2024 February – Series 2 Issue 2 – ‘Exhortations’

24K Journal of Virtues Science – Four articles to do with the distractions in life that block divinity in it. Distractions from divinity surround modern people in devices and content, permeating the soul’s experience. Pornography is not harmless and smart phones are mostly used for stupid things. However, the soul is very real, so you should use it for something more important, like progressing, empowering neighbours, and improving community.

2024 February Introduction

Dear Reader,

Welcome to the February 2024 issue of 24K Journal of Virtues Science!

‘Exhortations’ expand upon ‘Groundwork’ by rationally identifying the energetic soul, discussing its course, and aligning its natural purpose.

Here we confront evil and outline potential first steps on a path to greater Good for a lot of people. The only path to freedom is through the defeat of evil, especially in its most virulent and ubiquitous forms. 

The issue comprises four articles to do with a rational foundation for understanding the lived experience of the soul, empowerment through stakeholdership, the dangers of pornography, and the advantages of ditching “smart phones.” All of these articles rely on Resurrexit Spiritus Theory, and are heavily entrenched in this foundational philosophy.

PS I wrote some phone jokes for the last article, but don’t just skip to them. 🙂

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Dr. Roe
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Manteic Ontology and Theory of Mind part 2 – Plasmatic Soul and the Telektronic Brain

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ai generated, man, analytical psychology

“If we understand and feel that here, in this life, we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change.” – Jung

In the depths of mind’s eye,
Lives a secret deep inside,
Of what is yours and what is mine,
Inlaid jewels, brightly hiding,
Awkward tears inset shining,
The deep in which we all confide,
Illuminating us to blindness,
But I can still see God’s eye,
Staring as I failed to find,
All that I had previously denied,
In mere gratitude for second tries…

 

DENSITY

The frontal cortex has a lower neuronal density than the rest of the brain. Why is this? The frontal cortex is intensively involved in mental activities generally considered to be more advanced, which is to say abstractions and additional layers of logic. It does not make sense, from a materialist perspective, for a supposedly “biological computer” to do more with less.

It cannot be because the frontal cortex ‘needs’ ‘fewer’ neurons. What sort of a processor packs more power with fewer transistors and less density? So why is it that the best and most advanced ‘fleshware’ we have has fewer ‘neurons’ per square inch than the rest of the brain? There must be value in the space. There are no electronic computers that operate this way, and the primary value in spacing is for the purposes of cooling.

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FLESH COMPUTERS

It must mean the metaphoric conception of neurons as fleshy ‘transistors’ most people conjure regarding the brain is simply wrong, and cannot be correct in anyway. Transistors were invented with the underlying mechanics of electronics and electrical design as foundation, which are largely human mechanically-developed constructs. Neurons are natural bodies which must have evolutionarily developed more physically inline with the limitations and advantages of reality.

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THE CROSS

The real answer is that the brain and spine are not purely the seat of consciousness as modern science heavily implies. Rather the brain and spine are a collection of highly evolved biological instruments for our ‘energetic’ souls to utilise, and how we are able to do anything at all. This is why we are so dependent upon the health of our bodies and physical minds in order to continue interacting with the world.

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pieces of man

POTENTIATE

Now, the reason, in my opinion, why the frontal cortex has all this extra space between neurons is that the impulses through the space over time are potentiating, which is what we call “thought,” and a tiny piece of the larger divine of God in creation. Potentiate billions of times and you have an extremely powerful local potentiator. Thought is creation, and this is why the use of thought for stupid things is a sin. When you watch porn, you are wasting literal divine potential, a tiny infinitesimal fraction sure but still even that. Mockery and minimisation of the soul is typically done out of pain and a desire to continue down the path of ruin, especially when justifying trodding upon others.

TELEKTRONIC

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The subconscious-conscious lived being of human soul is manifested within life energy. The energetic soul is proved by life energy, its persistence, and its relationship to the operation of mind. This soul is operational to the neuronal interfaces in the brain, a “telektronic” matrix for life energy to operate a fragment of mind through the material. So thoughts are more like waves and ripples through the continuous fabric of congruent coordinations in thought, loosely a “state of mind,” but not just the turn of phrase.

 

SOUL STATE

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The neurons may instead be seen as a system which produces unified “state” (a programming term not ideal though infinitely philosophically adaptable). The unified state is the conscious-subconscious complex which subsists between the energetic and the biologic, merging energy (spirit) and matter (body), in a dance of progressive infinite regression towards moderation. First there was the subconscious and creative, parent system, then there was the conscious and logical, child system.

