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Written and Arranged by Neil R. Miller
© 1991, 1992, 1997
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III. Just A Little Mathematics
V. Truth Clearly Defined as an Obvious-to-All Matter
VI. Perception Defined Equally Easily
VII. Lying About What One Understands
VIII. Excellent Intelligence Is a Learned Skill, Aquirable At Any Age
IX. On Conversations
XI. Life and Death
2. Things Can Work Out Well All Around
3. Work Out Well Is Easily And Universally Defined
4. A Cooperative, Caretaking System Evolved As The Basic Human Structure
6. The Only Way The 'Commonly Stated Ideas' Are Defended Is By Claiming That 'Nothing Means Anything'
8. The High Level Patterns Of Life Are Sometimes Called Science And Sometimes Called God
15. The Major Difficulty Is An Unlikely And Correctable Anomaly
21. That Which Is True Is Unchanging And Sometimes Different From What Appears To Be True
22. The Truth Is A Different Entity From Perception
26. Scientific Proof Is An Absolutely Definable And Concrete Substance
28. People Often Insist That They Believe Things That They Do Not Believe
34. Reaching Accurate Conclusions Requires Taking Into Account Many Factors
35. Increased Understanding In A Solving Direction Makes Life More Interesting
37. Every Person's Overall Evaluating System Involves Three Systems Working Together
39. Cognition Judgment Is One Third Of Everyone's Basic Thinking System
40. Imagination Is One Third Of Everyone's Basic Thinking System
42. Every Person's Operations Are Influenced By Other People
44. Destructive Influences Are Usually Arranged Outside The Person's Awareness
45. To Manipulate Means To Influence Another Person In A Dishonest Manner
47. It Is Useful To Understand Specifically What Is Being Stated
50. "Personality", That Is, Behavioral Structure For Seeking Protection, Is Precisely Definable
54. Unawareness Of An Internal Pattern Generally Makes That Pattern More Rigid
PERCEPTION OF REALITY, And
VERBAL REPORT OF PERCEPTION OF REALITY,
The great problem that we all face is the lack of match-up between a speaker's perception of reality (no. 2 above) and that person's verbal report of their perception of reality.
When a listener's (or reader's) second hand knowledge of reality does not match up with actual reality, because they are being deliberately lied to, then, their understanding of the world, high and low, spins into inaccuracy, spins awry, spins into a criminal insanity.
Indeed, the toxin of "dishonestly reported information" (being lied to), is, like cyanide or plutonium, a universal human toxin, quite literaly, in the medical sense of the word, and in fact, it is, by far, the deadliest toxin this planet has ever faced.
Furthermore, the mentally deranging effect of being lied to, is the same whether the listener is a corporate titan, or among the most impoverished, and, all those in-between as well.
In short, it is not a person's first hand perceptions that make them crazy, no no, quite the contrary. Rather, it is being lied to; it is second-hand information being dishonestly presented, that drives people insane, criminally insane, and drives the world to an entirely unnecessary,, entirely preventable, and entirely reversable work-out-poorly continuation.
A dishonest report of perception is a substance that disorganizes the mind of the listener (or reader), deranges their mind if they believe the report to be honest, and exhausts them if they know that they are being lied to. In both cases, whether the listener does, or does not, know they're being lied to; in both cases the listener becomes sickened, becomes ill, mentally. If they realize they're being lied to, the illness is temporary, but if the listener does not realize they are being lied to, they develop a chronic, mental disease.
The honest person, on the other hand, in projecting accurate, useful, and relevant information, especially if it's new, is projecting powerful nutrients, which organize the liar's mind, and make them stronger, brighter, more powerful.
Thus, the dishonest person is expelling toxins and absorbing nutrients, and therein getting stronger and stronger, and more and more sure that he or she is operating in the proper mode.
Meanwhile, the honest person is absorbing toxins, and spending nutrients, and getting weaker and weaker, and becoming more and more uncertain, or enraged, certainly distraught, unconsciously or consciously.
So the dishonest person, the liar and thief, gets stronger and stronger, while the honest person, the creator, the generator, gets weaker and weaker.
The solution to the puzzle, is the presence of honest, alert, and active - although 'out of the fray' - observers.
