The Heart-- Like a Pecker-- is a Bad Lead to Follow

Seek a better balance between heart and mind!

Know your heart, but don't be ruled by it.

It's important to be informed about--
cognizant of-- emotions within, but to
refrain from being controlled by them.
And sugar-coating what you feel, attempting
to accommodate your sense of what is
'moral' doesn't help the processing.

Trying to maintain an attitude that is in
direct opposition to how things really are
can lead to cognitive dissonance!
Emotionally-led thinking, decisions made
with emotions, being swayed by conscience and
compassion are all paths to disaster.

Keep your emotions private--let others guess
what only you know.  Giving too much away
makes you vulnerable to the attacks of enemies--
and everyone who exists is a former enemy,
present enemy, or future enemy.

So that makes that easy to determine!
Exercise restraint and control to keep the
savages at bay.

There is great power in being an enigma
and constantly keeping them guessing.

Being a nice guy just isn't profitable.
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Get It While It's HOT!

Get what you can,

while you can,

any which way you can.

Morality is subjective,

to say the least;

a construct of the rich

and powerful to keep

the rest of the world

poor, disaffected, and

powerless.

'Morals' are fickle, transmutative,

regional, cultural, and

ultimately pointless.

They're applied through

tinted lenses and double

standards.

Morality won't feed you

or clothe you or warm you;

it has no pay-off beyond

wishful thinking and avoiding fear

of karmic or religious or

legal retribution.

Don't get played.

Don't be a sucker.

Don't buy the line.

Do what you need to do;

it's all relative.

The only important thing

is not getting caught.

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Denial Doesn't Change Results

No time for rest; Wake up and see the writing on the wall!

If you can't beat them,

join them

(or, claim their tactics,

at the least.)

Only a moron would

keep doing the same

thing repeatedly with no

change in outcome.

Don't deny the merits

of a winning strategy. If

it's one that gets results, no

matter how morally abhorrent

it may be to you, it's useful.

Worth investigating, at least.

Old mindsets of what is

'right' serve no purpose if

we're flailing and under the heel of

the oppressor. There's no reason

to maintain old 'standards' when

they fail to serve you.

Everything changes; choose to

be on the winning side of

evolution.

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