Today I'll talk to you on a very sensitive subject. It's something I thought M.J. DeMarco was going to cover in Unscripted . While reading Unscripted I could feel the chapter coming on this topic but it never did.
For those who have read unscripted you know the book is about breaking your social conditioning. The conditioning forced on you from the moment you were born. The strongest social conditioning comes from friends and family, education, corporate, financial, government, media.
MJ called this the seeders.
Friends and family conditioning is a sub conditioning of education, corporate, financial, government, and media seeders. That's because you're parents were condition by them when they were younger. The ideas planted in them by the dominant seeders were passed down and reinforced on you. They'll parrot what they heard from the seeders because that's what they were thought. But they are the ones that enforce the conditioning because social bonds are stronger than institutional loyalty. This is the hardest conditioning to break because you have trust in those closest to you. It's painful to go against them and alienate yourself.
The most dominant seeder is the corporate seeder. If you read the history of the early 1900's robber barons you'll see how the USA government was influenced by them. JP Morgan had to bail out the government in 1893. And the US government allowed them to create the federal reserve system. Completely outsourcing the nation's banking system. The first draft of the federal reserve took place in Jekyll Island. This lead to the creation of the federal reserve system and the IRS. It solidified the influence of corporations in the government. The federal reserve system is a private company and they loan their money to the government.
The second dominant seeder is the government. They are under the corporate seeders and they are the ones that pass the laws. Political condition makes you think that politicians are working on your behalf. But we all know how it goes. You elect someone that promises you great things. Along the way this promises get broken and four years later a new person comes along promising change. You get excited and vote him into office. And the story repeats itself. They provide you with a two-party system so you can duke it out with the opposing side. While you're busy fighting over your political ideologies both parties make plans and shake hands behind the scenes.
The third dominant seeder is the education seeder. School conditioning takes between 12 to 16 years to be imprinted in your mind. Our modern school system came from Prussia. The Prussian education system was created to turn poor people into soldiers. Than they were sent to fight the wars of the ruling class. Now it's used to make poor people work for the rich. Schooling is a sub seeder of the government because now kids are forced to attend school. Truancy laws guarantee the conditioning. Homeschooling was a lot more popular before the 1900s in the USA.
The fourth dominant seeder is the media. A sub seeder of the corporate seeder. Corporations are the ones that pay ad revenue to the entertainment industry. It only makes sense that they fund those that will push their agenda. This one is the easiest conditioning to break. Just stop consuming mainstream media. It's that simple just turn off the T.V. Mainstream media consists of two fields of study, cybernetics and propaganda. Both fields were heavily funded by corporations right after world war 1. Cybernetics deals with the control of humans as machines. Before the TV became a household staple the seeders were already figuring out how to use it to condition the population. Propaganda is what is known today as marketing. It's used to influence you through information. The media is used by seeders to divert your attention from important political events. Identity politics and social media were a godsend for the seeders. While you're busy arguing over pronouns, which toilet to use or what a drawing of a green frog means they're busy committing crimes against humanity.
Finally, the fifth most dominant seeder is the financial seeder. Your financial conditioning is coming from all the other seeders. Corporations tell you that working for them for life will make you more money. The government tells you that spending money on their programs will make you even more money. The education seeders tell you that college will make you more money. Now the government and education seeders are the same because your college loans come from the government, who get it from corporate banks. The media tells you that buying songs, movies, games, and merchandise will make you happier thus making you more money somehow? LOL. Friends and family, well they'll just tell you what the other seeders told them. It all comes full circle. M.J.'s book the Millionaire Fastlane will help you break this conditioning.
Ok, we got that out of the way. Here's what you came for and it's the one thing missing from Unscripted .
Religion
Before you proceed any further I must warn you that this post will take a critical look at religion. It will be an objective assessment of religious conditioning. I don't want this post to get deleted by the mods when people start flagging it.
Moving On.
The Religious Seeder is the one thing missing from Unscripted . Breaking the religious conditioning might be one of the hardest to break, right behind familial conditioning.
