So you got fired, or maybe you landed a new job, and you went out for a drink. Three days later you come to in the Café Du Monde with a beignet in your left hand and a café au lait in your right.
Your right hand hurts like hell, but your anus doesn’t, so you figure everything worked out okay. Now after your hangover wears off, you start asking yourself, “Why did I do this to myself again, and how the hell do I stop this from happening?”
One of the most damaging things to come out of the SJWs’ playbook is the idea that it is okay to do whatever you want, anytime you want, with anyone you want.
Simply put, no it isn’t.
Your grandfather wasn’t a saint, but both he and grandma recognized that some things aren’t in anyone’s interest. Because they had a grounding in traditional culture and religion that you don’t, they had a leg up on spotting these things in advance and staying away from them. Also, the world they lived in had very specific methods for dealing with young men, and women, who decided to act like a horse’s ass.
But a solution does exist to solve your problem today: welcome to the world of precepts. A precept (prēˌsept) is defined as a general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought.
If you are religious, get into your religion, quit being a knucklehead, and start following the damn rules. If you are not, you need to come up with a playlist of those things that guide your life. The Ten Commandments, the Five Precepts of Buddhism, and the 13 Principles of Faith all provide an excellent guidelines for determining your own personal set of precepts. Or, as Franz Bardon would say, “bind yourself and be free.”
A type of protection
Simply put, precepts exist to protect you from yourself when you are weak. The real issue is that most people cannot recognize when they are weak and what this means. Specifically, people are prone to doing the wrong thing when their will is weak. From personal experience this is not when you are suffering from an untreatable disease and dying in a bed. At that point in time most people have a very focused will on one issue: staying alive.
A weakness in will usually exhibits itself when you feel like a demi-god. And if the old Norse and Grecco-Roman stories provide any kind of guide, this is when that part of you that you spend most of your waking hours ignoring says, “That guy was really disrespectful, you should kick his ass.” And you do…or it says, “Go to the tea house and have unprotected sex with a dozen women.” And you do…or it says, “It’s only a little cocaine.” And you do.
Precepts prevent this from happening by using the wisdom of Dave Chappelle and saying instead, “Hey brother, I wouldn’t do that if I were you. That will get you 5 to 10.”
Using positivity
As a practical matter, a precept should be a positive command. Anything that denies you something shouldn’t come from a position of conflict, as that will have some interesting, and uncomfortable, psychological effects over the long term. A good example is, ”I will do something productive for one hour every day,” if you are the kind of guy that tends to sit on the couch watching too much TV.
A bad example of this kind of thing is, “I won’t sit on the couch watching TV all day.” One encourages a positive behavior and the other penalizes you for a negative behavior.
Once you have your list of personal precepts, and I have about 26 as a point of reference, you need to put these into effect. The easiest way to do this is using the power of autosuggestion. This will take you five to ten minutes upon waking and another five to ten minutes right before you go to bed. Get a rosary, a mala, or any set of prayer beads.
Immediately before bed repeat each of your personal precepts, one after another, for five to ten minutes. As you say a given precept aloud, imagine the words coming out of your mouth and sinking down into your bones where they rest. Once you have completed a precept, grab ahold of the next bead of the chain of beads and go into the following precept.
Repeat this exercise upon waking.
This is one of those little tricks monks in a monastery use to fix bad behavior, and it is pretty effective over the long run. In the beginning, you will continue to violate your self-determined precepts and don’t worry about this initially. With time, you will begin notice that you are about to violate a precept and it will catch in your mind as you decide not engage in whatever that behavior is. Finally, you will lose the desire to violate your precepts altogether.
In essence, your daily practice will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And your life will be better because of it.
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Great article! There can be little doubt that rule-bound individuals/cultures will tend to out-compete libertine individuals/cultures in the long run. The Russians seem to be picking up on this reality, but we in the West are losing sight of it.
Libertine cultures are not necessarily bad, depending on the nature of the liberty involved.
For example, American liberty as conceived by the founding fathers was a wonderful basis for stability and prosperity, and they certainly would never have supported sexual liberty for women, as advocated by modern feminism.
The problem is not a libertine culture, as liberty in some spheres, such as economic liberty in the free market, is beneficial. Rather, the problem is when that liberty is extended into new areas where is has disastrous societal effects.
Very well put.
American liberty was based on self governance.
This isn’t simply everyone behaving like a 5th tier libertine wannabe
Economic freedom is very important. However, a lack of regulation in the economic sphere can also have disastrous consequences. The 2008 Financial Crisis is a case in point. As is the widespread abuse of workers in China and other industrializing countries.
The 2008 crisis would have actually been beneficial for society in the long run if we let it play out. Certain sectors of the financial world would have collapsed, putting selective pressure on the weak. It could be argued the Great Depression was the singular most character building event of the Greatest Generation… and one of the reasons there were far fewer degenerates at the time. You simply couldn’t be a loser and survive in that time.
Instead we subsidized bad decisions. The crisis was simply nature at work, a correction. Then we perverted it
Self-government relies upon government of the self.
Those lacking in self-restraint require external restraint
Basically, master yourself to master your life. Good article and some useful information.
“any set of prayer beads”
“Immediately before bed repeat each of your personal precepts, one after another, for five to ten minutes.”
oh, you mean like charming your snake so you can calmly go to sleep?
(hint* charming snake=jerkingoff)
Excellent ideas. All traditions of long-standing are full of ritual actionis which help the practitioner get grounded and refocused.
