A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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In this world... there are the people who persevere, and the people who compromise enroute. The former exists in a degree of difficulty until the point is made. The latter live in a constant state of bilious anger. They grow into curmudgeons by a process very similar to the growing of mushrooms. They cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be appeased. They hate others and they hate life because they quit on it, and the real and living part of them, will... not... let... them... forget... it.

In order to thrive in this world, you have to transcend above the dance of Good and Evil... above what is moving and what is stuck... beyond the ring-around-the-rosey reindeer games of The World. Everything and nothing changes in The World; fashions... styles... trends... and patterns... are always rotating in and out of favor. At the same time... they are nothing more than old wine in new bottles... same shit... different day.

If you are going to SINCERELY seek The Truth, The World is going to turn on you, and all the people who compromised their integrity... for a place at the trough... are going to scream at you and call you names. This is known as projection, and you can almost always tell what is wrong with someone by the things they accuse you of... because if they were doing what they thought you were doing... that is what it would look like to them.