ABSTRACTION DREAMS

It is through meditation that humanity may learn of subconscious primacy, which is when the subconscious-extracted consciousness is still and quiet. Ancestral species had these two much less divided, mostly part of the same mind. Relative the entire animal kingdom, humanity developed toward greatest separation. Though the earliest signs of mammalian conscious delineation evolutionarily stem from circumstances related to the behaviour of sleep. Dreams are most likely when the consciousness unloads things in figurative language to the subconscious.

ALIENATION AND BALANCE

The human mind has developed through the selection of a certain balance in that internalised alienation between the consciousness and subconsciousness. This is because such balance led to higher quality dialectic and thought transformations, which is to say Reason. However, it is also this alienation that unfortunately encourages people to seek escape in materialism.

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Alienated people will often look to society for solutions to their problem. This is most common when the consciousness is beholden to an immature subconscious. The subconscious can best mature through interactions in natural human order, culture, and Art, things very much lacking now in our modern societies. A person so enslaved imagines the self through the eyes of people who are fundamentally different from the self, and so they will develop delusions of better self incorporation through modification of the material. However, the only worthy incorporation that can fulfil their needs is internal, no matter how much the obsession is fed. There are beneficial changes to be done at the material, though they are limited to health.

 

RESOLUTION

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Reshaping of the material self and body, outside of simple reasonable health, is hardly ever spiritually beneficial, and certainly not where it feeds delusion. Marx’s notion that alienation can be resolved through simple economic and political revolution is a materialist fantasy, and ignores the preliminary order necessary for such things. Marx’s strategies were purely deconstructive, where the means to true revolution must be constructive, progressive, and undeniable. The only way to bring about economic change is for enough people to spiritually awaken. This is a constant subconscious awareness that is forced into cooperation with consciousness.

In a more perfect society, the alienation of particulars and universals might be resolved by early adulthood as a part of education and experience. Adulthood alienation lays the foundation for the conceit, confusion, and sloth aspects of materiality, a deepening of sin. Humanity moves away from the mutuality of conscious and subconscious, toward distorted mental evolution. This also explains most dysphoric issues and many other mental disorders, so fundamental is this alienation. When the alienated consciousness is finally completely separated from the subconscious, it destroys the ability to Reason through problems.

“Do not conform to this age, but continually transform by renewing your minds so that you may be able to determine what God’s will is – what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.” – Apostle Paulus

GOD’S IMAGE

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Are we created in God’s image or in the image of God’s own imaginings, shaping our own potential? Are we not creators through our creator and by nature of our creation? Is not creation always happening? Is that not what evolution is? Is not the reason for our very materiality that we might expand it logically and toward good ends?

The more the mind is freed, the greater the incessant need to understand reality and all its parts. This need is something separate from all other needs, as it does not pertain to mere survival but does require the practise of Art for development of its skill. It is just as primal a force as survival though. The greatest skill to develop with Art is the alignment of particular Reason to universal Reason, self to universality. So it is true that Reason of its greatest minds has been, for humanity, the natural expression of Reason in the Universe.

SUMMARY

The human mind has a special relationship with energy, especially life energy, the soul, and its purpose in reality. This is proved by the attraction of the conscious and subconscious interaction toward an unfolding of reality, its nature and relation to us. Life, the Universe, and everything consists of energy, and its secrets may only be revealed through Reason. So it is that Reason is the purpose of reality and life energy, and it is then our purpose as energetic souls capable of Reason through mind. 

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Materialism is false and empty necessarily because it represents only the extrinsic half of reality. It will never explain all of reality by itself as it cannot justify the connections between patterns of life energy, thought, and consciousness. Life is the greatest miracle of our energised planet, and it is our lived experiences which are chosen as immutable. The connection between bodily energy and the sparking over dendritic ‘circuits of nerves’ is too profound to ignore. The same energy causal to matter and reality must also determine the shapes of thoughts (Roe, 2024). In future articles of this series, I will be exploring the ramifications of our intrinsic purpose in a society becoming more increasingly hostile to humanity.