Great advice.
The 10 Commandments?
Huh?
Or,
The Golden Rule.
Great article. Simple – yet profound.
I take sadistic pleasure in tormenting the pals or former pals I have when berating them on their loser lives.
I enjoy it. But it’s also an act of charity. I want them to wake the fuck up and humiliation is the vehicle for my message.
I call it loser shaming.
I have sympathy for people in real diffculty due to circumstances beyond their control, and I would go to the end of the world to help loved ones, but if you’re 35 and living at your Mum’s whilst drinking and getting stoned all day … well I’m a horrible cunt. I am your fucking nightmare
Good article
See, I just cut those people out of my life. It achieves the same end; they’ll wonder why all of their friends left. Involuntary solitude can force changes for the better.
“Your right hand hurts like hell, but your anus doesn’t, so you figure everything worked out okay”
LMAO!!
“Once you have your list of personal precepts, and I have about 26 as a point of reference, you need to put these into effect.”
A good idea, but I feel like this article would have been a lot stronger if you presented your own precepts, or at least some of them, as an example. Do share.
BB,
This is something I neglected to mention in the article and is an important sub-point. Thank you.
Never tell anyone else what your precepts are.
These should be things that you personally struggle with. This is your struggle. It does not belong to anyone else and it is not their responsibility.
You are willing yourself to act responsibly and take control of your life. Silence and self focus aid this. Sharing does not.
Notice the difference here between SJW thought which uses your self confessed sins to control you and what I am proposing.
When I teach this methodology to students, I give them sources for material and a few examples. Then I walk away. I have no desire to know what lies in the hearts of other men and most people who are wise feel similarly.
It is in the not knowing another’s demons that allows us to function with them.
Additionally, a specific kind of person exists that will use your precepts to take advantage of you and harm you. Don’t give them this leverage.
Check out my blog at yogicengineering.com for more information on this.
Cheers,
Rordan
Rordan is Right On!
I’ll borrow from the mythical Jesus’ alleged sayings of wisdom….
“Don’t waste what is holy on people who are unholy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you.” NLT Matt 7:6
That’s my way of saying, you’re right on!
Don’t reveal your precepts to anyone. They’ll only use them against you if/when you slip up on them. And, we all do form time to time. Worse, they’ll call you a hypocrite for even having precepts and standards by which you live. It’s all meaningless, a chasing after the wind (Solomon’s conclusions in Ecclesiastes)
If you believe that God will judge you according to some set of precepts, then you’re bound to follow that set of rules. If you don’t believe that, then the only judge of your choices is YOU ALONE (of course accepting societies precepts as codified in law).
Rordan is Right On!
Very very well said. The walls around our life exist for a reason. Keep them strong
Any high performing organization requires an effective management system. It holds true that a high performing individual requires a set of internal controls & principles as well.
Frank,
That is generally what I’ve seen.
My more successful friends mostly have three traits in common: use of delayed gratification, self restraint and the ability to nug work out.
The ones with serious behavior issues (drugs, etc.) typically had sporadic successes coupled with huge screw-ups until they took care of these problems, usually through the medium of sheer willpower or religion.
In hindsight, they all said they regretted the wasted time and money.
Cheers,
Rordan
Enjoyed the article. Hope you’ve got more insights to share.
Enjoyed the article. Hope you’ve got more insights to share.
This is a great article.
Will give this method a real try at helping me break a couple of bad habits.
Blue pill bible betas
–> But if you don’t, you’re just reinventing the wheel – and doing so, choosing to use none of the expertise or collective wisdom of a good 4,000 years of men who worked this shit out for you.
There’s something to be said for learning from the wisdom of those who came before you….
^^^THIS
All cultures have a moral code. They wouldn’t function if they didn’t. The problem is when the moral code is elevated to the realm of the supernatural and spiritual, as when it is given by the god(s) through various human prophets and carries the authority of the gods, compelling men to not only follow the code, but sacrifice themselves, and all they own to the high priests of the gods.
I can only speak from my in-depth knowledge of Christianity, but I’m almost certain that all religions empower its priests and leaders with great power over men to enforce the moral code. All religions use the power of fear by threatening supernatural and eternal trouble for those who disobey the code, oppose the power structure of the priesthood, and are unwilling to give a great share of their property and income to the priesthood.
The 10% tithing is a great example of high pressure enforcement. The 10% rule turned me off from going to church.
The 10% tithe is just a starting point according to many biblical “scholars”. They like to add in the other offerings (sin offerings, grain offerings, wine offerings, misc. ritual offerings, etc) on top of the 10% tithe to reach an even greater giving to God. I’ve heard numbers as high as 25% suggested. Keep in mind to the the Jews were always subject to other ruling powers (e.g. Romans) and were expected to pay taxes as well in addition to all their religious giving. Remember that Jesus said to “render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar’s”
In reality, however, these ended up in the hands of the priests, who lived and ate well at the expense of their parishioners. Funny how some things never change.
Lose 200lbs. immediately – dump the bitch/bastard.
“Your right hand hurts like hell, but your anus doesn’t, so you figure everything worked out okay”
Should there be any reason that your anus would not be ok? That sounds gay subliminal.
Clearly you have never been through a blackout in the French Quarter. If you had, this would be a significant concern.
Discipline comes from within, not from blind adherence. I leave that to the weak minded.