The Uses and Disadvantages of Envy or Jealousy.

The positive use of Envy appears when one sees a skill or product that someone else has and it motivates one to pursue with vigour the achievement or obtaining of the product or level of skill presented before one's self in short this it the spark of ambition to be better than before that can come from without oneself. The detrimental use of Envy is to attempt to disparage the person with superior ability or achievement by way of the very advantage the other has over the accuser. This sort of behaviour is a cowardly resentment of those who do not conform to the lowest common example drawn from the morass of the accuser's clique of associates. To the one derided it shows only weakness and the pathos of distance between themselves and the All-Too-Human. Another disadvantage has already been well explored by Peter H. Gilmore in his essay Green Eyed Hamsters in The Satanic Scriptures. It would do one well to pick up his work for a further explanation which I can only aspire to the level of skill of his writing. When I read this book I am inspired to improve myself as a writer.

Take what you can of use from this and work to improve your own life.

Anger without fear.

When are the times of life's situations in which anger is not only proper but, virtuous? As a reactive force against violations against the self and those one has affection for or the homeland ect. As an active force which may be directed away from the cause or directed at the self for not performing as well as desired can be a source of motivation to perform better in one's own world-view. In the former case this is what motivates people to embrace military and legal professions including law enforcement. In this case without anger our world would be a much more dangerous place to exist in as civil society would be reduced to the Anarchist position of no plans and no future, viz. The libertine with the most physical force behind their whim would rule as a despot in the microcosm. The second form is less obvious but, none the less important, perhaps more so. This for form of anger it becomes a motivation toward continual improvement. No books bought from a store on self-improvement can ever equal the power of anger harnessed to motivate oneself to strive further in the same way that pride operates in this domain. One must first become dissatisfied with the present and move toward the better (no matter the circumstance or attribute) with the power of anger or pride the active will charges forth headlong at this goal and through the determination of the will-to-power applied rather than sublimated the person achieves and sometimes exceeds their goal originally. In that last the person will find this victory over situations/self to be addicting causing the desire for more improvement and hence the loop that eventually results in the Ubermenschen in the proper sense. I use the plural with the German term because I do not wish to single out any individual or gender as outstanding in opposition or to the detriment of anyone else. In the proper sense the Ethical Egoist is completely unconcerned with relation to another as a method of evaluation as is tends to degenerate rather than uplift standards driven by the self.

If you find yourself angry or proud after reading this, do something useful with it for your own self-interest which are sanctioned by the laws of society and self. With this feeling behind you after doing that useful something make a note of it and what you have gained, this will remind you of your achievements and show where you've progressed from that moment.

Recovering lost concepts.

Since the rise of christianity western culture has forgotten three vital parts of the past which make Ethical Egoism nearly incomprehensible to the normal person within these societies. The first of these great treasures purposefully neglected was the concept of "Duties to Self". Not just the basics of mere survival but, to love oneself in order that one may be capable of even the smallest bit of actual kindness to another being. The list of these is different by various philosophers from the pre-christian eras however, the one listed makes actual christianity possible. The second concept lost was that forgiveness was not free, one had to earn the way back into the grace of the one they had offended, the confessional gave way to the laziness of letting injustice and churlish behaviour being given a reprieve because of misplaced empathy. With that loss came the increase of reprehensible acts and finger pointing to attempt to justify offending by pointing at the imperfections in the offended which is of course absurd. The third was Conditional Love and the value of it. People who claim to love without conditions are many those who try to practise this nonsense find that there is no standards when evaluating another person. This pseudo-love destroys the natural estimations we make in how a person is to be considered of worth. Conditional Love rests on the premise that virtue must be given it's due in affect and effect of reward while vice cast away from the self and shunned generally. These concepts apply to any morality one may choose to adopt in one's life, quality over quantity in all things friends.

Make Haste Slowly.

Writing appreciated for once.

Sometimes as a writer you get the feeling that you'll be dead a few centuries before anyone cares about your work. I suppose an type of artist or intellectual can get the feeling so it's not exclusive to writers. The success I've had writing for the Star Wars Legacy Era Role Play has been a good counter to that feeling. Wisdom of today imparted. Don't let the momentary lack of attention to your work distract you from the quality of the results.