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Cooperate! part 2 – Psychology of Power

“One building and one pulling down!  They gain naught but their labour.”
– The Preaching of Peter

Empowerment is that great engine of productivity and innovation that built the American industrial empire. The reason it lays dead now is because it is no longer empowered, none of that population who built it is anymore. They are slaves. In fact, they are being actively and continuously disempowered as these soulless corporations move factories overseas and fund the foundations writing laws allowing for their economic dispossession and replacement (Dye 2001).

PRODUCTIVITY

Worker empowerment improves productivity (Hechanova 2006). The relationship between empowerment and productivity is proved true.  A cyclical relationship exists between empowerment in the present and future productivity, especially during more difficult periods when the organisation is not doing as well.  The schools of thought to be used for analysis are cognitive psychology and Resurrexit Theory phenomenology (Roe 2023). 

COGNITIVE COMPREHENSION

The primary assumption of cognitive psychology is that new information is interpreted in different ways given the unique conditions of individuals and their lived and comprehended experience (Neisser 1967).  Any novel information is gathered and processed in terms of cognitive schema that alter perception.  Behaviour is informed by this subjective understanding of environment and conditions (Thomas & Velthouse 1990).

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Cognitive psychology is most appropriate for these questions due to the individual and subjective nature of empowerment as a human experience (Thomas & Velthouse 1990).  Empowerment is largely linked to the interpretation, history, experience, and memory of individuals (Zimmerman 1995).  These elements of the human experience underlie all of cognitive psychology. They all have to do with perception or reception of reality based upon beliefs and comprehension.

MODERATION

Summerling of Domains

Resurrexit Theory contends that experience in life generally pushes people toward moderation and, following along with this pressure, rewards them with elevation into the higher domains of lived experience (Roe 2023). Resurrexit Theory then, carried forward into the study of organisational forms, should naturally shine brightly upon paradigms resistant to extremes. It promotes expedience, and nothing is more expedient than the highest domain of Logos in Resurrexit Theory which has deepest foundations in learning, teaching, and discourse.

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REASON

Methods used to increase empowerment can be derived from a cognitive psychological perspective. Cognitive psychology relates belief to the outcome in behaviour. When a person feels an overwhelming emotion based upon a belief, often these can be inaccurate. A cognitive psychological approach to therapy engages a person at the level of these beliefs. That so many people have false beliefs is a central cause for the effectiveness of cognitive therapy. Sparse is discussion of how beneficial it is to a person if these perceptions are accurate, and they have reason to be upset. Naturally, the answer is still corrective, however also extrinsic.

Correcting false beliefs has also been shown to correlate with improved productivity (Cochran 1995). This fits with expectations, perspective of work commands productivity. If more accurate beliefs are empowering, then it makes sense that accurate beliefs would also improve productivity. This is the budding of a ‘logocracy,’ in which validation occurs through discourse and proofs. Awaking to evidence that work is not beneficial to anything but the corporation and shareholders, however, would not improve productivity. Plainly, the idea that labour must be simply transactional is a master lie designed to instil beliefs deleterious of discourse.

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LEARNING

Worker empowerment can be improved by cooperation and sharing of organisational memory and experiences. This flowering of knowledge sharing within an organisation makes overall organisational processes more cooperative (Dunham & Burt 2011).   When older workers mentor and share the information they have accrued throughout their career with younger workers, both groups are benefited in terms of empowerment. The organisation is strengthened as well.  This encourages the older workers to be more involved, feeling more integral to the group as a whole.  It also helps younger workers in terms of insight through the experience of older workers, transferring organisational memory and encouraging cohesion. This whole concept holds true between those working in executive or managerial roles and those currently not. Honesty goes both ways. Luckily, executives and managers have far fewer reasons to lie in a stakeholdership aligned worker-owned cooperative in the first place.

Sharing of information and making room for contribution on the part of workers as concerns the course of the organisation has a tremendous impact upon workers’ feelings of empowerment (Ahanotu 1998).  Workers who are informed and involved with the direction of an organisation will be in a far better position to take ownership and commit to their work. Stakeholdership increases loyalty and stability for communities, so families of workers in cooperatively owned organisations have a far better chance to thrive.

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SUMMARY

Empowerment is very subjective and can vary individually based upon perspective (Vidal 2007).  An individual that is not interested in the work they are tasked with performing will not recognise any policies an organisation will implement to promote empowerment.  While this may be a result of a general lack of interest in the task, it could also be a poor general understanding of the full impact and importance of their role. It could also be true that stakeholdership discourages people uninterested in a topic central to the organisation to even seek membership, or employment.  The cognitive coaching approach is the most effective means of guiding the individual to a better understanding of their career options per their true interests, or aiding them in the process of finding meaning in their current role (Chope 2011). Perhaps what is most missing from our culture and society today is passion! Passion cannot happen without empowerment, because passion requires belief in capability and capacity.