I can understand why no one would touch on this subject in any self-help book.
Why?
Because there are so many religions and religion is one of the most personal identities people hold on to. All other labels people place on themselves are superficial in comparison to their faith.
A self-help writer that mentions religious conditioning would alienate the majority of his audience. It's a subject that people automatically raise their shields up when criticized. It's an emotional response even if the criticism is warranted. People still feel as if you are attacking them personally.
Religion like most conditioning is emotional. There is no logical thinking that can break religious conditioning. Tell someone to audit their religion for any bad financial advice and you might as well have asked them to renounce their faith.
I'll use Christianity as an example. And just for the record, I have no qualms with Christianity. Christianity is a good framework on morality for the majority of the population. The church is one of the few places where communities still come together. I'll be using it as an example because it's the dominant religion in the western world. Most people on this board will be familiar with the examples given. For real though, I am not trying to convert you or make you renounce your faith.
Let's begin.
The most popular bad financial advice from the Bible is that a camel can pass through the eye of a needle easier than a rich man reaching heaven. If you're serious about going to heaven you would avoid being rich.
Secondly, people look up to Jesus and as we all know Jesus was poor. He was hanging out in the desert the majority of the time with no home or job. If you look up to Jesus you'll have no problem been poor. In fact, it may reinforce your faith into thinking that only poor people are pure enough to be like Jesus. I've heard people talk about poverty as a virtue because Jesus had no material possessions.
Another one is "God Willing." This conditions people to not take their destiny into their own hands. They let God or gods decide their fate. It was God's or the gods will that they are poor and that's that.
Giving money to the church? Is that a bad financial decision? I don't know? You're spending 10% of your income on a person speaking from a podium.
And let's not forget about indulgences which allowed you to buy your entry to heaven by paying the Church.
I'm sure you can find bad financial advice in other religions from around the world. But like I said I don't know too much about other religions and if they condition their followers to be financially dependent on the system.
So how do you break the religious conditioning?
You have to see religion as an all in one seeder package of the past. You have friends and family, education, corporate, financial, government, media seeders packaged together. The church was a totalitarian system. Most likely your ancestors were forced into that system by the powers that be of their time.
You can break the religious condition by knowing the timeline of events of each specific religion. For example, Christianity begins with Jesus and his apostles. Jesus was not Christian nor were the Apostles. Or at least not Christian as we know them today.
As time went on other people begin to add their version of events and teachings of Jesus. Christians were rebel subjects under Roman law. The majority of Christians during Roman times wondered outside of the cities. That meant that the different Christian factions rarely came in contact with one another. Each one had their version of "Christian" books.
It wasn't until the Council of Nicaea that the idea for a formal canon of the Bible was first discussed. Many councils later the Bible was finally completed at the Council of Carthage. They compile the books of all the different Christian groups of the time. And then again Christianity was altered by Martin Luther.
What I'm getting to with all this history is that religion is a system created by many people, each with an agenda. Religion is a compilation of beliefs from different people, at different times and geographical locations. Your religious conditioning can be broken once you dissect the information your religion presents you with. The major religions of the world suffer from the addition of new dogma. Dogmatic beliefs added to the scriptures long after the founder has died, by man who's only objective is power over others. Even Buddhists who are the epitome of peacefulness eventually morphed into systems that are opposite to what the founder intended. Until recently I had no idea that Buddhists have also committed genocides. Here's a link to read more about that Buddhism and violence - Wikipedia. I'm positive Buddha never meant to hurt anyone. Yet there are those who use his words to inflict pain onto others.
So if you want to be truly Unscripted and choose the life you want you'll have to break the conditioning from every aspect of your life. This includes religious conditioning. Breaking your conditioning does not mean you turn your back, betray or eradicate the institution. You just take the things that benefit you and leave those that don't. You can still go to school if you wish. Hang out with your friends and family. Work for a corporation and buy their stuff. You can still be active in politics. You can go to church and pray. And yes you can still take financial advice from wall street. You're now doing it on your terms.
