First Rule: People are Stupid
People can be made to believe any lie because they want to believe it is true, or because they are afraid that it is true.
I.E. If, for example, someone in your family was ill, and the phone rang and I picked it up and told you it was the hospital, and that that certain family member had died. You would most likely believe me because you were afraid that it was true.
That doesn't mean that its actually true, or that I was even telling the truth, but your mind would most likely believe me anyway. It's just the way we think.
Second Rule: The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
Even if you have the greatest of intentions in mind while doing something, the outcome can still be unpredictable and deadly.
I.E. Say, for example, you and two of your friends were walking on some kind of high bridge, and both of you friends lost their balance. You lean over the edge and grasp one arm of each friend. But they are too heavy and they both fall.
See, even though you had the best intentions in mind by trying to save them both, together they were too heavy, and so they both died. If you had only tried to save one, at least one would be alive.
Thats what makes this rule one of the most difficult to follow. We can never really know when we are violating it until its already too late.
Third Rule: Passion Rules Reason.
I.E. In the heat of the moment, or in a stressful situation we sometimes let our emotions rule our decisions instead of reason.
Take for example a deranged boyfriend doing something crazy just because he got dumped by his girlfriend. If he would have just taken time to calm down, he probably could of used his reasoning skills to think of a better solution.
Fourth Rule: There is magic in sincere forgiveness.
"Magic to heal. In the forgiveness you grant, and more so in the forgiveness that you receive."
I.E. If you have a long, drawn out quarrel with someone it can build up inside you, and you can even feel it inside, slowly gaining pressure. And sometimes, when you grant that person forgiveness, you feel all the stress life from you, and you finally feel better.
Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
I.E. Even if someone tells you one thing, such as your hair looks nice, you could later find out that you had a piece of string stuck in you hair, and that person was lying to you.
So don't take a person's word at face value.
Sixth Rule: The only sovereign we can allow to rule us is reason.
The first law of reason states that what exists exists, what is is. And from this irreducible bedrock principle all knowledge is gained.
I.E. This means that where as some people wish something to be so it not necessarily is, If you start thinking that your wishes are true you are doomed to fail. Always realize that reason above all else is truth.
Seventh Rule: Life is the future, not the past
The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings, we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices
Eighth Rule: Talga Vassternich.
Deserve Victory.
Ninth Rule: A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy - to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. A thing is what it is, it is itself. There can be no contradictions.
Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.
In reality, contradictions cannot exist. To believe in them you must abandon the most important thing you possess: your rational mind. The wager for such a bargain is your life. In such an exchange, you always lose what you have at stake.
Tenth Rule: Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.
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