REFERENCES

Ahanotu, N. D. (1998). Empowerment and production workers: a knowledge-based perspective. Empowerment in Organizations6(7), 177.

Asgarsani, H., Duostdar, O., & Rostami, A. G. (2013). Empowerment And Its Impact On The Organization Productivity. Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research In Business4(11), 738-744.

Christensen, L., McKillop, N., & Rayment-McHugh, S. (2019). Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest is the tip of the iceberg: Human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing crime. The Conversation12 July 2019.

Chope, R. C. (2011). Reconsidering interests: The next big idea in career counseling theory research and practice. Journal of Career Assessment, 19(3), 343-352. doi:10.1177/1069072710395540

Cochran, B., & DeChesere, J. (1995). Teacher empowerment through cognitive coaching. Thrust For Educational Leadership, 24(5), 24.

Dunham, A. H., & Christopher D.B. Burt. (2011). Organizational memory and empowerment. Journal of Knowledge Management, 15(5), 851-868. dx.doi.org/10.1108/13673271111174366

Dye, T. R. (2001). Top down policymaking. CQ Press, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483330150

Hechanova, M. R. M., Alampay, R. B. A., & Franco, E. P. (2006). Psychological empowerment, job satisfaction and performance among Filipino service workers. Asian Journal of Social Psychology Asian Journal of Social Psychology9(1), 72-78. doi:10.1111/j.1467-839X.2006.00177.x

Neisser, U. (1967). Cognitive psychology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Roe, M. A. (2023). Resurrexit Spiritus24K Journal of Virtues Science, s1i0.

Roe, M. A. (2024). Cooperate! part 1 – Empowerment, with Real Power24K Journal of Virtues Science, s2i1.

Thomas, K. W., & Velthouse, B. A. (1990). Cognitive Elements of Empowerment: An “Interpretive” Model of Intrinsic Task Motivation. Academy Of Management Review, 15(4), 666-681. doi:10.5465/AMR.1990.4310926

Vidal, M. (2007). Lean Production, Worker Empowerment, and Job Satisfaction: A Qualitative Analysis and Critique. Critical Sociology (Brill Academic Publishers), 33(1/2), 247-278. doi:10.1163/156916307X168656

Zimmerman, M. A. (1995). Psychological empowerment: Issues and illustrations. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23(5), 581-99.

The Perverse Danger – Destiny of Monogamy in Transactional and Pornographic Societies

earth, world, map

“Above all these virtues, is the godly Love as mutuality through improvement.” – Apostle Paulus

“Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.” – Christ 

People today are fooled into accepting a certain way of life, culturally, in which the only limits of morality are nearly identical with legality. This simply cannot be true, however, since ‘legality’ within the construction of governmental systems are often wrong and manipulative. This is how pornography is portrayed within legacy centralised media, harmless and normal. Hedonism is common and the default for most, so the story goes. As long as a transaction occurs with everything considered fair in the end, there can be no wrong. However, pornography and masturbatory lust are dangerous and damaging to the core of the soul and to the standing of women in society, as it corrupts the foundation of virtues: reason. The addictive habits of pornography and attendant masturbation train the mind toward unhealthy patterns of sexual thoughts, which is to say based outside of reality. These patterns include asocial transactional notions of society, obsessions with entitlement, distrust, low self-esteem, impatience, “high time preferences,” and “magic thinking.” It is essentially true that the good we can do in the World is limited by the evil we subject ourselves to.

