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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 2:44 pm
fool on earth for you to talk to me like that? Why should I care about your tea? Why do you even have the right to offer me something, to decide what I should do? And to do it so skillfully, as if because you know I like tea, that makes it relevant. There’s a huge difference between what tea I drink and why, and what people drink. It’s like with music. If I listened to the classical music that people listen to, I’d have been lost long ago from that bad music. And all you have is the same, all alike.”
Interesting, isn’t it? And these manipulations are everywhere. Imagine someone who works only once a week, even though they are paid for the entire time, and when their workload for the day is only 30%, not even 100%, they justify themselves: “You see, because I had to do a little bit here and a little bit there, I didn’t get the job done, I got swamped.” Swamped? If you worked every day like everyone else, would you have died from it? Yet, you get overwhelmed from just 30% workload a week. And none of you ever want to admit your fault. Everyone hides behind excuses: “I thought this, I thought that, but you said this.” Instead, you should just admit, “I’m a lazy fool” and get on your knees. No, none of you will ever do that. You all endlessly argue and hide behind excuses.
Or take another example. Someone asks me a question. Here’s a live example. The person asks, “Can I deduct the cost of precious stones, which were bought for millions, as a batch, instead of deducting it per stone for the item being made, because they’re inexpensive and there are a lot of them? Can I deduct them all at once?” I say, “Okay.” And do you know what this person does afterward? Over the next six months, they decide to always do this, to get their money back faster. They start deducting not just for the specific item but for all materials at once, and they don’t tell me about it. Then they cover it up by saying, “Remember, I asked you about this once, and you said it was okay.” Imagine the cunning manipulation. If it were a different time, like in Peter the Great’s era, I would have punished them severely for this. And imagine someone asks to borrow your coat because it’s cold, and then you find out that they’ve been wearing all your clothes for a year. And then they cover it up by saying, “Well, remember, you said I could wear your hoodie back in February?” And I say, “Yes, I remember. What does that have to do with my entire wardrobe now?” This is how cunning the devil is. This is the devil. He’s in all of you, this vile creature. With his clever manipulations. One excuse, another, yet another trick. That’s the devil.
Interesting, isn’t it? And these manipulations are everywhere. Imagine someone who works only once a week, even though they are paid for the entire time, and when their workload for the day is only 30%, not even 100%, they justify themselves: “You see, because I had to do a little bit here and a little bit there, I didn’t get the job done, I got swamped.” Swamped? If you worked every day like everyone else, would you have died from it? Yet, you get overwhelmed from just 30% workload a week. And none of you ever want to admit your fault. Everyone hides behind excuses: “I thought this, I thought that, but you said this.” Instead, you should just admit, “I’m a lazy fool” and get on your knees. No, none of you will ever do that. You all endlessly argue and hide behind excuses.
Or take another example. Someone asks me a question. Here’s a live example. The person asks, “Can I deduct the cost of precious stones, which were bought for millions, as a batch, instead of deducting it per stone for the item being made, because they’re inexpensive and there are a lot of them? Can I deduct them all at once?” I say, “Okay.” And do you know what this person does afterward? Over the next six months, they decide to always do this, to get their money back faster. They start deducting not just for the specific item but for all materials at once, and they don’t tell me about it. Then they cover it up by saying, “Remember, I asked you about this once, and you said it was okay.” Imagine the cunning manipulation. If it were a different time, like in Peter the Great’s era, I would have punished them severely for this. And imagine someone asks to borrow your coat because it’s cold, and then you find out that they’ve been wearing all your clothes for a year. And then they cover it up by saying, “Well, remember, you said I could wear your hoodie back in February?” And I say, “Yes, I remember. What does that have to do with my entire wardrobe now?” This is how cunning the devil is. This is the devil. He’s in all of you, this vile creature. With his clever manipulations. One excuse, another, yet another trick. That’s the devil.