For those who have read unscripted you know the book is about breaking your social conditioning. The conditioning forced on you from the moment you were born. The strongest social conditioning comes from friends and family, education, corporate, financial, government, media.
MJ called this the seeders.
Friends and family conditioning is a sub conditioning of education, corporate, financial, government, and media seeders. That's because you're parents were condition by them when they were younger. The ideas planted in them by the dominant seeders were passed down and reinforced on you. They'll parrot what they heard from the seeders because that's what they were thought. But they are the ones that enforce the conditioning because social bonds are stronger than institutional loyalty. This is the hardest conditioning to break because you have trust in those closest to you. It's painful to go against them and alienate yourself.
The most dominant seeder is the corporate seeder. If you read the history of the early 1900's robber barons you'll see how the USA government was influenced by them. JP Morgan had to bail out the government in 1893. And the US government allowed them to create the federal reserve system. Completely outsourcing the nation's banking system. The first draft of the federal reserve took place in Jekyll Island. This lead to the creation of the federal reserve system and the IRS. It solidified the influence of corporations in the government. The federal reserve system is a private company and they loan their money to the government.
The second dominant seeder is the government. They are under the corporate seeders and they are the ones that pass the laws. Political condition makes you think that politicians are working on your behalf. But we all know how it goes. You elect someone that promises you great things. Along the way this promises get broken and four years later a new person comes along promising change. You get excited and vote him into office. And the story repeats itself. They provide you with a two-party system so you can duke it out with the opposing side. While you're busy fighting over your political ideologies both parties make plans and shake hands behind the scenes.
The third dominant seeder is the education seeder. School conditioning takes between 12 to 16 years to be imprinted in your mind. Our modern school system came from Prussia. The Prussian education system was created to turn poor people into soldiers. Than they were sent to fight the wars of the ruling class. Now it's used to make poor people work for the rich. Schooling is a sub seeder of the government because now kids are forced to attend school. Truancy laws guarantee the conditioning. Homeschooling was a lot more popular before the 1900s in the USA.
The fourth dominant seeder is the media. A sub seeder of the corporate seeder. Corporations are the ones that pay ad revenue to the entertainment industry. It only makes sense that they fund those that will push their agenda. This one is the easiest conditioning to break. Just stop consuming mainstream media. It's that simple just turn off the T.V. Mainstream media consists of two fields of study, cybernetics and propaganda. Both fields were heavily funded by corporations right after world war 1. Cybernetics deals with the control of humans as machines. Before the TV became a household staple the seeders were already figuring out how to use it to condition the population. Propaganda is what is known today as marketing. It's used to influence you through information. The media is used by seeders to divert your attention from important political events. Identity politics and social media were a godsend for the seeders. While you're busy arguing over pronouns, which toilet to use or what a drawing of a green frog means they're busy committing crimes against humanity.
Finally, the fifth most dominant seeder is the financial seeder. Your financial conditioning is coming from all the other seeders. Corporations tell you that working for them for life will make you more money. The government tells you that spending money on their programs will make you even more money. The education seeders tell you that college will make you more money. Now the government and education seeders are the same because your college loans come from the government, who get it from corporate banks. The media tells you that buying songs, movies, games, and merchandise will make you happier thus making you more money somehow? LOL. Friends and family, well they'll just tell you what the other seeders told them. It all comes full circle. M.J.'s book the Millionaire Fastlane will help you break this conditioning.
Ok, we got that out of the way. Here's what you came for and it's the one thing missing from Unscripted .
Religion
Before you proceed any further I must warn you that this post will take a critical look at religion. It will be an objective assessment of religious conditioning. I don't want this post to get deleted by the mods when people start flagging it.
Moving On.
The Religious Seeder is the one thing missing from Unscripted . Breaking the religious conditioning might be one of the hardest to break, right behind familial conditioning.
I can understand why no one would touch on this subject in any self-help book.