CHEAP TRANSACTIONS

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What is found in the “modern” Western nation is a basic transactionalism of human life: an expectation that so long as a need is met according to some arbitrary measure, it may be met by any source and be considered valid. However this pattern only works within certain settings and given a set of “anonymisable” factors. Transactionalism in all areas of human life is the intention, and the purpose of this is easier management of people. This is why the oldest cultures within the World financial empire are the most at risk of decimation, as there is only value in promoting opposites of the primary imperial cultures, in order to steer them. Forced transactionalism is understood best as simple slavery, whereas manipulated and propagandised transactionalism is perceived as progressive and good. Sexuality and sexual intercourse are for entertainment in transactionalism, without care for the human costs. One partner now or another later makes no difference and one child now is no different from a child later and directly contradictory to the material balance envisaged in a supposed liberation of the “fairer sex,” in which sexual intercourse is entertainment as a right besides any actual natural consequences. The greatest detriment of standards is accomplished through selectively promoting some preferences and demonising others. Pornography consumption within a society makes this process occur more rapidly, as it trivialises human bonding itself, treating it as simple exchanges of services and needs. But what is the purpose in sexuality actually?

oak tree, tree, huge

THE HACK-A-THON

Pornography consumption and general lust baiting within society creates addiction and generates dependence. Essentially it is a hack of the human biological imperative, in this way it can also be defined as a mind virus hijacking human sexuality. It not only encourages dependence in the masturbatory action driven through chemical release, but builds a pattern of psychological dependence, relativity, and amoral comprehensions. This affects life along many avenues of causation, most especially to do with motivations, values, and ideals.

 

Further, this hack of human sexuality has been used as a weapon against humanity. It is the first weapon against the formation of sane sex relationships and a logical power balance within families and households. If there was a proper classification of drugs damaging to human society, “pornography” would be the singular “schedule zero” offender. It is evil, in the sense that it undermines humanity with the human aspect designed originally to uplift through relationships and healthy community. It is not simply the sexual and family-core relationships which are affected by this, but all relationships and every interaction within communities.

Not only are these healthy relationship dynamics uplifting to civilisation, but essential to society. This hack-a-thon of human sexuality is perfectly targeted at the very trunk of the tree. Sexuality within our society is the connection between past and future, because this is how humanity selects its future; see Spiritual Selection Theory (Roe 2023). Without some reason, logic, and moderation, there can be no future. Natural human systems are being replaced to inject artificial controls and power, but what people do not understand is they are cutting down the tree. All that can come of this project against humanity is pure barbarism.

 

MATERIAL MOTIVATIONS

Motivations are the least valuable when sated through mere material outcomes. Giving up on motivations and passions is not reasonable either, it ends in begging only. To accomplish anything of lasting good in the World, we must desire the resultant good above anything else. The mindset necessary to attain the correct notions and make the right decisions is perfectly ruined by materialism, always. Lust harms the spirit.

The degree of danger has most to do with how sexuality and, therefore, life become perceived. This perception is greatly altered by self-abuse. Self-abuse sets a precedent of expected excitements in ‘neuro-chemical’ reward outlets: moving pleasures. Much like raising the volume on music progressively and infinitely, eventually the ability to enjoy it at all in any way similar to before is lost. This is not because of the sexual thinking in itself, but the patterns of life experience set in motion. Is this life or panic from basic preoccupation with death? The spirit drowns.

The material aspect of sexuality is meant to coalesce with the spiritual. The greater pleasure in life overall is lost to those incapable of realising this. The rise in pornography, atheism, depression, and suicide rates are all connected to this. What is worse, those willing to take their own life due to this indescribable are likely very naturally capable in spirit. Pornography has the power to kill off the very best in society and make them worthless. It is the supernatural conception of spirit that has done the most damage, as the first denial of the actual spirit in humanity. It is easy to reject something if it is a lie created to misdirect. Regressively, we have stepped backwards, lain down, and been subsequently tied to lies about the nature of ourselves in materialism. Pornography and masturbatory behaviours have been most devastating in this process.

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MASTURBATORY CATEGORY

It is self-abuse to take part in any activity of human life not ultimately beneficial, most especially alone and hidden away in secret. This can constitute a lie and presents personal disfigurement, where self-buy-in to the lie disconnects the self from reality. How can any experience be fruitful for the purposes of understanding and the grand discourse toward truth if it is founded upon lies? Any activity that is not cloaked in a proper genuineness, and self-awareness, distracts from the genuine experience and the potential for favourable comprehensions. How can the expedience that comes from experience be good for you if part of you is not genuinely in it?

DELUSIONAL

A masturbatory society will teach that the identity of a person depends most upon their internal beliefs about the self, and that this atom of individuality can only be corrupted by society. The only path to true individuality, according to this idea of the World, is pure masturbatory activity. This is plainly delusional, however, when written out in a clear way here. This is because it is indeed insane, and structurally cancerous. What a person believes about the self is mostly meaningless in terms of others, outside of how well it can help them associate with their communities. Other people are under absolutely no obligation to support anybody in their internal view of self. Such a psychotic burden placed upon citizens is a civilisation-ending proposition, if allowed to persist.

