You know, in that self help kinda way?

Well, the thing that separates us from the gorillas and bears is that we can pass knowledge across our generations.

If it weren't for books, and maybe thumbs, we wouldn't have risen above subsistence so quickly.

We would still be having to pass knowledge through oral histories, and when you start talking about jsons, apis, metallurgy, chemistry, botany, etc, I think you can see how that would quickly break down.

You would have to be in the same room long enough to assimilate the knowledge with somebody that can lay it out to you in terms that you can understand.

Could you imagine trying to build a social ecosystem if everybody had to be in the loop to hear it audibly?
It would be impossibly complex, a logistical nightmare.

So, that being said I have two books to link you to that were instrumental in my self improvement.

I used to be a real jerk,...now, not so much,...believe it, or not,...0.o
The first book is pretty controversial, I'm betting most of you have heard of it.

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

If you haven't read it, please keep your opinions to yourself, until you have.

This book, above all except the book that led me to it, set me on the path to who I am today.

The Science of Survival.

After I read Dianetics I couldn't wait to get involved with more, the promises the book make are extraordinary.

If what it says is true, then it should have swept the world by now and we should live in a world free of crime, poverty, and war.

But,....

After getting my hands on all the materials I could read at home I finally made it to a mission.

Boy, was I disappointed.

Link to the book.
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The folks I met there had issues.

This led me to conclude that no matter how much education you can be given, if you don't get 'it', you just don't get it.

I wouldn't recommend having anything to do with the organization.

It was all about who could bring in the most money.

A most terrible way to run things.

Bare Faced Messiah

However, I have never seen anything in the materials that I can refute.

I thought I had him at, 'support a good gov't', but he did say good.

The fact is that only one of the 194 axioms has done more for me, and those that have to be around me, than any other single influence in my life.

I know the links aren't there, anymore, the lawyers have been busy wiping links so that you can't access this knowledge without paying the church for it, but stss.nl can have it available, just not linkable.

The axiom is: Cause nothing that is difficult for another to experience.

It took me awhile to get my head around that, I had been led by the military, and my dad, to believe that ruling by force was the best way to go, it wasn't,....

I'm doing much better now that I accept people as they are and not as I prefer them.

Treating people as less than fully autonomous led to much emotional trauma for all of us.

This link will take you to an index of the materials you can access for free.

I recommend starting with the two titles above and continuing in chronological order, the books build on the ideas from the previous ones.

It is important that you define any words that you don't fully understand.

Not doing this will lead to confusion, and ultimately, the abandonment of the materials.

That is in one of the books, too.

Well, I hope you have the ability to learn the easy way, by taking advice.

I didn't,....