part of time like it was in phase 1 of development—the programmed by nature self-regulation phase—but rather the f-part.

Also, for those of us who did take it on—the challenge to achieve authentic happiness— and did succeed at it, I just want to be one to report on my personal journey and findings so that the Berkely mentality permeating our current day culture doesn’t go completely unchallenged.

But first:

I feel bad about coming down on AJ so hard. (Angelina Jolie here.)

I like her image as portrayed to me as a consumer of cultural stuff by her handlers in Hollywood and elsewhere to promote and keep her celebrityism alive and money generating so I was very disappointed in what she wrote about the Israeli-Hamas war. (Previous link.)

Hamas people are evil and if you can’t see this after their October 7^th, 2023, volitionally initiated raid on Jewish people killing them because they are Jewish people you have a damaged moral compass.

And not only this but if after the fact of that event you try to re-write it to be something else, then you are lucky—very lucky—that the Christians are wrong in their belief that a literal, everlasting hell exists.

I guess I haven’t totally and completely accepted—yet, as I’m still trying—the Biocentric Psychology Principle: other people do not exist to satisfy my needs.

I need morally courageous people to help me be morally courageous too. Or so that, it’s not such a constant battle—resisting enculturation, that is.

It is such a hard thing to do, and I would not have succeeded at it if it had not been for the big three—link here without naming them as it’s even getting boring to me for me to keep praising them so much.

They made it possible for me to succeed at resisting enculturation—they and their kind—and in-the-process helping me to put the finishing touches on my very own moral soul so that as far as I personally am concerned now, they are the only authentic people on earth. Since I now am one of these they and I know myself inside out and upside down—albeit still not 100% but getting damn close—my simple test is if you are pro-selfishness—in the Selfish’ism sense of the term—you are trustworthy, if not then not.

If you are an Altruism promoter and are not yet evil, you are on evil’s road.

I will steer clear.

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Next, moving on to the fun stuff.

Notice the 2007 date. Update-to-NOW follows after: that is, what—if anything—have I learned since and what—if anything—can you learn now?

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NOW - 2023

So, what—if anything—have I learned over the past 16 years?

First thing, The King James Version of The Holy Bible is—at minimum (for some Christians) and (for me right now) at maximum—at least right on one point: you cannot serve two masters.

That is, it’s either REASON or FAITH.

It can’t be both.

It is epistemologically equivalent to “you can’t have your cake and eat it too”; or “quantum mechanics notwithstanding, you cannot draw a square circle”; or simply stated: contradictions do not exist, this we know because nature tells us so by not having any.

You can pretend otherwise if you want to, but what you can’t do is escape the negative consequences of pretending on such a fundamental issue.

For a second thing, psychhological growth and development—after a certain age—is not dependent on the t-part of time like it was in phase 1 of development—the programmed by nature self-regulation phase—but rather the f-part.

Or that is, both parts still involved but with the emphasis on what dominates changing dynamically over your own personal growth and development line as schematized here:

Your own personal growth and development—that is, “it” is a “thing”—for which you are totally and completely responsible.

So, if your development—or perhaps its lack—is like a big can of worms to you, remember Branden’s message (one of them):

No big dude is coming to take care of you.

That is, it’s all about …

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PS: All links in the above—including fixed broken ones—are given at end here under Pebble # Last.

Also, what’s learnable since then can be linked in my previous substack articles available to paid subscribers.

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