LIARS

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The most persistent of lies are those that promote environments which make the lies more believable. The idea that the individual is outside of the scope of their society is most certainly one of those lies. Belief in the lie encourages such actions that generate environments amenable primarily to the lie, making it that much more believable. This is to say the belief is fragmentary by its very existence. This is a lionised isolation in which a person is seized by the notion that their actions are fundamentally individual, primarily impacting only the self, and need only be “true” to the self given current emotional states. It is pernicious because it is masturbatory. It can be labelled the “masturbatory lie” because it is so fundamental to masturbatory actions. The only truth here is that everything you do in this life ultimately affects others, your relationships, the people in your relationships, communities, society, and civilisation.

MANIPULATIVE

 

Once the masturbatory lie is sacrosanct, not even the individual can override it. The lie imbues the bearer with a sense that their behaviours are consequences of this nature or individuality. Instead of lessons, the person will learn excuses. People who believe they cannot control themselves can be expected to give up on self-control entirely. It is a lie to say that preferences stem purely and solely from immutable characteristics set at birth. Instead, our preferences are realised by a process of self-image and social redemption. The masturbatory lie leads to emotional thinking, and preferences are associated more directly with simple pleasure or pain. In this abject state, the person will conceive of freedom as promises of unlimited pleasure or end to all pain: impossibilities ultimately focused upon gaming things with money manipulations or violence. The manipulated become the manipulators here.

“PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THEY CANNOT CONTROL THEMSELVES CAN BE EXPECTED TO GIVE UP ON SELF-CONTROL ENTIRELY.”

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A person may not reside upon these things consciously or actively, but the images and associated patterns remain on the brain. The apparent ‘viability’ of such illogical actions increases with each performance and positive reinforcement. With each subsequent unreasonable action, the rebuke of reason itself is validated, becoming a testament to negative beliefs about the self. While these beliefs may not be immediately conscious at all times, they still inform ideation and generation. Beliefs about the self make up this background tapestry to all thoughts. This makes a person more willing to believe other lies that support himself or others in such socially cancerous notions about individuality.

BONDS OF HUMANITY

Pornography trivialises the purpose of sex in bond-building, rendering the act debased and devoid of more spiritual value. The atom of a sustainable society was never the individual, but the pair-bond and their value in functional healthy families. The act of sex can be focused purely upon the material and pleasure rewards, or it can be focused upon the relationship. If it were not about the relationship and spiritual aspects of integration, it would be done alone. This is another way of saying that sexuality can be more objective and animalistic or subjective and humanistic. As an endeavour toward positive psychology and beneficial community, the sexual act is more appropriate in subjective terms since passion-objectivity dictates an ignorance of the course in spiritual purposes, which is to say material indulgences must turn the person away from the light or the desires are exposed as worthless and dark.

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BEAUTY DEPLETED

Psychomenal activities (the judgement of beauty and potential good) are clouded by the intrusive and sexuality overwhelming imagery (Roe 2023). Psychomenal judgement of a person is impacted fundamentally by regular exposure to pornography. Gratuitous displays of wanton material obsession glorify unquenchable lust. This process can only lead to anti-social reactivity and depravity, in either isolation and depression or an inappropriate objectification and gaming of courtship. If the psychomenal judgements are disabled, then honest erosic processing cannot occur, this is where mistakes happen and people make bad decisions romantically and sexually (Roe 2023).

Monogamy relies upon a societal environment in which the sexual act is considered sacred. In a progressive civilisation, the pair-bond must be based upon spiritual considerations more than the sexual and momentary. In such a progressive civilisation, monogamous sexual relationships would be, not only encouraged but, improved through culture and education. Choosing a mate for reproduction and family should involve a process in careful psychomenal judgement of self and others. Relying simply upon material or moving judgements of others, and ignoring their character and intellectual potential, is bound to failure in human terms. Human beings are fundamentally different evolutionarily, so the rules of fitness are immersed in the culture and spirit of the society.

DESIST IN STAGES

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The ideal solution is to stop masturbation completely at once and immediately. However, pornography consumption and masturbation generate physiological and psychological addictions, which can be complicated by other addictive tendencies with which a person may struggle. In extreme cases, where other solutions have failed, it may be valuable to attempt a tapering off and reconditioning of behavioural patterns. The most important first step is to cease pornography consumption. If this in itself proves difficult, then it can be accomplished with smaller steps. These steps should be obvious, and involve staging into milder content and less impressive media. Another staging can involve separation of the arousal and completion, with consumption of the tamer imagery being reserved for arousal only.