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I. The High Level Patterns
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I. The High Level Patterns1. The Major Patterns Of Life Can Be Accurately Sorted Out
5. Every Person Has An Ideological View
7. Biology, And Life, Consists Of A Small Group Of 'Forces Of Physics' Out Of A Much Larger Group Which Is Present In The Universe
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II. Good and Bad, Right and Wrong, The Meaning of Life;
All Very Simple, Clearcut, Obvious, and Same for Everyone
14. The 90% Problem Is Defined As 'Humans-Thwarting-Humans'
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III. Just A Little Mathematics
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IV. Hierarchy is Good
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V. Truth Clearly Defined as an Obvious-to-All Matter20. The Truth Is Singular, Never Changes, Is The Same For Everyone
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VI. Perception Defined Equally Easily
25. Everyone Routinely Reads Other Peoples' Thoughts
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VII. Lying About What One Understands
27. Verbal Report Of Perception Of Reality, Perception Of Reality, And Reality Are Three Different Things
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VIII. Excellent Intelligence Is a Learned Skill, Aquirable At Any Age
32. Excellent Intelligence Is A Learned Skill
36. Thinking Involves Three Systems Working Together
38. Attachment Judgment Is One Third Of Everyone's Basic Thinking System
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IX. On Conversations
41. People Are Influenced By Other People
43. People Become Destructive As A Result Of Being Urged To Do So, However Covertly
48. People Often Direct Their Pain Towards, And Even Destroy, The Least Damaging Persons Because They Are The Most Receptive
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X. On Protection
49. Thoughts, Feelings, Emotions Are Specific, Definable Entities
53. A Person Being Aware Of The Influences On Them Allows The Person To Adjust Those Influences
55. A Person Can Change Their High Level Framework, Easily With Good Protection, And With Difficulty Otherwise
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The structure of logical levels
is easily understood: many
different things of a similar
sort (type one) discerned,
selected from, and organized
together (type two) into a single
"higher level" system (type
three). It's easy to learn and as
simple as simple arithmetic, and
as important or more important
for reaching clear, accurate,
everyday, life and death
conclusions and decisions.
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Framework of 'Framework' of
Paradigm From California Commonly Believed Ideas
Things can work out well all around. Some people are always going to do
badly; that's just the way things are.
Work out well is easily and Work out well is different for each
universally defined. person.
'Right and wrong' can be clearly and 'Right and wrong' is different for
consistently defined. everyone. What's good for one is
sometimes bad for the other; that's
just in the nature of life.
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No in-betweens are possible.
No 'a little of this and a little of that'.
Any combination of points from one side and the other results in inaccuracy and nonsense.
As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.
Paradigm From California Commonly Believed Ideas
A cooperative, caretaking system The basis of evolution is competition,
evolved as the basic human structure. and man, as part of nature, is
basically a competitive creature.
The term 'meaning of life" means The term "meaning of life" is just
building, healing, or caretaking. some vague thing that's probably a
hoax anyway.
The 90% problem currently facing every There's lots of problems, and people
person can be identified as thwarting or hurting other people is
'humans-thwarting-humans'. just the way things are, that's all.
The major difficulty that our species The reason why things go badly for
experiences, people is that life is just like that,
"people-thwarting-people", is an that's all; it's built into biology or
unlikely and correctable anomaly. genetics or something.
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Excellent intelligence is a learned Some people are just smart and some
skill and, under encouraging or work people aren't; that's all. It's
out well circumstances, can be learned something you are born with or
or accessed at any age. conditioned for when you are young.
The overall purpose for figuring The main purpose of sorting things out
things out is to find a way wherein is because it's fun or interesting.
things can work out well all around
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No 'a little of this and a little of that'.
Any combination of points from one side and the other results in inaccuracy and nonsense.
As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.
Paradigm From California Commonly Believed Ideas
Intelligence means putting a lot of Intelligence means being quick-witted,
different and seemingly contradictory or clever, or knowing a lot of things.
information together into a system
whereby things work out well all
around.
Reaching conclusions requires taking You reach conclusions by choosing this
into account many factors. thing or that thing or by believing
this person or that person.
A person figures out what is accurate The only way a person can decide what
by carefully evaluating many different is true is by believing whatever they
sorts of things, side by side, using happen to think or by believing
the understanding that something is someone they trust.
singularly true, that is, that there
is some fact regarding the subject at
hand that is absolute, never changing,
and the same for everyone.
Figuring out things makes things very Figuring out things makes everything
simple. very complicated.
Increased understanding in a solving If you understand things, it takes the
direction makes life more interesting. mystery out of life.
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The truth is a different entity from The only things you can know is what
perception. you perceive so you couldn't ever tell
that there was any difference between
truth and perception.
Unlike the truth itself, perception of The truth and perception are, in the
truth is a matter of very high end, basically the same thing.
likelihood.
More than 99% of the perceptions that Everyone perceives things differently
any person has are accurate renditions from everyone else.
of the truth and almost all such
perceptions are understood in the same
way by everyone.
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No in-betweens are possible.
No 'a little of this and a little of that'.
Any combination of points from one side and the other results in inaccuracy and nonsense.
As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.
