Never tell anyone
What you would do
If you were slightly more free.
Just silently do it
And then all those
Who held you back you will see.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” – James Baldwin in “LIFE” magazine (May 1963). When one is suffering, it can seem the world is suffering. Well, let that be true for a bit. If there is net suffering in the world, lessening the suffering of others “counts” as much as lessening one’s own suffering. If you can’t see a way to lessen your own suffering, do something to lessen the suffering of others until some way is more clear to you. Avoid “Savior Behavior” where you lessen the suffering of others for your own aggrandizement (even secretly so). Do it as its own good. FOR “BOB”.
Imagine sharing a delicious meal meal at a friend’s house and, regarding the good food, asking “tell me, what music did your parents listen to?” It’s the wrong question. There are some works of art for which “what does it mean” is the wrong question. Try “what am I going to do with this?”
Some SubGenii ARE like this. And some are just the opposite. Many are a bit of both, mixed. J. R. “Bob” Dobbs sanctions all personality types and behavior patterns. We don’t all “get along,” not even within an individual SubGenius. Who told you that was even possible or desirable? If you are looking for truth and calling it faith, you going to turn over that one rock too many at some point and one or the other will have to go.
The thin line you draw between the thoughts and the actions, the actions and the success, of the people you oppose. They just think a thing and it happens! That line can be thinned down for yourself too. The success of the Bad Guys seems easy because the failures don’t get the same attention. As you fail and fail (and fail) this becomes more clear. They mostly fail too. And then you just think a thing and it happens. Fortunately you’re one of the Good Guys!
“No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.” – Plato in “The Sophist”