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    Common Misreads Of Reality
    Common Misreads Of Reality
    Common Misreads Of Reality
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    Common Misreads Of Reality

    By Damion Boyd

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    This long essay/booklet will give you a very quick, but educated understanding of how our world operates in error. Often, today, there is looting during a kind of cultural blackout. This essay turns on the lights for you so you can see the background and foreground of our looming collapse in Western civilization.

    Excerpt: Survival ethics—Certainly, the most primal urge of all is our will to survive. Survival is a powerful law written into the very tissue of our bodies. Therefore, it gives a primacy, a kind of ethical authority to every health and safety concern. In a world stripped of spiritual safety concerns—of eternal life and death—physical safety takes center stage.
    Thus, people can shelter in Survival ethics, not only rejecting all spiritually inspired ideals that might lead to conflicts like war, but also they might feel entirely justified in trying to bubble-wrap the world we live in. You’ve already noticed their worry about cigarettes, product labeling, drugs, bullying, childhood obesity, choking hazards, safety labels and soft playgrounds as they push for more car seats, safer cribs and less unhealthy diets. In a world so full of sharp edges and potential hazards, from a pin prick to international war, Survivalists are a busy crowd.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDamion Boyd
    Release dateApr 9, 2016
    ISBN9781310193736
    Common Misreads Of Reality
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    Damion Boyd

    Boyd has experienced many unusual things. He grew up in a very large and turbulent family. His mom went blind when he was a child. His father was a battered war veteran who worked as a drill instructor in the Marines--running his family like a boot camp.at times. Having learned to cook for his family, Boyd grew up to manage restaurants. But, then went down a path of drug abuse and addiction. Finally, after turning to God for help, he overcame drug addiction and joined a Catholic monastery for 5 years. Later he left the Benedictines and got a job in a shipyard. He married a political refugee from Mexico City, is raising 3 children.His most popular books are Primal Ethics, The Curse of the Poet and Popular Misreads of Reality.He can be reached for comment at ferd453@aol.com.

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      Common Misreads Of Reality - Damion Boyd

      Common Misreads of Reality

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      Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

      Ashleigh Brilliant

      Most people have heard the expression you are what you eat. This, of course, doesn’t mean if you eat a Twinkie you will quickly turn into a giant, crème-filled pastry. It refers to taking on the value and essence of the foods we most commonly ingest. If we eat healthy and well-balanced meals, we are more likely to become physically healthy and well balanced. Conversely, if we eat fatty, junk food all the time we become fat and weak. The same is true of your transcendent nature—your soul. You are what you eat, in the spiritual sense, translates into you become like what you see. If a person is habitually focused on reading noble literature, their personality will generally take on some of the nobility and construct of the literature; while, someone who constantly views pornography, for example, will actually be spiritually and psychologically shaped by the human degradation that is portrayed. It is one of the laws of nature that is least discussed: we become what we see.

      Desire

      One day I overheard a radio host, Dennis Prager, give an analysis of how a small misunderstanding of the nature of human desire has literally split the globe in two. He pointed out how, in the Eastern religions and philosophy, human desire has long been considered an impediment to spiritual and, therefore, human progress. In much of the East, desire was seen as a source of evil. One of the overarching premises was that individual desire was a source of suffering. The path to a place of non-suffering (Nirvana) is found in controlling, even eliminating, human desire.

      In the West, however, we viewed desire somewhat differently. We viewed it through the lens of our Judeo-Christian heritage. We recognized that human nature was twisted by sin but we also recognized that human desire was created by God and, therefore, was intrinsically good. While the East developed societies premised on controlling the evil of human desire, the West freely harnessed the power of our desires. For example, in the East, if it was a hot day you were expected to quietly bear the burden of it. In the West we were free to invent air-conditioners. The West added to this advantage the Free Market system and, thus, became wildly more innovative and prosperous than the East. Therefore, a big part of the reason the planet developed a huge technological and prosperity divide between East and West was based on the simple difference in how our cultures understood

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