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From a woman’s perspective, there are two categories of males: providers (P) and genetic material (GM).

Women are programmed not to offend providers but will be more frank with GM males.

Providers may have more than one mate (sister wife).

Sister wives are potentially threatened by...

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139. Atoning Blood

After the furniture has been removed, you begin to see new possibilities--new traffic patterns, new uses--new ideas come because of the lack of clutter and the dependence on how things have been in the past.

The idea of the atoning blood of Jesus Christ is borrowed from the Jewish idea of blood sacrifice. Christians use this concept to remove themselves from feeling responsible for their own shortcomings. Jesus showed us the way to live. He made no excuses and lived a blameless life. He wants us to know that we can do the same.

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Undiminished, undiluted, full strength, or not at all …

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138. Belief Systems

Accepting beliefs wholesale as part of a larger system is dangerous. Each belief should be examined by each person who believes it--separately and on a regular basis. Likewise, carefully examine each teaching of a spiritual leader. "Set and forget" is both lazy and irresponsible when it comes to beliefs and leads to dogmatic thinking and harm to others and to yourself.There is an adversary and he is gleeful when he can slip in a damaging belief with a benign belief. It is like slipping poison into healthy food. Each person is individually responsible to be vigilant against wrong thinking.

[By subscribing to this idea and by carrying it out, you will make it difficult for conventional thinkers to consider you a "respectable" person.]

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I will not negotiate with negative energy. There is no acceptable amount of negativity that I will tolerate when it is being used to control me or to gain leverage in a power struggle. I will simply walk away …

I understand that you may feel the need for my help as you deal with your own...

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137. Boredom

Boredom resembles dread in that it is a suggestion to abandon the present moment. While dread is a suggestion that you should consider something that may turn out to be unpleasant in the future with anxiety, thus missing what is possible now or what is actually happening now, boredom is rooted in the suggestion that any other moment or set of circumstances would be better than the present moment and its circumstances. Therefore, if you agree with and accept either type of suggestions as true, you allow yourself to desire what is unavailable--a sure recipe for dissatisfaction.

Both dread and boredom, as suggestions for your own thinking, can be resisted. The way to escape these suggestions is to fight back with your own suggestions to yourself. Your opposing suggestion might be that you are powerful enough to decide to enjoy what is happening now by fully paying attention in the present moment. You can counter suggestions that something less desirable is coming and that what currently is happening is less than desirable by insisting that all things work together for good and that you intend to get the good from what is real instead of attempting to escape to other times or places that are not real. You are able to insist, if you so choose, to remain here and now even as you make decisions now that will lead to even more bliss as you roll forward to each new moment.

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136. Dread

The adversary continually suggests ideas for your perusal and for your eventual consumption. All of these ideas are designed to harm you, and of all of them, the most frequently suggested is dread. If the adversary suggests that you dread things, and if you take him up on it, you will find that dread becomes a near continual habit. You at first will dread only dreadful things but, with the right encouragement, he can get you to dread anything, even purely wonderful things. You will learn to wait for the other shoe to drop. You will learn to drink the subtle poison of foreboding joy.

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True love will not compromise itself.

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Suspicious people project what they see in their own hearts onto those of whom they are suspicious. Their suspicion has little or nothing to do with others because suspicion is introspective. It is incapable of looking outward.

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Trusting people make trustworthy people.

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A prophet's calling is to hold the mirror up in front of your face and bid you to stare into your own reflection without flinching.

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135. Grief

Grief comes from a sense of loss. Loss can be experienced only when one feels entitled to attach to or to possess someone or something. Attachment and possession always emanate from negative energy. True gratitude, and therefore true enjoyment, is impossible when there is attachment or possession.

There is no healthy grieving process. There is no natural progression of grieving. Grief is a form of anger. There is no righteous anger. Anger always comes from a negative place. Grief and anger are chief emotions of the victim. Victims do not feel as though they are the authors of their own stories. They choose not to wield available power to change their own lives. Grief, then, is a powerful distillation of malice.

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In grad school, when thinkers write papers, they have their own ideas and they support those ideas with other references—other thinkers they neither look up to nor down upon. They choose ideas that support their arguments but, behind that, they choose ideas that they feel are true regardless of...

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The creator of the universe is a woman who loves sex. Of all the possible reasons for creating the universe, philosophers and theologians have seldom postulated that sex might be the primary purpose for the big bang and everything after that.

It follows, then, that moms are the quintessential...

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Partake or not—but expend no energy moralistically denying others the pleasure you only wish you could possess. Holding others back from pleasure is a form of hatred—spiteful and cruel.

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Some leaders cannot abide the company of subordinates who are not afraid of them.

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