Paradigm From California Commonly Believed Ideas
Persons who claim to believe that It is perfectly sane, reasonable, and
there is no such thing as absolute sincere to claim to believe that there
truth while at the same time claiming is no such thing as absolute truth, or
that something is true, usually appear that one doesn't know whether absolute
very confident while relying on the truth exists or not, while at the same
arguments of above parties who, time claiming that something is true.
unbeknownst to them, do not exist. Further, there are people at high
levels of academic, scientific,
intellectual, or spiritual life who
could back that up in a confident or
reasonable way when faced with the
statements in the left hand columns.
Persons who operate from an Persons who actually believe that the
understanding that the truth is truth is singular and absolute are
absolute often appear nervous and naive, deluded, mistaken, dishonest,
unconfident while relying on a set of psychotic, or uninformed.
high level patterns that have been
central to life for five billion
years, are present within every
individual, and are referred to every
minute of every individual's daily
life.
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Biology, and life, consists of a small Life is just everything or life is too
group of 'forces of physics' out of a broad or too vague a concept to really
much larger group present in the say, exactly, what it's made up of.
universe.
The high level patterns of life are Science is looking at specific little
sometimes called science and sometimes things and you can't define what God
called God. is. As for high level patterns,
that's all too vague to ever be really
defined.
In life, most things, especially most Nothing lasts forever.
good things, last forever. That is
meant in the practical, scientific,
and literal sense, in letter and
spirit.
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No in-betweens are possible.
No 'a little of this and a little of that'.
Any attempt to combine points from the two frameworks results in inaccuracy and nonsense
As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter;
in or out, black and white, take it or leave it, no middle ground. The distinction
is absolute.
Paradigm From California Commonly Believed Ideas
Events of the past are set and cannot History can be rewritten.
change.
Nothing is inevitable; the future is Whatever is set to happen is going to
not set. happen; there's nothing anyone can do
to change it.
At any given moment, it's too late for It's too late. Or alternatively, it's
some things and not too late for never too late.
others.
Out of all the thousands of Out of all the thousands of
continuations that could come to pass, continuations that could come to pass,
there are a very few, perhaps one out there are none by which things can
of thousands, by which things can work work out well all around.
out well all around. High level
biological patterns, including human
thinking processes, were specifically
designed, through evolution, to find
that work-out-well-all-around pathway.
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Every person has an ideological view. Some people have an ideology and some
people don't.
A person can change their high level Some people are just too rigid to be
framework, easily with good able to change their high level
protection, and with difficulty framework of understanding and other
otherwise. people don't even have such a
framework.
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No in-betweens are possible.
No 'a little of this and a little of that'.
Any attempt to combine points from the two frameworks results in inaccuracy and nonsense.
As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.
Paradigm From California Commonly Believed Ideas
The "Commonly Understood Beliefs" The "Commonly Understood Beliefs"
framework, illuminated in the right framework listed in these right-hand
hand columns was designed, through columns is just the way life is.
evolution, for unthinking reactive
behavior under rare, alone, and tragic
circumstances; it was not designed for
evaluation and problem-solving.
The "Paradigm From California" The "Paradigm From California"
framework, illuminated in these framework, listed in the left hand
left-hand columns, was designed columns, doesn't mean anything; just a
through evolution as the thinking, bunch of gibberish or just someone's
evaluating, and problem-solving system opinion.
for Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
The only way the 'Commonly Understood Well, in the end, nothing really means
Ideas', those in the right hand anything, life is just an illusion.
columns, are defended is by claiming The best you can ever do is just think
that 'nothing means anything'. whatever happens to come into your
mind and say whatever you feel like.
The Commonly Understood Ideas The reason why a person gets so very
framework operates, metaphorically confused when they try to figure out
speaking, as "sand in the gears of a the basic reasons for things and
person's intellect". The Paradigm figure a work out well pathway is
From California framework is the because life is just confusing and
structure designed through evolution there are no real solutions.
to allow a person to access their
intelligence.
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Everyone routinely reads other You can't really read another person's
peoples' thoughts. mind.
More than 90% of all human interaction People don't like it when you try to
involves people attempting to read their mind.
accurately read the mind of another
person and attempts to make one's own
mind accurately readable.
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No 'a little of this and a little of that'.
Any attempt to combine points from the two frameworks results in inaccuracy and nonsense.
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People often insist that they believe When a person says they think
things that they do not believe. something, you just have to believe
that they really think it.
Claiming to believe something one does Claiming to believe something one does
not believe is an extremely not believe doesn't have any
destructive activity. particular effect on anything, one way
or the other.
Unwise to make explanations to a If a person's not being honest, best
person who speaks dishonestly about to just explain to them what's really
what they understand the case to be. true.
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The truth is singular, never changes, The truth of something can be
is the same for everyone. different for different people, it
changes, antd there can be many
truths.