Why?
Because there are so many religions and religion is one of the most personal identities people hold on to. All other labels people place on themselves are superficial in comparison to their faith.
A self-help writer that mentions religious conditioning would alienate the majority of his audience. It's a subject that people automatically raise their shields up when criticized. It's an emotional response even if the criticism is warranted. People still feel as if you are attacking them personally.
Religion like most conditioning is emotional. There is no logical thinking that can break religious conditioning. Tell someone to audit their religion for any bad financial advice and you might as well have asked them to renounce their faith.
I'll use Christianity as an example. And just for the record, I have no qualms with Christianity. Christianity is a good framework on morality for the majority of the population. The church is one of the few places where communities still come together. I'll be using it as an example because it's the dominant religion in the western world. Most people on this board will be familiar with the examples given. For real though, I am not trying to convert you or make you renounce your faith.
Let's begin.
The most popular bad financial advice from the Bible is that a camel can pass through the eye of a needle easier than a rich man reaching heaven. If you're serious about going to heaven you would avoid being rich.
Secondly, people look up to Jesus and as we all know Jesus was poor. He was hanging out in the desert the majority of the time with no home or job. If you look up to Jesus you'll have no problem been poor. In fact, it may reinforce your faith into thinking that only poor people are pure enough to be like Jesus. I've heard people talk about poverty as a virtue because Jesus had no material possessions.
Another one is "God Willing." This conditions people to not take their destiny into their own hands. They let God or gods decide their fate. It was God's or the gods will that they are poor and that's that.
Giving money to the church? Is that a bad financial decision? I don't know? You're spending 10% of your income on a person speaking from a podium.
And let's not forget about indulgences which allowed you to buy your entry to heaven by paying the Church.
I'm sure you can find bad financial advice in other religions from around the world. But like I said I don't know too much about other religions and if they condition their followers to be financially dependent on the system.
So how do you break the religious conditioning?
You have to see religion as an all in one seeder package of the past. You have friends and family, education, corporate, financial, government, media seeders packaged together. The church was a totalitarian system. Most likely your ancestors were forced into that system by the powers that be of their time.
You can break the religious condition by knowing the timeline of events of each specific religion. For example, Christianity begins with Jesus and his apostles. Jesus was not Christian nor were the Apostles. Or at least not Christian as we know them today.
As time went on other people begin to add their version of events and teachings of Jesus. Christians were rebel subjects under Roman law. The majority of Christians during Roman times wondered outside of the cities. That meant that the different Christian factions rarely came in contact with one another. Each one had their version of "Christian" books.
It wasn't until the Council of Nicaea that the idea for a formal canon of the Bible was first discussed. Many councils later the Bible was finally completed at the Council of Carthage. They compile the books of all the different Christian groups of the time. And then again Christianity was altered by Martin Luther.
What I'm getting to with all this history is that religion is a system created by many people, each with an agenda. Religion is a compilation of beliefs from different people, at different times and geographical locations. Your religious conditioning can be broken once you dissect the information your religion presents you with. The major religions of the world suffer from the addition of new dogma. Dogmatic beliefs added to the scriptures long after the founder has died, by man who's only objective is power over others. Even Buddhists who are the epitome of peacefulness eventually morphed into systems that are opposite to what the founder intended. Until recently I had no idea that Buddhists have also committed genocides. Here's a link to read more about that Buddhism and violence - Wikipedia. I'm positive Buddha never meant to hurt anyone. Yet there are those who use his words to inflict pain onto others.
So if you want to be truly Unscripted and choose the life you want you'll have to break the conditioning from every aspect of your life. This includes religious conditioning. Breaking your conditioning does not mean you turn your back, betray or eradicate the institution. You just take the things that benefit you and leave those that don't. You can still go to school if you wish. Hang out with your friends and family. Work for a corporation and buy their stuff. You can still be active in politics. You can go to church and pray. And yes you can still take financial advice from wall street. You're now doing it on your terms.
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