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February 22, 2022

Stay away from arrogance

Stay away from arrogance, your own and that of others.

Some people never reach their breaking point, but we are all capable of doing so. Everyone has a breaking point, a point when they are willing to rebel or break the law. A breaking point may be caused by their frustrations or created by their ego or generated by their insecurities. The root reasons for most people “going off the deep end” are money, love or drugs. The words rebellion or rebel do not carry a judgment, because they can be a good or a bad action. “Rebel Without a Cause” is a good indication and example. In all rebellions there is a good side and a bad side. How do you tell what is a good rebellion and what is bad? For a rational person, the answer is; how many people are hurt and how many are helped? Majority rules should be the answer. You should never be bothered by being in the minority. The fringe ideas often are proven correct and eventually adopted into society and government, but the moment you start violence then you are automatically wrong. I, myself, I have been against the majority several times in my life, but I have held my hand that holds the hammer, to wait for the time when I could use it to build, not to break.

Your ego can do good things for you and bad things for you, your family and friends. Don’t be an ass and then later look into the mirror and see the ass you were.

The more you give to another person, and this is a statistical fact, the more you will receive over what you would have gained by screwing them.