ruminations

Can we control or dictate wants, desires, and motivations? Are they hardwired?
Ultimately, possibly. But one cannot confuse the means and the ends. Do wants, desires, motivations simply function as means, driving us toward the assimilation of thoughts and actions, or are they ends in themselves? If the latter, hope may be out of arms reach.

Can one know an idea by another name? Certainly; as well as objects, subjects and places.
Jesus is a name. Existing ethereally, Can one know know Jesus, his message and power, before knowing his name? The concept accompanying the name Jesus exists simply as a universally magnetic idea containing commonalities.

Personal development- designing, constructing, and programming the brain, the psyche, the path that is life.
All is hinged on wants, desires, longings- demands- real or perceived. One must subjugate the mind’s chaff, manipulate the content of experience, promulgate explicit ends and judicate the means.

Computers- why they can disadvantageous: computers can foster limited analytic reasoning, in so far as the user explores the bounds of the computing system, but one can go no further. These systems are closed, precognized and therefore require no creative acts from the user. With persistence, one simply pushes his/her way around until the parameters become known. It places the mind in a cage, so to speak, which limits unknowns and, as a result, the freedom to creatively respond to those unknowns.

You possess your thoughts; do not let your thoughts possess you

Live rich in spirit