That which is true is unchanging and Everything changes, and anyway,
is sometimes different from what talking about the difference between
appears to be true. what looks like it's true and what's
really true is just trickster talk, or
"philosophical" meanderings.
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No in-betweens are possible.
No 'a little of this and a little of that'.
Any attempt to combine points from the two frameworks results in inaccuracy and
nonsense.
As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.
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Every person's thinking system and You can't really define how people
overall evaluating system involves think about things or nail down
three systems working together. exactly what thinking is or what it's
made up of.
Attachment judgment is one third of Some people just follow other people
the basic structure of everyone's and some people think for themselves.
internal thinking and evaluation Anyway, you can't divide up parts of a
system. person's thinking processes that way.
Cognition judgment is one third of Cognition judgment is just some vague
everyone's basic thinking system. concept or is just a 'trick' with
words.
Imagination is one third of everyone's Imagination has nothing to do with
basic thinking system. thinking but is just things that you
make up.
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The major patterns of life can be There are no major patterns, and even
accurately sorted out. if there were, you couldn't sort them
out. Maybe God could, but only an
egotist would think that a person
could do it.
Thoughts, feelings, emotions are Thoughts, feelings, and emotions are
specific, definable, measurable way too vague to identify and measure
entities. like you can measure a quart of water
or a block of wood.
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No 'a little of this and a little of that'.
Any attempt to combine points from the two frameworks results in inaccuracy and nonsense.
As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.
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Hierarchy is structural to biology and Hierarchy is necessarily harmful to
human life and proper arrangement of persons in lower hierarchical
hierarchical relations can engender positions but is necessary, or,
people at all levels having roughly alternatively, people can live without
equal strength, satisfaction, health, hierarchy.
and intelligence.
Survivable hierarchical relations Hierarchy means people at the top have
involves protection and security it good and people at the bottom are
mostly going down the hierarchy and powerless and have a bad time of it,
anxiety (pain and difficulty) mostly that's all.
going up the hierarchy.
Freedom means unhindered caretaking Freedom means being able to do
that goes well. whatever you want.
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Every person's thoughts, emotions, and You can't really influence another
operations are influenced by other person; everything they think or do is
people. just their own decision. People just
do what they're going to do and it
has nothing to do with influences on
them.
Every person has a certain amount of People are totally caught up in
internally controllable, circumstances beyond their control and
decision-making power over themselves do not have influence upon the events
and the world around them. in the world around them or even upon
themselves.
Although there are things that are not Life is just contradictory, that's
yet understood, that is, are still to all.
be figured out, there are no
fundamental contradictions among life
on this planet.
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No 'a little of this and a little of that'.
Any attempt to combine points from the two frameworks results in inaccuracy and nonsense.
As regards this question of frameworks, it is a one way or the other matter.
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"Personality", that is, a particular "Personality" is far too vague a
individual's behavioral structure for concept to ever be precisely definable
seeking protection, is precisely in the specific sense that a table or
definable. a tree can be defined.
A person's confidence in themself Confidence comes from a lot of things;
comes mostly from their perceived you can't say that one thing or the
ability to get protection. other is mostly what it comes from.
'Mental disorder' comes from a person 'Mental disorder' has a wide variety
not believing they can get protection of causes including genetic causes and
for their caretaking. its real causes can not be precisely
identified.
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Logical Types and Logical Levels is a Logical Types and Logical Levels is
simple, easily understandable concept. way too complicated for an ordinary
person to understand.
It is useful to understand Best to just grasp a sense of what
specifically what is being stated and someone is saying and forget the
the context in which it is being specifics. Or, alternatively, best to
stated. just get the specific information and
forget the overall point.
People become destructive as a result People become destructive because they
of being urged to do so, however just want to, or because they don't
covertly. know any better; it has nothing to do
with anyone else.
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No 'a little of this and a little of that'.
Any attempt to combine points from the two frameworks results in inaccuracy and nonsense.
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Sometimes, a person will make a People just say things that they
statement in order to specifically think; that's all. You can't say that
influence another person in a damaging there are these complicated motives.
way, then will deny having made the
statement.
To manipulate means to influence To manipulate means to change things
another person in a dishonest manner. in a way that another person doesn't
like.
Destructive influences are usually A person cannot be influenced to think
arranged outside the person's or act in some way or other unless
awareness. they want to be influenced in that
way.
Unawareness of an internal pattern Internal patterns may not even really
generally makes that pattern more exist, but anyway, if they did, if you
rigid. can't even see them, you can't really
say what's going to effect them.
A person being aware of the influences The influences on a person is a vague
on them allows the person to adjust matter that you can't really nail down
those influences. exactly, and you