CEASE

Eventually, the masturbation can occur using mental imagery only. Masturbation alone without pornographic consumption is not nearly as terrible for a person, however there are no genuine benefits to it other than potentially enabling somebody to give up pornography. Masturbation in itself does nothing for the primary purposes of sexual intercourse: procreation and maintenance of a relationship at the core of a healthy family unit that supports childhood development. Once the masturbatory activity is accomplished through mental imagery, then ceasing the activity altogether should become much easier, especially with stoical and virtues progression in other areas of life.

Own the nobility at heart, while not forgetting the weakness that pulled you down. That is your new strength, to comprehend the weakness and its origins. This goes for so many selfish activities that have no legitimate benefit for your family, community, nation, or humanity. Disown them however you can, and make them not part of you. Let go of the moving desires. What excites activities to improve life are not those things that cloud the vision of improvement. Love for the self is best expressed through improvement and empowering others to improve. In every activity, it should be considered, how much good is coming from this, and for how many? Distractions abound in order to draw people into consumerism, mostly. However, regardless of intent, much of it can have greater consequences than what first appears.

PROGRESS IN SUMMARY

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A person must want to progress, but this can only come from a recognition of what legitimate progress is, as well as what it means to fail. When failure occurs, it is most important to reside upon how it happened and enact steps to avoid it in the future. This is a godly discourse, and an aspect of divinity granted humanity. Successes must be recognised but this cannot happen if the mind is wrapped up in the desires which are to be overcome. It is true that the successes in overcoming bear little resemblance to the sin. Less materialism leads to greater attachments personally which mean deeper capacities for love both for the individual and society.

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Live and die in the eyes of another as imperfect, or strive for greater alignment with reality? Run from past mistakes in shame and denial or learn from them? This is why it is not enough to simply not see pornography. A person must want to be free. Freedom is the ability to recognise and do good; freedom is in virtues. Desire for true freedom is a divine desire as part of a process toward virtues. Yearning for virtues must be increased beyond material concerns, so that the mind is controlled. It is normal to want the sexual act, but without propriety it can have no limit. The desire for virtues is to do with the place of self in connection to love for the divine, truth, and goodness, which all has to do with recognition of beauty. 

Does the material serve the Spirit only for the Spirit to be forced into subjection in turn? Of course this cannot be. Focus, energy, goodness, spirit, consciousness-subconsciousness, and community are all aligned, and their coincidence is meaningful. Realisation that preoccupations are distortions of the divine mental connection comes with the recognition that such thoughts are outside of the primary purpose in mind. This is another way of saying that great minds think for themselves, greater minds think of others for others, and the greatest minds think of Good for God.

REFERENCES

Roe, M. A. (2023). Resurrexit Spiritus. 24K Journal of Virtues Science. Series 1 Issue 0.

Smart Phones – For Stupid Things

Why did the smart phone need therapy?
Lots of hang-ups left it disconnected. 

Why did the smart phone get arrested?
It faced battery charges.

Why did the smart phone cross the road?
To avoid obsolescence. *’Right to repair’ is the only joke here.

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Without your smart phone, where would you be? Does the thought terrify you? Are you afraid of yourself? Are smart phones actually smart? Do smart phones make us smarter? Or does the presence of smart phones make us less so? Do these devices make us more capable or unnecessarily occupy the massive segment of humanity thus enamoured in trivialities?

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Smart phones are ubiquitous, but does the ubiquity benefit people generally and individually or are these machines a source of unnecessary distractions and frustration, disconnecting people from lived reality? Most people are unaware they have any options in terms of phones, and that they must have a smart phone in order to stay with the times and basically be employable. This is simply not true for the majority of people, however, and many ‘regular’ or ‘non-smart’ phone options remain available at the present moment. If a job requires a smart phone at work, then it should be provided.

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MODERATION VERSUS DISTRACTION

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My phenomenology, Resurrexit Spiritus, suggests meaning in life can best be discovered by seeking after moderation, so as to maximise elevational motivation through the psychomenal activity of erosic judgements (Roe 2023). Psychomenal activity is essential to advancement according to Structural Virtues Theory. Erosic judgements are limited by constant distractions as represented in smart phones, television, and various forms of consumer media. Giving up on smart phones, then, is part of a larger overarching plan of limiting distractions from moderation. If moderation is the goal, a constant distraction should be presumed as an extreme for most people.

