My goodness, I hear tails of woe from all directions these days. Hey, gang, we are supposed to be Satanists! Don't you know that the bottom line of a Satanist is to look out for themselves first? Right! What do the Scrolls teach? We create strong foundations on solid rock and then build whatever we want upon them. You bet! The foundation is all important, and we are the strong foundation- the bottom line.
Sure, we live, laugh, love and be happy, but only to a certain extent. We are not stupid, gullible or trusting. We are realists who plan our lives according to the best and most proven strategies. We preserve our foundation, our base, and then do the best we can with our superstructures. However, if we have a strong foundation built on solid rock, any superstructure we might build upon it will fare just fine. Failure only comes when our foundation is weak or compromised to begin with.
The reason many people fail is that they build their
foundation upon someone else's rock. That seldom
works out well. Anything outside of ourselves is
strictly transient and could crumble and blow away in
the wind at any time. Don't kid yourself. If you
doubt that, just look around you. For example, just
look at the current stock market debacle!
Just look at how many people built their superstructures on other people's rocks! People who bought into the stock and commodities markets on the rising tide, lost their assets big time. I follow the market like so many other things, and I warned everyone I knew to bail out of the Stock Market before November of last year. Too bad they didn't listen to this old country boy.
I had the knowing that the market would tumble just after the election of 2,000, and sure enough it did. Of course, you don't have to be too bright to know that an over-inflated stock market would crash at the end of a democratic presidency. Simply studying history will give unmistakable clues about that. Remember the Scrolls teaching? "Study the past to know the future." Those who fail to do so will pay the price of failure and loss like lemmings running toward a sea of destruction.
The market was built upon Clinton's liberal bullshit, and when he bailed out, the country's financial ship sunk with all hands aboard. My, but it's fun to watch them tap dance. You bet, I sold all my stocks at the end of last summer before the election fears took hold. I'm solvent and don't owe anyone a dime. That, my friends is the way it's supposed to be. My foundation is still intact and ready to go again.
However, the time isn't right to reinvest just yet, as the market will still flounder for the next couple quarters. Better to do something else with the money for now. There is going to be a lot of sorting out to come. That sucker hasn't hit bottom yet.
Another bone of contention is personal relationships. Way too many people build their superstructures on another's foundation, and more often than not, that foundation is built on sand. Actually such foundations are mostly built upon fantasy, whim or lust, none of which is all that stable. So, is it all that surprising when relationships fail? Not at all! Relationships are external and therefore transient.
Today, any human relationship that lasts longer then seven or eight years is the exception, not the rule. Just look at the statistics. Why is that? People change- it's as simple as that. We are not the same persons we were seven or eight years ago. In fact, there is not a cell in our body remaining after seven years. It's called regeneration.
Like making copies, every time our bodies regenerate, some cell memory is lost. Not only do we look different and feel different, but we are different- even our thinking changes. We regenerate eight or ten times, and then we crap out as our bodies can't remember how to regenerate ourselves as we once were. <.p>
Our wants, needs and desires change too. What was wonderful a decade ago is of little interest now. Think about it. Our emotional ideas on beauty, desirability, spirituality, philosophy, compatibility, harmony and whatever also change. Everyday, we learn more, and our perceptions change. So do our opinions and expectations. It takes different stuff to make us grin. That is one reason why people grow apart. People don't often grow in lock step.
Another reason is that often, people just don't need each other anymore. Often, one partner no longer fulfills the needs of the other. Add to that the fact there is no financial necessity or other mitigating survival reasons for maintaining the relationship so the foundation crumbles.
Impending doom rises to the surface as a vague shadow of uneasiness and dissatisfaction that tends to grow over a period of time that takes anywhere from weeks to months to fully materialize. But materialize it does until the realization focuses and the rift widens. At this point, unless some powerful reason or checkmate is found to preserve the relationship, failure will usually result. It's as easy as that.
Who is at fault? The answer is clouded- everybody and nobody. Things change. Today, not even the rocks last forever. Sorry folks, it's time to face reality.
According to statistics, at this point there isn't a fix for the problem as the differences between the partners have grown too great, and often the players begin to create further problems. Add to this the underlying tension which breeds dissention, argument and even dislike. Hatred would probably be a better word. Situations are manufactured and expanded until the relationship becomes intolerable.
If you have built your life on another person's foundation, you have screwed up, and you will suffer for it. It is well to be cognizant of that fact right from the get go! What to do? Just use common sense. Live, laugh, love and be happy, but only invest five percent of your heart into any relationship. Keep the other ninety-five percent for yourself.
Build your life on your own foundation, and maintain your personal, emotional, philosophical, spiritual and financial identity. That way, should your relationship fail, you won't lose your assets and can go again with a minimum of discomfort. What's the bottom line? "To thine own self be true!"