PRODUCTIVITY

Computers, in the form of workstations, laptops, and tablets, are already multipurpose enough to negate the value of a powerful tiny cancer generator in the pocket. The actual function of such a conglomeration and centralisation of purposes in a singular device with high processing power ultimately serves intelligence organisations, controlling governments, and snooping corporations more than anybody else. A computer or tablet will provide substantially improved productivity in comparison, whereas most modern ‘regular phones’ can provide a mobile access point (WiFi) for the more productive devices. However even computers and tablets can be used in distracting ways. Time is more valuable than a smart phone, and disowning smart phones is a way of taking back your time and energies.

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ADDICTION

Smart phones are especially designed to be addictive, using algorithms shaped by scientific comprehensions of human behavioural patterns. As you sit there with the smart phone and look at the feed of new posts, imagine diodes connected to you. How would Zuckerberg’s or Elon’s engineering teams interpret the data they might receive from those diodes? It is much easier to get lost in the all too familiar practice of constantly drifting between apps, seeking after the next thrill: that dopamine drip fix ever important to addiction engineers.

Without focus, not much productivity can occur. Without erosic judgement, meaningful connections will not form and internal development will not progress. Social media platforms and many games are designed to alter perceptions and complicate assessing our best interests and those of others accurately. If you did so accurately, you would not spend so much time on the platforms. Very little in electronic media will align with reality and reasonable purposes for the individual within actual community.

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HUMAN CONDITION

Being constantly bombarded by notifications or haunted by the lack of them are states of being debilitating to the human condition. What is the point of the digital life if the actual life it is supposed to reflect pales in comparison? Social media and games present an opportunity to practise our self-control in finding moderation. Surely these things have their purposes but it is important for every person to honestly ask themselves how much is actually necessary to their personal fulfilment in life. The purpose of technology should be to improve the human lived experience. If a technology limits experience, then it is not worthy. The most important element in all of this is the human being, and not just the individual as a factor. Culture and experience permeate upbringing, the coalescence of personality, and all roles taken up or refused within society by the individual. Use of smart phones cut off moments from their place and potential social exchanges in reality. This alienation from self and society causes loss of definition in communion of peer and inter-generational culture. There is less cultural transference, and, therefore less commonality..

BOUNDARIES AND REMEDIATION

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Setting boundaries is an essential part of being a healthy and complete human being. It is too often the case that people know how to set and follow boundaries in relationships, though fail when it comes to distractive media. This in itself limits the degree of success potential with any relationship. The biggest problems with computer technology come from the replacement of in-person social interactions with irrelevant or fictional proxies. It is important to recognise all the ways that technology impairs human life in order to remediate the causes. Smart phones occupy a particularly useless category of technology since these devices do almost nothing better than computers. The few things smart phones can do better than computers are as easily accomplished, and with fewer distractions, with ‘regular phones.’

CONNECTIONS

Cutting out the smart phone lifestyle helps a person connect more fully with their environment and community directly. The social media can wait until you are near your tablet or computer, perhaps it can wait for a specific time of the day or simply less often. Dumb phones are perfectly capable of connecting you to emergency services, family, or friends, if you need them. It is reasonable to limit electronic and screen interactions. Not only are smart phones wasteful of time but also especially expensive relative to their power and size. Reserving electronics usage to computer technologies with track records for creative and effective output assures greater productivity.

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Conceptual image of a person holding a smartphone labeled 'GAMERS' with chained hands.

SUMMARY

It is very easy for human beings to become distracted. This has become increasingly the case with the ubiquity of addictive and distractive technologies. These technologies are not going to change unless there is impressive demand demonstrated to manufacturers and software developers. Nobody trusts products that teach people to be less productive or which are designed to distract and cause addiction. It is quite plain to see that the current scenario cannot continue, and one will be part of changing things if capable of putting the phone down, or even losing it entirely.

REFERENCES

Roe, M. A. (2023). Resurrexit Spiritus: Spiritual Phenomenology, Evolution of Spirit, First Other Theory of Fatherhood Attachment, and Structural Virtues System. 24K Journal of Virtues Science, s1i0.

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